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Yello: Flag

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Label: Fontana Records
Released: 1988.11.01
Time:
 49:01
Category: Synthpop
Producer(s): Yello
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.yello.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Tied Up (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 6:05
[2] Of Course I'm Lying (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 5:56
[3] 3rd Of June (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 4:50
[4] Blazing Saddles (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:53
[5] The Race (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 8:08
[6] Alhambra (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:38
[7] Otto Di Catania (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:20
[8] Tied Up In Red (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 8:23
[9] Tied Up In Gear (B.Blank/D.Meier) - 3:58

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Dieter Meier - Vocals, Arangements, Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Boris Blank - Electronics, Vocals, Arangements, Engineer, Mixing, Producer

Billy Mackenzie - Backing Vocals on [2,7]
Leos Gerteis - Clarinet on [7]
Chico Hablas - Guitars on [7,9]
Beat Ash - Drums & Percussion on [1,2,5,8,9]

Kevin Metcalfe - Mastering
Ernst Gamper - Cover

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Flag was a watershed album for the group. On one hand, it is a refinement of all the ideas the band had been following through the '80s, on the other, in the wake of their high-profile success with "Oh Yeah," Yello had reached the point where ideas turned into self-parody - the cover art of Deiter Meier and Boris Blank pulled together into a human knot is horrifically appropriate. Nothing is a surprise here, apart from how "The Race" is a Xerox of their own 1981 song "Bostich." Tracks like "Of Course I'm Lying" are empty exercises in suave, like late-period Roxy Music without the pedigree. Billy Mackenzie returns to provide backup vocals on the more romantic tunes. This isn't to say that the album is a dull listen - "Tied Up," repeated here three times on a nine-track album, is a fascinating collage of Afro-Cuban rhythms, rain storm effects, drums nicked from a Broadway revue, monkey chatter, basso-profundo lyrics, and screams. Similar thick, eclectic production dogs each track like cologne on a lounge lizard - too much of a good thing. Yello saw the decade out with Flag - they haven't found their way back since.

Ted Mills - Allo Music Guide



Flag is Yello's sixth original album, released in 1988 and featuring the eight-minute tour-de-force, "The Race", the edited version of which reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart in August of that year. "The Race" was used as a trailer for Eurosport, and the opening theme to the US quiz show It's Academic. An early cut of the album was used as the soundtrack for the film Nuns on the Run.

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