Yazoo - You And Me Both (1983) (Vinyl, Lp) - €10,00

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"You and Me Both" is the second and final studio album by British synthpop duo Yazoo (known in North America as Yaz), released on Mute Records (on Sire Records in North America) in July 1983. 

The album's title was an ironic reference to the fact that the duo had grown estranged from each other and recorded much of the album separately; they announced their split a few weeks before the album's release.

You and Me Both gave the group a "posthumous" number one record in Britain and New Zealand, and reached number 69 in the US. Singer Alison Moyet would soon begin a successful solo career, while Vince Clarke formed the short-lived project The Assembly with Yazoo's producer Eric Radcliffe before going on to greater and long-lasting success with the synthpop duo Erasure.

Despite the tense atmosphere between the duo, Moyet said the only serious argument she and Clarke had during recording of the album was over the song "Happy People", which she refused to sing. 

She told The Quietus in 2011, "There are just some places you can't go, I tried singing that song a couple of times but I couldn't genuinely bring anything to it so I wouldn't do it. 

But that's the only time I ever refused a song." As a result, Clarke ended up singing on the track, the only Yazoo song on which he sings lead vocals. 

Clarke said that "Happy People" was written about the Liberal Party of which his mother had just become a member, but he declined to say whether the song was in support or against the party. 

"Unmarked" represents a rare excursion for Yazoo from the topic of love, although Clarke would only say it was "about war".

Speaking about her own compositions Moyet said, "I think some of the songs are personal, but a lot of it is just imagination, I look at other people and put myself in their shoes". 

For example, "Nobody's Diary" was written when she was 16 and had yet to experience a real relationship. 

Of "Ode to Boy" she said, "[it] started being of someone I knew, but ended up being more of a poetic exercise". 

Moyet later re-recorded the track for her 1994 album Essex in a more acoustic style, which she explained was more consistent with how she envisioned the song to have sounded when she originally wrote it. 

The album's closing track, "And On", is "about death. It came after talking to different friends who had lost somebody close to them. 

It's saying that it is better for a young person to die like this than being a vegetable. He might have died young, but he had a good life."

The song "Mr. Blue" was covered by Dutch singer René Klijn in early 1993. 

Suffering from AIDS at the time, Klijn wanted the single to be his musical testament before he died. 

The song went to number one in the Netherlands for six weeks in April/May 1993, and became the biggest-selling single of the year. Klijn died a few months later on 5 September 1993.

Side one

1. Nobody’s Diary - 4:30

2. Softly Over - 4:01

3. Sweet Thing - 3:41

4. Mr Blue - 3:24

5. Good Times - 4:18

 

Side two

1. Walk Away From Love - 3:18

2. Ode To Boy - 3:35

3. Unmarked - 3:34

4. Anyone - 3:24

5. State Farm - 3:35

6. And On - 3:12

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mute Records
• Copyright © – Mute Records
• Published By – Sonet Publishing
• Distributed By – The Cartel
• Distributed By – Spartan
• Produced At – Blackwing Studios
• Plated At – Gedmal Galvanic Ltd.
• Lacquer Cut At – CBS Studios, London

Credits

• Lacquer Cut By – Timtom (tracks: B1 to B6)
• Producer – E.C. Radcliffe, Yazoo
• Sleeve – Twenty-Three Envelope

Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London

℗ 1983 Mute Records

Notes

Release: 1983

Format:  Vinyl, LP

Genre:  Electronic, Synth-pop

Label:  Mute Records

Catalog#  540047

Vinyl:  VG (Excellent)

Cover:  VG (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00