The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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.

That's weird. I still think the first LP is their best moment, but I generally like their whole catalog.

"Dull Life" is probably my favorite song on the album, rivaled by "Runaway" and "Dragon Queen"

"Zero" and "Heads Will Roll" are great but there is something about the other three that just clicks for me in a way that those two don't.

I hold "Zero" as probably the best single of the past 5 years or so.

^^^ me on "Heads Will Roll." The middle section is so pretty ("Looking glass....") that if I created a dance remix I'd repeat it and the scratchy guitar riff into infinity.

"Zero" is definitely when they finally worked for me. "Heads Will Roll" is...okay?

I love how the synth riff at the start is a variation on standard early nineties techno motif; and of course the spin on "Blue Monday" on the guitar.

I love the melody in "Dull Life" so much; if "Zero" and "Heads Will Roll" made me pay attention, "Dull Life" is what won my heart

I hold "Zero" as probably the best single of the past 5 years or so. Such. A. Fucking. Jam.

i think there is a decent case to be made for this! one of the best sneaky "oh here's the SECOND awesome hook" songs ever.

anyway hopefully history looks kindly on the yyy's because the navigation of the 2000s from ultimate nyc buzz band to respected mid-level act that puts out good albums and fills big venues is pretty remkarable.

THEIR navigation

"hysteric" still makes me weak in the knees a little

^^^

I hated on It's Blitz at first but my wife really liked it and kept playing it around the house ... now I like it a lot

stuff off the first album like "Pin" is still my favorite of theirs though

I *loved* the debut but the follow-up never grew on me, and I lost interest at that point. Not even sure I heard their last one... Oh look, it's on Spotify. ;-)

Softshock just came up on shuffle yesterday and totally reminded me how much I love that album. For me they improved slightly with each album but I do really like all three a lot.

I hope there is a new album on the way.

It's Blitz! > Show Your Bones > Fever To Tell >>> Mosquito