Baby [IMPORT]

Yello

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram Int'l
• ASIN: B000007666
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,798 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Homage to the Mountain

2. Rubberbandman

3. Jungle Bill

4. Ocean Club

5. Who's Gone

6. Capri Calling

7. Drive/Driven

8. On the Run

9. Blender

10. Sweet Thunder

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Swedish sythn/dance pop duo Yello is Boris Blank & Dieter Meier. 'Baby' (1991) is their seventh overall release. Includes the single 'Jungle Bill', plus 'Rubberbandman', 'Sweet Thunder' & seven more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When music becomes art, August 24, 2000

By	"gdatlanta" (Atlanta, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews

I saw their Jungle Bill video and was amazed by the music I heard: I bought the album. But the version of Jungle Bill on the record is not nearly the same as the video version. Still, the version on here is fanastic, as well as the rest of this record. Yello are musical and studio geniuses. When "One Second" came out, I couldn't believe the value of production on the record - even though I truly hated "computer music" at the time. Soon, I found nearly all Yello to be of this same high standard. The richness, clarity and depth of each & every sound in Yello's music leaves a deep mark in your memory. Each song painting a vivid picture and leaving a lasting impression. This record stacks up well against their others and any fan of Yello could not be displeased. Maintains a tribal tom-tom beat which recurs through various points in the CD. Boris and Dieter bring us the famous Billy Mackenzie, drummer Beat Ash and guitarist Marco Colombo - as well as a host of other fine musicians for yet another masterpiece from the most well-produced band of all time. WARNING: This band's impact on my idea of music changed me from an 80's punk rocker into a "computer musician".

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yeah, baby!, July 22, 2002

By	"-thewarlock-" (Norway) - See all my reviews

When I first got this CD, I was kind of sceptic, but after some days of listening everything was clear. Baby is, together with Essentials and Flag, Yello's best album. Homage to the mountain is good, Rubberbandman is funny, but at the same time exellent composed and Jungle Bill as well. Ocean Club is somewhat boring to listen to (because I'm not so fond of songs with just talking), Who's Gone is just GREAT! and Capri Calling is, together with Drive Driven, extremely good and nice to listen when you want relaxing music. On the Run is good (and I mean really good) and Blender is just...divine. Sweet Thunder is exellent too.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'd think it was SACD or DVD-Audio, November 10, 2005

By	basementjack (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

Many of Yello's CD's sound simply fantastic and Baby is no exception. If you are already a Yello fan, Pick this up - no questions asked - it's absolutely worth $40 (the going price as I wrote this)

It's interesting to me that every Yello Album(cd?) seems to have a sonic theme to it. Baby is pretty consistant throughout, yet much different than most of thier other work. It's easy to think of it as a few revisions past the 'one second' album, much of what made that one great is here.

Homage to the Mountain is an instrumental track, and it's just fantastic, so clear, so dynamic - you'd think it was a SACD, or DVD-Audio. It alone would be worth having the CD for...
(I will stipulate that my enjoyment of most yello CD's has come through a decent stereo system at pretty good volumes. This is a CD that will not receive justice if it's played through a boom box (much in the way many sci-fi films would not be as exiting on a 13" TV vs a big screen))

One of my favorates was always the song Blender partially because of the music and the way the drums kick in, but also because of the downright goofy lyrics. (about a blender salesperson who sells door to door, and the blender also happens to convert in to the worlds most powerfull vacuume cleaner)

Anyhow I suppose I've written enough. Can't go wrong with this one or pretty much any of the CD's starting with 'one second' The first 3 CD's were good too but they had more of a home grown low-fidelity sound to them, so the music on them doesn't shine through like it does on the CD's starting with one second. Though I read on www.yello.ch that they've remastered and re-released the originals. So those too might be sonically worthwhile now too.