Just Say Yes (album)

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Just Say Yes
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	November 4, 1987
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	61:14
Label	Sire
Producer	Howie Klein
Various artists chronology
Just Say Yes (1987) Just Say Yes Volume II: Just Say Yo (1988)

Originally released in 1987, Just Say Yes was Sire Records' winter CD sampler. It contained remixes and non-album tracks of artists on the label, most of which were considered New Wave or Modern Rock (all would eventually fall under the genre Alternative rock).

Tracklisting:

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. 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]

Its success spawned a series of albums, the subtitles of which were variations on the 'Just Say' theme:

• Just Say Yes Volume II: Just Say Yo (1988)
• Just Say Yes Volume III: Just Say Mao (1989)
• Just Say Yes Volume IV: Just Say Da (1990)
• Just Say Yes Volume V: Just Say Anything (1991)
• Just Say Yes Volume VI: Just Say Yesterday (1992)
• Just Say Yes Volume VII: Just Say Roe (1994)