The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Singles POLL

maps in a fucking landslide

i love all the singles from show your bones (probably rate them 1. gold lion 2. turn into 3. cheated hearts) and y-control is great too but maps is single of the decade type shit

I have to agree on Maps being the best they'll ever do but I'll vote Y Control because it was the single that finally made me interested in them (mainly for the kickass video).

Couldnt resist the urge to post it here to see it everytime I visit this poll

uhhhh where is 'bang'?

'date with the night' surprisingly easily - it just kicks so much ass. i wish more rock music was like that. second place probably 'turn into', that's just gorgeous. 'maps' is so overrated, "oh here is this kick-ass chick whose persona is touch and crazy, and here she is having a cry" - exactly what indie boy critics want to hear

*tough, lol

that's an odd looking band...

i stopped listening to these guys after a couple of years, but 'maps' and 'pin' really stick with me.

Maps, though Pin was a close second.

'maps' is so overrated, "oh here is this kick-ass chick whose persona is touch and crazy, and here she is having a cry"

No Maps is mostly great because of the bit where the enormous guitars crash in. That said I'm voting for Turn Into.

uhhhh where is 'bang'?
Wasn't a single, but it would have gotten my vote. Went with Maps.

Not that this is nearly the best reason to vote for it, but "Maps" also has the excellent "Countdown" and a Peel Session of "Miles Away" on the b-side.

uhhhh where is 'bang'?
Wasn't a single, but it would have gotten my vote. Went with Maps.

― Jazzbo, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:34 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

bang was as much of a single as machine!

it was the lead track of their debut ep, right? that is a single in my book

well i mean according to wiki, both are EPs, but "machine" from the machine EP is also a single. i mean, i guess ill go with "y-control"

Maps by itself.

Date With the Night if it can be assisted by its video.

(I secretly like Turn Into a whole lot, though.)

pin. first track i ever heard by them

had no idea there was a new single

"Y Control"!

'maps' is so overrated, "oh here is this kick-ass chick whose persona is touch and crazy, and here she is having a cry" - exactly what indie boy critics want to hear

This is ridiculously wrong.

"Maps" is great because of:

a) The simplicity of the melodic lines and how they intertwine.
b) The guitar tone of both the drone line and the lead line.
c) The massive, thundering drums.
d) The shimmering guitar arpeggios leading into the final statement of the chorus.

Parsing the song as "lol indieboys watch crazy girl cry" is not only insulting, it's wholly reactionary, unthinking and far more adolescent than the attitude it's decrying.

"Y Control", but I like The Faint remix better. It's dancier and poppier.

(my rant should say "Parsing the appeal of the song...", ugh)

No Our Time, no credibility

Y Control. Easiest poll I've ever voted in.

Y Control. Easiest poll I've ever voted in.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:11 AM (23 seconds ago)

Y Control. Easiest poll I've ever voted in.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:11 AM (23 seconds ago)

― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), jueves 19 de febrero de 2009 5:12 (9 minutes ago)

uhhhh where is 'bang'?

^^^

Y Control. Easiest poll I've ever voted in.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:11 AM (23 seconds ago)

― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), jueves 19 de febrero de 2009 5:12 (9 minutes ago)

― Moka, Thursday, 19 February 2009 05:21 (Yesterday) Permalink

I mean between Maps and that Y Control video (ehich was Spike but still) Yeah Yeah Yeahs might be way cooler/better than the Strokes, Stripes & Hives COMBINED....

ehich = which, obv.

'might be'?

POLL closes: April 10

is this really necessary

'date with the night' surprisingly easily - it just kicks so much ass. i wish more rock music was like that. second place probably 'turn into', that's just gorgeous. 'maps' is so overrated, "oh here is this kick-ass chick whose persona is touch and crazy, and here she is having a cry" - exactly what indie boy critics want to hear

― lex pretend

I kind of agree with you lex. They are most fun when they rock hard, and prove that an indie band can actually do that. When they do the indie band as indie band thing (guitars set to 'ning ning ning ning', vocalist getting all sensitive on our arses) they could be anyindieband.

hi dere super otm in making the post i wld had made if not 4 hangover

also that ada remix of maps is prob my fav song of the last 10 yrs

haha this poll has been running for some time. anyway, i'm pretty sure i've never heard anything from yyy that compared to the majesty of maps (which i'm listening to now), so there's my vote.

Maps.

But I considered Cheated Hearts, Y Control and Zero. If they release Heads Will Roll as a single that could be a contender too.

They look so dorky in that photo

I think I voted Pin when this poll was made because I loved it to death and it's the first YYYs song I ever heard, but in reality, I think it's Cheated Hearts.

POLL closes: April 10

is this really necessary

― k3vin k., Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:51 PM (1 month ago)

OFFTM, completely necessary, because I am voting "turn into" now and probably would have voted "maps" a month ago. love the absolute shit out of both though

"hysteric" should be the next single, though i suppose "heads will roll" makes a bit more sense

Hand over heart, "Zero" is a motherfucking monster, as is "Heads Will Roll" when it gets a Hot Chip or Matthew Herbert remix.

i'm really considering voting for zero, what a goddamn song.

then again, I love It's Blitz! more than anything they've ever done.

Y Control, but it's not an easy choice. Zero, Date With The Night and Down Boy are total killer as well. Maps is a bit overrated in my book. Still a good tune though.

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