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Jarvis Cocker - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Jarvis Cocker - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Jarvis Cocker - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Little Boots - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Little Boots - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Little Boots - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Reverend and the Makers - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Reverend and the Makers - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Reverend and the Makers - Acoustic Gig - Youthmusic

Little Boots For Youth Music

Little Boots For Youth Music

Shot by photographer Rankin for charity Youth Music - Victoria shares her love for the piano. To find out more about the project and special live events visit www.youthmusic.org.uk/rankin.

The Enemy Interview For Youth Music

The Enemy Interview For Youth Music

Shot by photographer Rankin for Youth Music - the Coventry trio explain how boredom drove them to start their band and how school teachers fail to take music seriously. To find out more about the project visit...

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Rational Youth - City of Night (1982)

Rational Youth - City of Night (1982) (04:03)

Taken from the COLD WAR night life LP released in 1982 on YUL Records. www.innernerd.de obscure music for nerdlings

RATIONAL YOUTH - No More & No Less

RATIONAL YOUTH - No More & No Less (04:14)

A great new wave video and song from Canadian band Rational Youth.

Rational Youth on Musi-Video Show

Rational Youth on Musi-Video Show (04:17)

Iconic Montreal music show from the 80's featuring top local talent from that era. Rational Youth, Cité Phosphore.

Dancing on the Berlin Wall - Rational Youth

Dancing on the Berlin Wall - Rational Youth (04:35)

(Tracy Howe/Bill Vorn) From 1982's "Cold War Night Life", a classic Canadian new wave album.

Rational Youth - Saturdays In Silesia

Rational Youth - Saturdays In Silesia (07:12)

Rational Youth - Saturdays In Silesia Country: Canada Released: 1982 Genre: Electronic Style: Synth-pop

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Rational Youth Biography

Rational Youth was a Canadian New Wave band, originally formed in 1981 in Montreal, Quebec, by synthesizer wizards Tracy Howe and Bill Vorn, both of whom idolized the German synthpop pioneers Kraftwerk.

Among the band's notable singles were "Saturdays in Silesia" and "Dancing on the Berlin Wall," from their debut album, Cold War Night Life (1982); and "Holiday in Bangkok," from Heredity (1985).

In 1999, Rational Youth, with a new lineup of original frontman Howe and new keyboard players Jean-Claude Cutz and Dave Rout, released its first album after fourteen years, To the Goddess Electricity.

Rational Youth toured throughout Scandinavia over the next two years, and played its final concert on November 3, 2001, at the Tinitus Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Rational Youth's Best Songs

  • 1. Saturdays in Silesia
  • 2. I Want to See the Light
  • 3. Coboloid Race
  • 4. City of Night
  • 5. Dancing on the Berlin Wall
  • 6. Close to Nature
  • 7. Beware the Fly
  • 8. Just a Sound in the Night
  • 9. Ring the Bells
  • 10. Le Meilleur Des Mondes
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