#14
January 29 1985
Yello
Stella
Genre: SynthPop
4.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Desire
Oh Yeah
Stalakdrama
Koladi-ola
Domingo
For me, Yello has been a rule of diminishing returns. Loved their first one, not so much the second, less the 3rd. So, I wasn’t looking forward to this.
Unlike the last one this sounds a littttttttle less like Sparks and more like…Right Said Fred? Well, Fred will sound like them. Traveling far afield to total club rock, you know you’ve heard at least one track.
“Oh, Yeah”.
It was EVERYwhere in 85 and 86. Entire movie sequences seem to have been designed around it and you know what? It’s excellent. Like mainstream pop Art of Noise. It’s excessive and gross and obnoxious and that’s what it’s supposed to be. It’s the opposite of strip club music. But it is objectifying. Only, instead of objectifying women, it seems to either want to objectify cars or bodybuilders.
“Stalakdrama” is an epic that is what happens if Jean Michel Jarre gets drunk and tries to write a Wagnerian Opera and “Koladi-ola” is a psychic breakdown of a hoedown.
There are so many twists and turns on this record and all of it is unexpected. And kind of great.
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