''You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess'' is the third studio album by Swiss

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Yello Yello is a Swiss electronic music band, which formed in Zürich in 1979. For most of the band's history, Yello has been a duo consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank; founding member Carlos Perón left in 1983. Their sound is often charac ...

, released in June 1983. It was the last Yello album to feature founding member

Carlos Perón Carlos Perón (born 9 June 1952) is a Swiss musician. He was a founding member of the band Yello. Career Born in Zürich, Switzerland, his first solo album was ''Impersonator'' (1981). Perón founded the Tranceonic studio in Zürich together with ...

. It charted in several countries across Europe, and also peaked at No. 184 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200.

Track listing

Charts

Singles – UK Singles Chart / Gallup (United Kingdom)

Critical reception

It was ranked at number 6 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1983 by ''

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'', and the single " I Love You" was ranked at number 17 among "Tracks of the Year".

Other

In 2006, South African ceramicist Elton Harding translated the opening track "I Love You" into a ceramic tactile sculpture. The entire song was mapped out onto a rectangular spiral, with each second of the track taking up 1 cm. Samples were then represented by unique shapes allowing for the song to be 'read' either by sight or touch.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess Yello albums 1983 albums Vertigo Records albums Mercury Records albums Elektra Records albums Stiff Records albums Polydor Records albums