The Fall And Rise Of The Switzerlanders

For many years, the fabled land of Switzerland was a strange and terrible place.

A realm where rabid Edelweiss terrorised the Switzerlanders in the darkest of dark nights, where rivers of briny tears flowed through the cobbled streets, and a general air of indifference haunted every tedious step of every colourless day of every insignificant life.

But when it appeared that all hope had gone, when it appeared that the forces of ordinary had prevailed, when it appeared that a future of Euro-mediocrity was all that remained, The Heroes appeared, and the tide of the battle turned.

United under the banner of Yello Boris Blank (collector of sound and librarian of noise), Carlos Peron (recorder of life and diviner of sequence) and Dieter Meier (millionaire playboy and gambler) came together in the early 80s to wipe the apathy from the very soul of the Switzerlanders, and to replace it with a synthetic happiness that endures to this very day.

Through careful selection of Blank’s infinite collection of recorded and catalogued samples, Meier’s sinister yet ultimately amusing musings, and Peron’s mastery of the taping, they created anthem after anthem that not only removed the insipid veil from the heart of their homeland, but also The World. Never again would Switzerland be so very, very boring.

It is only right that we salute heroes such as these. So, please be upstanding, and lusty of voice and soul, for Yello:

Yello – Take It All

Yello – The Evening’s Young

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