Impatient Youth
Impatient Youth were almost featured here a ways back. I had the tracks ready to go only to find that Strange Reaction had just posted the exact record an hour or two before I was ready to post. Well, now that Scott has moved on to bigger and better things I’ve decided to finally go ahead with my own (Impatient) Youth writeup. Not that I have much information on the band. Impatent Youth were a San Francisco band active in the late ’70’s/early 80’s. The band managed one 6-song 7″ and an appearance on Alternative Tentacles’ Not So Quiet on the Western Front compilation before going silent.
The vaults were full though, and in the late 80’s Lost & Found released a full LP of tracks from 1977-1980 as Don’t Listen. A year later the Frontline 7″ consisting of primae 1978 material was included in the Lost & Found 4 7″ box set. Around that same time Billy Ray Martin put Impatient Youth back together, releasing new material. I don’t know about the later stuff, but the archive material is melodic, infectious punk rock here that shouldn’t be passed up.
Frontline 7″ EP
Impatient Youth - Frontline.mp3
Impatient Youth - Suburban Boy.mp3
Impatient Youth - Take Me Back Home.mp3
Impatient Youth - Yankee Go Home.mp3
From the Don’t Listen LP
Impatient Youth - In Your Backyard.mp3
Impatent Youth - The Workbells Ring.mp3
from the band’s first 7″
Impatient Youth - Business Man.mp3
Impatient Youth - Don’t Listen to the Radio.mp3
from Not So Quiet on the Western Front
Impatient Youth - Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition.mp3
Notes:
– “Business Man” and “Don’t Listen to the Radio” were originally posted on Dressed For The H-Bomb. Thanks to Malfeitor I was finally able to hear this record after searching for it for ages.
– shitty pic, sorry.
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Great band! And you won’t believe it, the exact same happenend to me as happened to you: I already had ripped the LP and the live split 7″ side (incredible stuff!) and wanted to post it today or tomorrow. Haha.
Impatient Youth never got the recognition they deserved. It’s a total mystery to me why they didn’t. I mean alone that LP had to be released on the biggest bootleg label ever (probably without the band’s approval first) is a major shame as it has earworm melody after earworm melody and a great yet thin sound. That song “The more that it changes, the more that it stays the same”- can you ever get this out of your head again?!
E… please post your rips - the LP is amazing, I didn’t include more because my vinyl sounds like shit and I got tired of cleaning it (both physically and with depopper) after 2 tracks. And I’ve never heard the live split.
Funny, I really disliked IY when I heard it as a young HC kid, but now it’s damn near perfect sounding to my ears
Geezusss… this is so good… and, like you, Eric I totally didn’t get it as a hardcore kid in the early 80’s. I used to skip the track (by picking up the needle) on the ‘Not So Quiet..’ comp… And I never played the 7″ on my college radio show (not hard enough). Well, live and learn…
E… please post more, or someone tell me where to find the re-released stuff. Lovin’ your site, by the way… great selections and high quality rips.
I’ve never heard the split either. Everything else is great. Like everyone else I missed out on tons of great stuff because of my stupid “if it isn’t fast as shit I don’t wanna hear it” attitude. Foolish, quite foolish.
WHOAAA!!!!POWERPOP!!!!
Hey y’all - here’s the live split 7″ for ya: http://goodbadmusic.blogspot.com/2006/11/impatient-youth-mutants-78-on-45-split.html
I think I have a more or less clean rip of the LP somewhere from when I first digitized parts of my collection a few years ago (unfortunately due to a fucked up external hard disk, I lost over 100 gb of self-ripped music some years ago, which put me literally off for a while …..).
Yeah, I too discovered (I).Y. kinda late in the later 80s. To me, bands like SOCIAL UNREST (2nd LP one of the top 5 albums EVER) and others introduced me to a wider spectrum than DRI and POISON IDEA day in and day out, so when I ordered (I).Y.’s 7″ from a second hand mailorder, I did so on the one hand because the “Youth”-name made me anticipate HC. On the other hand, I wasn’t disappointed at all when I played the single and got to hear calm, melodic and folkish punk, though all my friends hated it.
Totally agree with all that’s been said in the replies so far. Got the Lost & Found box set with the (I)Y 7″ when it came out & thought “What’s this melodic ‘77 shit?!” but now I think it’s fantastic stuff. “Yankee Go Home” is such a great song with some nerve-tingling melodies. I still love all the fast & raging HC, but you can’t beat the occasional tune, too. Now over to Good Bad Music to hear the split live 7″!!
i had a Hc band in high school in the 80’s and we used to cover this song at practice. to me this was a standout track on “All’s Quiet” and was the only IY song i’ve heard…so needless to say thanks a fuckin million!
duh i meant “not so quiet” sorry
When I got their first 7inch EP I was all over cause I remembered them as a great band at Not So Quiet… What a disappointment when I let it spin. I had to get rid of it immediately.
Peter you little rascal.
Just when you zig, Peter zags. He would have made a great running back. I’m going to start calling him Peter Heisman.
Hey im from Rochester, is it possible you could e-mail me, i cant seem to find your contact information on here. Id like to contact you and ask some questions. Hope to hear from you! - Levi
Well hell, thanks for the comments of my band (Impatient) Youth. Maybe I should start a website with the music available for download since only a thousand of each record were pressed (to my knowledge that is).
Thanks, Billy Ray Martin
Billy Ray Martin that would be REALLY cool…this music is GREAT!!!
Greetings from Medellin Colombia, South America.
Someone lent this LP to me back in the 80’s and I recorded it on cassette, i still have it, AWESOME STUFF
thanks for posting the mp3s.
PS: Could you maybe add ‘Can you hear me’ ?
The bass player is my dad, you failed to mention the other members of the band I noticed (Mark Anderson and Christopher Fisher).
They were an awesome band, but sadly split thanks to… let’s just say girl troubles.
Anyone got any mp3s for the rest of the first 7″ (Definition Empty/Working Girl/Wasted Life/Sex Affair)? The links in Dressed for the H-bomb are long-since dead. I have a copyable CD with the LP tracks that I can trade.