Yello (Electronic Prog???)
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Topic: Yello (Electronic Prog???)
Posted By: PROGMAN
Subject: Yello (Electronic Prog???)
Date Posted: October 19 2005 at 10:32
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I have never heard any of their albums, but I have been on Amazon.com to hear 30 second clips and found their music unusual, there were 80s electro poppy tracks, but I found some with Proggy elements, are they Electronic Prog or have I got the wrong impression of them, Yellow was formed in 1979 by Swiss members Boris Blank and Dieter Meier. Similar to YMO, Kraftwerk etc etc ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: October 19 2005 at 12:57
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I've heard "one second" by them! Their music is somewhere between dance, club music and electro pop...sorry but I consider it as too inconsistent and too rythmically orientated to be considered as progressive. For me it's far from kraftwerk who really successed by making an intelligent combination between electronic manipulations and rock experimentations. I essentially consider them to be prog because of their two first and "Ralf & Florian". ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 19 2005 at 12:59
Not prog for me. But I really liked Yello ... Oh yeeaaahh.  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 04:35
I agree ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH
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philippe wrote:Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 21 2005 at 04:47
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I'm sure they wouldn't call themselves a prog band either. They were a fun band ... like Spinal Tap for Metal or Madness for Brit Pop. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 05:23
| To me Yello is a serious, fun, weird, eclectic and experimental band with obvious avant-garde and progressive leanings. I really like their first five albums. After "One Second" (arguably, their Master-piece) they lost some of their magic. Their first album, "Solid Pleasure", was released on The Residents' label Ralph Records. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:05
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All the albums up to Flag are worth checking out - they were quite innovative users of electronic instruments and effects at a time when the charts were full of Kraftwerk retreads like Human League and Orchestral Manouevres. After You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess founder member and sound wizard Carlos Peron (who once constructed a backing track around a pig belching) left to become a producer, and their music became a bit slicker. They're still going, apparently - has anybody heard any of their more recent albums? ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:40
A fun band - i liked them - not prog though  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 12:25
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Just thought I'd resurrect this thread because Yello's first 6 albums have been remastered and reissued with extra tracks. I picked up the reissue of Solid Pleasure and it still sounds pretty good today. Not everything works, but it's genuinely adventurous stuff which veers into quite avant garde territory at times. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: November 10 2005 at 00:03
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i own "you've got to say yes to another ecxess" and it is absolutely not progressive at all. art of noise is 10 times "proggier" than them! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |