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Yello – Rubberbandman

1991

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1.“Bonkers and brilliant!”

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2.“I enjoy how Boris and Dieter always seemed to be having a load of fun in their music videos.”
3.“How in the name of God these guys got a record deal is beyond me... absolutely awful, everything they do.”

The story

Yello are two guys from Zurich. Boris Blank builds the sounds, and Dieter Meier and guest players add their parts on top. In America they're basically the Oh Yeah band, thanks to Ferris Bueller's Day Off – it was their only US chart single. Rubberbandman came five years later, their first single in more than two years and the lead single from the 1991 album Baby.

Blank made Baby mostly by sampling on a Fairlight – orchestral strings, brass, even breath sounds – in the band's own Zurich studio. Rubberbandman went to number nine in Switzerland and charted in Germany, Finland and the UK, and Baby went all the way to number one in Austria.

This upload isn't the original. It's a fan channel's copy of the official video, digitally remastered and upscaled to full HD with AI.

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