History Music / Yello

* SharpDressedMen: Both men, as seen in the main image.

* HiddenTrack: ''Pocket Universe'' includes the single remix of "To the Sea" as a twelfth track not listed on the packaging.

** ''Baby'' features a cover photo of Boris Blank and Dieter Meier posing against an elaborate drawing by Ernst Gamper. While the cover used in most regions depicts the pair leaning down and staring into the camera, with Meier on the left and Blank on the right, the initial UK release features and alternate photo depicting Blank on the left, standing upright and crossing his arms, and Meier on the right, still leaning down. Later UK editions switch to the international cover.

** The single remix of "Jungle Bill" features the sound effect used when stomping on a Koopaling in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', albeit pitched up. The single released just four months after the game came out in Europe.

* SpeedyTechnoRemake: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSIZCHeUlqk&pp=ygURanVuZ2xlIGJpbGwgeWVsbG8%3D album version]] of "Jungle Bill" is a mix of {{funk}} and swing in their usual, layered, sample-heavy style. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgm9nyGYRX0&pp=ygURanVuZ2xlIGJpbGwgeWVsbG8%3D single version]], meanwhile, substantially remixes it as a faster-paced {{trance}} piece.

* ObsessionSong: "Oh Yeah". See "StandardSnippet."
* PiranhaProblem: Apparently, Manaus and The Amazonas are so infested by them that "Great Mission" has to mention them four times.

* ShoutOut: The music video for "Pinball Cha-Cha" features figurines of Wimpy from ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' during the stop-motion sequences.

* LimitedLyricsSong: While the band's songs usually lean towards wordiness, "Oh Yeah" is very sparse in the lyrical department, with the only distinct lines (other than the nonverbal mouth sounds) being a TitleDrop, "the moon, beautiful," "the sun, even more beautiful," "beautiful," and "such a good time, a really good time." According to Boris Blank, vocalist Dieter Meier was "very angry" when he was asked to only say "oh yeah" over and over again, and it wasn't until after the song was recorded that he came around to it.

* RearrangeTheSong: As ''Touch Yello'' was made to commemorate the band's 30th anniversary, it includes a remix of "Bostich", a song from their debut album. The deluxe edition of the album also throws in a second remix of "Bostich" plus remixes of "The Race" and "Oh Yeah".

* AlternateAlbumCover: The original release of the band's first GreatestHitsAlbum depicts headshots of Boris Blank and Dieter Meier. The 1995 reissue, done to promote ''Film/TheSantaClause1'' (which the band contributed a song for), adds an outer slipcase based on the film poster, though the original artwork is still present on the front of the jewel case's booklet.

Yello is a Swiss {{avant garde|Music}} ElectronicMusic duo comprised of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. Their music is characterized by its heavy reliance on unusual samples backed by catchy rhythms and Meier's deep voice.

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: "Blazing Saddles" sees Boris Blank sing lead vocals instead of Dieter Meier; the music video consequently inverts their typical RedOniBlueOni stage dynamic, with Blank being the song's vibrant showman and Meier being the stoic backing performer.

* SignatureStyle: The band's music videos in the '80s and '90s typically revolve around Dieter Meier and Boris Blank performing in front of a rear projection screen while awash in neon lighting, intercut with rapid-fire stop motion sequences and/or stock footage; in videos where rear projections aren't the main focus, the band would frequently find a way to slot them in anyway. In the 21st century, they traded out the rear projections for ChromaKey.

* ''1980-1985 The New Mix in One Go]]'' (1986)

!! Discography:

* ''[[RemixAlbum 1980-1985 The New Mix in One Go]]'' (1986)

* ''[[RemixAlbum Bostich]]'' (1992)
* ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Essential Yello]]'' (1992)

* ''[[RemixAlbum Hands On Yello]]'' (1995)

* ''[[RemixAlbum Eccentrix Remixes]]'' (1999)

* ''Progress and Perfection'' (2007)

* ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Yello by Yello]]'' (2010)
* ''The Key to Perfection'' (2012)

* ''[[LiveAlbum Live in Berlin]]'' (2017)

* RearrangeTheSong: As ''Touch Yello'' was made to commemorate the band's 40th anniversary, it includes a remix of "Bostich", a song from their debut album. The deluxe edition of the album also throws in a second remix of "Bostich" plus remixes of "The Race" and "Oh Yeah".

* SignatureStyle: The band's music videos in the '80s typically revolve around Dieter Meier and Boris Blank performing in front of a rear projection screen while awash in neon lighting, intercut with rapid-fire stop motion sequences and/or stock footage. In the 21st century, they traded out the rear projections for ChromaKey.

* {{Sampling}}: A significant part of their compositions are either samples of non-musical sounds re-arranged in musical/rhythmic ways (for example, "Koladi-Ola" is a sped-up sound effect from an animal sounds album of a lion roaring) or musical instruments which Boris Blank recorded himself and heavily re-engineered beyond recognition. Over the years of creating music, he's built up an original sample library of over 100,000 named and categorized sounds.