You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Yello | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 22, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Universal Int'l
• ASIN: B000AC5LDO
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,134 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Switzerland

Editorial Reviews

This remastered album contains the seminal singles 'I Love You' and 'Lost Again', and also contains 6 total bonus tracks, 3 available for the first time on CD including 'Rubber West', 'Pumping Velvet' (club mix) & 'I Love You' (club mix) plus 'Base For Alec', 'You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess' (club mix) & 'Live At The Roxy N.Y.'. Universal. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this album, February 14, 2006

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Ski Boy "Ski" - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess (Audio CD)

This is a seminal electronic album that no-one should be without. This version includes the track Rubber West, which as far as I am aware has not been available since the original cassette pressing, and also various very hard to come by 12's, most notably Pumping Velvet, which is nothing less than a rare dancefloor classic. Get it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The beginning of a grand era for Yello, August 12, 2010

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Akashic Recordings "Akasha" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess (Audio CD)

YGSYTAE was my introduction to Yello.

The first time I heard I Love You, I was immediately hooked. I take the song to be a warning against driving while amorously intoxicated. (As in, Keep your eyes on the road! Now is not the time!) We learn from reading Andy Gill's liner notes, that Boris Blank provided the female vocals on the track ... with help from a bit of some in-studio tinkering, of course.

We also learn from the liner notes what the title song is about. It could easily be misinterpreted as a song promoting unhealthy over-indulgence, but as Dieter Meier makes mention here in a cited interview, the song refers to sensible and occasional immoderation, such as, for example, possessing an intense passion for creating music, or for playing some type of sport.

Each of the imported, remastered Yello albums, by the way, contain liner notes, the lyrics to the songs, and numerous photos, which the original releases do not have.

From Meier's elegiac intonation on Lost Again (a lovesick, wintery nocturne, with a memorable stanza) to the slick, lilting Swing (which evokes a jiving hep-cat glissading across a stage in swallow-tails, top-hat and walking-stick), the album was, in my opinion, the opening chapter of a grand era that saw to five remarkable releases, that ended with 1991's Baby.

Granted, of the five, YGSYTAE is, for the uninitiated, Yello's least listener-friendly CD. Songs like No More Words, Crash Dance, Heavy Whispers (a song with perhaps orgasmic overtones), and Smile On You, present a Dieter Meier at his most peculiar.

The re-release includes 6 bonus tracks; of these, 3 are remixes and 3 are B sides.

I recommend purchasing the remastered CD (17 tracks; 62:39) over the original release.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fans robbed, March 5, 2011

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dh - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess (Audio CD)

Why do music companies insist on giving the finger to fans by re-releasing classic albums with tracks that are edited from the original 12" versions? In this case I Love You 12" is an edited, shortened version from the original 12". Fans buy these re-releases, and fans are going to be the ones that notice these things.

Thanks for doing this :-(