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Any interest in these folks? I saw them open for the Dirtbombs on Saturday; if the singer had managed to stop laughing for more than a second or two it would have been better maybe. But maybe not quite as much fun.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

their name really, really, REALLY bothers me.

really.

― jess, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and greil "slobbery elvis blowjob" marcus thinks they're "too tough", but he's a pussy anyway, as any fule kno.

― jess, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ilove em to pieces. they are a fun band to watch play, and the E.P. is quite decent. the lead singer is supposively this really rich artist or something like that who wanted to sing in a band. she has a weird style of dress but everyone loves it. i personally hate it when girls rock legwarmers. and cut off sweatshirts. bleg.

― Brock K., Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i want to see them. do they append "yeah" to everything they say? just curious. i saw an album by them called "yeah new york". "yeah new york" vs "no new york" fite!

― geeta, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When i saw them they sounded like Siouxsie and the Banshees using Sonic Youth samples. It's very "of an era" sound and style. And I liked the Dirtbombs better. But I went in expecting nothing, and had the same feeling about their name as jess so I was surprised to find myself enjoying it. (they've got a better name than the 2nd opener, "Speedball Baby", who I was told did the Jon Spencer thing before Jon Spencer did, um, great) And I was charmed by how they all hung around after the show sort of giggling around their T-shirt table. Okay yeah, I think she's cute.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They're certainly generating a lot of frothing praise, but I'm still not convinced. I think their vocalist is the weakest link of the mix, and thusly they become crap (same with The Takers, if anyone's familiar with them....and no, doing Stranglers and Killing Joke covers won't save a band from having a crap vocalist.) The Yeah Yeah Yeah's also suffer from bad lyrics, but then -- I've only heard two songs I downloaded off their website. So far, I say: No No No to them.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how were the dirtbombs? I've seen em a couple of times and was never really blown away, but it's been a while.

― fritz, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have they been around a long time or summat? I dunno; my roomie got their 2nd album (all covers) a month or so ago and it's grown on me like ivy. I've seen Mick play before, with Blacktop, and this show didn't quite have the same desperate attack, but they came out like naturals. Every song was really blistering and hot, but there's something more solid and confident and deep about them. They erased my memory of the Detroit Cobras. Mick's voice was great, he looked like he'd gained 40 pounds (a good thing in his case) and they were all boppin all over the stage. I hear that Mick wants to do an album of bubblegum, covered in his own inimitable style. I can't wait to hear it.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw them when they were just starting out, maybe 5 yrs ago - might be an entirely different lineup than now even - and they were supposedly going for a swell maps art-punk thing but it was just sludgey and unfocussed. I don't think they'd really figured out how to use the 2 basses without letting the bottom end overwhlem everything at that point. I saw them again a couple of years ago and I think I was just distracted and didn't give them a fair listen.

I think I was just disappointed both times because I love the Blacktop and Gories stuff and kind of unfairly resented the Dirtbombs for not being either of those bands.

― fritz, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well NO ONE can top the Gories; you have to make your peace with that. But they were very focused, not "arty" at all, in fact I have no idea what this could mean in the context of their music which is very hardrockin soul covers with zero "cuteness" thrown in a la the YYYs. They were like the art school antidote.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

zero "cuteness" thrown in a la the YYYs

Whats wrong with cute? And how is it cute?

― Brock K., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't think much of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' performance in DC last week. The lead singer largely substitutes the vocal mannerisms of Annie Lennox and Chrissie Hynde for any individual interpretation. If you want good neogarage rock, look to the Mooney Suzuki.

And I already disliked this reviewer (not for any good reasons), but it rather staggers me that he could have given this band so favorable a review.

― j.lu, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh horrors, I didn't mean to suggest that there's anything wrong with cute! I was just trying to dispel fritz's "art-punk" description of the Dirtbombs by contrasting them with the YYYs, who are "art-punk" THRU and THRU. They're cute because a) the lead singer is cute and wears crazy clothes b) the guitar player has enormous permed hair c) they play music that the girls i thought were cute in high school listened to and d) like i said, they giggle a lot. I like all these things.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

saw them in dc. a little disappointed inthat i wanted to hear karen scream her gutts out on art star. but i adore them. the look, the lyrics the sound.

― kleight, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do not let the Mooney Suzuki pass you buy. They're like the JSBX, but with tighter songs (and better outfit co-ordination - all black, all the time). They're featured on the SXSW MTV blurb (along w/ the shot, I believe, of the Icarus Line cat breaking the glass case holding Stevie Ray Vaughn's guitar @ their Hard Rock Cafe appearance); get into them before they're too popular to like!

― Daver, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

You know what? After quite liking the first single, thinking the second was passable, I REALLY HATE THEM.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

After being wishy washy on the first single, thinking the second was somewhat better, I REALLY LOVE THEM.

― paul cox (paul cox), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

FITE!
http://www.zoobooks.com/newFrontPage/animals/virtualZoo/animals/m/m-32.gif

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

After many listens I pretty much like the YYYs EP now. Saw them live and they were great, much better than on rec.

Monkeys win though. Ooooh look, there's an ickle baba monkey too!

― mei (mei), Monday, 28 April 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Monkeys win though

Yes, they do. Yes, they do.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

greil "slobbery elvis blowjob" marcus

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

i still like them a load more than i'd figured, somehow. probably even more than any of those other buzz bandz.

if that means anything.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 28 April 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i guess that doesn't mean anything really.

i listen to the album regularly, sitting here nerding around on the comp.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 28 April 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

so this is what it would be like to enjoy the Blues Explosion?
prefer it much better this way = as fronted by Lydia Lunch

nice nod to ESG in "Tick"

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

That "FITE" picture is fucking killing me. Oh my god.

I enjoy the Blues Explosion.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

finally heard a YYYs song for the first time last night. I'll be damned if I can remember a thing about it, tho.

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i forgot about that

i like the yyy's okay now (the album has real moments but is too samey overall). name still bothers me tho.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Death to rock (I don't know why a Yeah Yeah Yeahs thread makes me say this, but it does).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

they're much slower than i thought they would be

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

billy squier to jack white's page - this album roxxxx! "Man" is "The Stroke 2k3" or maybe "Still of the Night 2k3" - either way, roxxxxxxxx! "Tick"'s so good I thought it was a cover!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 28 April 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I am reviving this because, as I've said before, "Maps" is just staggeringly, amazingly brilliant from start to finish.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i have not gotten sick of this song which is amazing

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The album in its entirety remains outstanding. I finally got to see them live last month. whhooot.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally bought the EP (when it came out I thought it was just the Johanna Spencer Blues Explosion and cared not). I still don't like it as much as the album but it's good.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't love them like I love them.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah? oh yeah? well scroll down this page a little before the half-way point for proof that there are NONE MORE SAPPY about Fever To Tell than I.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

im shaking my head at you guys

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

karen has dedicated maps to me and my girlfriend on several occasions *swoons*

― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i think as a 'rock' band they're unconvincing but yeah the drippy alt-prom ballads are great!

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i am strangely enraptured by the extra little drum bit at about 1:42 into 'maps'. it's the little things...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ironically the only part of the video I don't like is that slow motion shot of a cymbal post-crash.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate life

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm in the video.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and that one guy with the buzz cut and goatee leaning on something and visibly "diggin' it."

my fave part is either when Karen does a slow butter churn while crying or when I try to figure out which person in the audience is Lauren.

(x-post!)

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

SHE LIVED. SHE DIED. SHE WAS IN THE VIDEO FOR "MAPS."

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My third sentence will be HE LIKED GOOD CHARLOTTE.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Elvis T. said the new songs were really good live. I didn't have the EP when I saw them so now I'm not sure how many new songs they played and how many were just from that. Anybody else heard 'em?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm in the video.

i dont' really "get" this video. I feel like it is supposed to be conveying something to me beyond the fact that it's just a really false staged lip-synch. maybe I'm thinking about it too much.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The new video is for "Y Control," directed by Spike "ADAM, MY LOVE!" Jonze. I cannot wait.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe I'm thinking about it too much.

This might be true.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I've thought this so many times I can't remember if I've said it on ILM, but "Y Control" >>>>>>>>>> "Maps."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm actually listening to the album now ("Y Control" is on its final chorus"). I'd erase all but one of those >'s.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ok maybe you can have two. The point is I'm glad that Interscope is going to spend more of their gargantuan promotional budget (between that and the price I'm guessing nobody's going to see royalties from this for a while) to make sure that kids know these guys for more than just the power ballad.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course they will, CeCe. They've realized they're a better long term investment than Limp Bizkit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I might've gotten carried away there, I admit. "Maps" is a perfectly nice song.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't talk like that until they make Karen a VP, NedNuts.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Give it time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I know someone who was in that video!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Maps" is up in my all time top 100, but I think it was ommitted from the ILM singles nominees :(

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

DUDE I'M LISTENING TO "Y CONTROL" FOR THE FIRST TIME AND YAY

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

any links to spike's video for 'y control'?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

not out yet. Dan buy whole album now.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

actually...

http://umusic.ca/site/media/yeahyea...control_320.mov

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(It still isn't better than "Maps", though. "Art Star", OTOH...)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF is 'Maps' about anyway? I can't seem to penetrate this song.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok the link to the video didn't work but if you go to the multimedia section of that umusic site you can find it on the index.

the video for "Y Control" is good I actually started crying. MTV's going to edit the fuck out of it and it's STILL going to be fantastic. Holy shit.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always thought "Maps" was about someone trying to love someone who is chronically peripatetic.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

go here: http://umusic.ca/site/web/multimedia/y.php

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

that should be is so good I actually started crying. If there's any logic to the world at all this will blow up.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

When she walks in a room
You can tell that she's
A one-of-a-kind,
Very unique
Peripatetic
Poetic
And chic!

― This is what you call TRAAAAAAAVLING... (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the video is needlessly scary. Like really scary. But it is beautifully shot and Karen looks pretty. (I'm feeling faux naifish today).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so glad they are doing "Y Control" as a single. That song is insanely good. Can't wait to see the Spike Jonze video, too. The guy who directed "Maps," Patrick Daughters, and Spike Jonze both went to my high school in Bethesda, MD., though several years apart... Patrick was younger than me there. I didn't know him, but I knew of him because we both went to film schools (Karen O, incidentally, was a production assistant on Patrick's short films at NYU). Anyway, I get a big kick out of how succesful he's become, since it's so well deserved. That video is tremendous. Enough YYY name dropping.... all I know is I think this band is fantastic and I can't wait for album #2........ . . .. . . . . .. . . . .

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

When she walks in a room
You can tell that she's
A one-of-a-kind,
Very unique
Peripatetic
Poetic
And chic!

Actually that last part reads like an alternate chorus for "Breathe" by the Prodigy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The video doesn't do much for me, but hearing the song again reminds me of how much I loved the album, and has caused me to wonder why I haven't bothered listening to it since last summer. I will rectify that this evening.

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the "y control" video is what i see in my head when i listen to the blood brothers

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

the video for "Y Control" is so good I actually started crying.

^^^^^^^this^^^^^^^^

― children + sledgehammers = poetry (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 20 February 2009 02:39 (seventeen years ago)

(that "this" should be in bold, all caps, and trailed by like 30 exclamation marks, but I forgot...)

― children + sledgehammers = poetry (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 20 February 2009 02:44 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

<3 Y Control.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:41 (sixteen years ago)

And yeah the video is great. So is the one for Maps. When she starts crying I basically lose it esp since her ex supposedly walked in during filming and they were real tears.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:44 (sixteen years ago)

Also I am seeing them on Monday. MONDAY! YAY!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:44 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

ha okay, so I hated them except for "Maps" until It's Blitz! came out

I'm now going back and yeah, I love them now unreservedly

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

all of their albums have been really good imho. very fun live too

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:50 (fourteen years ago)

gold lion is especially awesome

― prego, Monday, 29 August 2011 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

was listening to them last night, they're def still very awesome

― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 August 2011 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

they were my "favorite band" for a while and yeah they're great

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

Date With the Night still gets me riled up (in a good way) like few other songs from the last 10 years.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 August 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

know they're doing fine and everything but feel like critics were undeservedly hedging about them after they stopped being OMG NEW YORK TRASH RETURN OF ROCK OMG

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

not that i have done a comprehensive survey of YYYs reviews so i guess i just mean "i think show your bones should have received a higher score from pitchfork"

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:56 (fourteen years ago)

my memory is they (imho unfairly) took a bunch of shit for their second album and then gained some begrudging respect for not subsequently disappearing and instead continuing to make solid, largely under-the-radar records

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

I don't think It's Blitz! can be fairly described as "under the radar"

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiGsMkQd2c

always loved letterman's transparent crush on karen/refusal to let go of her hand at the end here

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

OMG NEW YORK TRASH RETURN OF ROCK OMG

Honestly this angle of celebration was a large part of why I never liked them at the time (see also Strokes). Every time rock 'returns' now I want to beat everyone involved over the head with a 2 by 4.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:02 (fourteen years ago)

I don't think It's Blitz! can be fairly described as "under the radar"

I didn't think any of the singles charted at all, did they...?

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:07 (fourteen years ago)

that's a weird metric by which to measure the yeah yeah yeahs

― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 August 2011 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

they played SNL during it's blitz promo

― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 August 2011 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

pretty sure they were on the cover of SPIN

― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 August 2011 17:12 (fourteen years ago)

glee did 'heads will roll' in their post super bowl episode also

― balls, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

didn't know any of that, but the glee thing seems like the most significant real crossover/exposure moment of those listed to me. I can't remember the last time I even SAW the cover of SPIN magazine lol

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:18 (fourteen years ago)

Show Your Bones charted in the US at 11, "Maps" made the Billboard Hot 100 (lol 87), It's Blitz charted in the US at 22.

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

for what that's worth

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't like the first EP and album much, liked the second one enough, and love It's Blitz!, and even the last one can't sustain the awesomeness of "Heads Will Roll" and "Zero."

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:23 (fourteen years ago)

waht

I couldn't disagree more, I think IB is a building crescendo up through "Dragon Queen" and my favorite stretch of the album is "Dull Life" through "Runaway"

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

The middle section draaags.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

you should start the album from "Dull Life" and see if it actually drags there or if it's "Skeletons" and "Soft Shock"

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:30 (fourteen years ago)

I hold "Zero" as probably the best single of the past 5 years or so. Such. A. Fucking. Jam. The first EP might still be my favorite, though, only bcz I was soooooo into it around the time it came out and I never bothered to listen to the first album when they released it.

― Cass McCars (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)

"Skeletons" probably. "Shame and Fortune" doesn't move me either, killer riff aside.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)

That's weird. I still think the first LP is their best moment, but I generally like their whole catalog.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:34 (fourteen years ago)

"Dull Life" is probably my favorite song on the album, rivaled by "Runaway" and "Dragon Queen"

"Zero" and "Heads Will Roll" are great but there is something about the other three that just clicks for me in a way that those two don't.

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:35 (fourteen years ago)

I hold "Zero" as probably the best single of the past 5 years or so.

^^^ me on "Heads Will Roll." The middle section is so pretty ("Looking glass....") that if I created a dance remix I'd repeat it and the scratchy guitar riff into infinity.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:35 (fourteen years ago)

"Zero" is definitely when they finally worked for me. "Heads Will Roll" is...okay?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

I love how the synth riff at the start is a variation on standard early nineties techno motif; and of course the spin on "Blue Monday" on the guitar.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:43 (fourteen years ago)

I love the melody in "Dull Life" so much; if "Zero" and "Heads Will Roll" made me pay attention, "Dull Life" is what won my heart

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

I hold "Zero" as probably the best single of the past 5 years or so. Such. A. Fucking. Jam.

i think there is a decent case to be made for this! one of the best sneaky "oh here's the SECOND awesome hook" songs ever.

― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

anyway hopefully history looks kindly on the yyy's because the navigation of the 2000s from ultimate nyc buzz band to respected mid-level act that puts out good albums and fills big venues is pretty remkarable.

― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

THEIR navigation

― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

"hysteric" still makes me weak in the knees a little

― zsa zsa and digweed (donna rouge), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

^^^

― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 August 2011 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

I hated on It's Blitz at first but my wife really liked it and kept playing it around the house ... now I like it a lot

stuff off the first album like "Pin" is still my favorite of theirs though

― dmr, Monday, 29 August 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

I *loved* the debut but the follow-up never grew on me, and I lost interest at that point. Not even sure I heard their last one... Oh look, it's on Spotify. ;-)

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 02:00 (fourteen years ago)

Softshock just came up on shuffle yesterday and totally reminded me how much I love that album. For me they improved slightly with each album but I do really like all three a lot.

I hope there is a new album on the way.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 02:06 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

It's Blitz! > Show Your Bones > Fever To Tell >>> Mosquito

― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 20 July 2017 10:01 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

Happy 20 years, YYYs!

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFqMR-aBug_/?igshid=l3m422yo19pa

― Roz, Monday, 28 September 2020 08:10 (five years ago)

YYYs being 20 years old is giving me strong "shit I'm old" feels today

― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2020 09:13 (five years ago)

seven months pass...

I've never been super into this band, but I recently stumbled onto this live show and I think it's a truly great performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNzs6Q50GnI

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 6 May 2021 03:15 (five years ago)

It’s interesting they’re still technically around, tweeting actively (“#ShowYourBones is 15 today!”, etc.). Their last album was so long ago. I guess some bands are like that.

― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Thursday, 6 May 2021 06:16 (five years ago)

Nick zinner was really great.

― candyman, Thursday, 6 May 2021 07:05 (five years ago)

Ah I remember seeing them in small venues in Paris circa the first album. They were great. Kinda lost track after that and surprised they are still active.

― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 6 May 2021 08:25 (five years ago)

This was the final single and it was a great way to go out if they never do anything else again, seemed to sum up everything i ever liked about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvrjn_pF9tY

― piscesx, Thursday, 6 May 2021 10:57 (five years ago)

last album was a dud but "sacrilege" was a great single

― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 May 2021 12:16 (five years ago)

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