From: owner-yello-digest@xmission.com (yello-digest) To: yello-digest@xmission.com Subject: yello-digest V2 #1 Reply-To: yello-digest Sender: owner-yello-digest@xmission.com Errors-To: owner-yello-digest@xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes yello-digest Wednesday, October 29 1997 Volume 02 : Number 001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 01:25:33 +0300 (EET DST) From: Jussi Salmi Subject: Re: (yello) Yello/AON On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, James Gillett wrote: > >As for why nothing was remixed from "Baby" or "Zebra", there might be > a very simple explanation. Maybe none of the artists favourite > tracks were on one of those two cd's. Mine's not. > Hang on. I think we should do a survey to find out whether there really are > two groups of Yello fans on the list. > I have a suspicion that we have old/new fans who 'seem' to belong to either > the '80-'85 or '86-'97 era here. > Is it true that many of the fans in the early years or doubtful over music > post 1986? > For me, The Race latched me onto Yello, and while their early music was > full of energy and ideas, if Boris had had the same technology in 1997, > that he had in 1979, we would have had some music to listen to. I agree, I'm an 'old' fan of Yello. That is very unfortunate for me, because ever since I became a fan in about 1988, their every new album has been a slight disappointment for me. If I was a 'new' fan, I would have been a much happier person in the 90's. Though, to be completely honest, recently I have to my own amazement realized, that I actually like PU! Nowadays I think it is superior to both Zebra and Baby, but still I think it loses out to pre-Baby music. Perhaps, the energy is creeping back into their music, and they'll start the new millennium with a Big Bang! Jussi Salmi --- jussalmi@utu.fi 'I'm the operator of my pocket calculator' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:53:53 +0300 From: Juhana K Kouhia Subject: Re: (yello) CD-Rom >The CD-ROM looks so illegal, So we guessed :-) >Contents: "BABY", "One Second", "ZEBRA", "FLAG", 2LP in 1CD, >"Essential" All those in just one disc? Only music? Don't bother folks -- most probably the audio is compressed with MPEG. But then there is this program we know nothing about, it could be even worst than MPEG. I hope to get a copy of the CD-ROM stuff on On Track CD single. Okay, the large video files are not needed but somebody could give us a peak for the other files, even it is just a readme file. Juhana # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:11:24 +0100 From: "Jonas Warstad" Subject: (yello) BGP - Boris Greetings Project Hi all! Please send me your personal greetings to Boris. I will then bring a print-out of all greetings to him, as a gift from his fans. My thought is for you to tell him what his music has meant to you, I'm sure he will appreciate this. Suggestions (like you want to see them live or you want to have all rare material on CD) is also an idea, but please don't include any questions: it's obvious that he will not be able to reply to any questions indivudually. My interview is set for 10-14 Nov and if you have any question(s) please send them to me instead and I'll consider it for my intreview. I need your greetings before 6th of Nov. Please write "BGP" in the subject line. (Unless you have some questions, in which case you write "Boris Q" in the subject line.) Regards, JW # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 08:51:00 +0200 From: Bekaert.T@daikin.be (Bekaert.T) Subject: (yello) CD-Rom and the other stuff From: Bekaert.T@DAIKIN on 24/10/97 08:51 To: yello@xmission.com at Internet@CCMAIL cc: Subject: CD-Rom and the other stuff * First of all. James, your fishing for a remark with that P.S. of yours. Let's see how it turns out. * CD: Also includes Pocket Universe (see previous mail) but this was not written on the cover. There is also an extra track on Flag called "Tied up in red". It's another mix and i do not have it on vinyl. How was it made? - - 7 WAV files. One for each CD. 44kHz, 4bit mono compressed WAV. - - 7 Tracklists (textfiles) to put on the screen and to link with the... - - 7 Pointerlists which point to the adress where to look for the beginning of a track. - - 7 Bitmaps, each time a picture of the original CD - - The program just has a nice background with some cubes with the text Yello on it and on this the CD's to play. The rest is just a nice looking media player. How does it sound? Zebra, Flag and some others sound even worse than the original ( although the CD-quality from Zebra was already horrible). Pocket Universe did not lose much in quality. "Stalakdrama"'s scream is dead. The original is also dissapointingly unclear but... * To Eric: - - I'm not old enough nore interrested enough to know when Kraftwerk started. Thanks for the information anyway. - - Although good music might be a pure personal subjective opinion, if somebody tells me he likes something and when I ask him why, his answer is :"Well..... euh,... just because" I tend to compare this person with my 12 year old cousin listening to House because euh... well... I donno. The exchange of subjective oppinions can be a good thing, certainly when what you are willing to say is so abstract, you need ten minutes to describe it. FOR EXAMPLE: Track 10 of PU. Start your engines, put a 750cc two wheeling bomb under your legs (Susuki, Kawasaki, Honda, Yamaha) and speedwheel away on Silverstone (or francoshamps). You fly by the pits (wheely) while the accellerating sounds are coming up, go through all corners with " Got To (x5)" and with the scrambled voice, just think stroboscopic ( Try the Monaco GP for this) If your not going " Faster, Faster, just like a disaster", you'r not a biker or you've already crashed at the chicane. With headphones and a dark room it should work. * To James: - - If YELLO is against marketing this makes it possible for us NOT to have some people running around saying they like YELLO but don't know why. I know a lot of people who look to Eurosport and like the music not knowing it's YELLO. "Oh Yeah" also did some good. - - Jarre is Crap except for 15 seconds on one of the CD's. The other one "En attendant Cousteau" has two real tracks. The first is good if you really must have something for the carnaval. The other one is ideal if you want to fall asleep within 46 minutes. If you don't say it's crap, you still realise you've never played it more than twice. - - Vangelis is and has always been too difficult. 1492 was an exception. All other music gives you moodtrouble. You can't get the hang of feeling the music. Need more explanation? - - See Eric. Resistor is fast enough and doesn't sound like 2 Unlimited. Final. *To Chris: - - I've never heard "Hands on Yello" but if it can be compared to what some people dit to the "Art of Noise" after their demise, I do not want to hear it. - -> If we take some peoples music and put the best stuff first, at the end, we are surprised what crap they also made. Think about PRINCE. There's always a song you liked and another one you find extremely dissapointing. - -> If you get used to the feeling of a song and hear the remix, something of that feeling is taken away from you. It's only when the remix and the original are on the same album, there is nothing to worry about ( Tied up (in gear)). Nothing for you this time Juhana Read Ya Tom # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 15:17:44 -0400 (EDT) From: FGriego@aol.com Subject: (yello) Good? The key point that has to be made when comparing Yello to any other artist/group or genre is that Boris "makes" his samples. To use the Lego analogy is cute and convenient on the surface but there are no easy pieces to assemble in his world; that is, not bits that he hasn't had a hand in creating. To be popular does not to be good in most circles. No doubt Yello could have sold their soul to the devil or worse- to Disney and be on more cereal boxes than Michael Jordan. Would that make them more credible as artists? I point out the fine difference between "the masses" and "them asses". I remember a vulgar statement seen on a t-shirt or punk lp cover that said, "Eat shit- 50,000,000 flies can't all be wrong." Pardon my slip. Had they chosen to go the other route-seeking popularity as opposed to the route they did choose, I for one would likely be digging through the record bins for someone I could relate to. Best, FG An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. ( Albert Einstein ) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:02:11 +0000 From: "Minstrel Arts" Subject: Re: (yello) Art of Noise > Well, *I* like the Art of Noise. > > P.S. according to , there is > a new Art of Noise album coming out soon!: > The musical idea behind the album is to fuse the modern "drum and bass" > rhythms coming out of London with adaptations of songs written by classical > composer Claude Debussy at the turn of this century. I listened to the album today... I didn't like it. They did a very good job, but all the jungle-stuf (drum and bass, whatever) just isn't my style. The 'Hands On Yello' album is much more accessible and has a greater diversity in style. Groeten, Olaf. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:30:41 +0100 From: "James Gillett" Subject: (yello) Yello On 24th October, Minstrel Arts wrote: >I listened to the album today[Art Of Noise]... I didn't like it. They did a very good job, but all the jungle-stuff (drum and bass, whatever) just isn't my style. F. Griego wrote: >To be popular does not to be good in most circles. On this subject, I bought the CD by Roni Size yesterday: the guy who won the Mercury Music Prize here in the UK. He was relatively unheard of, compared to the other nominees for the award, (Prodigy, Chemical Bros.) However, it's very listenable, and full of the interest that you would expect, and I recommend it to you. Also a [new?] bandcalled 'Juno Reactor' (there's quite a lot of stuff about them on the web) feature some incredibly *Yelloish* tracks. Check out 'Conga Fury' on their 'Bible Of Dreams.' I bet you Boris will probably cut up some drum and bass for the next yello album. It's almost predictable isn't it? It's these little points that make me wonder whether yello (as we have discussed before) are following rather than 'leading' in the music world. On 24th October T. Bekaert wrote: >I'm not old enough nore interrested enough to know when Kraftwerk started. Thanks for the information anyway. I take it then, that you are not *old* enough to know about other discretionary composers of the past.....people like Beethoven or Mozart for example... Now they're so 'old'.. aren't they?......... > Resistor is fast enough and doesn't sound like 2 Unlimited. (Final)* I dunno. Perhaps it's because I am a musician myself, but when I listen to 'Resistor' (and I know a lot of you will look in disbelief) it almost sounds a bit 'plodding.' - it's already beginning to sound dated. But this is purely my opinion. I entirely understand if you disagree. *The remark made that it sounded like '2 Unlimited' was made by in a music magazine review. James gilletts@enterprise.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 16:03:28 +0300 From: Juhana K Kouhia Subject: (yello) Soundstation Hello. Months ago I downloaded the soundstation samples to my home for making a better remix with Csound. Now I have found something interesting. But I first describe what is the soundstation in case somebody don't know about it. It is located at "http://www.yello.ch/soundstation". You are controlling the mixer which has 8 tracks. Each track can play a loop which is repeated endlessly. You can control track's playing volume and put it on or off. 7 of 8 tracks are such that you may choose the played loop from three possible loops. For example, one track is dedicated for vocal samples. And so, there are 7x3 loop samples. One track is dedicated for your own loop which you can make by using smaller pattern samples. This pattern mixer has 7 channels. The pattern samples can be put to 8 different places on the time axis. For each channel you may choose the played pattern sample from three possible pattern samples. Thus, there are 7x3 pattern samples available. You may also control the amplitude of each channel. When I tried the mixer, the whole system stopped when loops and pattern samples were loaded. Thus, before doing anything else, you should put the player on, click every pattern sample button, and click every loop button. This loads all samples to your own computer, after which there are no delays in operations. Yes, the news: the mixer is missing one track dedicated for synth sounds, and there are a few more pattern samples. You may look the missing samples from "http://www.yello.ch/soundstation/loops" and "http://www.yello.ch/soundstation/patterns/". The missing samples are loops/yello_synth1.au loops/yello_synth2.au loops/yello_synth3.au patterns/kick4.au patterns/kick5.au patterns/cl_hihat4.au patterns/noise4.au patterns/blow1.au patterns/crash1.au patterns/o_hihat1.au patterns/o_hihat2.au patterns/vib1.au Most less I understand why the synth sample track is missing. Perhaps it is a mistage. I will mail to www.yello.ch maintainers about this. I have put all samples to "ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/culture/music/western/ Yello/samples/yellosoundstation.tar.gz". I also converted original 'au' audiofiles to 16 bit 'wav' audiofiles but kept the original samplerates because there I had no good samplerate converter around. Both 'au' and 'wav' files are included in this 1.2 Mbytes file. There is also mixer.html file where from you may look what tracks contains what loop possibilities. Happy remixing, Juhana # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 15:04:14 +0200 From: "Geir Hauso" Subject: (yello) Yello Hello everbody fans of yello. Some stuff for sale: One second (1987) Cd 6=A3 (used) You gotta say yes to another excess (1983) Cd 6=A3 (used) Zebra (1994) Cd 6=A3 (used) The new mix in one go (1986) Cd 6=A3 (used) Stella (1985) Cd 6=A3 (used) Baby (1991) Cd 6=A3 (used) Flag (1988) Lp 15=A3 Of course we can change i`m interested in all Yello items. Mail:(jhauso@online.no) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:23:33 +1100 From: Mark Pulley Subject: Re: (yello) Art of Noise and a bit of Yello At 21:02 24/10/97 +0000, you wrote: >> P.S. according to , there is >> a new Art of Noise album coming out soon!: >I listened to the album today... I didn't like it. They did a >very good job, but all the jungle-stuf (drum and bass, whatever) just >isn't my style. Are you talking about the remix album "Drum and Bass Collection"? This is not the new album I was talking about, which to my knowledge hasn't been released yet. Obligatory Yello reference: I came across a recent interview with Dieter about PU at ... unfortunately for me, it's in French. Mark - ------------------ mailto:z2103039@student.unsw.edu.au ------------------ "Bueller...? Bueller...? " (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:19:12 +1100 From: Mark Pulley Subject: (yello) Baker's Barn I recently got my grubby little paws on a copy of Carlos Peron's latest album, "Baker's Barn". It is a soundtrack to the novel by Ady Henry Kiss. The booklet helpfully tells you what page of the novel you should read while listening to a particular track. Unfortunately that's no help to me as I don't speak German... but strangely enough the voices in the background of the music all seem to be in English. Well, there you go. There is an interview with Mr Kiss at . Also has more information on Baker's Barn. Unfortunately for me, these are in German. These are dated from January this year. For those of you who have "Manhattan II" (another novel soundtrack released in 1995), you will have some idea of what to expect. For those who don't... Cover: (picture of cover is at ) Front cover has a picture of a woman's face, with her hair made from golden threads eminating from a tube of toothpaste. If anyone can explain this to me... The back cover of the CD and the back of the booklet feature Barbie wearing chains. Does Carlos have something against her? (Carlos took the photos.) In the middle of the booklet is a picture of sheep in a paddock, with the text "Wenn ich nicht schlafen konnte" above it. (Translation, anyone?) Above the text is an upside-down picture of the same paddock, but not zoomed in as much. (I think it's the same picture, not a second picture taken at the same location. For those who really wanted to know.) Overall: To me it is unlike anything Yello has done. Being a soundtrack it has no songs (i.e. no-one sings), and plenty of atmospheric music. It had some great tracks, but I felt it was let down by a couple of aimless tracks... but this is a soundtrack, not a dance album. System Of The Spear: Begins with background noises and announcements "We've got plenty of time, get ready...", before the music begins. Long notes over a bass line and 'popping' sounds. Then a bell repeatedly plays three descending notes. (Think of the descending notes in "Moon Dog", just played on bells and with three notes not four. Did that sentence make any sense?). Very atmospheric. My favourite track. Weekend Transit/Baker's Barn: Begins with more ambient noise before a soft 'brushed snare drum' rhythm begins. (?representing a very quiet train?). Experimental Installation: This track has lots of long loud noises. Doesn't seem to go anywhere. (It's times like this I wish I had the novel...) Soldiers On T.V. #1: Sounds of marching, then a 'machine' rhythm begins (similar to the machine sounds in Pink Floyd's "Welcome To The Machine"). Skench: (Yes, that *is* a 'k' in the song title, not a 't'.) Second-favourite track. Faintly in the background an African choir can be heard. A reverberating bass line begins. Then the bass line proper begins (similar rhythm and speed to the bass line in "Blue Green", but different notes) over more long notes.=20 Ultimate Correction: Some electronic screams, a series of electronic claps, some 'electronic' sounds, then yet more sustained notes over a fast drum beat and semiquavers Living On The Ground: I'm not terribly fond of this track. There is an insistent scratching rhythm with long notes over the top of it. At the start and finish there are assorted screams, yells and the like. Church Of Cosmatics: This seems to be the token 'pop song' on the album. I like it, but there seems to be something missing that I can't place. Maybe it's a bit too much like a pop song for my tastes...? Oh well. Adhesive Paste: I don't know who Mr. Timothy Leary is, but this track is dedicated to his memory. The bass again reminded me of "Blue Green" (but the harmonies are different again). I like this track also. Breathing Amphibic Vehicles: Sounds like... sounds like... um... a submarine? This track is mainly sounds heard inside a submarine (or something similar), with a long sustained note over the top. A couple of notes remind me of "Go To Hell" (from "Impersonator 3"). Iron Bridge: Lots of ambient sounds with some electronic sounds, but doesn't really go anywhere. Small: Lots of long notes. Soldiers On T.V. #2: When I have some time, I'll record this backwards and listen to it, as those sounds at the start definitely sound backwards to me. Some (forwards) marching sounds also appear, and the "machine" noise makes a reappearance.= =20 Baker's Barn (End Title): A 32 note pattern is played on tubular bells and on the low notes of a piano, followed by the same amount of time silence before the notes are played again... and again... and again... for 9 minutes 20 seconds. In the background is a slowly changing... um... background of long notes, sound effects, etc. This description sound boring, but actually I think it (the music, not my description) is very effective. It is the only piece to not have a page reference, so I assume it would be played during the 'end credits' (if books had them). As the booklet says, "close your eyes and hear / schlie=DFe die Augen und h=F6re" Well, there you have it. Now I'd better get back to study - exams begin in two days... :-( Mark - ------------------ mailto:z2103039@student.unsw.edu.au ------------------ "It is quite clear that you are not experienced in this matter of adventures. They are giants, and if you are afraid, go away and say your prayers, whilst I advance and engage them in fierce and unequal battle." (Don Quixote) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:14:24 +0100 From: Angstrom Subject: (yello) Old/New Yello fans I'm following the debate about Old/New Yello Fans, and my comment, as an "Old" Yello fan, is that their first stuff was great at the time (and still is) and their new stuff is just getting better or at least keeping the same level of quality. It is sad to hear about people disliking PU, Zebra and Baby, so sad. But of course everyone´s right to their opinion. About the comment that real Yello lovers laugh at Jean Michel Jarre i can only laugh back at whoever said it. JMJ is just as fantastic as Yello, but in his own way. That goes for Kraftwerk as well. Does anyone know what Boris and Dieter think about the above mentioned? Regards John Å. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:30:38 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=E4der_Eric?= Subject: RE: (yello) CD-Rom and the other stuff > Hi Tom > > Thanks for the info about the CD-rom. > > > >- See Eric. Resistor is fast enough and doesn't sound like 2 > >Unlimited. Final. > > Just for the facts. I've never stated this. Someone else made this > quotation. Originaly it's from a music magazine review and personally > I think it's a strange thing to compare Resistor and 2 Unlimited. > > >I tend to compare this person with my 12 year old cousin listening to > House > >because euh... well... I donno. > > Why does he have to explain it. If that's his opinion and the music > makes him feel good, well... so what. If he can't explain why he likes > it in a way that you can understand .....well. Could it bee that you > two are looking at things from different angles that is the > explenation. Is there, in your opinion, some sort of standard that > says "If you can explain good music in this or that way, then I will > considder it to be a good opinion". And the rest is ignorance? or > what? Why do one have to explain what good music is? A discussion > about how you apprehend (thinking of your example) the music can be > very interesting but it doesn't have to have anything to do wether the > music is good or not. > > Regards > Eric > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:16:45 +0100 From: "Bo Andersen" Subject: (yello) review - zebra I just found this review on www.cdnow.com, when looking for info on Zebra New Musical Express 10/22/94, p.45: 6 - Good - "...A kind of B-52's sound that you're frightened to laugh at...another interesting, ultimately hollow exercise from men with one beady eye squinting at mainstream pop..." Let's hope their children all get very small penises - including the girls # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:02:06 +0100 From: "Bo Andersen" Subject: (yello) Snowball Hi All, I'm relatively new to this list, so here's my vital data. I Discovered Yello in 1983, and has been a fan ever since. I've seen the discussion about New Vs. Old fans, and I must say that it's not all of us Oldies that can't appreciate the new stuff. I think all the albums are great - I can't even name a track that I don't like. The cd that most often finds it's way onto my cd-player, however is Baby. I can't get enough of that one. But enough about that. I saw on the "of couse I'm lying" double-maxi thingie that there would be a yello movie, called snowball. Did this project ever happen? Being in Denmark - which is not a terribly yello friendly country, I have never been able to find out. Another thing I've been thinking about is whether it would be ok, moralwise, to send samples of mixes and other stuff here. For instance I've got a vinyl record with interviews and stuff that I could let you all hear, if you wish. I thoght that if we MP3'd stuff and downsampled it a lot, nobody could argue that it would be of a quality that would make people NOT buy the original. - -Appreciate you'r thoughts. Bo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:10:45 -0000 From: "James Gillett" Subject: (yello) Zebra >>.A kind of B-52's sound that you're frightened to laugh at...another interesting, ultimately hollow exercise from men with one beady eye squinting at mainstream pop..." Yeah, I saw this one too. I don't understand why they described it as a 'B52's style.' I don't think they could be any further from the truth. Infact this band bears little, if any similarity to Yello. "Hollow exercise?" - I doubt that. I think the reviewer was perhaps new to the techno field - as 'hollow' is often used to describe techno music, by people who aren't fond of it. However, there is a point I'd like to make about 'Zebra' to the list: - just to ask the question of whether the album lived up to the expectations set out initially by 'Do It' & 'How How.'? These two singles were masterpieces, and the whole anticipation of the release of Zebra was what made it in '94. However, in reality, the rest of the tracks (except perhaps Poom Shanka, S.A.X, I'm in love), just seemed already dated, and maybe a bit 80's (I'm sure that I've offended someone here..).I felt a bit dissapointed by 'The Premix'. 1) Because, probably like everyone else I bought the How How single- I have the Premix now on 5 Cd's) 2)It wasn't the hardest track in the world to make. >>I've seen the discussion about New Vs. Old fans, and I must say that it's not all of us Oldies that can't appreciate the new stuff. I've met loads of people who heard of/liked Yello in the early eighties, but their interest in them dwindled. I'd lay fair bet, that because Yello do have a broad range of styles in their music, people simply do not recognise them when they appear on the radio or whatever later on. - -This is probably the down side to having such a varied style I suppose. James gilletts@enterprise.net "Nothing is irrelevant" - Bill Hicks, 1992 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:38:35 +1300 From: "Blender" Subject: Re: (yello) Snowball >The cd that most often >finds it's way onto my cd-player, however is Baby. I can't get enough of >that one. I agree, for when it first came out it lived in the changer in the car for 2 years! None of the other yellos lived for that long in the car Paul Do not click "reply to author" in your mail program, use this address Paul@"NOSPAM"hn.pl.net Remove "NOSPAM" from reply Thank you - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info yello" in the message. # Postings must go to yello@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Yello discography available at http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?yello ------------------------------ End of yello-digest V2 #1 *************************