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VIDEO THRWBCK: Yaz - Nobody's Diary (1983)

Posted 5/24/2008 10:08 AM by Cameron Cook

Tags: electro pop


With the upcoming Yaz world reunion tour approaching, tensions are running high here at the RCRD LBL HQ: will the duo live up to what we have essentially been waiting for most of our adult life? After watching the awesome video for "Nobody's Diary" for the 1000th time, the answer is yes, undoubtedly YES!

For everyone outside the

For everyone outside the States this band is Yazoo.

That line in LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge where he goes "you want to make something real - you want to make a Yaz record" never made much sense to me until I found out that in the States that was their name.

I thought he was talking about the Coldcut-produced Yazz, who don't really fit with the song's message. First they came along too late in the 80s to be fawned over by hipsters for a few more years ;) and second the line makes a lot more sense when it's a dig at the idea that analogue = authentic.

Anyway, great song.

Michael

isn't Yaz the name of a

isn't Yaz the name of a birth control pill? I think Martha Stewart is their poster-child, for lack of a more fitting phrase.

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