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***Dieter Video***
by Jon Kamm 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Music Video for the song "Side By Side" by Com & Com feat, our very own Dieter Meier. Dieter does a rap (starts about half way through) Later, Jonathan http://homepage.mac.com/jonathankamm/SideBySide.mov

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Re: [Yello] Re: Lyrics for The Eye
by Mark Pulley 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

On 16/1/04 7:17 PM, kouhia(a)nic.funet.fi wrote: >>From: Mark Pulley <mrpulley(a)tpg.com.au> > > Hello. For the next version could you write the lyrics so that > all repeats are included? Sorry, I was 'saving paper'! > I checked a couple of first songs. Quite difficult. Certainly is. I've looked at your suggestions and made some comments. It would be nice if some other people made some suggestions as well (that's a subtle hint to everyone else!). > Juhana >>PLANET DADA > enertic, erotic Doesn't sound right. What you transcribed as a 't' sounds more like a 'g' or 'j' sound - could be 'electric illogic'. P.S. to Rene: Illogic isn't a real word, it's an abbreviation of 'illogical' - but we are talking about Dadaism here! >>NERVOUS > <?> back to love (in the very beginning) I assume you mean the vocals at 0:18. It sounds to me like the name 'Barry'. No idea why! >>(shouting at 2:00 - seems to be gibberish) > ... next to you ... hope you recognize that I know what you love Well, I'm impressed! I hear this now - all we need is for the gaps to be filled in. >>DON TURBULENTO >>I feel I'm there > I'm here, I'm there You're right >>I live I swear > I live, I sweat (I'm sweet) I think I'm right here - I hear 'swear', not sweat / sweet. >>As we feel sweet sensation >>Ready for the motions here tonight >>As we groove [?fool] with this rhythm > Groove. 'Groove' it is. >>Some (loves you / lovely) body > Sun loves your body Yes. >>JUNIOR B >> >>Maybe, baby I lost in space > Maybe, baby (aah/yea) > Lost in space between the sky and the sea (ooh) That makes more sense. (I prefer 'Aah' to 'Yea'!) >>(Paralysed/Power lines) crossing my fear [I think 'power lines' sounds >>more correct] > Paranol lies ????? (I don't hear "power") Anyone else have any ideas? >>Givin' it up this time, friend > this time, really I hear 'friend' >>Maybe, baby I should close the door >>Maybe, baby I keep you inside my walls >>Well I'm going crazy in my mind >>Spinning around all the time >>'Cause you hurt me, you're breaking my heart, baby > > cause it hurts me I think I'm right here. >>TIGER DUST >> >>(vocal gibberish) > all what love is doing now > all what LOVE is doing NOW (heavily processed and "love" and "now" > punctuated) [snip] Could be 'all _that_ love is doing now'. (How did you manage to work that out?!) >>(The way you're gonna do it) >>(is to carry to the ____________) >>and you know you want to do it > The way you're gonna do it > is spoken(?) > the one and only > you want to do it / only you want to do it Version three!: The way you're gonna do it is to carry to the only one you know you want to do it Still not right, but hopefully a little closer. Anyone else have any ideas? Mark P. ----------------------<http://users.tpg.com.au/mrpulley/>------------- --------- "The holly and the ivy, if they come up in your yard, Then go and get the Roundup, and hit the mongrels hard." (Trad., new lyrics by Colin Buchanan & Greg Champion)

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Music keys and modulation (was Re: Thoughts on The Eye)
by Mark Pulley 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

On 16/1/04 7:18 PM, kouhia(a)nic.funet.fi wrote: >>sections where the melody modulates into a couple of unexpected keys, >>but still manages to find its way successfully back to the original >>key. (Non-musicians can feel free to ignore that sentence!) > > Could you explane and give time ranges of those sections? > What is a "key"? Oh dear, I'm not quite sure how to explain the term 'key' using only text (without being allowed to use audio or written music), but I'll give it a go. The term 'key' refers to the musical scale being used in a musical piece (eg C major, A minor, major and minor referring to the sequence notes used in the scale, C and A (or other notes) referring to the 'tonic' note, which is the note the scale starts from). Many tunes (not all) start or finish on the tonic note, but basslines generally start or finish on this note. Some modern songs use the same note in the bassline throughout the entire song (Weird Al Yankovic's 'Couch Potato' (a parody of Eminem's 'Lose Yourself') does this), the bass line playing the same note throughout the track. Other songs (typical 'pop' songs from the 1980s usually do this) use other chords / bass notes but generally return to the 'tonic' note at the end of the verse or chorus. There is one exception to this music - sometimes the music 'modulates' into another key - the 'tonic' note for a section changes to a different note. Classical music does this frequently, usually (not always) modulating up or down by a fifth (eg C major to G major). If pop songs modulate, they usually do so for the last time the chorus is sung, usually moving up by a single note (a 'major second') (eg C major to D major) (which is effectively the same as moving up by a fifth, twice - C-d-e-f-G then G-a-b-c-D) Usually when a piece modulates, the new 'tonic' note it modulates to is a note which was used in the original scale (eg, C major contains the note 'G' so it is common to modulate to G major, but not G-sharp major as G# is not in the C major scale (a 'sharp' note (#) is higher by a small step, a 'flat' note (b) is lower by a small step). Clear as mud? What Yello appears to do is more complicated. Planet Dada starts out in a particular key - let's call it C (the tune doesn't use a typical major or minor scale, the scale I've worked out (using C as the tonic note) is C-Db-Eb-F#-G-Ab-Bb-B-C). At 1:32 the melody is played in a different key, a major second higher (let's call it 'D'). Note that D is not in the original scale (Db was). At 1:39 the second half of the tune is played, this time it has moved up another major second (this is now a 'major third' above the original key) - 'E'. Note that E is not in the original scale, or in the scale used from 1:32 to 1:39. It then returns to the original key at 1:46 This happens again at 2:35 (D), 2:42 (E), 2:49 (back to C) That probably didn't make any sense, but hopefully that helped. Mark P. ----------------------<http://users.tpg.com.au/mrpulley/>------------- --------- "The holly and the ivy, if they come up in your yard, Then go and get the Roundup, and hit the mongrels hard." (Trad., new lyrics by Colin Buchanan & Greg Champion)

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Billy Mackenzie
by Jon Kamm 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Outernational 1992 ,Jonathan ------------------------------------ What year is that recorded? ,Arno > Billy Mackenzies album Outernational contains 4 songs that Boris Blank > did the mixing on. > > 1. Sacrifice And Be Sacrificed > 2. Baby > 3. What Made Me Turn On The LIghts > 4. In Windows All > > Out of the 4 songs Baby has a nice Yello sound to it. > > > The song "Outernational" also appears on this album but has no Boris or > Yello connection. > > ,Jonathan ---------------------------------------- Hey all. I just found a BillyMackenzie track on the internet called:Outernational. Anybody knows this song? It's a bit Yello like,but also differend.(not that good) Are there other nonYello tracks from this ..uh...Divadude? Cheers: Arno

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Billy Mackenzie
by Jon Kamm 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Billy Mackenzies album Outernational contains 4 songs that Boris Blank did the mixing on. 1. Sacrifice And Be Sacrificed 2. Baby 3. What Made Me Turn On The LIghts 4. In Windows All Out of the 4 songs Baby has a nice Yello sound to it. The song "Outernational" also appears on this album but has no Boris or Yello connection. ,Jonathan

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Billy Mackenzie
by Arno 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hey all. I just found a BillyMackenzie track on the internet called:Outernational. Anybody knows this song? It's a bit Yello like,but also differend.(not that good) Are there other nonYello tracks from this ..uh...Divadude? Cheers: Arno

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***Construction Sonor Info***
by Jon Kamm 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hey Everyone, Thought I'd get the topic back on YELLO. I did some searching myself and found the following info about Boris's upcoming release. Was also able to acquire a preview of the cover. Thought you guys would be interested. The cover is in the "COMPILATIONS" section of the Artwork Site. ARTWORK SITE: http://homepage.mac.com/jonathankamm/YelloSites/Menu36.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CD-A construction sonor Fieldrecordings by Bernd Schurer CD- B construction sonor 13 tracks by Luigi Archetti (Rune-Grammofon) Balduin (Crippled Dick Hot Wax) Boris Blank (Yello) Donze, Jean, Quennoz (Dolmen) Drumpet ErikM Fennesz (Touch/ Mego) Intricate (Spezialmaterial) Monolake (Imbalance) Günter Müller/Tomas Korber (For4Ears) Mahmoud Refat Seelenluft (Klein Records) Table construction sonor is a sonic journey beneath the alps. The basis of this conceptual album are the field-recordings on CD-A, which Zurichs musician an composer Bernd Schurer did at the tunnel construction sides at Gotthard und Lötschberg. CD B contains 13 tracks of wellknown and young artists of different musical genres, all based on this material. Coorespronding to this fact, the sounds are very different. As for Monolake, Seelenluft or Intricate the beat plays the leading role of the track, ErikM, Fennesz, Mahmoud Refat or Luigi Archetti do precision and slender arrangements with a more experimental note. Master Boris Blank did a easily poptrack, as his younger and talented college Balduin and with Tessins Table the tunnel now sounds a loungy place. The Jazz duo Drumpet from Uri did a real New-Jazz piece and Müller/Korber or Donze/Jean/Quennoz are improvising the tunnel by using elektronika and instruments. This album will give you an overview to contemporary musical work in electronica in Switzerland and other countries. construction sonor will take you on a sonic trip beneath the Alps.

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Re: [Yello] (Art of Noise)
by Kathleen Van Graft 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

I habe some neet Propaganda on Vinyl!!!! On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 07:18PM, Julian <julzmon(a)mac.com> wrote: >No your not :) > >> And, I am the only person I have ever known with a Propaganda tape

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RE: [Yello] OT: Max Headroom (then back on topic)
by Kathleen and Laurens van Graft 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

Back on topic.. T fact that Dieter doesn't use Techhnology/ futurism in the lyrics is one of the many endearing facets of Yello. Going down that road is just too easy, and the music has more punch. Similar to the movie BRAZIL, which although somewhat in the future, the ducts and keyboards were so much in the past that it adds to the feel or mood. Laurens van Graft. The Grip Guy, all your gumnastics grip needs

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Moments with yello
by Arno 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

Hey all, Moments with Yello I'll never forget. 15(or 16) years old. I heard on the radio from my fathers car the first time: Ï love you. Within a few months my dad gave me the album You gotta say yes. I was 17 or 18 ,me and my first (bit serious) girl went to Paris a weekend. Before I left ,I taped Oh yeah.maxi single (with Indian Summer remix),for my walkman. Still these days when I hear the Indian summer mix, it still reminds my at Paris. Call it love ,was the first cd I bought for my cdplayer. The race ,I was in the dutch army...(lol) Rythem divine,hmmmm.....My Holiday on Santorini in Greece. Sunsine,and a lot of alcohol. Baby. The first time I played it ,I was really stoned,so I felt asleep with de cd player on repeat. I woke up on Jungle Bill.:) Zebra,big dissapointed,the first time I felt bad on a Yello album. Motion Picture. The first light I saw after my wife left me for my worst enemy.(long story) The eye. The first time I played it was in my car with my dad.:) :)cheers Arno

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