I don't listen to them very often, but I just can't pass up sampler discs such as this when I see 'em in the used/clearance bins. This is the 4th CD in the Just Say Yes sampler series from the Sire label and the first of the series to carry a PMRC parental advisory warning. Consider myself warned.
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart
Tracks:
- Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral Mix)
A driving remix of the best cut off Violator. ✔ - Merlin - Drop The Pressure
In an admittedly brief online search, I couldn't find much about this British rapper. There's nothing remarkable about this track and the mix is bad but it's easy to dance to. - Erasure - Star (The Trafalmadore Mix)
I like the original single mix, but I'm really digging this all-out dance mix with a groove totally removed from the version I'm more familiar with. ✔ - Ofra Haza - Wish Me Luck (Karamazov Mix)
We've got a great early '90s techno dance beat going - all that's missing is a hook. - Chris Thomas - Help Us, Somebody
A welcome change of pace, here we're treated to some bluesy rock described by Thomas in the liner notes as music for "modern hippies." The artist now goes by the name Chris Thomas King. ✔ - Ian McCulloch - Candleland (Second Coming Version)
Not the version on McCulloch's first solo release, this is an "all-new rendition" featuring duet vocals from Elizabeth Frazer of Cocteau Twins. If I'm in the right mood, this cut is an elegant, dreamy mid-tempo pleasure. If I'm not, it's terribly bland. Fortunately, I'm in the right mood for today's spin. ✔ - Ministry - Breathe (Live From The Gulag)
Industrial metal is not my thing. - Ice-T - The Girl Tried To Kill Me
Rock rap tune about an encounter with a dominatrix and her husband that which could be the plot of an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Amusing and while it's not the best cut from the album, The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!, it is one of the lighter topics broached there. - John Wesley Harding - When The Beatles Hit America
A talking folk tune about an imagined Beatles reunion in the '90s that goes on about 2 minutes longer than it should. - Danielle Dax - The Id Parade
I was previously familiar with Dax from her contribution to Just Say Roe, which I didn't care for. This cut doesn't bother me as much; it's a blues-based rock tune which sounds like something Billy Idol might have recorded. - Morrissey - November Spawned A Monster
Either this song received some alternative radio airplay or it sounds like every other Morrissey song. Or both. - Bradford - Gang Of One
A fairly generic indie rock tune which has decent Peter Buck-ish guitar riff but that's about all it's got going for it. - Debbie Harry - Maybe For Sure (Tunguska Event 7" Mix)
Very much like a Blondie rock dance tune - written by Harry and Chris Stein, produced by Mike Chapman. ✔ - My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Every time I hear a MBV tune, I like it and it always leaves me wondering why I don't have more of their stuff. There's just something about the band that separates them from similar Manchester groups like Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, etc. ✔ - Wild Swans -Melting Blue Delicious (St. Petersburg Mix)
A great beat with too much going on top. I'm confused. - Primal Scream - Loaded
The liner notes states the group's "ever-changing sound has them arriving at a place where sonic flowers groove in the wind and the sky is purple and raw." I don't understand that at all, but this cut is trippy enough in a Space-Monkeys-meet-Rolling-Stones kind of way that I find myself enjoying the thing. ✔
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None
Previously revisited for the blog:
Just Say Roe (1994)
Just Say Yo (1988)
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