FIRING SQUAD 7" AVAILABLE NOW

Hello Y'all. My next 7" as Young Guv is called "Firing Squad". It's about murdering religious extremists. No cute story. No explanation. It's just about that. That's it. Good enough? The song clocks in at exactly 4:20. How do you like that, potheads ?

It will be available through my marvelous webstore very soon (like next week latest), but for now please pick it up at Plastic Idol (they released it!!). This is the 4th guv/darlings related record on this cool little label, and by now I am such good friends with Mario that he sends me vintage bottles of wine in the mail from the beautiful vineyards of San Diego. He also sends me burritos. This is the reason I keep giving him the best records, and songs. Actually the real reason is because he is nice, the art always looks good, his records are good quality.. and.. Well he just has really good timing I guess. He goes like "hey ben, think im ready for another release.. what you got?" and whenever he does that i seem to be putting the final touches on something bomb.

There you go. Listen to the A side below. The B side is 25 with a bullet, acoustic style. It's only the 2nd version of this song (even tho Mario says theres 3 versions, ok theres kind of a diff version on the mixtape but that doesn't count). Who cares!

Also my talented friend Marlena came over one day and did 2 hours of Linda Blair type make up on me for this (you can see it clearer on the back image of the record.. but you can order the record to view THAT). Then Danielle came over and took the photo and screamed when I opened the door. Or maybe she laughed. Or both. She put this stuff on my skin that made it bubble out and looks very real. She works on movies, and I'd like to thank her very much for her time and wish her all the best in her film career! Maybe Goosebumps will come back on TV and hire you, Marlena..... And me.

Firing Squad by Young Governor by youngguv

OK SERIOUSLY, WHO IS THIS GUY, THIS IS SUPER WEIRD.. (I LOVE IT.. ) Does anyone know who this person is? Did he make this video for a girl? Did he really miss her that much? Did he ever see her again? Did they ever do it on that couch? Does she wear Billabong clothes too? CUTE!!!!!!
video to marvelous darling song "i'll stand by her". thanks to fosco for finding this.

new in the store

hey. now selling the lets wrestle/guv split 7" in the Marvelous store. click above image to purchase. I'd like to thank all the people who have made orders since it went up last week. I was pretty surprised about how many records were ordered, so thank you all very much for supporting.

next guv luv related stuff:
Firing Squad 7"
debut 7" of Guv & The Scuzz "Bedroom Eyes"
beat of my heart 7" / pizza face t shirt
tropics "pale trash" 7"
tropics "leather pepperette 7"
huckleberry friends "vision" 7"
actual water "latoya" double lathe cut w/ accepella mix


I cant believe i used to play music with this dude. So talented. Also, hes a dentist. Thomas Yu rules. I am not finished my musical partnership with Tommy, so one day you can expect a Burt Bacharach style full piano soul record out of no where. BANG!!!!!! We're gonna bring it HARD!

MARVELOUS MUSIC WEBSTORE NOW OPEN

ok everyone who would like to buy all darlings/guvnor/etc related records in one spot you can now drop by the marvelous music webstore and order stuff thats out of print, still available, whatever.. please help me spread the word. I have lots of records in my room, and I'm going to get rid of them all now. So here's your chance to get quite a lot of stuff that might not be available anymore.. Good luck!

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LATHE 4

LONELY WHOLESOME "VANITY" 7"
SOLD OUT IN 3 HOURS
one of the best songs recorded last year. one day you will hear it. you will have to wait for the 12" comp which will be one of the first MARVELOUS MUSIC releases (my new label).

NEXT UP ACTUAL WATER "LATOYA". REALLY QUALITY SONG. THEY ASKED ME TO WRITE IT WITH THEM. I BARELY DID ANYTHING CUZ IT WAS ALREADY A HIT TRACK. I SANG BACK UPS ON IT. STAY STUNED FOR THAT.

OLD AMAZING TORONTO BAND COVER #2

Ok.. I was going to wait a little while to post this to let the last song and option to buy the record sink in, but I can't wait anymore. A few years ago me and marvelous Mark Fosco (darlings) recorded a YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH cover song called Domination for the BYO boxset anniversary edition. It was the best song on the comp, and amazing song altogether and we never got our copies of the boxset. But through the connection Fucked Up did end up playing the BYO bowling fest thing in Vegas last year where Damian witnessed a certain lead singer of Nofx get his ass eaten out at a fetish sex party (thats all i'll say about that). This was also my first and only slamming appearance as a hardcore vocalist since we broke up No Warning, and I must say - I am still The King. Jk. (not). Brian Taylor of Rotate This (or Mean Guy Brian as we used to call him growing up due to his curt nature as a record store guy [hear me yell "MEAN GUY" in the cover song below !!!!!!RESPECT!!!!!]) fronted Youth Youth Youth and I heard that when he heard the cover he hoped I would come down to the store and perform it with my shirt off. I am still considering doing this.

anyways.. here's the next old Toronto cover

when i was about 13 or 14 my favourite band from Toronto was a band called The Stiffs (not to be confused with this band who are also bomb). i also definitely never liked the Bare Naked Ladies when i was 10, i did like hayden though when i was 12. they were a 3 chord pop punk band influenced by green day and screeching weasel. the singer was short (like me) but had more of a hunch back. he had a pretty cool uni-brow too (uni brow = COOL SINGER). I saw them at battle of the bands shows before they started playing "real" punk shows at Club 360 with bands I never thought were any good (marylins vitamins, tire kickers) but everyone else in Toronto and on the local college radio punk shows (that damian and sandy from fucked up hosted!) loved..

I remember seeing Rob the singer at an empty battle of the bands in the east end of T.O smoking a cig in the club with a shirt that said "vampires suck". so cool. they covered "veronica hates me", i think, which I still think was a weird choice to this day.. great song though. their demos were lightening fast, and even sped up by the tape recorder sometimes (accidentally) to make them sound faster. It was like listening to a 35rpm band on 45rpms at all times. Their "RUMORS" demo is in my opinion one of the best Toronto releases ever (good luck finding it) and recently in exchange for recording a RAP VERSE for Damian on a certain Canadian rappers song featuring MOKA FUCKIN ONLY!!!! (i dont care this song is SICK), he gave me a cd of the demo he transferred from his cassette collection. The band eventually had to change their name and became Dead Letter Dept and put out an amazing EP on Ductape Records (RIP). Good luck finding THAT as well.

Rob the singer has a new thing called Rob Moir. Find it here. Not sure what the other dudes are up to, but I'm sure they are doing it at 45rpms. Also if the stiffs/dld ever do a reunion and don't invite me up to play 2nd guitar on a song ie, Rumors... actually, i won't care at all! I'll be psyched.

Naturally, I had to do a cover. Below you will find the original (AMAZING, listen to those drums) and my version which I tried to make sound like The La's or something with Anthony's 12 string lying around the studio. Also Vassil from City Sweethearts had come by the studio that day to go over some mixes I was doing for them. I made him play drums on the track very quickly before working on his stuff. I don't think he minded. Also, below you will find the YYY cover song (you can also download that from soundcloud, I think.. i made it available for everyone).

The "rumors" cover will be the B side to an upcoming 7" on Pleasence Records from Toronto. The single is called "Bedroom Eyes" and it will be the first Young Guv & The Scuzz record featuring all the band members, a new organ lady by the name of Robin who plays in a female weezer cover band called Sheezer (they are famous, look it up) and also Aerin from the Bitters on horns.

Also coming up on the same label is the Tropics "Pale Trash" record (best record of 2010 that never came out) I recorded for them a long long time ago that never came out on the label that agreed to do it, and a Huckleberry Friends 7" which is straight GINA BEATS as always.. More on Pleasence and the funny story about how I am connected to the dude that runs the label. Wow.

Rumors by Young Governor (stiffs [from toronto] cover) by youngguv

The Stiffs - Rumors by youngguv

Domination by YYY feat. Marvelous Mark & Young Guv by youngguv

MARRIED MAN BY YOUNG GUV

The Married Man by youngguv

ORDER THIS ONE SIDED 7" HERE. WILL GO FAST. FIRST ONE OF MY RECORDS EVER RELEASED ON A TORONTO LABEL (we are busy bodies). RECORDED THIS ONE ABOUT A YEAR AGO. More to come...

update:
as per your request in the comments:

This song was taken from an old demo of mine when i was in another band.. the idea was scrapped or considered not good enough, but I always felt that the melodies and feel of the song was solid. the original was pretty fast, and was a lot more powerpop. at the time i recorded this song i had a few fuzz pedals kicking around and my friend anthonys jazzmaster was in the corner and since I was listening to a lot of dead moon and fleetwood mac i decided to use a fleetwood mac beat and play it like i thought dead moon might play it. i dont really listen to dead moon anymore. i kinda think it was a phase. i originally had agreed to meet up with simone form 100$ so she could sing back ups on this, but it never happened so i scrapped that idea. i played slide guitar with an empty can at the studio.
the lyrics were inspired by a guy who when hanging around would always hint at something to do with me and my girlfriend being married one day. he seemed completely obsessed with the idea of marriage and security and me being a young man from a divorced family with the opposite views on the subject I couldn't help but take a knock at him in a song... Some of my best friends are married..Respect to them, but I still think its a weird thing to do.

There!

ps when i was told to google "married man young governor" to look at people complaining about the shipping price of this record (the 9$ is shipping included, so i guess thats not so bad?) this was the first thing that came up (DO IT, CHI BABE! YOU SO NAUGHTY!). also it for some reason reminded me of whenever i txt "guv" with my iphone the auto txt corrector always corrects it to "HIV". bummmmer.