B-but the way her voice ascends on "climb", the huge, dirty late-breaking synth riff, her vocal on the "shellshock" bits, the ludicrous intensity of the last minute, the sheer weight of it. Flawless imo. But then it was my favourite album of 2009 so are were plenty more highs. I'm both excited and nervous about this one as a result.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 15 March 2013 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
Heads Will Roll >>> Zero
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 March 2013 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
word
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 15 March 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
ummm, "Sacrilege" is kind of amazing
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Sunday, 17 March 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
Still don't like it, but hope it'll at least work for me in the context of the album.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Sunday, 17 March 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
'Sacrilege' is great. High hopes for this new album. Has it leaked?
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 17 March 2013 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
david pajo is in the band now!!! woah!
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2013/03/the-25-best-acts-we-caught-at-sxsw-2013.html
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
David Pajo is like the Vinny Testaverde of indie rock.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
DJP AND CAD!!!!!
HOUSE OF BLUES MAY 12TH
WHO IS IN?
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I just got three for Kevin, Tina, and I through their website. You go do the same. Now!! :D
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
$37 (inc. booking fee)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRI3Ew4BvA
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
Each?!?! Jesus
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, each.
So D and S since I just bought three if you guys wanna go you gotta get your own but it shouldn't be a prob since it's still only pre-sale.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
I am buying a ticket to this even if I don't know if I can go; we're supposed to be at an afternoon party that day, but J is coming late because of a production of Hairspray she's doing in Hyde Park, so maybe I just hang around until she shows up and then head in from Dorchester to continue drinking and partying
so if this is pre-sale does that mean all the floor tickets will be gone by the time it opens to the public? ;_;
― Darth Icky (DJP), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/get-yer-yeah-yeah-yeahs-out.html
New stream of "Under the Earth".
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 March 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
v dubby
wow i really love that. this album could be great. i was kinda prepared for it to be a clusterfuck after that album art was revealed
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 March 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, now I'm even madder that all these REALLY GOOD songs are being covered up with that horrible sleeve.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 March 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Whole thing has leaked btw. Horrible quality though
― Number None, Friday, 29 March 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, i get that album art doesn't exactly mean what it used to in the downloading/streaming age, but it's almost like tell you I DARE YOU TO BUY THIS
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 March 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe they're hoping people will mistake it for some Fat Wreck Chords or Punk-o-Rama cd and buy it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 March 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
personally it sounded like an abject mess to me
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Friday, 29 March 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
the album i mean
The deluxe edition has a slightly different cover which looks a little better.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mosquito-Yeah-Yeahs/dp/B00B10X9BK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1364597595&sr=1-1
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 29 March 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
no that is still terrible
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 March 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure what to think of this album. A lot of the songs kind of passed me by which is unusual for them.
The last three songs are the highlights, Always in particular is incredible and one of the best things they've ever done.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 30 March 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
Have they released a version of "Sacrilege" that isn't remixed by Foster The People yet?
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 March 2013 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/get-yer-yeah-yeah-yeahs-out.html?ref=music&_r=0
Big article in Sunday NY Times (lots of history of the group and descriptions of their personalities,not much about new album)
You’ve never met three more awkward rock stars. Chase is a consummate music nerd, a conservatory-trained jazz drummer who still plays in the city’s experimental scene. Zinner, who looks the part of a rock star, is a regular at bars and other bands’ shows but doesn’t say much. And Karen O is an exhibitionistic Boo Radley, a warped dervish onstage who disappears after the encore and is rarely seen out in real life. What they have in common is a hypersensitivity to the world that borders on pathological — a near parody of the artist’s temperament. It sounds like a miserable way to live.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 March 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
The fall of 2000 felt like end times for rock ’n’ roll in New York City. On the radio it was all boy bands and Britney Spears, and there hadn’t been a vital rock scene since punk in the 1970s. But on a Sunday night at a tiny club in Lower Manhattan, something was happening.
man
― da croupier, Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
so she dresses like JC Chasez for The NYT Magazine
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 March 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
well this was all quite underwhelming on one listen :/
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 1 April 2013 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's really not very good... "wedding song" is amazing tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 April 2013 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
(idk if the "320kbps" version out there is actually HQ? it didn't sound very HQ)
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 1 April 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
didn't really notice anything partic amazing after "sacrilege" although the master tapes of whichever one has the rap on it need to be burned in a fire
lol james murphy produced that one
― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 April 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
Musically, I like that one a lot. I can't even fathom why anyone thought it was a good idea to insert Dr. Octagon into it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 April 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
It's grown on me after a few listens but yeah it's a bit of a disappointment after It's Blitz. I really like Subway now but still it's all about the last three songs which are probably the most similar to the slower songs on the last album.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
haven't followed them closely since the first album, but live in fall 2001 was my "oh, there's a future rock star" moment.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 April 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
Ha ha I love that lex had to listen to dr.octagon
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
The appearance of Dr. Octagon kind of reinforces my initial impression of this as feeling like a low-key Karen O side project rather than a fully-formed YYYs album. Like, very little of it was actively bad but there's not much that stands out either.
I can't even fathom why anyone thought it was a good idea to insert Dr. Octagon into it.
It's probably what happens when your lead singer will collaborate with anything that's not nailed down and therefore presumably bumps into Dan The Automator on a regular basis.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
maybe keith provided the dudes in the band with some of his professional escorts
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
Are rappers ever welcome on non-rap albums? Has anybody ever been happy to hear KRS-One/Q-Tip/Lil Wayne squeezed into an already busy song? Seems like one of those things bands keep trying even though it never works
― Evan R, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Kool Thing and Anthrax/Public Enemy are about the only ones i really enjoy...
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
rappers can be pretty welcome on pop and dance albums
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah rappers on pop and R&B records are fine but that's usually because they've got the right kind of beat to work with. It sometimes works on dance albums but more often that not it's a bit clunky. Most post-2000 rock bands know to steer well clear of a guest rap verse because the results are nearly always terrible.
Didn't stop REM deciding it was a good idea for the second time, despite the world having spent the previous 15 years laughing at 'Radio Song'.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
in fairness some of us were just laughing at KRS-One
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
what are u sayinwhat are u playinday after day after day after dayinbaby baby baby baby BA-BAYMAN THAT STUFF IS DRIVIN ME CRA-ZAY
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
This is such an ugly album
― Evan R, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Kind of reminds me of M.I.A.'s Maya a bit; a potentially interesting work suffocated by sketchy songs that try to mask their sketchiness with harsh production
― Evan R, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link