Various Artists
Just Say Yes...
Sire's Winter CD Music Sampler
Sire
9 25665-2
(1987)
Rock/Pop
CD, 14
Tracks, 64:47
Length
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01 |
Never Let Me Down Again (Remix) |
Martin Gore |
Depeche Mode |
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09:33 |
02 |
Lips Like Sugar (12" Mix) |
Will Sergeant; Ian McCulloch; Les Pattinson; Pete De Freitas |
Echo & The Bunnymen |
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06:45 |
03 |
Out of Hand (Extended Version) |
David Newton; Tony Linehan |
The Mighty Lemon Drops |
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05:29 |
04 |
Ya Ho |
Tim Booth; James |
James |
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03:36 |
05 |
Work Is A Four-Letter Word |
Guy Woolfenden; Don Black |
The Smiths |
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02:48 |
06 |
No Stars |
Anthony Kaczynski; Christopher Ewen; John Rolski; Michael Smith; Perry Tell |
Figures On A Beach |
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04:43 |
07 |
Young Manhood |
The Wild Swans |
The Wild Swans |
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03:51 |
08 |
Somebody Gotta Do It (Remix) |
Ice-T |
Ice-T |
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03:31 |
09 |
I Wanna Live |
Dee Dee Ramone; Daniel Rey |
Ramones |
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02:39 |
10 |
Can't Hardly Wait |
Paul Westerberg |
The Replacements |
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03:06 |
11 |
A Feeling |
Kristin Hersh |
Throwing Muses |
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03:08 |
12 |
How Men Are |
Roddy Frame |
Aztec Camera |
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03:39 |
13 |
Cherokee Chief |
Jerry Harrison; Ernie Brooks |
Harrison, Jerry (Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods) |
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04:43 |
14 |
Hideaway (Remix) |
Andy Bell; Vince Clarke |
Erasure |
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07:16 |
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Packaging |
Jewel Case |
Spars |
DDD |
Sound |
Stereo |
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Producer |
Howie Klein |
Engineer |
Lee Herschberg |
Cover by |
Andy Engel |
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Index |
#
3667 |
Owner |
Dave |
Tags |
Alternative Rock, Synth Pop, New Wave, Punk |
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Samplers are often throwaways, their contents quickly and mindlessly tossed together to promote a label's latest releases. Just Say Yes: Sire's Winter CD Music Sampler may have been produced to woo record buyers into purchasing albums by cult artists, but it offers a wealth of new wave rarities that significantly transcends its original purpose. Released in 1987, Just Say Yes: Sire CD Sampler has become a time machine delivering glimpses of cutting-edge artists before they became mainstream stars and young bands that should've but never fulfilled their commercial potential. Instead of lazily compiling singles, the CD opens with three 12" mixes, extended versions of Depeche Mode's pounding "Never Let Me Down Again," Echo & the Bunnymen's riff-heavy "Lips Like Sugar," and the Mighty Lemon Drops' toe-tapper "Out of Hand." If that wasn't enough, there are tracks like the Smiths' "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" and James' "Ya-Ho" that are probably missing from the collections of those groups' fans. Figures on a Beach's dreamy "No Stars" is a tale of unrequited love steered by jangling guitars and ethereal synths; if Simple Minds had recorded it, the song would've exploded on the charts. Although the uplifting "Young Manhood" isn't truly representative of the Wild Swans' majestic Bringing Home the Ashes LP, it is immediately catchy. Mix in Throwing Muses' otherworldly "A Feeling" and Aztec Camera's revealing confessional "How Men Are" and saying no to Just Say Yes becomes nearly impossible. -- Michael Sutton (allmusic.com)