Just Say Yes Volume III: Just Say Mao
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	July 11, 1989[1]
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	78:11
Label	Sire
Various artists chronology
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 Mao was Sire Records' Volume 3 of Just Say Yes and was originally released on July 11, 1989 as a 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).

Track listing

1. Everything Counts [Bomb Beyond the Yalu Mix] - Depeche Mode
2. In a Manner of Speaking - Martin L. Gore
3. Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria) [Remix] - Figures on a Beach
4. Thrash - Underworld
5. Pistol - Erasure
6. Insha-Allah - Nasa
7. Dizzy [Remix] - Throwing Muses
8. Whistling for His Love [Remix] - Danielle Dax
9. Lucky Lisp - Morrissey
10. Between Something and Nothing - The Ocean Blue
11. Da'ale Da'ale [Remix] - Ofra Haza
12. Don't Say No [Remix] - Tom Tom Club
13. Hunted Child - Ice-T
14. Nanana - Royal Crescent Mob
15. Date to Church - The Replacements, Tom Waits
16. Nowhere to Stand - k.d. lang
17. Strawman - Lou Reed

Its continued success further fueled a series of subsequent albums, the subtitles of which were variations on the 'Just Say' theme:

• Just Say Yes Volume I: Just Say Yes (1987)
• Just Say Yes Volume II: Just Say Yo (1988)
• 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)

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