Yes Please!

Studio album by Happy Mondays

Released

22 September 1992

Genre

Madchester

Length

48:59

Label

Factory - FACT 420

Producer

Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth

Happy Mondays chronology

The Peel Sessions 1991
(1991)

Yes Please!
(1992)

Double Easy - The U.S. Singles
(1993)

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Yes Please! was the last studio album that the British band Happy Mondays recorded before leaving Factory Records. Generally seen as their poorest work, it was released in 1992 and was produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads. The album is most famous for driving independent label Factory Records to bankruptcy, having cost too much to record.

It is reasoned by many, including Shaun Ryder in his autobiography, that one of the reasons for the album's failure was the change of producer between the third album, 1990's Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches and this one. Paul Oakenfold, the third album's producer was unavailable to produce Yes Please! The new production team, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, drastically changed the band's sound from that of the previous album. Whilst before, Happy Mondays' sound had been grounded in a fusion of Rock and Acid House music, here it was changed to a more out-of-date style of '80s synthpop combined with Caribbean influences.

While the band had previously enjoyed almost universal critical approval for their music, the change of sound on this album garnered a huge critical backlash against the band. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes of the album: "In the hands of Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the group's music loses much of its distinctive, thuggish edginess, as well as its reliance on current dance trends, becoming faceless, undistinguished dance-pop sludge." The UK music paper Melody Maker dismissed the album with a two-word review: "No thanks." The album was included in Pitchfork Media's 2010 list of "ten career-killing albums" of the 1990s.

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