Vicious Games | |
Cover: | Yello - Vicious Games.jpg |
Caption: | Cover of the 12 inch single |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Yello |
Album: | Stella |
B-Side: | "Blue Nabou" |
Genre: | Synthpop |
Length: | 4:20 |
Label: | Elektra |
Producer: | Yello |
Prev Title: | Let Me Cry |
Prev Year: | 1983 |
Next Title: | Desire |
Next Year: | 1985 |
Vicious Games is a song by Swiss group Yello, released in 1985.[1] It was released as the second single from Stella. Vicious Games appears on the band's compilation album Essential Yello.
Vicious Games was released on 27 February 1985, with a video shot in Yello's Rote Fabrik (Red Factory) working space, featuring Blank and actress Mirjam Montandon miming to Rush Winters' vocals (Winters was not available for the video shoot).
7" single
12" single
Chart (1985) | Peak position | |
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Switzerland (Swiss Hitparade)[2] | 5 | |
US Dance Club Songs[3] | 8 | |
Australia ARIA Charts[4] | 60 | |
Germany GfK Entertainment charts[5] | 15 |
"Vicious Games" has been re-released a number of times over the years, with different remixes. In 1993, with remixes by Mark Picchiotti, Teri Bristol and Maurice Joshua. In 1998, a version released as by Yello vs. Hardfloor came with a plethora of remixes over three 12-inch vinyls, with an additional Art of Trance remix released in 1999. Six more remixes of the Yello vs. Hardfloor version was released in 2010.
Three remixes by The Grid were released on different formats of the Hands on Yello compilation.
. . David Kent (historian) . Australian Chart Book . St Ives, NSW . 1985 . 0-646-11917-6 .