Just Say Yes (compilation album)

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Just Say Yes
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Compilation album by
Various artists
ReleasedNovember 4, 1987 [1]
Genre Alternative rock
Length61:14
Label Sire
Producer Howie Klein
Various artists chronology
Just Say Yes
(1987)
Just Say Yes Volume II: Just Say Yo
(1988)

Released on November 4, 1987, Just Say Yes is the first volume of Sire Records' Just Say Yes promotional CD sampler series. [2] [3] It contains "both hard-to-find numbers by the label's established artists and tempting introductions to its promising new artists." [2]

Track listing

  1. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again [Split Mix]
  2. Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar [12" Mix]
  3. The Mighty Lemon Drops - Out of Hand [Extended Version]
  4. James - Ya-Ho
  5. The Smiths - Work Is a Four-Letter Word
  6. Figures on a Beach - No Stars
  7. The Wild Swans - Young Manhood
  8. Ice-T - Somebody Gotta Do It (Pimpin' Ain't Easy!) [Remix]
  9. The Ramones - I Wanna Live
  10. Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait
  11. Throwing Muses - A Feeling
  12. Aztec Camera - How Men Are
  13. The Casual Gods - Cherokee Chief
  14. Erasure - Hideaway [Little Louie Vega Mix]

It is volume one in the Just Say Yes series of promotional compilations, of which each title was a variation on the 'Just Say' theme:

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  2. 1 2 "Sire Records Says Yes to Some Rare 'Classic' Oldies - latimes". 18 September 1992. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. Miller, Terry (10 February 2009). "Ofra Haza - Fifty Gates Of Wisdom - Line Out - The Stranger" . Retrieved 17 May 2016.