Those Sire "Just Say Yes" Music Samplers from the Late 80s/Early 90s

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initially designed to be training wheels for american high schoolers and college kids interested in that era's alt/indie music, these comps actually have some pretty good stuff on them. sadly rendered obsolete by grunge, like so much else ;_;

anyway, vote for your favorite!

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Just Say Yo: Vol. 2 of Just Say Yes (1988)	2
Just Say Mao: Volume III of Just Say Yes (1989)	2
Just Say Da: Volume IV of Just Say Yes (1990)	2
Just Say Yesterday: Volume VI of Just Say Yes (1992)	2
Just Say Yes: Sire's Winter CD Music Sampler (1987)	1
Just Say Roe: Volume VII of Just Say Yes (1994)	1
Just Say Anything: Volume V of Just Say Yes (1991)	0

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 6 October 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago)

as a visual jog to folks' memories, corresponding to the order of release:

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― Eisbaer, Saturday, 6 October 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago)

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― Eisbaer, Saturday, 6 October 2007 05:20 (seventeen years ago)

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― Eisbaer, Saturday, 6 October 2007 05:20 (seventeen years ago)

I learned a lot from some of these, but I can't remember which ones had which songs, so I'm just going to arbitrarily vote for Just Say Mao.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 6 October 2007 06:12 (seventeen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c475/c475580a82c.jpg

this is essential as it is one of the only places you can get nowhere girl by b-movie. also some great tracks including warm leatherette and somebodys guna get their head kicked in.

― chaki, Saturday, 6 October 2007 06:15 (seventeen years ago)

The first one and the Mao are both good. Replacements/Waits "Date to Church", live Lou Reed "Strawman", 12" version of "Never Let Me Down", Ice-T "The Hunted Child"...

― Eazy, Saturday, 6 October 2007 06:32 (seventeen years ago)

i'm sympathetic to chaki's argument, esp. in the pre-MP3/iTunes era. even nowadays, it's good for to have all of these songs in one place on one CD/in one iTunes file & as far as classic songs it may be the strongest of all of them. nonetheless, i voted for the 1st one (w/ bugs bunny) partly for sentimental reasons (freshman year in college & all that), and partly b/c i think that just about all of the songs thereon are very strong & many of the best are hard to find anywhere else (esp. the smiths' "work is a four-letter word," the mighty lemon drops' "out of hand," and figures on a beach's "no stars").

also, here are the track listings for each one of these samplers, if folks need them in order make a selection:

Just Say Yes
Just Say Yo
Just Say Mao
Just Say Da
Just Say Anything
Just Say Yesterday
Just Say Roe

― Eisbaer, Monday, 8 October 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago)

I forgot about the last sequence of Just Say Mao, great mix:

"Don't Say No" (remix) - Tom Tom Club
"The Hunted Child" - Ice-T
"Nanana" - Royal Crescent Mob
"Date to Church" - Replacements/Tom Waits
"Nowhere to Stand" - k.d. lang [a cappella]
"Strawman (live)" - Lou Reed

― Eazy, Monday, 8 October 2007 04:26 (seventeen years ago)

Just Say Yo has "Call Me Blue" so I'm going with that one

― Morley Timmons, Monday, 8 October 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago)

Just Say Yo also has "Galbi"!

― HI DERE, Monday, 8 October 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago)

The one with Bugs on the sleeve is far and away the best.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Monday, 8 October 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

last chance!!

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

playing Just Say Yo! this week, so great

― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Thursday, 18 March 2010 17:36 (fifteen years ago)

This 1978 all the way fab, and the only way I could hear Richard Hell in 1986 when Black Generation was out of print

http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Sire-Machine-Turns-You-Up/release/447171

― bendy, Thursday, 18 March 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

all the girls named Gloria sing sweetly out of key..

― everybody on ilx u have dandruff (Pillbox), Friday, 19 March 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)

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