Yaz - The Best of Yaz
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Artist: YazEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-09-14
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Only You
- Ode To Boy
- Nobody's Diary
- Midnight
- Goodbye Seventies
- Anyone
- Don't Go
- Mr. Blue
- Tuesday
- Winter Kills
- State Farm
- Situation
- Don't Go - (Tee's Freeze Mix)
- Situation - (Club 69 Future Phunk Mix)
- Only You - (Richard Stannard 1999 Remix)
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Free Music Review: Buy the originals instead
Hit: 4 Stars
Funny thing about best-ofs that are based around all of two albums: even with only a couple dozen songs from which to choose, they miss the mark surprisingly often. I would have to call this one of those.
This was a groundbreaking partnership. While Depeche Mode's debut "Speak and Spell" was fairly groundbreaking in its own right, Clarke decided to head out, and he and Alison Moyet found each other, and the rest was kismet.
If you're a fan, the remixes plus "Tuesday" may be worth the purchase price. But if you're just getting started, might I suggest spending a few bucks more and buying "Upstairs at Eric's" and "You and Me Both" instead?
The song selections here are decent -- although "State Farm" still annoys me and "Goodbye Seventies" continues to tread on very thin ice -- but by no means do they tell the whole story. For just a few dollars more, you could also have "Too Pieces," "Softly Over," and the two haunting little numbers that define Yaz for me better than even the best tracks on this compilation: "In My Room" and "And On."
The Best of Yaz Poster
Yaz (Yazoo in England) released only two albums during their short but influential existence, so a "best-of" album seems rather farfetched. Still, Depeche Mode ex-patriot Vince Clarke's music was a major influence preceding synthpop's dominance in the '80s, and their deepening obscurity makes them a prime candidate for a well-done retrospective. If only this one qualified. There are a few happy inclusions, like the lovelorn "Midnight," with Alison Moyet's soulful croon waxing over Clarke's omnipresent, light-as-air keyboard programs. The sweetly wistful "Mr. Blue" will provoke whiplash nostalgia in many a twentysomething, its melancholic chorus reflecting the awkward yet hopeful qualities of adolescence. Overall, though, curious choices abound. "Goodbye Seventies" is so forced it's almost camp, a song that the talented Moyet would likely rather forget, given her undisciplined yelping during the chorus. It's a mystery why the inoffensive but uneventful "Tuesday" was included here, while the excellent "In My Room," a Yaz staple for good reason, was not. Even the remixes included here are less than stellar. While Todd Terry's interpretation of "Don't Go" rips out a decent groove, the latest version of the dance-floor staple "Situation" starts strong but runs out of steam as the source material gets sacrificed in favor of overtly cute DJ permutations. While it's to Yaz's credit that enough good material can be found in their two-album catalog to make a best-of album at all, sadly, this collection fails at the attempt. --Matthew CookeAlternative Rock Music CDs
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