Loads of love for these compilations, apparently easily available (if you lived in the US).
Unique mixes, as Sire hoovered up the every upcoming artists. This was released in August 1988.
Kicking off with the sample defining remix of “Gabi” by Emilio Pasquez, a genre defining, benchmark mix for Dance Music.
A unique (and grandiose) mix of “Will Never Marry” from Morrissey proves their was life after Marr. k.d. lang has always had a retro feel to her stuff. Patsy Cline with plenty of Country styles thanks to Owen Bradley’s production on this cover. Ivan Ivan combines 2 Mode tracks effortlessly on this rare , short mix.
More Wild Swans , a group that definitely passed me by at the time, this is a jangly Classic.
Never been a fan of the heavily looped and altered Marks Brothers mix of “Chains Of Love” which came out of on a LTD 12″ in the UK. (Mark McGuire and Mark Moore) it just seems too stop / start.
14 mins + and already on here (but not in FLAC) is this sort of concept single. New Beat in style and drifts into a different song in 6 minutes. Followed up by the electro funk of Martini Ranch with the help of the B-52’s Cindy Wilson and plenty of mad samples,
Throwing Muses contribute with a short track from “House Tornado” with quirky time signatures and weird vocals.
A bit of A House, Ireland’s forgotten band. Short and immediate and from the album, “On Our Big Fat Merry-Go-Round”
The Mighty Lemon Drops get a live version of their popular ditty “Inside Out”. At this stage James was beginning to sound fully formed with the track “What For”.
More Brit Indie with The Soup Dragon’s “Kingdom Chair” before they went Baggy.
This compilation closes with “Bacchanal Lady”, a bright bit of reggae / soca/ calypso. A good way to start the day and why does it remind me of the PC game , “The Secret Of Monkey Island” ??
FLAC (498 MB)
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https://store1.gofile.io/download/direct/963cdda0-24f4-487a-a47b-60733e78bac8/Just Say Yo (Volume 2 Of Just Say Yes) (Sire, 9 25745-2) – 1988.rar
Sire – 9 25745-2
| 1 | Ofra Haza | Galbi (The Emilio Pasquez Mix) | 6:14 |
| 2 | Morrissey | Will Never Marry | 3:39 |
| 3 | k.d. lang | Black Coffee | 3:19 |
| 4 | Depeche Mode | Route 66/Behind The Wheel (Mega-Single Mix) | 4:22 |
| 5 | The Wild Swans | Bible Dreams | 3:18 |
| 6 | Erasure | Chains Of Love (Truly In Love With The Marks Bros. Mix) | 7:19 |
| 7 | Book Of Love | Tubular Bells / Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls (Regan’s House Medley) | 14:26 |
| 8 | Martini Ranch | Hot Dog (12″ Remix) | 7:43 |
| 9 | Throwing Muses | Mexican Women | 2:49 |
| 10 | A House | Call Me Blue | 2:12 |
| 11 | The Mighty Lemon Drops | Inside Out (Live) | 3:10 |
| 12 | James | What For | 4:31 |
| 13 | The Soup Dragons | Kingdom Chairs | 3:36 |
| 14 | David Rudder / Charlie’s Roots | Bacchanal Lady (Extended Remix) | 6:24 |
myvinyldreams 
These were pretty unique, because they came at at time when the concept of the “mixed artist” compilation was still reasonably alien over here.
They were pushed into big box stores like Walmart, bright not-relevant-to-content covers designed to be picked up and browsed. Remixes and album tracks to provoke interest, no “radio hits” as such (buy the album!). $9.98 if I remember right.
The Mao one was particularly ironic because it contained a version of Everything Counts 😄
They kinda passed me by. We don’t have Walmarts in NYC (small business protection laws), but plenty outside the Five Boroughs, so some of these trickled into local stores.
So, cynical marketing ploy to drive album sales? or crusaders bringing music to the uninitiated masses?
Discuss 😁
I believe they also misquoted the DM lyrics in the “Mao” booklet. It was about them and it flew right over their heads.
Totally basterdized the lyrics. Every line of Everything Counts spun individually for Sire’s unashamed purposes. And as you say, the true meaning flew right over their heads.
They also describe Martin Gore as “the one in the wall of guitars scene” in 101.
That’s Martin Gore, founding member of DM, main songwriter of DM, in a movie about DM. He’s the one in the wall of guitars scene. Jesus!
The booklet also describes Erasure as being “visibly campy”, having “correct shoes”, and possibly having “swooning girls” 🤣🤣🤣
F$ck me!
It was all about driving the sales of Sire artists at all costs. The low priced various artists sampler always is. If radio isn’t playing it the labels used to do this in The States. Particularly in the early 80s before MTV when they were licensing UK “New Wave” artists US radio would not touch in a million years. I bought them! They were good value for money. Particularly if filled with rare mixed and unreleased songs like this one, which was late in the game for this sort of thing. As mentioned, MTV by ‘83 was a game changer in getting (largely) unknown UK acts on the radio courtesy of a good video. Duran Duran to the white courtesy phone!
fanx for fab flac
looks like another interesting compo
Go ahead and snear, but I had never heard that Morrissey track/song before (thanks)… for some reason I didn’t have this issue of “Just say…” I had a Throwing Muses album or two, I can’t remember a song from them, but didn’t hate it, their song here seems even more forgettable. The “A House” song is loud and pretty cool. Never got more than skin deep with the group “James”, just didn’t sink in deep w/ me. Never was a K.D. Lang fan, but this song is pretty smooth I have to admit.
Farquhar Fahrenheit thanks for the insight from New York on the lack of a Wally World. We had Walmart, but had to drive 70 miles (or more) to go to a real small record store that had used/new import albums. There was the big chain record stores in those towns, but I liked the hole in the wall stores with musty heavy smoking owners that you could talk music with, I even traded cassette tapes with him. My link to new music was pen pals from all over the US and England/Scotland. Then there was Goldmine Magazine, a place that had the tiniest print imaginable but listed all types of import rarities you could order (and even bid on). I won several auctions on Big Country rarities. Still kicking myself that I didn’t bid more on a Big Country award plaque that somehow eluded them. All my Runrig had to be purchased from Goldmine mag.
Anyone remember Goldmine? Forget fashion and pop mags, I had Goldmine. It seems it still is in existance.. www(dot)goldminemag.com
I feel your pain. Some of my teenage years in the early 80s were spent in Ireland. Getting anything on the indie/alternative scene usually meant a bus ride to Dublin and a (literally) underground record store. Or recording Dave Fanning off the radio (the Irish John Peel).
Goldmine! Yes indeed! The guy that’s running it now is doing so from his apartment in the West Village. That was everywhere in the city in the late 80s.
Goldmine was printed in the state I live in, the publisher made similar periodicals for things like stamp and car collectors.
I had some interesting sales via them, also a good way to get bootleg vhs tapes of concerts before the internet and YouTube.
In the back of Goldmine was ads for folks that wanted penpals… You think my grammar is poor now, well it was worse before I started writing folks. I worked hours on trying to converse with people I had never met in real life trying not sound like a retard. But mostly it was trying to judge their musical tastes and seeing what you had to offer them. Making cassettes with hand drawn designs on them. Seeing what all you could fit on Maxwell tapes mostly 90 minutes. My wife still has a few I made her.
From a sad housewife in a farming household I was introduced to Mike Oldfield, I met an outgoing young man that loved Big County enough to start a fanzine in the states (All of Us), he was brilliant to be honest. There was a lovely girl from California that if she batted her eyes towards me I probable would of moved there (Runrig from her). There was a brother/sister combo that you couldn’t help but adore in their passion of wanting to discover new music. Ahhh, I pray all of them are doing well, penpals fade away over time as I got more busy with working towards making a home to attract a mate. But it was a great way in rural America to find music. Thank you Goldmine.
Golden Oldies was a bit of a legendary second hand paper mag back in the day,.any UK guys got memories of this ?
Was that the one that had the tie-in with Lightning Records in London? Mostly Dub & Punk? Maybe I have that wrong.
I remember Record Collector & Record Mirror on the shelves over there, Look-in, Smash Hits and of course the NME.
very nice to post this…nice Collection
Awesome. Thank you for upping another one in this series!
This compilation series really met the Zeitgeist! It always had all the songs I loved at the time! Great that you are bringing them back!