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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 /TiVo
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Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Boris Blank, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Boris Blank, Arranger, Mastering Engineer, Work Arranger, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Boris Blank, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Boris Blank, Mastering Engineer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Boris Blank, Arranger, Mastering Engineer, Work Arranger, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Boris Blank, Composer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Boris Blank, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Boris Blank, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Boris Blank, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Boris Blank, Mixer, Arranger, Mastering Engineer, Recording Arranger, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Boris Blank, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Dieter Meier, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Boris Blank, Arranger, Mastering Engineer, Work Arranger, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Yello, Producer, MainArtist - Ursli Weber, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 Yello
Album review
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 /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:57
- Main artists: Yello
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Polydor
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2005 Polydor/Island, a division of Universal Music GmbH ℗ 2005 Yello
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