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. It contained primarily non-album tracks of artists on the label, most of which were

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, but also included some

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and

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. It was conceived specifically as a

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album, put together by Sire after a letter from a listener named Todd VerBeek suggested the title and praised Sire for their willingness to address other politically sensitive issues (including

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, and

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Track listing

David Byrne David Byrne (; born May 14, 1952) is an American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American New wave music, new wave band Talking Heads. Byrne has ...

- "Lilies of the Valley" #

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- "Goodbye to Innocence" # Doubleplusgood - "The Winding Song" # Waterlillies - "I Am Woman" #

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- "It's Not Unusual" # The Farm - "Comfort" #

John Wesley Harding ''John Wesley Harding'' is the eighth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on December 27, 1967, by Columbia Records. Produced by Bob Johnston, the album marked Dylan's return to semi-acoustic instrumentation and ...

- "Right to Choose" #

Kristin Hersh Martha Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for her solo work and with her rock bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave, 50FootWave. She has released eleven solo albums. Her guitar work and comp ...

- "Hysterical Bending" # Scorpio Rising - "It's Obvious" #

Poster Children Poster Children is an American indie rock band formed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1987.Danielle Dax Danielle Gardner (born 23 September 1958), known professionally as Danielle Dax, is an English rock musician, music producer, and artist most active from the late-1970s to the mid-1990s. Early life She was born Danielle Gardner, in Southend-o ...

- "Defiled" # Tripmaster Monkey - "Blatant Affair" #

Bigod 20 Bigod 20 was a German EBM-techno band which was formed in 1988 by music producers Andreas Tomalla (a.k.a. Talla 2XLC and formerly of the band Moskwa TV) and Markus Nikolai (a.k.a. Jallokin). Nikolai, together with Thomas Franzmann, run the Berl ...

- "It's Up to You" #

Judybats The Judybats (sometimes stylized as merely Judybats or JudyBats) were an American alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, active primarily in the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. The band released three successful sing ...

- "What We Lose" #

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- "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" # Greenberry Woods - "Adieu" Adapted from Amazon listing. It is volume seven in the '' Just Say Yes series'' of promotional compilations, of which each title was a variation on the 'Just Say' theme: * Just Say Yes Volume I: Just Say Yes (1987) * Just Say Yes Volume II:

Just Say Yo ''Just Say Yo'' was Sire Records' Volume 2 of '' Just Say Yes'' and was originally released on August 16, 1988, as a winter CD sampler. It contained remixes and non-album tracks of artists on the label, most of which were considered new wave or m ...

(1988) * Just Say Yes Volume III: Just Say Mao (1989) * Just Say Yes Volume IV: Just Say Da (1990) * Just Say Yes Volume V:

Just Say Anything ''Just Say Anything'' was Sire Records' Volume 5 of ''Just Say Yes (compilation album), Just Say Yes'' and was originally released on July 23, 1991 as a CD sampler. It contained remixes and non-album tracks of artists on the label, most of whic ...

(1991) * Just Say Yes Volume VI: '' Just Say Yesterday'' (1992)

References

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