if by
the Police you include Sting - I'm with Ozzy on him ("It could be worse, I could
be Sting") My sister loaned me the first season of the Osbournes (I'm too
cheap to pay for cable) and I have just been howling laughing at that
stuff. And, I find Ozzy to be rather wize. Of course, if you don't
wise up at some point - you die... at that rate.
How
about the growth of the Beatles? U2? I have thought Depressed Mode
sounded basically depressed all along. .. but I do agree as much as I
revere Art of Noise I can't honestly say I saw any growth.
Talking about growth - ever listened to Pink Floyd's EAAARLY EARLY
stuff??? They turned into a completely stagnant, tho cool, band after that
way out experimental stuff.
While many
of the tracks of Zebra are in a different vein than what WE (You and I) are
used to. However, I cannot find any fault with the likes of NIGHT TRAIN, FAT
CRY, even DO IT. In fact , Night Train is an incredible track (Pun actually
intended:). It is a more dance oriented album, but that is even stated by
Boris in an interview regarding the album (Link to it was on the board a
couple of weeks ago). One of the things that I like most about musicians and
bands is that when they grow, they tryout new things, explore new avenues,
improving their sound and ideas along the way (ie: THE POLICE, YELLO, DEPECHE
MODE, BLANCMANGE, TRACY CHAPMAN...)
Unfortunately, there are some
bands that released 3 or more albums without ant advancement in their sound or
lyric content (no maturity/growth/development) between albums. A perfect
example of this is the ART OF NOISE. If you played one track from each of
their albums to someone and asked them to put them in order of earliest to
most recent, they couldn't do it because they all sound the same. DON"T
miss-understand me, I really enjoy them, but there is no creative advancement
between each Album.(Lenny Kravits is guilty of this too, but still good
music).
Zebra is one such excursion that, as I can see doesn't DO IT
for some (many), but I... I"M IN LOVE with Yello and still enjoy everything
they have done. I hope I wasn't a TREMENDOUS PAIN to you all,
Hmmmmmm.
That album came out TEN years ago!
Laurens van Graft
The
Grip Guy
All your gymnastics grip needs right here!
On Mar 1, 2004, at 5:36 PM,
vtchatman@webtv.net wrote:
anyone like me who were turned off by zebra? i havnt heard
anything else
by yello since, am i missing
anything?