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This song is very loud and distorted, with distorted vocals as well.
This song is about Matthew Bellamy's one time flat mate who dealt hard drugs, heroin in particular. The song was first recorded as a demo towards the end of 1996, then entitled "Crazy Days". Matthew Bellamy's own paraphrased recollections have him moving from Teignmouth to Exeter when he was 18, which he became in July of the same year. Thus, we can deduce that the song was composed sometime during the latter half of 1996.
The flat which Bellamy and this flatmate shared was situated above an erotic literature store. He described it as having looked like "a scene from Trainspotting".
The demo version outro is a short section of what later became Execution Commentary. Also in the demo version, the guitar is without as many effects as the later version on Hullabaloo and Matthew Bellamy does not scream the second and fourth lines of each verse. The Hullabaloo version, in contrast, has him screaming those parts with vocal effects applied. Other parts added to the Hullabaloo recording include the band laughing and Bellamy saying "Jump on my pleasure pill? Yes please!" between 0:20 and 0:32, with the band later laughing again at 1:50 and 2:50.
As with other early songs, it is unknown when the band started playing Yes Please. The only early live recording that is currently available, that of the Soundwaves festival of 1997, does not include Yes Please. The latest recorded instance of Yes Please being played, however, is 2000-09-03. Due to the less astute documentation of Muse-related events at that time, whether this was the last ever performance is uncertain.
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