this album owns and i like that the liner notes are 100% committed to the ghastly art (closeups of proboscis, demonic eyes, baby's face, etc.)
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
helps ease the pain:
http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/yeah%20yeah%20yeahs%20album%20art.jpg?1365069027
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
Gave this another go yesterday... turned it off halfway through. Yeah, I think me and this album are done!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
well isn't this more depressing than the Tim Robbins/Susan Sarandon split! They're done! kaputt!
― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
i'd like to state for the record that on 2/25/13 i sent DJP a facebook message telling him that he was going to be the only person on earth to like the yeah yeah yeahs album
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
I kinda like it. Well, better put, I don't have any major problems with it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
well substitue "like" for "love" based on your preferences
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
Meh. I ain't shedding a tear at the thought of not listening to this album again, that's for sure.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
I love this album. It is my introduction to loving the yyys. My only problems are the cover, and the vaguely "yeah yeah yeahs shreds" feel to that lead guitar in sacrilege
― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:35 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and I forgave the cover after seeing the inner sleeve, tbh
― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
that's right. I saw ilx poster sleeve in this album's cover
― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
I've played this record non-stop for a week (still skipping "Sacrilege").
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 April 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
Guys, I'm not feeling it and it's making me so sad that I'm not because I've loved everything up until now. Maybe it'll grow on me but I just can't get into it yet. ;_;
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Friday, 26 April 2013 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
No. Len. The answer is Len.
― Bobby McFerrin, Quantum Physicist (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:37 AM (6 days ago)
wait, how did ILM not call this out?
― brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 26 April 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
A few listens in on this now, the lead 1-2 punch is just as great as "Zero"/"Heads Will Roll"
This is insane. No way is Subway a punch, let alone one on a par with Heads Will Roll.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 April 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
right now "Subway" is my favorite song on the album
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Friday, 26 April 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
It's pretty good in a sort of soundscapey way but it feels like it should be way later on the album. Not sure I'm that keen on the breathy vocal Karen O employs on it though, it's kinda flimsy.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 April 2013 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
the middle of this is my favorite, w the sexy lil slow-motion riff on "under the earth" and the delayed but permanent entrance of the guitar on "slave". i like the dr octagon one altho after his verse it takes forever to end.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Friday, 26 April 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
mo-mo-mo-mosquito. ca-ca-ca-cabbage.
― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 April 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― balls, Saturday, 27 April 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Grateful to this thread for pushing my expectations so low that when I finally heard this I liked it way more I would have if I'd heard it weeks ago. Obviously it's no It's Blitz! but there's so much to enjoy, in an erratic low-key kind of way.
― Deafening silence (DL), Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
sound and style here occasionally remind me of that EMA album from 2011, past life martyred saints. what's she been up to, i wonder? that album was well received, but i haven't heard a peep since. discogs tells me she collaborated w leif shackleford (?) on on a father murphy (???) remix a couple months back. huh.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
love that dub-style bass line and use of space in "Slave."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
"Buried Alive" pwns
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
i keep thinking there is a "like" button on ilx and wanting to "like" posts. this is one of those cases.
― the gentrification of chill (Pat Finn), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
I'll take money
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
how about bitcoins? (i still don't understand what these are.)
― the gentrification of chill (Pat Finn), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
neither do i
― markers, Monday, 29 April 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
i don't want to learn tbh. i'm proud of my ignorance. like an old person.
― the gentrification of chill (Pat Finn), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m740x7sgb71qd9cvuo1_400.gif
― markers, Monday, 29 April 2013 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
just for that I'm making you do shots next time I see you
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
this gets better every time i play it. "buried alive" such a f'n monster.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, this was kind of a misfire
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Show last night. OMG amazing and whoever said that the songs off this album (which I'm not that jazzed about) sounded better live was 100% otm. God, they're so so good live.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 13 May 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
this album just sounds ok for me so far ... good not great ... but the title track is awesome imo
album overall sounds to me like early 80s post punk by way of early 2000s. it reminds me of Playgroup kinda.
― dmr, Monday, 13 May 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
after my initial enthusiasm, i've settled into digging this album w minor reservations. "area 52" & "these paths" are straight filler, i'm not too fond of "always", and the sequencing makes no sense. ending on a string of softer tracks worked for it's blitz, but here the closing section feels discontinuous and overlong.
it's a terrible cliche, but to my mind, this is a fine album that would have made an excellent 6-8 track EP/mini-LP. so maybe the naysayers were (half) right to begin with, but i like the better tracks enough to call mosquito a success, overall, despite a few missteps. i've always enjoyed albums you have to work at.
current edit:
1 Subway2 Under the Earth3 Mosquito4 Buried Alive5 Sacrilege6 Slave7 Despair8 Wedding
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 13 May 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
i like ^
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 May 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
New video. I like the song, but seeing it in this context gives it an anthemic U2 vibe that I can't shake. If anything, the whole album now strikes me as being U2-like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvrjn_pF9tY
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
Yup, they be encroaching upon U2 territory but I've too much goodwill towards them to be all pissy about it.
― rattled, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link
thank you for the warning, Elvis. i will steer clear of that video. it's important for me to continue imagining the yeah yeah yeahs as cool, even if i am not smitten with their recent music.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
Almost all of my ill feelings toward U2 are bono-related. And those feelings aren't very important to me. Anyway, Karen O > bono, guardian angel up above protect the cool of bands I love, etc.
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 06:45 (ten years ago) link
Sacrilege is a pretty special song. I am smitten with it. I change my mind from what I said four days ago.
― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Saturday, 29 June 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
Under the earth is the business
― Sufjan Grafton, Saturday, 29 June 2013 08:02 (ten years ago) link
I just remembered there was a YYYs album this year.
Important part of my life, obvs.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 23 August 2013 05:44 (ten years ago) link
Saw them Saturday night here at FYF... Still lukewarm on the new album, but they've sorted it out live. Rich / Gold Lion/ Zero / Cheated Hearts all in a row is breathtaking stadium rock hit machine.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 26 August 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
I suppose I get punched in the face if I say that SHOW YOUR BONES is their best proper album, right?
― Matt M., Monday, 26 August 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
Nah, that's a good album.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 26 August 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
so much love for 'Despair'.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
I'd completely forgotten about the existence of this record.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
"Under the Earth" is badass
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link