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#183: Galaxie 500 - Rain / Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste

Caff Records was a label set up by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and it released this beauty in 1990. It has a cover of The Beatles’ Rain on side A, and of Jonathan Richman’s Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste on side B. Both recorded at CBGB’s on 13th May 1989.

Galaxie 500 - CAFF 9
Galaxie 500 - CAFF 9

Oddly, when released on CD, as part of Uncollected, and when made available to download these two songs were sequenced as one almost nine minute track - this meant, if you were so inclined, you could buy this for 79¢ on iTunes, which struck me as a spectacular bargain. It also means that the only way you get to hear the tracks as originally released (with a fade-out of Rain, and a fade-in to … Youth…) is if you have a copy of the single.

The tracks were also released on a very limited cassette, I don’t have and have never heard that but suspect it was sequenced as a single track because there’d be no reason to do the fades if you didn’t have to fit in on a 7” single.

Obviously I’m pretty much the only person who considers Galaxie 500 fade-ins and outs as collectable!

The single came with an insert with the following information:

RAIN / DON'T LET OUR YOUTH GO TO WASTE

Recorded live at CBGB's, New York City
May 13, 1989

with DAVE "magic fingers" RICK and
sound by KRAMER KRAMER KRAMER

pictured: Dave Rick on the road, 1989

Insert

This is another single that came in the care package of 7” singles that Damon and Naomi sent me in 2004:

With Compliments
With Compliments