Yello

Disproving Orson Welles' famous Third Man quip about cuckoo clocks being the only good thing to come out of Switzerland, Yello released a minor classic. Clever and playful, like Kraftwerk with a sense of humor, songs like "I Love You" and "Lost Again" neatly showcased their signature style of rasping vocals, crisp beats and catchy melodies. Say yes.

Yello is a gently eccentric but hardly excessive Swiss synthesizer trio whose two previous
albums established the group, rather dubiously, as the most accessible act on Ralph
Records, a small San Francisco label run by that deeply eccentric synthesizer quartet, the
Residents. No surprise, then, that this major-label debut bears Residential residues (the
queasy synth lines on "I Love You," the toy-town keyboard sounds on "Heavy W... More >