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i hate life

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm in the video.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, and that one guy with the buzz cut and goatee leaning on something and visibly "diggin' it."

my fave part is either when Karen does a slow butter churn while crying or when I try to figure out which person in the audience is Lauren.

(x-post!)

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

SHE LIVED. SHE DIED. SHE WAS IN THE VIDEO FOR "MAPS."

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

My third sentence will be HE LIKED GOOD CHARLOTTE.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Elvis T. said the new songs were really good live. I didn't have the EP when I saw them so now I'm not sure how many new songs they played and how many were just from that. Anybody else heard 'em?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm in the video.

i dont' really "get" this video. I feel like it is supposed to be conveying something to me beyond the fact that it's just a really false staged lip-synch. maybe I'm thinking about it too much.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The new video is for "Y Control," directed by Spike "ADAM, MY LOVE!" Jonze. I cannot wait.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe I'm thinking about it too much.

This might be true.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I've thought this so many times I can't remember if I've said it on ILM, but "Y Control" >>>>>>>>>> "Maps."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm actually listening to the album now ("Y Control" is on its final chorus"). I'd erase all but one of those >'s.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

ok maybe you can have two. The point is I'm glad that Interscope is going to spend more of their gargantuan promotional budget (between that and the price I'm guessing nobody's going to see royalties from this for a while) to make sure that kids know these guys for more than just the power ballad.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Of course they will, CeCe. They've realized they're a better long term investment than Limp Bizkit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I might've gotten carried away there, I admit. "Maps" is a perfectly nice song.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't talk like that until they make Karen a VP, NedNuts.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Give it time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe I know someone who was in that video!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

"Maps" is up in my all time top 100, but I think it was ommitted from the ILM singles nominees :(

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

DUDE I'M LISTENING TO "Y CONTROL" FOR THE FIRST TIME AND YAY

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

any links to spike's video for 'y control'?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

not out yet. Dan buy whole album now.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

actually...

http://umusic.ca/site/media/yeahyea...control_320.mov

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(It still isn't better than "Maps", though. "Art Star", OTOH...)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

WTF is 'Maps' about anyway? I can't seem to penetrate this song.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Ok the link to the video didn't work but if you go to the multimedia section of that umusic site you can find it on the index.

the video for "Y Control" is good I actually started crying. MTV's going to edit the fuck out of it and it's STILL going to be fantastic. Holy shit.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I've always thought "Maps" was about someone trying to love someone who is chronically peripatetic.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

go here: http://umusic.ca/site/web/multimedia/y.php

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

that should be is so good I actually started crying. If there's any logic to the world at all this will blow up.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

When she walks in a room
You can tell that she's
A one-of-a-kind,
Very unique
Peripatetic
Poetic
And chic!

― This is what you call TRAAAAAAAVLING... (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the video is needlessly scary. Like really scary. But it is beautifully shot and Karen looks pretty. (I'm feeling faux naifish today).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I am so glad they are doing "Y Control" as a single. That song is insanely good. Can't wait to see the Spike Jonze video, too. The guy who directed "Maps," Patrick Daughters, and Spike Jonze both went to my high school in Bethesda, MD., though several years apart... Patrick was younger than me there. I didn't know him, but I knew of him because we both went to film schools (Karen O, incidentally, was a production assistant on Patrick's short films at NYU). Anyway, I get a big kick out of how succesful he's become, since it's so well deserved. That video is tremendous. Enough YYY name dropping.... all I know is I think this band is fantastic and I can't wait for album #2........ . . .. . . . . .. . . . .

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

When she walks in a room
You can tell that she's
A one-of-a-kind,
Very unique
Peripatetic
Poetic
And chic!

Actually that last part reads like an alternate chorus for "Breathe" by the Prodigy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The video doesn't do much for me, but hearing the song again reminds me of how much I loved the album, and has caused me to wonder why I haven't bothered listening to it since last summer. I will rectify that this evening.

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

the "y control" video is what i see in my head when i listen to the blood brothers

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

the video for "Y Control" is so good I actually started crying.

^^^^^^^this^^^^^^^^

― children + sledgehammers = poetry (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 20 February 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link

(that "this" should be in bold, all caps, and trailed by like 30 exclamation marks, but I forgot...)

― children + sledgehammers = poetry (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 20 February 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

<3 Y Control.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link

And yeah the video is great. So is the one for Maps. When she starts crying I basically lose it esp since her ex supposedly walked in during filming and they were real tears.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Also I am seeing them on Monday. MONDAY! YAY!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

ha okay, so I hated them except for "Maps" until It's Blitz! came out

I'm now going back and yeah, I love them now unreservedly

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link

all of their albums have been really good imho. very fun live too

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

gold lion is especially awesome

― prego, Monday, 29 August 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

was listening to them last night, they're def still very awesome

― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 August 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link

they were my "favorite band" for a while and yeah they're great

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link

Date With the Night still gets me riled up (in a good way) like few other songs from the last 10 years.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

know they're doing fine and everything but feel like critics were undeservedly hedging about them after they stopped being OMG NEW YORK TRASH RETURN OF ROCK OMG

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link

not that i have done a comprehensive survey of YYYs reviews so i guess i just mean "i think show your bones should have received a higher score from pitchfork"

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

my memory is they (imho unfairly) took a bunch of shit for their second album and then gained some begrudging respect for not subsequently disappearing and instead continuing to make solid, largely under-the-radar records

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

I don't think It's Blitz! can be fairly described as "under the radar"

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiGsMkQd2c

always loved letterman's transparent crush on karen/refusal to let go of her hand at the end here

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link

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Happy 20 years, YYYs!

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFqMR-aBug_/?igshid=l3m422yo19pa

― Roz, Monday, 28 September 2020 08:10 (three years ago) link

YYYs being 20 years old is giving me strong "shit I'm old" feels today

― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Monday, 28 September 2020 09:13 (three years ago) link

seven months pass...

I've never been super into this band, but I recently stumbled onto this live show and I think it's a truly great performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNzs6Q50GnI

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 6 May 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link

It’s interesting they’re still technically around, tweeting actively (“#ShowYourBones is 15 today!”, etc.). Their last album was so long ago. I guess some bands are like that.

― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Thursday, 6 May 2021 06:16 (two years ago) link

Nick zinner was really great.

― candyman, Thursday, 6 May 2021 07:05 (two years ago) link

Ah I remember seeing them in small venues in Paris circa the first album. They were great. Kinda lost track after that and surprised they are still active.

― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 6 May 2021 08:25 (two years ago) link

This was the final single and it was a great way to go out if they never do anything else again, seemed to sum up everything i ever liked about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvrjn_pF9tY

― piscesx, Thursday, 6 May 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link

last album was a dud but "sacrilege" was a great single

― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 May 2021 12:16 (two years ago) link

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