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| Saturdays=Youth | 
| Artist: M83
Label: Mute U.S.
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (26 reviews)
Sales Rank: 297
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 69384
UPC: 724596938423
EAN: 0724596938423
ASIN: B00151HZME
Release Date: April 15, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | You, Appearing | | • | Kim & Jessie | | • | Skin Of The Night | | • | Graveyard Girl | | • | Couleurs | | • | Up! | | • | We Own The Sky | | • | Highway Of Endless Dreams | | • | Too Late | | • | Dark Moves Of Love | | • | Midnight Souls Still Remain |
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Album Description
Two LP set. Saturdays-Youth is an 2008 album by French electronic group M83. The album was recorded with Ken Thomas (past work with Sigur Rs, The Sugarcubes, Cocteau Twins and Suede) and Ewan Pearson (produced for Tracey Thorn, The Rapture and Ladytron). The album delivers the rich sonic textures with a more focused approach to song structure and form. "Couleurs" is the first single and the second single is 'Graveyard Girl'. The album hit number 107 on the billboard 200.
Amazon.com
For their fifth album, Saturdays = Youth, France's M83 conjures up the 1980s in all their candy-colored glory. Even the cover portrait, showcasing models in rolled-sleeve blazers, peg-leg pants, and pastel prom dresses, evokes John Hughes' high-school classics Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club. In the liner notes, singer/multi-instrumentalist Anthony Gonzalez thanks the individuals who "made my teenager years so great!" and in "Graveyard Girl," he name-checks Molly Ringwald (he also takes a page from the Air playbook with allusions to stars, rockets, and other notebook-doodle favorites). There's a difference, however, between poaching from the past and recreating it. Despite the abundance of pretty-boy (and girl) vocals, oceanic keyboards, and big electronic beats--recalling '80s icons from Simple Minds to Kate Bush--Saturdays feels more like an affectionate tribute than a cynical carbon copy. Like the couple at the heart of "Kim and Jessie," Gonzalez is "crazy about romance and illusions," but all is not sweetness and light as a few numbers betray a Tim Burton-style Goth influence, which helps to alleviate any potential sugar shock. Saturdays = Youth is a precious gift from a secret admirer, wrapped in ambience and sealed with a blood-red kiss. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 A bittersweet work. December 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am late in reviewing this, I purchased the day of it's release. It was one of those albums that I had to put away for a while. I didn't put it away because it wasn't good, but because it struck a fragile chord with me. From the moment You Appearing started, my mood completely changed. This album is beautiful and bittersweet, just like those great memories that it does so well at conjuring. For me, there is always a bit of sad longing in the memories of my best times. That feeling mixed with M83's ability to always present moving pieces of music make this album very powerful to me. This is an album of past summers, limitless hopes, growing up, and the highs and lows that come with those life experiences. It's hopeful and tragic all at the same time. To me it's very deep and presents many layers of beautiful music and emotion. I recommend this album to anyone looking for something deeper than your average release.
 Attempts to exploit November 5, 2008
Although there is still enough crests of certifiable synthesizer beauty, this ode to the new wa-80's walks the line between inspired emulations and cheesy imitations all too often, feeling light around the edges in favor of an all-encompassing aesthetic theme.
 Actually Very Decent October 31, 2008
Saturdays=Youth is actually very decent for play during web surfing. Very appropriate for chilling out, calming, soothing. Happy to have "discovered" this one by association. I refuse to part with mine.
If only my life could be more like 1983... October 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The presence of a Boy George wanna-be and a Molly Ringwald clone on the cover ought to be a major tip-off that "Saturdays=Youth" is M83's loving (and only semi-ironic) tribute to the 1980s and to the movies of that decade's leading youth-cinema auteur, John Hughes.
But this is no mere exercise in lame nostalgia. M83 (actually Anthony Gonzalez) treats his subjects - youthful heartbreak and teenage drama - with more affection and reverence than winking condescension. And as a bonus, the songs and production are thrillingly good - from the waves of glossy synths and whispery vocals to the electronic punch of the drum machines.
It's weird to think that Gonzalez is himself only in his mid-20s, which means he was a mere infant during the actual decade he so clearly and nostalgically loves. But who really cares when the results are this consistently great? Fans of New Order, OMD, the Cocteau Twins and the soundtracks to "The Breakfast Club" or "Pretty in Pink" will find "Saturdays=Youth" to be just their cup of tea.
My how M83 has changed October 6, 2008
Just incredible!! This album stages a growth of character for M83. The songs are well written, the vocals are brilliant, the general feel of the album is of major introspect. I really love the way this album makes me feel.If you love ethereal moods and really well thought out songwriting, this album is for you!
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