Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Mosquito

Never cared about these guys before Blitz came out

I also like Date with the Night least on that album, by a long shot.

"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

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.

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.

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 their only lead single that wasn't a standout on the album

Zero is great but what's even greater is that a lot of the other songs on Blitz are even greater.

i just find the hook of "zero" a bit lacking compared to everything else on it's blitz

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.

Heads Will Roll >>> Zero

word

ummm, "Sacrilege" is kind of amazing

Still don't like it, but hope it'll at least work for me in the context of the album.

'Sacrilege' is great. High hopes for this new album. Has it leaked?

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

David Pajo is like the Vinny Testaverde of indie rock.

DJP AND CAD!!!!!

HOUSE OF BLUES MAY 12TH

WHO IS IN?

OK, I just got three for Kevin, Tina, and I through their website. You go do the same. Now!! :D

$37 (inc. booking fee)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRI3Ew4BvA

$37 (inc. booking fee)

Each?!?! Jesus

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.

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? ;_;

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/get-yer-yeah-yeah-yeahs-out.html

New stream of "Under the Earth".

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

Yeah, now I'm even madder that all these REALLY GOOD songs are being covered up with that horrible sleeve.

Whole thing has leaked btw. Horrible quality though

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

Maybe they're hoping people will mistake it for some Fat Wreck Chords or Punk-o-Rama cd and buy it.

personally it sounded like an abject mess to me

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

no that is still terrible

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.

Have they released a version of "Sacrilege" that isn't remixed by Foster The People yet?

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.

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

so she dresses like JC Chasez for The NYT Magazine

well this was all quite underwhelming on one listen :/

yeah it's really not very good... "wedding song" is amazing tho

(idk if the "320kbps" version out there is actually HQ? it didn't sound very HQ)

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

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.

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.

haven't followed them closely since the first album, but live in fall 2001 was my "oh, there's a future rock star" moment.

Ha ha I love that lex had to listen to dr.octagon

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.

maybe keith provided the dudes in the band with some of his professional escorts

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