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The "Yes, we're mad at you" is a punk-rock band started at the Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden Germany. The band singer U. Galst (also known as the underclocked) is in rehabilitation after a long life of drugs and alcoholism.

The "Yes, we're mad at you" are strongly influenced by The Velvet Underground, Depeche Mode, Culture Club, The Clash, Pixies and Paulina Rubio as well as including implicit references to Elbe river in some songs. Front man U. Galst describes the band as a group of friends who "needed music to comunicate". The "mads" as people started to called them, started playing in small bars in Neustadt Dresden around 1995. Their first album, "God, how far are you", never got released and only few copies are availables, nevertheless this album was influential in Photon Records' decision to sign the band.

The band first achieved success in Europe after the release of their second record You can trash me when you want in 1997; the lead single He's just another freaky nerd proved popular in many countries across the continent. The band, popular both visually and sonically, gained a reputation throughout Europe and Australia for selling out their live shows.

In 1999 the single Pics with flash made it to the lists in London and Ucrania. At that time Timo Landy, the bass player, died in a car crash when the group was coming back from Prague after a tour. The song "Timo bile" is a tribute to him and reached number 75 in the Irish charts in 2000.

Lyrics
The biggest hits they made, was a song called after the name's band: Yes we're mad at you.

So you wanna call it a lie,

that's ok darling

you're free to do what you want.

I guess that was the kiss

and now

this is your encripted goodbye.

Yes my darling, i think i could

Yes my darling, i think i could

call it a lie and

stop writing stupid songs

Yes my darling, i think i could

Yes my darling, i think i could

Love your christmas slalom and

the rush

that you've developed

I could even ask for those

pics with flash.

Yes my darling, i think i could

stop googling

lyrics, to bring up the fun.

Yes my darling, i think i could

And yes we're mad at you

And yes we're mad at you

But don't worry darling

you won't notice a thing.

Can not really tell

If it is at

or if

it is about.

But definetly

the phrase has you and mad.

I'm not stupid, never was,

just a little person with a lot of free time

Can't ask you nothing

how could i ?

Don't worry you can wave

goodbye

Yes my darling, i think i could

live by blogs and vids on the tube

Yes my darling, i think i could

stop writing stupid songs.

As you know i am already gone

So you can call it

the way you want.

The We're mad at you in pop culture

 * U Galst guest-starred as himself in an episode of The Simpsons, a FOX comedy series. The episode also guest-starred Adam Brody of The O.C. as a gay man going to a party attended by U Galst.
 * The We're mad were featured in the movie Queen drama in Alaun Park but the scene was taken out of the final cut.