2-12-10 Yello – Singles
Yello has always been more defined by their singles, I think. I only started on them less than 10 years ago – so it’s always a joy to find a new single that I didn’t already have. I found no less than 3 new-to-me Yello singles in
12" BASE FOR ALEC OUTPUT
2004 1 TRK with pic sleeve, 1-sided, clear vinyl
12" BIMBO RALPH
1982 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
7" BIMBO / I.T. SPLASH RALPH
1980 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" BLAZING SADDLES
1989 4 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" BLAZING SADDLES MERCURY
1989 4 TRKS with pic sleeve
CD5 BOSTICH (Remix) MOTOR DE 851357.2
1995 3 TRK CD Single CD5 remixes; Westbam
7" BUY OR DIE! 1980 1/2 (EP) RALPH
1980 4 TRKS with pic sleeve, V.A. – Fred Frith etc.
CD5 CALL IT LOVE VERTIGO DE 888311.2
1987 3 TRK CD Single CD5
12" CALL IT LOVE
1987 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" CALL IT LOVE MERCURY
1987 3 TRKS with pic sleeve (888311.1)
12" CALL IT LOVE MERCURY US 888994.1
1987 5 TRK EP; with pic sleeve
7" CALL IT LOVE / L'HOTEL MERCURY
1987 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" DESIRE ELEKTRA
1985 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" DESIRE
1985 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" DO IT MERCURY DE 858513.1
1994 2 TRKS no pic sleeve
CD5 DO IT MERCURY DE 858695.2
1994 4 TRK CD Single CD5
12" DO IT (12"x2) SMASH US 445815.1
1994 8 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" GOLDRUSH VERTIGO DE 884877.1
1986 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" GOLDRUSH (12" x 2) MERCURY
1986 5 TRKS with pic sleeve, 12" x 2
12" HOW HOW MERCURY DE 9711
1994 4 TRKS no pic sleeve
CD5 HOW HOW ISLAND/4TH US 440604.2
1994 7 TRK CD Single CD5
7" I LOVE YOU STIFF
1983 1 TRK pic disc, no pic sleeve, 3D glasses
12" I LOVE YOU ELEKTRA US 67917-0
1983 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" I LOVE YOU STIFF
1983 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
7" I LOVE YOU / RUBBER
1983 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
7" I LOVE YOU / RUBBER WEST VERTIGO DE 812150.7
1983 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" JINGLE BELLS promo ISLAND/4TH US 448018-1DJ
1995 3 TRKS no pic sleeve, promo
12" JUNGLE BILL
1992 4 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" JUNGLE BILL SMASH US 880003.1
1992 4 TRKS with pic sleeve
7" JUNGLE BILL / ON THE RUN MERCURY DE 864438.7
1992 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" LET ME CRY
1982 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" LIVE AT THE ROXY
1984 1 TRK with pic sleeve; 1 sided
7" LOST AGAIN VERTIGO DE 814611.7
1983 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" LOST AGAIN STIFF
1983 4 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" OF COURSE I'M LYING #1 MERCURY
1989 3 TRKS with pic sleeve, #1 of 2
12" OF COURSE I'M LYING #2 MERCURY
1989 3 TRKS with pic sleeve, #2 of 2
7" OF COURSE I'M LYING / OH YEAH MERCURY
1989 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" OH YEAH MERCURY
1985 3 TRKS no pic sleeve
7" OH YEAH MERCURY
1987 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" OH YEAH MERCURY DE 888908.1
1987 3 TRKS with pic sleeve, "Yello In The Movies"
CD5 OH YEAH (Remix) MOTOR DE 577089.2
1995 4 TRK CD Single CD5 remixes; Plutone
12" OH YEAH 'OH SIX - THE REMIXES PART 1 VERTIGO DE 170150-6
2006 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
7" PINBALL CHA CHA / SMILE ON YOU DO IT
1982 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
CD5 PLANET DADA MOTOR DE 981351.5
2003 7 TRK CD EP CD5
12" PUMPING VELVET promo ELEKTRA
1983 4 TRKS no pic sleeve, promo
12" PUMPING VELVET promo ELEKTRA
1983 4 TRKS with pic sleeve, promo
12" RACE, THE
1988 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" RACE, THE MERCURY
1988 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
CD5 RACE, THE MERCURY
1992 4 TRK CD Single CD5
12" RACE, THE - HEAT 1 promo MERCURY US PRO 744.1
1989 5 TRKS promo-only
CD5 RACE, THE promo MERCURY US CDP 113
1989 3 TRK CD Single CD5 promo
CD5 RHYTHM DIVINE, THE MERCURY DE 888746.2
1987 3 TRK CD Single CD5, Shirley Bassey
12" RHYTHM DIVINE, THE MERCURY DE 888746.1
1987 3 TRKS with pic sleeve, Shirley Bassey
12" RHYTHM DIVINE, THE MERCURY
1987 3 TRKS with pic sleeve, Shirley Bassey
CD5 RUBBERBAND MAN MERCURY DE 868341.2
1991 3 TRK CD Single CD5
12" RUBBERBAND MAN
1991 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" SHE'S GOT A GUN DO IT
1982 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
CD5 SQUEEZE PLEASE MERCURY DE 562639.2
2000 7 TRK CD EP CD5
12" TIED UP (Remix) MERCURY DE 872481.1
1988 4 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" TIED UP (Remix) MERCURY
1988 4 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" TIED UP (Remix) promo MERCURY
1989 5 TRKS with pic sleeve, promo
12" TIED UP IN RED
1988 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" TIED UP promo MERCURY
1988 4 TRKS no pic sleeve, promo
12" TREMENDOUS PAIN
1995 4 TRKS no pic sleeve
CD5 TREMENDOUS PAIN
1995 5 TRK CD EP CD5
12" TREMENDOUS PAIN promo ISLAND/4TH
1995 5 TRK EP; no pic sleeve, yellow vinyl, promo
12" UNBELIEVABLE ELEKTRA
1990 6 TRK EP; no pic sleeve
12" UNBELIEVABLE promo ELEKTRA
1990 6 TRKS no pic sleeve, promo
12" VICIOUS GAMES ELEKTRA
1983 3 TRKS no pic sleeve, promo
12" VICIOUS GAMES VERTIGO DE 880574.1
1985 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" VICIOUS GAMES ELEKTRA
1985 3 TRKS no pic sleeve
12" VICIOUS GAMES ELEKTRA
1985 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" VICIOUS GAMES MERCURY
1986 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
12" VICIOUS GAMES (Remixes) promo SMASH US 440812.1DJ
1991? 4 TRKS no pic sleeve, promo
12" VICIOUS GAMES (THE DANCE MIXES) COMPACT VINYL GG007R2
1998 5 TRK EP; with pic sleeve; Hardfloor
12" YOU GOTTA SAY YES TO ANOTHER EXCESS
1983 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
CD5 YOU GOTTA SAY YES… (Remix) MOTOR DE 851811.2
1995 3 TRK CD Single CD5 remixes; Jam & Spoon
2 comments:
I collected Yello from day 2. I heard the "Bimbo" 7" in 1980 when it was released on Ralph and immediately made room for these guys! I guess that Day 1 would have been the insanely rare Periphery Perfume 7," which even back in the day 2-3 years after its release was out of my price range! I bought everything I could find with their name on it and loved it - though the Jungle Bill remixes (from "Baby") were obviously the writing on the wall. They seemed mediocre and had the fingerprints of hack DJs all over them.
The 1st single from Zebra, "Do It," was my last straw. It was filled with of-their-time techno-house dance tracks and I really hated them. I've not purchased a single Yello recording afterward. Yello were another casualty of that that early-90s culling period where I stopped collecting a ton of groups that I formerly did as they pursued the dance music fashions of the moment that I didn't enjoy.
About this time is when I really stopped being forward looking in my record collecting, now that I think of it. The contempo music of the early-mid 90s was bottom of the barrel for the most part. Crappy, inhuman dance music (from groups I used to collect) on one hand and agonizing, macho pseudo-metal grunge (from groups that I despised) on the other. Conversely, when faced with records like the 1990 Associates best of "Popera" that offered an exploding, technicolor world instead, is it any wonder that I turned to the music of the past that I had missed the first time around as my focus of collecting?
Many years later, I happened upon a trade copy of "Pocket Universe" while swapping on LaLa during their golden age. After a single listen I put it right back in my out pile. I found all of the Yello magic I had grooved on for much of their career had drained out of the corpus of Yello. The queer strangeness of it all was gone, replaced with generic sounding music with none of the sauce I liked from them. Dieter Meier only appeared on a few cuts. It had the whiff of being a Boris Blank solo album where he was going through the motions. So I have heard "Pocket Universe" and was mot moved in the slightest. That makes "Zebra," "Motion Picture," "The Eye" and "Touch Yello" the albums I have still not heard.
Ron. Should I care?
Plus: Negative 500 points for having anything to do with Andrew Dice Clay!!!
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