yeah tbh this is really underwhelming
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
maybe they should play "Sacrilege" instead
― Darth Icky (DJP), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
in St Peter's.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
I think the drumming sounds amazing and am not averse to the choir, but I would've really liked a double time freakout / some sort of jam towards the end
not hearing the choir as a "jam" at the end of this disappoints me but doesn't really surprise me
― Darth Icky (DJP), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
I don't mind the single but I'm not blown away by it. I'm not too worried though as their lead singles are never my favourite songs on their albums, especially on the first two. Still hoping that the artwork is some kind of joke and they reveal a different cover at the last minute.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 15 March 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
especially on the first two
If Date With the Night didn't blow your head off, well...then I just don't know.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 March 2013 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
When they came out it really took me a while to get into them because of how much I didn't like that song. I like it more now but still get way more enjoyement out of Pin, Maps and Y Control. I still think that is their weakest album though, for me they've improved with each album.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 15 March 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:16 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fwiw, this means you are pretty much my exact opposite in terms of taste in rock music.
― rattled, Friday, 15 March 2013 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
Never cared about these guys before Blitz came out
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 15 March 2013 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
I also like Date with the Night least on that album, by a long shot.
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 15 March 2013 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
"date with the night" is fucking incredible - i don't like anything else on the debut half as much
"zero" is their only lead single that wasn't a standout on the album
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 15 March 2013 09:38 (eleven years ago) link
ada's cover of Maps (and then the Mayer/Thomas remix of that cover) beat anything YYY's have done apart from 'Down Boy' IMO.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 15 March 2013 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I loved Zero. It blew my head off first time I heard it and it was so exciting hearing the rest of the album and realising that wasn't an anomaly. The drop at 1:21 is just ridiculous.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 15 March 2013 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I loved Zero. It blew my head off first time I heard it and it was so exciting hearing the rest of the album and realising that wasn't an anomaly
Zero is great but what's even greater is that a lot of the other songs on Blitz are even greater.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 15 March 2013 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
i just find the hook of "zero" a bit lacking compared to everything else on it's blitz
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 15 March 2013 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
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