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Stranded up the Yazoo

What Yaz song do you take?

Only You	1 votes
Don't Go	0 votes
Situation	1 votes
Bad Connection	0 votes
Midnight	0 votes
Bring Your Love Down	0 votes
Write In (please specify)	0 votes

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 15 2008 09:10 PM

You're trapped on a desert island but remembered to take along one song from a 25-year-old smarty-farty synthpop album that sounds like it was recorded tomorrow. How great is each of these songs? How hard to choose? (note the new clickable "write-in" option) --requires write-in Only You Don't Go Situation Bad Connection (homemade video) Midnight Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I)

Willets Point May 15 2008 09:21 PM

Hmm...on first look I thought this was the band that did "Oh Yeah!" but that turns out to be Yello.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 15 2008 09:26 PM

Nah, a duo of synthpoppy guy and bluesy chick singer. The latter is what so many bands in this genre didn't have. The chick can really sing. They have reunited and are touring, i found out today. That's why I posted the poll

AG/DC May 15 2008 10:44 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 15 2008 10:48 PM

I believe Upstairs at Eric's was their only full-length album. After Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode and before he started Erasure, this was his act. I think of all the duos made up of a songbird and composer/producer/svengali/silent partner --- including all the Britsynth acts but also including precursors like the Carpenters and Captain and Tennille, this may be the toppermost (and I include Eurythmics). some of Vince's best songs, and Alison Moyet was a stronger vehicle for them than Dave Gahan and andy Bell put together. Answer: very hard to choose.

AG/DC May 15 2008 10:47 PM

Turns out they had two LPs, the second being "You and Me Both" (1983). Another solid track here:

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 16 2008 09:31 AM

]Total Votes : 0 Hmmmm...

AG/DC May 16 2008 10:05 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 16 2008 06:43 PM

I'm going with "Only You" despite it's supermarket sentimentality, over the highly regardable "Bad Connection" and "Nobody's Diary" which I added. Folks seem be OK with expanding their horizons going forward, but not looking backwards. Synth-using British acts with artistic of 20-25 years ago seem to get too easily dumped into one drawer. Yazoo were really good. For a few years there, the Brits regarded Alison Moyet as a national treasure. Every diet/fitness company/guru wanted to be the ones to help her shed her extra poundage, but she was nervous that her voice would fall away with the weight. She finally did slim down in the nineties, and nobody cared about no British songbird anymore. We wanted our artists to be tortured and growly.

metirish May 16 2008 06:38 PM

"Only You" but only you can watch that again bucket.