Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Mosquito

well substitue "like" for "love" based on your preferences

Meh. I ain't shedding a tear at the thought of not listening to this album again, that's for sure.

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

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, April 24, 2013 4:35 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and I forgave the cover after seeing the inner sleeve, tbh

that's right. I saw ilx poster sleeve in this album's cover

I've played this record non-stop for a week (still skipping "Sacrilege").

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. ;_;

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?

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.

right now "Subway" is my favorite song on the album

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.

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.

mo-mo-mo-mosquito. ca-ca-ca-cabbage.

lol

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.

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.

love that dub-style bass line and use of space in "Slave."

"Buried Alive" pwns

i keep thinking there is a "like" button on ilx and wanting to "like" posts. this is one of those cases.

I'll take money

how about bitcoins? (i still don't understand what these are.)

neither do i

i don't want to learn tbh. i'm proud of my ignorance. like an old person.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m740x7sgb71qd9cvuo1_400.gif

just for that I'm making you do shots next time I see you

this gets better every time i play it. "buried alive" such a f'n monster.

yeah, this was kind of a misfire

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.

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.

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 Subway
2 Under the Earth
3 Mosquito
4 Buried Alive
5 Sacrilege
6 Slave
7 Despair
8 Wedding

i like ^

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

Yup, they be encroaching upon U2 territory but I've too much goodwill towards them to be all pissy about it.

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.

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.

Sacrilege is a pretty special song. I am smitten with it. I change my mind from what I said four days ago.

Under the earth is the business

I just remembered there was a YYYs album this year.

Important part of my life, obvs.

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.

I suppose I get punched in the face if I say that SHOW YOUR BONES is their best proper album, right?

Nah, that's a good album.

so much love for 'Despair'.

I'd completely forgotten about the existence of this record.

"Under the Earth" is badass

^^ otm

i think this record has some great songs, but that's counterweighted by having possibly the worst album cover of all time

"possibly the worst" leaves enough leeway for it to actually be the best album cover of all time so I'll allow it