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so, i have been thinking about Yello a lot lately. Not LISTENING to Yello, just thinking about them. The only Yello I even own anymore is the Bostich 12-inch and I don't know where that is. I love the nu-beatish jackhammer beat/goth opera/loony soundbite side of Yello, and I love the proto-microhouse minimal sweep and sway side of Yello, and I like everything in between too! so, anyway, i was at the thrift store the other day and there was a sealed copy of the *Essential Yello* on cassette for a quarter and when I put it on in the car i was blown away by the high fidelity timelessness of another world and another accent and how, if anything, it all sounded so much better to me now than it did then. But it also REALLY made me want to hear the album *Stella* which i loved as a youth and hadn't heard since the 80's. So, later that day, I went to the OTHER thrift store (we have two) and there was a vintage 1985 CD copy of *Stella* for 50 cents! It was a sign. Now I can't stop listening. I need to ask: do current dance/electronic music makers give shout-outs to Boris & Dieter? just curious. cuz they really should. and how much Yello is in your diet?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Not enough Yello. But I love what I have. Billy Mackenzie worked a lot with them = even better.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

My dad had a VHS of MTV late-night weirdness that he used to play for me; in between After the Fire and Echo and the Bunnymen (an eight-minute live version of "Crocodiles" = GENIUS) was the video for "The Evening's Young" by Yello. It freaked me the fuck out at the time, and still does. Stop-motion animation with glowsticks and other bizarrery. The idea of a truck driver and a millionaire industrialist getting together to make music is too perfect. That said, my diet is noticeably lacking in Yello, having only consumed "The Evening's Young" and (ha ha) "Oh Yeah," which I can't help but like because of "The moon is byootiful," slowed down times a million.

Oh yeah!

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah sounds so great in the car. a thousand bad movie soundtracks can't kill it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

bostich has been a dancefloor staple since it was released. It's been comp'd about 12 times, and sampled more, so I'd say they get plenty of love from current dance artists/djs/etc.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

what about the other stuff though? and does anyone know how much of an influence they had on the Belgian newbeat scene?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

enough of an influence that a post-Yello Carlos Peron track is on the new beat compilation Serie Noire ... but that right there is the extent of my knowledge about it.

I don't have any Yello but I've been getting into some Peron stuff, both the track from that comp ("Nothing is True Everything is Permitted") and a few others that I got off those now mythical threads that started with Y and ended with I. "Et" is cool ...

― Renard (Renard), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I've heard other stuff played out, and I've played out Daily Disco and another track from one of their first two records. I could only assume they had a big influence on Belgian newbeat, but I know little about that scene, since I don't like it so much.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

*Stella*, which came out in 1985, would totally appeal to fans of microhouse, ebm, new wave, newbeat, disco, electro, and new jack swing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

"Domingo" is a TOTAL ebm track from 1985. er, this may or may not thrill you.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

scott, you need the first four yello albums, 'solid pleasure', 'claro que si', 'you gotta say yes to another excess' and 'stella'. third one is THE GOODS. they all just got reissued, which means the original CDs are now flooding the used racks cheap, but the reissues have great bonus tracks if you've got the overhead

massive numbers of Yello threads in the archives, this one's the big one

YELLO: CLASSIC/DUD; SEARCH& DESTROY

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

fuck, i had a huge awesome quality mpeg of bostich posted on ilx... hang on

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Allofmp3.com - MP3 Download / MP3 Music Catalogue / Y / Yello
Yello
Genre: Electronica
Style: Club/Dance, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Synth Pop
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Albums
N Title Year Quality
1 The Eye $1.72 2003
2 Motion Picture $1.50 1999
3 Pocket Universe $1.79 1997
4 Zebra $1.29 1994
5 Baby $1.11 1991
6 Flag $1.37 1988
7 One Second $1.40 1987
8 Stella $1.13 1985
9 You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess $1.04 1983
10 Claro Que Si $1.06 1981
11 Solid Pleasure $1.15 1980
Collections, Compilations...
N Title Year Quality
1 Essential (Christmas version) $1.97 1994
Singles
N Title Year Quality
1 Planet Dada -The Race 2003 $0.93 2003
2 Tremendous Pain $1.08 1995 128 kbps
3 The Race $0.48 1988
Remixes
N Title Year Quality
1 Eccentrix Remixes $1.80 1997
2 Hands On Yello - The Updates $2.82 1995
3 Hands On Yello $1.91 1995
4 Yello 1980-1985 - The New Mix In One Go $1.79 1986

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― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

"scott, you need the first four yello albums, 'solid pleasure', 'claro que si', 'you gotta say yes to another excess' and 'stella'."

yah, milton, i love you gotta say yes and stella from way back, and solid pleasure i had a copy of briefly, but i need it again. claro i never owned, and i want that too. i need a copy of flag too. i like that one a bunch.

listening to "i love you" in the car today with the sun shining and the breeze blowing was heavenly.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

The re-masters are nice, but I kept all of the original CD's - but, yes, they're flooding teh used CD bins now - all of it is decent stuff. "Baby" is my favorite post-80's title. There were those remix CD's from last decade with Jam & Spoon et al joining in on "Hands On Yello". Where's the legit Yello DVD?

― So Ho La (So Ho La), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

the most blatant samples of 'Bostich' must be in Ruffneck's 'Everybody Be Somebody' (title is a clue) and Paperclip People's 'Paperclip Man'.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 14 April 2006 08:55 (twenty years ago)

I've been pretty much a Yello enthusiast ever since I first bought the Essential collection and that Hands on Yello remix comp back in 1995. The remix CD is pretty fun, lots of early nineties trancey stuff in it (which I personally like), and some big bangers. The Westbam remix of "Bostich" is one of my all-time favourites, better than the original I'd say.

As I said on the other thread, what I like the best about Yello is that they really sound like no one else, they have no predecessors or followers you could easily name. Especially their bass sound and percussions are something few electronic producers have come up with ever since. And I love how they take their music as fun, yet they aren't a humor act, or even ironic - I'd say they're beyond irony. When you listen to "Domingo" or any other of Dieter's stories, despite all the absurdity you really get sucked into it.

Besides the stuff already mentioned I'd recommend giving One Second a try. It's a rather uneven album, but the highlights are pretty high. And I guess it's really a starting poin for all things micro, since Boris' whole idea with the record was to create "one second symphonies"; it's full of minuscule, glorious snippets of sound.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 April 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

i might have to invest in the remasters with the bonus tracks.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

http://flexx.be/stream.php?id=moxx003_1&type=mp3

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 15 April 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

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