are these the remasters from 10(?) years back?
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 December 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
yup. all remastered by boris.all numbered.hence the OCD collector groove kicked in.no way could i buy 1/3/6 !!was always a case of all or nothing.hence the happy groove, as i have not seen a complete set since their original release.guess vertigo/mercury have repressed them and so there is a new spate of them on the racks.i care not.just well chuffed to have the complete set as they confirm my opinion that YELLO were absolutely brilliant.
― mark e, Thursday, 3 December 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
ok, i have resisted the urge to splurge on this thread over the holiday season, but the fact is YELLO is clearly one of the best electronic pop bands ever.
so many hidden classics before they hit their commercial groove.
eg. 'ballet mecanique' : yes, there is a cheesy filled reggae fill in, but this is brilliantly counteracted with the psycho vocal that hits after a few loops.
this is what i love about yello : while using the sonic limitations of the day, they still embraced the elusive spanner of the works that rarely got love.
summary : they were clearly fucking nuts, and i love that.
― mark e, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
and they are back.all the berlin shows are sold out.and i am unable to get the new vevo hosted video, limbo, (any connection to their brilliant track, bimbo, i wonder !) to play.ahh.
― mark e, Thursday, 21 July 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
pr re new album, TOY :
Like all great Yello records, Toy is playful, super-sharp and ultra-modern; something akin to a set of vivid snapshots of a utopian futurist Europe rendered in glorious techno-colour. Taking in joyous liquid electronics (on first single Limbo, Tool Of Love), continental torch songs (Starlight Scene, Dark Side), glimmering Balearic sunset music (Blue Biscuit) and myriad points in between, Toy is the unmistakable sound of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank gleefully working at the top of their game after nearly four decades making music together. Recorded at Yello Studio, Zurich, Toy features guests Fifi Rong (vocals on Kiss the Cloud, Dark Side) Malia (vocals on Cold Flame, Starlight Scene, Give You The World) Heidi Happy (vocals on Dialectical Kid), Jeremy Baer (all guitars).
Yello are Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. Their first LP - Solid Pleasure - was released in 1980. Since then, they have forged a unique career that’s influenced everything from techno culture and hip hop to the Simpsons. Yello recently announced their first ever full live shows in their thirty-seven year career. They will play songs from Toy and ‘reloaded classics’ over four nights in a decommissioned German power station – KraftwerkBerlin – between October 26th and 30th. Each of the four gigs sold out within two days of going on sale. Tracklisting: Frautonium Intro / Limbo / 30,000 Days / Cold Flame / Kiss The Cloud / Pacific AM / Starlight Scene / Give You The World / Tool of Love / Dialectical Kid / Dark Side / Blue Biscuit / Magma / Frautonium
― mark e, Thursday, 21 July 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
Toy is the unmistakable sound of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank gleefully working at the top of their game after nearly four decades making music together.
it's basically the last three albums all over again, so yes
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA-wKK3azN4
looks excellent.
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
yes, this looks fantastic.there was a very positive review of the show in the new mojo, according to which, this was the encore.should have been the full 12+ version.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 November 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
that is the best i've ever seen a 'pop video' look, on a backdrop at a gig. coincidentally we were bellyaching on some thread or other, about how bad promos of the 80s and 90s look now on YouTube and how they never seem to come out in HD or Blu-Ray but somehow theirs look amazing up there.
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 November 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
i suspect thats down to boris.he is all about the visual representation these days with his love of movie scores etc.even in the early days, these guys had access to serious tech toys.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 November 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Boris? Dieter was a visual artist before he became a vocalist and he's directed all of Yello's videos (and famously worked for years on a stage musical based on their music that was never properly finished), so presumably he's the one who puts more effort into the stage visuals too?
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 November 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
The Dieter-directed "Virtual Concert" DVD that came with Touch Yello is pretty great too, if you don't mind the cheap looking CGI effects. (Which I'm willing to forgive because the budget must've been fairly small.) The bit where they place those white cutout instruments seen in the album art is fab!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJmYEhn8PU
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 November 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
normally when i listen to 'stella' i skip 'oh yeah' cos, well, you know.but tonight i let it play out.it really is a mad weird track to have ever become a signature track.
one of the weirdest pop hits ever ?
― mark e, Friday, 18 August 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
13 minutes of 'the race'.still brilliant.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 February 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
always!
i went to the Berlin gig mentioned above (4 years ago). Some of it was excellent but overall it was a bit underwhelming sadly.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
did anyone bother with the album they put out last year?
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
joe muggs said it was one of the best sounding albums of the year.just a shame re the crap cover art.and yes, i am that shallow.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2F0rg8LE_c
― xzanfar, Friday, 5 February 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YybmWiEzrs
― xzanfar, Friday, 5 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rECR4wVCMQ
― xzanfar, Friday, 5 February 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRo1cHlgIqk
― xzanfar, Friday, 5 February 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link