4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
And then there was YEllO, July 16, 2000
This review is from: Solid Pleasure (Audio CD)
An album so good I dropped all of their contemporaries (Residents, Snakefinger). This album flows well, it takes you out there and then back with songs like Downtown Samba and Night Flanger. This is real pioneer work and therefore not all palatable like the latter stuff. However, I feel this one is the key to understanding the dynamics of all the other albums.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Apt title, July 7, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Solid Pleasure (Audio CD)
Many of the pioneers of electronic pop have been acknowledged in the past few years, but nobody says much about Yello (at least in the U.S.). This record may not have been groundbreaking like Kraftwerk, but it is tremendously entertaining. It is eclectic, adventurous, and very funny. It has that smart/stupid dynamic that works so well for Fatboy Slim. I won't vouch for subsequent Yello records, but I just love this one.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb debut from one of New Wave's most eccentric bands, October 5, 2007
Yello doesn't get much weirder than they did on their first two records.
Claro Que Si, and it's predecessor Solid Pleasure, are both rich with outlandish soundscapes and musical ideas. If you've never heard Yello before "Oh Yeah" then you're sure to be in a shock hearing the band's earliest material.
The creative interaction between these two men makes for an intriguing musical juxtaposition. If Boris Blank seems intent on conjuring otherworldly sound effects, it's lyricist/ vocalist Dieter Mier who keeps matters down to Earth with character studies in the lamenting loser study of "Bimbo" and "Rock Stop". "Bananas to the Beat" is pure goofball fun.
Side One of Solid Pleasure (I still think of this as the cassette copy I used to own) is a suite of sorts of miniature pieces stitched together like the second side of The Beatles' Abbey Road. This section contains some freakishly dark ambient moments ("Magneto", "Massage", "Assistant's Cry"), as well as some slick dance tracks ("Night Flanger" and "Bostich").
Unlike most re-releases that tack on ho-hum bonus material, the bonus tracks to this remastered edition are all welcome additions that deserve repeat listens. "Thrill Wave" and "Smirak's Train" are two selections from a movie soundtrack that would have fit quite nicely placed in the above mentioned ambient suite. There's also an extended mix of "Bostich" that is much superior to the slight album version. "Gluehead" is simply one of the most insane Yello tracks I've heard.
The CD comes in a digipak case with a booklet of lyrics, band photos, video stills, and various album art and memorabilia from this time period.
Favorite tracks: "Night Flanger", "Magneto", "Blue Green", "Bostich"
Final rating: 5 out of 5 stars.
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