Slow Songs For Fast Hearts: Credit In The Straight World

Credit In The Straight World

On new years eve we were listening to Hole when Credit In The Straight World came on. Melissa told me that it was a cover and the original version was by Young Marble Giants, I had no idea that it wasn’t written by Hole, but then again I don’t think I’d ever listened to the Young Marble Giants — I think all I knew about them was that they were in fact a band! So I decided to look them up on the internet and track down the original version of Credit In The Straight World.

So the Young Marble Giants were a post punk band formed in the late 70’s and based out of Cardiff. They used to have a keyboard player who built his own synth! I’m jealous because that’s something I’ve always wanted to do! I don’t know when they broke up, but they played a show earlier this year and I think our friend Alex went and saw them.

So, here is the original version of Credit In The Straight World! It’s from their album Colossal Youth released in 1980 on Rough Trade. Did you know that Hole’s version was a cover? What other cover versions do you like? For ages I thought that Chicks On Speed wrote Mind Your Own Business and it was once again Melissa who told me about the Delta 5.

Tomorrow I think I’m going with Melissa when she does her radio show on Fleet, yay! But now, it is time to go and drink beer.

Young Marble Giants