Yello – Oh Yeah

you cant hear this and not think of the ferris buellers day off movie that introduced this song to the world https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/

As these mixes were all available as MP3s it's difficult to be sure if this is official or not. Certainly the compiling is a bit sloppy (spurious noise bursts at the start of some mixes) and Track 2 appears to stop-start during one drop-out section (at least on my copy). Best to buy the official 12" or the MP3s, as this is what they sound like here!

This is all we need... more artists that have no reason remixing one of the most influential electronic artists of all time, resurrecting a track that has been resurrected so many times before, producing tracks that have no aesthetics or creative vision in common with Yello except for some samples. What's next, minimal tech house remixes of Neu and Can? Woops, I shouldn't have said that, the minimal mafia will jump on that idea faster than the new Apple laptop! Please, for the love of all that is good in the world, no more remixes of classic 80s records. If you want to be like Yello, then experiment! Get wild, forget the laptop, pick up an instrument or three, and have fun. Remixes like these do not give this band the respect and credit they deserve. (And for the record, I'm not a big fan of Hands On Yello from over a decade ago either - very disappointing.)

This is a seriously excellent piece of music. For most of you it will bring back memories of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", and well, unless you were seriously hip back in 1985 and heard it in the clubs in L.A. first, you're like most of us. I hadn't heard it until its big Ferris Bueller's debut, which is moderately unfortunate, because this was at the cutting edge of innovation back then. This really is a well-designed piece of music, with picture-perfect polish shining its rough edges. I think these boys were well deserving of the fame this song achieved. But you should really check out the albums on which this song was included. Stella and One Second are both masterpieces of the 1980s. They are light years ahead of their time for style and innovation and are quite enjoyable to sit down and listen to. I mean that! Oh Yeah is the most familiar, however, and you will never regret buying each album just for that one inclusion. But look further, Oh Yeah is a catalyst, a starter, the rest is heaven in music. These guys were SKILLED producers and musicians. Who says the '80s sucked? Check out these slabs of delight, and realize the only thing about the '80s that really sucked then and still sucks now is our limited perception of the '80s. There was more to it than MTV and Yuppies, there were moments like these. Forget about "hair metal" and listen further...