| Artist |
Yello |
| Album Title: |
Flag |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronica/Dance: Electronica |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
10/31/1988 |
| Label |
Phonogram GmbH/Mercury/Polygram |
| Catalog No |
836 426-2 |
| Bar Code No |
0 422-836426-2 1 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Tied Up (6:11)
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| 2.
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Of Course I'm Lying (5:59)
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| 3.
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3rd Of June (4:56)
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| 4.
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Blazing Saddles (3:56)
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| 5.
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The Race (8:12)
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| 6.
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Alhambra (3:40)
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| 7.
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Otto Di Catania (3:23)
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| 8.
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Tied Up In Red (8:38)
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| 9.
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Tied Up In Gear (3:57)
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| Date Acquired |
04/24/1990 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Roadrunner Records |
| Purchase Price |
16.00 |
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Notes |
Backing Vocals – Billy Mackenzie (tracks: 2, 7)
Clarinet – Leos Gerteis (tracks: 7)
Composed By, Arranged By – Boris Blank
Cover – Ernst Gamper
Engineer – Yello
Guitar – Chico Hablas (tracks: 7, 9)
Lyrics By – Dieter Meier
Mastered By – Kevin Metcalfe
Percussion – Beat Ash (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 8, 9)
Producer – Yello
Vocals – Boris Blank (tracks: 4), Dieter Meier (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 9)
Made By – PDO, USA
℗ 1988 Phonogram GmbH, Hamburg
© 1988 Datasound, in Association with Axxis Musikverlag GmbH, subpublished by Warner-Chappell Music Germany, Munich
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foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2014-01-03 19:28:21
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Analyzed: Yello / Flag
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR15 -1.11 dB -18.36 dB 6:11 01-Tied Up
DR13 -1.09 dB -16.76 dB 5:59 02-Of Course I'm Lying
DR11 -1.39 dB -16.80 dB 4:57 03-3rd of June
DR11 -2.32 dB -15.38 dB 3:57 04-Blazing Saddles
DR13 -1.04 dB -16.91 dB 8:12 05-The Race
DR13 -1.04 dB -17.50 dB 3:41 06-Alhambra
DR14 -1.97 dB -19.13 dB 3:23 07-Otto di Catania
DR15 -0.10 dB -19.28 dB 8:38 08-Tied Up in Red
DR12 -1.65 dB -16.29 dB 3:58 09-Tied Up in Gear
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR13
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 904 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Ted Mills
Flag was a watershed album for the group. On one hand, it is a refinement of all the ideas the band had been following through the '80s, on the other, in the wake of their high-profile success with "Oh Yeah," Yello had reached the point where ideas turned into self-parody -- the cover art of Deiter Meier and Boris Blank pulled together into a human knot is horrifically appropriate. Nothing is a surprise here, apart from how "The Race" is a Xerox of their own 1981 song "Bostich." Tracks like "Of Course I'm Lying" are empty exercises in suave, like late-period Roxy Music without the pedigree. Billy Mackenzie returns to provide backup vocals on the more romantic tunes. This isn't to say that the album is a dull listen -- "Tied Up," repeated here three times on a nine-track album, is a fascinating collage of Afro-Cuban rhythms, rain storm effects, drums nicked from a Broadway revue, monkey chatter, basso-profundo lyrics, and screams. Similar thick, eclectic production dogs each track like cologne on a lounge lizard -- too much of a good thing. Yello saw the decade out with Flag -- they haven't found their way back since.
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| Cover 2 |
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| Cover 3 |
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| Cover 4 |
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