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You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess

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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.

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.

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 :-(

This is Yello's greatest moment by far. It finds them in between a period of simple but lacking congo electro and before the release of Oh Yeah. It sounds lost in its own time and is a universe unto itself - and your in it. It unfolds like a soundtrack/travelogue - you're in a 1920's discotheque and then you're in a thunder storm quietly floating in a black canoe through the Amazon and gods there. Every track is brilliant/too clever for it's own good.

The musical fusions on here are mind boggling - spaghetti western electro? It's so incredibly funky and erotic - definitely music to fmuk to on a hot summer night. You know the movies where Moses comes down from the mountain and all the people are dancing and laughing and drinking and fmuking their brains out? - this is the music they were dancing to. Do not play at your next church dance - without using profanity at all, it just sounds dirty in a homoerotic Prince sort of way.

I'm not a big fan of remastered/extra track releases. Most of them don't sound any better than the original pressing - it's just volume. But I thought before I tried any of the other Yello remasters this would be the one I would get first - I'm not going to quibble about missing seconds of a remix or the missing remix I used to dance to almost 30 years ago - the eleven tracks of this album are intact and sounding better than ever, the best remastering I've heard yet...the pops, whizzes and burping gorilla sound so great - I would pay ten times the purchase price to have this. How the collective ears and feet don't register this type of thing is beyond me - I gave up worrying about that years ago - just buy and enjoy for yourself if this happens to be your type of thing.

I headed to my local record shop thirty years ago to buy a copy of Simon & Garfunkel's 'Bookends' but had been stopped by the moody, red headed and vicious chick/clerk I'd seen at high school off and on - I guess she knew me better than I knew myself.

I owned this originally on cassette, so I know that the complaints are real and legitimate. Sometime in the 90's this album was remastered for CD and for whatever reason they swapped out "I Love You" for a different version. And I don't know what to tell you. "80-85: The New Mix In One Go" does contain a more faithful version of the original but it is out of print, it seems.

But the good stuff is that this is a remaster, and the audio quality is better than ever on this re-issue. While people may say they don't care about the B-sides and extras, "Base for Alec" is an awesome song, and prior to it appearing here was only available on "80-85: The New Mix In One Go". "Oh Yeah" might be their most (in)famous track, but "Base for Alec" is cooler, weirder, and more characteristic of their style. For me it was a great find.

This is another Yello electronic album. It is a concept album and is probably one of their strongest for that reason. It also has it's quirks. Generally speaking the songs are good if you like this sort of thing which I do. The CD starts out good goes to O.K., gets great, and ends well. I am used to the original CD which ended with Salut M.. I don't know anything about original 12" versions of this CD nor do I really care for the extra tracks. But the extra tracks are just that...extra. So I don't deduct anything because it is more than what I bargained for if that makes any sense. My only complaint from the original release was that the total timing was less than 40 minutes (this includes the first 11 tracks). So overall I give it five stars for each song dovetailing into one another.

Just one last note. There are couple of tracks which are good for strip joint songs. That or getting down with your mate although I've never had the chance to seduce someone with this music although it seems quite sexual.

Neither version of I Love You is the original version. Would not have bought this if I had known.