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yello-digest          Sunday, January 2 2000          Volume 02 : Number 176




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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:08:58 +0200
From: Juhana Sadeharju <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (yello) Motion Picture/Squeeze Please

>From:   [e-mail]
>
>I remember reading an article many years ago where Dieter states
>that generally, he meets with Boris, listens to the music he's been
>working on,

Sometimes music follows the lyrics quite well. I think Boris adds material
after Dieter has sung. Depends on the song, of course.

Juhana


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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:23:04 +0300
From: "Adelka" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (yello) Happy New Year!!!

Hi guys,

Happy New Year to all!!! Let all your dreams come true! Have lots of fun and
joy the whole year!

You know that joke,

"What is the differences between an optimist and a pessimist?
A pessimist (smelling  cognac), "This cognac smells like a bed bug!"
An optimist (smelling a bed bug), "This bed bug smells like cognac!"

I wish you to stay such optimists forever in spite of any differences!

Sincerely,

Olga



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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:35:45 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (yello) Happy Y2 whatever

Hi guys,

Happy New Year to all!!! Let all your dreams come true! Have lots of fun and
joy the whole year!


Same to you and everyone else who brings Yello with them into the new
millenium order!!  Peace and prosperity to you all! Should all hell break
down, is anyone willing to trade a camp stove (with fuel), 5 gallons of gas,
6 cans of soup and a 12 pack of Energizer batteries (minus two for the CD
player) for a copy of Pocket Universe??

Olga: A joke for you...

Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?

He stayed up all night wondering if there is a dog.

(SInce I have TS, I #&#^$ feel that I am #*$&$ entitled to make @#$@#$-ing
jokes about people with #$%#@-ing mental problems, so @#%@ there!)


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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 10:37:47 GMT
From: nic <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (yello) Motion Picture/Squeeze Please

Hello all,

hope you have had a nice whatever you've been celebrating...

the thing about lyrics is that they form part of the music, more
particularly the rhythm, rather than give 'meaning' to a song.

think of nursery rhymes, they are a rhythm, and it is far more complex
that beating out any drum.

so for that reason, i think artistic licence is used to write lyrics
which may not make much sense, but the words sound better, that is why
often lyrics do not make proper syntax in whatever language they are
written, and why we have difficulty understanding them.

i think their rhythmic qualities are as important as the words
themselves, i always think to the record 'the lone ranger' by 'quantum
jump' in the early 80's with the 'taumatawangy...' in it !

as to yello, they have story songs, which more often are spoken, they
create a real atmosphere, a scene in the minds eye with the music and
the words. the songs with lyrics are more open to interpretation,
which in many ways is better, because it means you can make the song
important to you, it says what the listener wants it to, so the lyric
can be deliberately ambiguous just for that reason.

and finally i've not forgotten the MP lyric transcription, i had a few
reply with corrections and thoughts on what i'd originally sent out,
and when i've  had some time with the CD on A/B to review, i'll
reissue...

regards, nic
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:27:54 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
From: Mark Kolmar <[e-mail]>
Subject: (yello) Live at the Roxy CDS for trade

Hello!

I found a copy of the "Live at the Roxy" CDS last night.  I must warn you=
,
it is a bit scratched, and the cover has been bent (as if a previous owne=
r
shoved it into a normal jewel-box).  Aside from that, it is fine, and not
easy to find these days.

Rather than trying to sell it on EBay, I'd like to trade for some Yello
items I may not have.  I can think of:

the 7" or 12" with "I.T. Splash"

"Squeeze Please" CDS

"On Track" DJ-pack (this is probably not an even trade; let's work
something out)

other oddities that may be of interest

Lastly, I found _Motion Picture_ as well locally (Chicago) after all this
time.  However I got home too late to be able to listen yet.

Thank you, and good evening, and Gl=FCckliches Neues Jahr!

- --Mark



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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 99 23:20:46 +1100
From: Mark Pulley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (yello) Motion Picture/Squeeze Please

>>I remember reading an article many years ago where Dieter states
>>that generally, he meets with Boris, listens to the music he's been
>>working on,
>
>Sometimes music follows the lyrics quite well. I think Boris adds material
>after Dieter has sung. Depends on the song, of course.

I recall reading an interview with Dieter in which he talks about '3rd of
June'. If I recall, Dieter first came up with the drum rhythm heard in
the opening, and the music came after that.

I'll have to see if I still have the article somewhere.

Mark
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'Christmas dinner... dinner means death... death means carnage!
 Christmas means carnage!'
 (Ferdinand, "Babe")



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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 00 21:10:34 +1100
From: Mark Pulley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (yello) 3rd of June

I've had a chance to look up that article about 3rd of June, which is
from New Musical Express, 10 December 1988, called 'Ma! I'm on top of the
world!'. It looked at each of the songs in 'Flag'. I quote the 3rd of
June section:

- --------
Is June 3 your birthday?
"No."
Ah well.
"I lived in New York for some time and it really is very impressive. Have
you seen 'Metropolis', when the masses come out? Out of these Skyscrapers
these millions come out and it's like a flood catastrophe of human
bodies, rolling through these cities like rolling mud, disappearing into
the subways. In New York this lasts maybe an hour, then it's empty!
"But I did not start this song by wanting to express something like this,
it was the other way around." (Dieter sings the rhythm.) "It's like a
giant walking through these cities, checking out those little creatures
down there." (Sings it again.) "Like a huge King Kong, the capitalist
monster.
"Then there's this little guy, Mr Tulip, who takes off his jacket, puts
it nice and neatly on the pavement, stands on it, the jacket being the
expression of his administered life, and he has this little speech. But
the masses pass by... this is very typical New York."
- --------

I'm not sure whether this means he wrote the rhythm or not.

Another quote I was thinking of, which I thought might have been in that
article was actually about 'The Race', from Melody Maker, November 26,
1988. Dieter said:

"Billy Mackenzie with Yello, it's gotta be huge, Shirley Bassey with
Yello, it's gotta be huge. But after all that you've still got 'The
Race', which is the Yello song I'm perhaps the most responsible for
ever.."


Mark
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 Christmas means carnage!'
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