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Only Yazoo: the Best of Yazoo
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Track Listing
- Only You
- Ode To A Boy
- Nobody's Diary
- Midnight
- Goodbye 70's
- Anyone
- Don't Go
- Mr Blue
- Tuesday
- Winter Kills
- State Farm
- Situation
- Don't Go (2)
- Situation (2)
- Only You (2)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4764 in Music
- Released on: 1999-09-06
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
very good, but could of been even better
Fair play, there are some very fine tracks on this album. Her voice and his playing are absolute top draw quality.
The last three tracks are remixes and this was a big mistake. The superior originals are already elsewhere on the album. It might of been better to include additional material from their two very fine previos albums.
All said and done, a fine addition to your collection.
Sound level recorded too high
1. I think it's better to rerelease Upstair At Eric's and You And Me Both in one package digitally remastered in HDCD.
2. The sound volume recorded is too high, for some CD player this can introduce some distortion. Anybody detect this?
So the conlusion: this is not the best of Yazoo.
So-so compilation, as expected...
Only Yazoo is really a record-company executives compilation of Yazoo's 1982-1983 work as opposed to a decent retrospective covering the best of their two album's worth of recordings. This comes through when you see the number of needless remixes and filler-fodder onboard.
It really is a crime against music that whoever compiled this collection did not include their single finest moment, the incredible 'Don't You Bring Your Love Down', one of the great 'lost singles' of the 1980s. However, with great singles such as Situation (a decent enough 1990 mix), Only You (a Depeche Mode reject song), Don't Go and Nobody's Diary all present and correct, it's still nevertheless worth a gander.
Vince Clarke would go onto greater things, forming Erasure with Andy Bell in 1985 (OK, maybe they've had their day now !) while classy singer Alison Moyet produced a fine selection of albums and singles throughout the rest of the 1980s. All in all, not bad, but their best song just is'nt there ! (digitally remastered re-issues of their two albums would have been a better idea!)
