The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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

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.

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

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

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

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

<3 Y Control.

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.

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

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

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

gold lion is especially awesome

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

OMG NEW YORK TRASH RETURN OF ROCK OMG

Honestly this angle of celebration was a large part of why I never liked them at the time (see also Strokes). Every time rock 'returns' now I want to beat everyone involved over the head with a 2 by 4.

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

I didn't think any of the singles charted at all, did they...?

that's a weird metric by which to measure the yeah yeah yeahs

they played SNL during it's blitz promo

pretty sure they were on the cover of SPIN

glee did 'heads will roll' in their post super bowl episode also

didn't know any of that, but the glee thing seems like the most significant real crossover/exposure moment of those listed to me. I can't remember the last time I even SAW the cover of SPIN magazine lol

Show Your Bones charted in the US at 11, "Maps" made the Billboard Hot 100 (lol 87), It's Blitz charted in the US at 22.

for what that's worth

I didn't like the first EP and album much, liked the second one enough, and love It's Blitz!, and even the last one can't sustain the awesomeness of "Heads Will Roll" and "Zero."

waht

I couldn't disagree more, I think IB is a building crescendo up through "Dragon Queen" and my favorite stretch of the album is "Dull Life" through "Runaway"

The middle section draaags.

you should start the album from "Dull Life" and see if it actually drags there or if it's "Skeletons" and "Soft Shock"

I hold "Zero" as probably the best single of the past 5 years or so. Such. A. Fucking. Jam. The first EP might still be my favorite, though, only bcz I was soooooo into it around the time it came out and I never bothered to listen to the first album when they released it.

"Skeletons" probably. "Shame and Fortune" doesn't move me either, killer riff aside.