Customer Reviews

Zebra

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This album came at a time when techno-house was being force fed to me. I bought this album simply because it was the new Yello album and found an arsenal of superior tunes to unleash on the tribal ravers. What is so refreshing is that Yello left their weird tendencies behind to make a masterful clever cool grove sound.

After acquiring all of Yello's '80's albums that are readily available in the US, I got "Zebra" for Christmas 1995. My ears were freaking out! I couldn't believe how drastically different this album sounds compared to what you hear on "Essential" and everything else Yello has done in the past. But "Zebra" proves that when the musical times changed, so did Yello. Don't you just want to get up and shake your booty with "Move, Dance, Be Born" or "Do It" or even "S.A.X."?

This album has a vast contrast to the mixed and variaty that is Yello. It draws you in with the passion of stunning musical effects that provoke the deepest of images in your mind. I particully like the sounds of "Do It". yello are a groups that isn't afriad of experiment with different music styles and have produced a very intruging album. Keep it up boys

Besides incredible rhythm and creativity, this CD is motivating and fun. Yello captures intense emotion with a combination of a hypnotic beat and intriguing lyrics. It's definately music you can get lost in. "Tremendous Pain" is without a doubt one of the most captivating songs ever. Bravo Yello!

Being a fan of pop/techno music all my life, Yello is the only group out of the crop that I never get tired of listening to. And "Zebra" is another example of their work that strays away from "mainstream pop". From the opening song "Suite 909" the acoustics Boris Blank uses are memorizing in every tune. He has a unique talent for succussfully mixing jazz & techno (as well as other genres) together as demonstrated in the the songs "S.A.X.", & "How, How". "Move, Dance, Be Born" is the highlight of the album. While techno has become generic in today's music era, Blank's music always bursts with orginality. "Night Train", "Tremendous Pain" and "Fat Cry" are the only tracks I found were weak. I can't seem to follow Deiter Meier's cryptic messages in his music. I'm more leniant to Blank's fasinating acoustics. Still, I strongly recommend this album for any Yello fan to add to his/her collection.

Yello has become a bit more modern in this latest album, but that's not a bad thing. They have now incorporated a great deal of techno in this album. This is a great piece of work for fans of dance and Yello. Every track just makes you want to move. Especially the track " Move, Dance, Be Born", which is argueably the best track on the album. Both "Tremendous Pain" and "DO IT" have their own singles. This is a great album and definitely shows the versatility of Boris Blank and Dieter Meyer. They continue to astound and impress. Fans of Yello and fans of electronic dance should check this out.

consigliatissimo come colonna sonora di rapresentazioni grafiche con cadenze ritmiche quasi ossesive. artisticamente ineccepibile x gli amanti del genere. preconfigura gia alcune sonorita che poi diventano patrimonio del jungle e dell acid jazz

This is one of the finest albums with a lot of cds. It is pitty fot the american customers that the cds are only avaible in Europe. Do it is a good song. The title do it is taken from the record company in England do it records. Zebra is something what you need in your collection.

I can understand that other Yello fans say that this CD is one of their worst. But still I like this album very much. The songs here are very different from other of Yello's albums. Boris Blank has mixed techno and jazz, sometimes he has succeded (How How, Night Train, Fat Cry, Tremendous Pain and Move Dance Be Born) and sometimes he has failed (Suite 904 and S.A.X.). The vocals are very good ("I'm walking down town keep lookin' around...") and sometimes they save the songs from being bad. Do It is only good because of the power in the vocals. The Premix (How How) is good because of the lyrics that are the same as in the original How How. The best songs on this album are the ones without the jazz - Night Train, Fat Cry and Tremendous Pain. SAX is bad (and I mean really bad) and I...I'm in Love is somewhat OK, thanks to the vocals. Suite 904 could have been better.