It's Blitz!

It's just over the edge of being too pop

Not a huge fan

6/10

Didn’t do a ton for me despite the glossy sheen of the presentation. I could see someone finding this amazing and I wouldn’t fight them over it, it just didn’t land with me.

good Indie Rock album

Dull Life slaps Runaway is good too, very atmospheric I like it I like Hysteric

Good

They downplayed the guitars and emphasized the electronics, moving the band into pop and dance territories. (6/10) FT: Heads Will Roll, Little Shadows

i thought it was okay. the singing kinda was annoying but it just was not that interesting

That's a cool album cover. Oh the music? Another one going in fully blind on as I know nothing about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and I like the way it starts with "Zero" - but (and I'm typing as the song ends) I'm wondering if the entire album is going to be this similar up-tempo electronic dance vibe. Which would be fine but is it going to bore me over the better part of an hour....? One thing that immediately grabbed me halfway through is the actual *tone* and *sounds* of the (plentiful) synths - they're great. "Soft Shock" has that deep and full/growly bass that really sounds fantastic. I like a lot of electronic music but making electronic music *be* a rock band often loses something for me. And I feel a little of that early on here, even if each song on its own is pretty good....but - as it turns out I found myself already pre-judging the record because after 4 pretty decent studio songs the next batch starting with "Dull Life" completely changes it up and this record feels more...alive. I found there was a definite ebb and flow in my interest over the album - e.g. I wasn't not that into "Dragon Queen" which was where I'd feared the album might go and it does peter out a bit for me near the end, i.e over the last 4 songs. Will this album stand up for me over repeated listens? I'm hoping it does - there were no songs that immediately jumped at me to give me chills but it also seems a little wrong to only give this a 3 as there's more variety than I ever expected and although the song construction isn't anything revolutionary, the production does push it into more-interesting territory. Call it a 3.5. 7/10 3 stars

Love the first two tracks, but the rest was a bit boring.

Nearly stretched to a 4.

I preferred the acoustic tbh

Pas pire comme beaucoup d’album dans cette list. Indie rock brit ? Certaines tounes ce demarque mais pas vraiment mon genre et un peu tnane de ce genre dlanbum. 3

Both the band and their music are new to me. I don't recall even hearing their name before this album came up on the Generator. When the first track started, I was a little worried it would be too dance-floor-y for my liking, but not so. Some of the tracks kept me engaged nicely, like 'Skeletons.' Others didn't really click for me, sometimes gets a little screechy for me, but I like the band's overall sound and style so I can appreciate the work here. (Side Note: the playlist of the album that came up for me included some acoustic versions of the songs on this album -- I don't think they were included in the original album when it was released -- and some of those versions are interesting.)

C'est un album sympathique mais est-il vraiment nécessaire d'en faire une analyse plus poussée ? Ce n'est pas mon avis. Vous savez maintenant depuis quelques semaines que je loge de temps à autre dans le Generator Hostel, lieu saint de la communauté des 1001 dont nous faisons tous partie. J'ai toutefois décidé de ne plus rédiger de review dans son enceinte mais dans des endroits, à mon sens, plus sécurisés. Je m'explique. À mon arrivée dans l'auberge hier soir, la réceptionniste, après avoir vérifié mon identité et mon qr code, me tendit un document qu'elle me somma de signer à toute vitesse. Je décidai de prendre le temps de lire son contenu. Quelle ne fut pas ma surprise de voir qu'il s'agissait d'une critique élogieuse de l'album It's Blitz des Yeah Yeah Yeahs pré-rédigée par leur soin et signée de mon nom robcrinière. Je me saisis du papier, le déchirai, en fis une boule que je lançai à la figure de la réceptionniste avant de prendre d'assaut les escaliers et de rejoindre mon lit.

Cet album était sympathique, mais nous ne sommes pas là pour commenter la qualité des albums. Je tenais aujourd'hui à féliciter Yeah Yeah Yeahs, qui s'empare de la tête du classement des noms de groupes le plus nul du générateur. Et ce n'etait pourtant pas gagné d'avance face a la ribambelle de groupe en The, que j'ai déjà évoquée dans une precédente review. Attention cependant, car je peux voir dans mon historique qu'un artiste du nom de "Yes" m'attend d'ici quelques albums (pas besoin de vous rappeler pourquoi j'ai quelques albums de retard, étant donné que vous suivez tous attentivement mes reviews). L'habit ne fait pas le moine donc.

It's alright. I got 2 new songs that sound decent as background music.

Liked this, Good Album

Some great moments but want something more consistent in tone. Don’t like the acoustic ones so much.

This was cool - I liked the production, but I'm not super into the songwriting

Pretty melodic stuff. Singer has a cool voice and swagger

Missa typ några sånger lol

Fun and creative. Not something you must listen to before you die, but enjoyable if you do.

A more disco direction, it’s a big job for this album to deliver after the opening salvo of Zero / Heads Will Roll. There are moments where the enthusiasm dips but overall it is quality.

Forgot how good an album this is

Another band that I had never listened to previously and was surprised it had been nominated a grammy in 2009 for best alternative album. In listening to it several times, I find while I don't dislike it, it also doesn't particularly move me in any way. Just kind of mediocre. Heads will Roll and Dull Life are the best in my opinion. 3.4/4.0

It's a nice album, but is it really worthy of being on the 1001 albums list? Seems like prototypical indie rock - not bad but nothing special either. 2.5 stars.

I quite liked it. It was very chill and very nice to read while listening to it.

I'm already familiar with this album and man what a disappointment this album was. I remember being very much into this group from late middle school into high school, and I had already devoured every release they had made up to this point. From what I recall it felt overall a bit uninspired, much like all of their later work from here on out (with each release having a decreasing amount of good material). It's one of those trajectories that constantly makes me wonder how a successful group of artists could actually continue to stay at the level of inspiration required to keep making good shit. Not to say this is a horrible album but it definitely pails in comparison to the last couple albums, which contain front to back bangers, while this one only has maybe half of a good album at best.

Skeletons and Hysteric stood out.

alright not stand out

Good. Reminds me of EB.

Heads will roll! Sonst gutes Album, nicht ganz mein Geschmack.

I loved the melodies, the energy and and the music. Not so sure about the vocals but I may listen again.

Decent. Not a huge fan of the vocals.

Pretty solid album but the second half lacks punch

Ok.not great. Very 2k wanting to be 80's. Listened 2x. A couple weren't too bad. My daughter liked a couple.

Kind of cool. Heads will roll I already knew just didn’t know it was by them.

Pretty decent

I like this band and I like this album.

jan says it's got bangers, i couldn't get past the signing. will give it benefit of doubt.

I thought "Heads Will Roll" was familiar until I realized it was sung on Glee. 😂

Couldn't play a single song off of it

Nice tunes

3/5

piola bueno

Альтернатива, гаражный софт рок с мелодичными композиуиями. Качественно и мелодично. Светлое романтичное настроение с "фишками". Не попсовое звучание с нотками гранжа, элементами ранней шенед о'конор, фолк и шотландские мотивы

Liked it. A little noisy and overstimulating at times, hence the 3 instead of 4, but I liked it!

Not bad.

*dance dance dance til ur dead* The rest of the album is pretty enjoyable, I was expecting it to be worse

Not bad. Some songs stand out.

An album that's only 12 years old! Wow! A yoot!  The weekend was too busy to get through even the first half but I was kinda digging what I heard.

Not bad. Liked it more the second time I listened to it.

Some fun songs, overall it sounded a bit too similar

Know, some gooduns some baduns is what it is

Some belters

No where near as fun as I remembered it. I coincidentally listened to Fever to Tell last week and that stood up much much better than this.

A bit frustrating, but only because its so close to being really good. I think its the dance influence that throws me off. Album brings me back to my first job which was basically a Hot Topic in an amusement park and it was around the time this album came out so I probably listened to a few of these songs

FT Heads will roll

Listenable but nothing really stood out for me. Would probably give it another go.

3/5

Bon disc de pop amb elements electrònics, molt ben considerat a l'època, tot i que per mi fa una baixada respecte els dos anteriors. Té moments interessants, com el primer tema, però no el consideraria essencial

A very high school album for me. The sound can be grating in spaces, but when it works, it works well.

For me Karen O’s wonderful voice has always been the most notable thing about this band. She can rock out with the best of them and then completely soften her tough edge with mellower songs like Little Shadow and Skeleton.

It's okay, pretty chill pop punkish vibes

Indie. Peculiar. Cosas interesantes.

I thought this was pretty good. I think that pretty much everyone knows "Heads Will Roll", but I hadn't heard any other song. I would rather listen to this again than "Toys in the Attic" again.

Pretty cool album! laughably I did not realize 'heads will roll' was by this band and was caught way off guard. The album is an interesting mix of Rock/Dance , would love a party where stuff like this was the dancing vibe. A few tracks like 'dull life' and 'runaway' were the standouts for me. All in all, a cool album I would never be mad to hear come on, but would rarely select - classic 3.5 || An Aside: The first few notes of 'Dragon Queen' made me think they were about to play KoRn's "Falling Away From Me" and caught me by surprise every time it came on. Listen to it - eerily similar, for real!

I liked it

3

I'm much less familiar with this album than "Fever To Tell", and there's no nostalgia bump. The first few tracks feel poppier, and then it gets more whistful? Those are both pleasant modes for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to adopt. Fave track - "Dull Life" - though I think I need to give the album a couple more listens, as there are some other contenders there, for sure...

Solid album I enjoyed more than I expected

Album wasn't available on spotify

Pretty good indie music. Good job of mixing EDM, Rock, and Pop. Some songs I really liked: Dragon Queen and Dull Life

not bad

Good album, especially after listening to the Pretenders the other day. I like Its Blitz more than their first album.

OK

meeh decent, inte för mig

Not as good as Fever to Tell

Not bad alternative rock album. Not really my taste but enjoyable.

По-моему, раньше я их слышал без женского вокала. Или нет? В любом случае это звучит лучше, чем предыдущее, но всё равно ни о чём.

Meme, not great not terrible

One star each for the first two tracks. The rest boring as heck.

Nah. Cool cover, though.

I'd probably enjoy them if I put in the effort to repeat listening, as they sound like the sort of music I like. Car radio stuff.

Bissi nervig

Fine

I wasn’t that impressed with this when it came out, and it still does nothing for me. I guess a couple of songs toward the end were kind of good, but I don’t think they were good enough for me to go back and save them.

Heads will roll premium Dull life 2/10 Overall jävligt meh album

Chato

Being in my early teens when this came out I remember “Heads Will Roll” being popular. That songs is meh, but still the standout. The rest of the album is an example of what average alternative sounded like in the late 2000s.

4 - heads will roll is money, the rest is pretty lethargic

Has merit

Teen girl dance pop, not really my thing.

Elektro emo girl power

There were production elements of it that i did really enjoy. I think there were a handful of songs on there that were fun and kept me curious. However, I think one of the worst parts of this album was the mixing. There were songs that felt so overwhelming just from the amount of high end and sort of fuzziness throughout. Also felt like the first half of the album was a bit stronger and more memorable than the last parts. Wasn’t super revolutionary for me but did have some moments of excitement with their sound selections and production.

Helt ok men framförallt pisstråkigt.

Helt okej. Rycktes med ibland. Svag trea

Objectively looking it’s great, nothing really wrong with it. But you can’t make me listen to the whole thing again. Nothing really stood out enough for me.

Not exactly the Ting Tings but in that bracket.

Verrrrryyyy interesting (I got bored)

I was listening to a song in a fire engine drove by and it made the song 10 times more interesting. I feel like the production smeared everything together a little too much without intention especially on heads will roll. Some may call this a “compressed” sound. If you say this, you are eric. Go listen to their first album “fever to tell”. I think the reason they use a compressed mix approach is cuz their garage rock background. Karen’s voice stands out for the band (and the mix) in everysong. Soft shock carries the album.

Occasionally good, but not much originality. Would make good party background. Liked the voice.

I'll admit to being tired (just got home from Canada), but pretty sure I'd have given this a 2 (rather than a 3) even if I wasn't tired. Loud and dramatic, but not very interesting, or catchy, or . . . musical?

light two. unremarkable pop rock. I can't stand the songs where they hit every single eighth note. No rhythmic diversity. Compositionally unimpressive too I think it's telling that their most famous song is actually more famous as the remix version

Faces and Heads will roll are my favourite!

Other than Heads Will Roll I found this album a bit something and nothing. I don’t want to just be waiting for the big hits but I really struggled to see whpy this album was included in the list…

This was ok but ultimately not really for me. I liked Soft Shock and Faces and I thought Heads Will Roll and Dragon Queen were ok - nothing really gripped me though! also not a fan of acoustic versions on the main album - I’ve just heard this and now you want me to hear it again but worse ???? anyways …

Just an ok album for me. Nothing really grabbed me by the scruff of the neck. Some ok pop tunes but pretty forgettable overall

Pretty meh. Not sure why it’s on this list.

Meh meh mehs

It was fun. I don't know if I'll go back to this one, but I like "Heads will Roll." I knew that one well already, so it was cool to learn where that one came from.

The music is ok but i don't like Pattys voice

最初はイマイチだと思ったが、徐々に声に慣れて聞けなくはなくなった。面白みはない。track4は悪くないかな。track5も良い。が、次は好きじゃない。こういった声が高めで細く、うまさを感じない声は苦手。完走せず。

Not my kind of music, i fount it very uninteresting.

Individually there are some good songs I like, but as an album it keeps getting quieter & slower to the point I keep wondering when it will end. Songs I liked: Heads Will Roll, Hysteric & Soft Shock 2/5

Boring generic late 00s alt rock. Just did nothing for me.

Ok not my favorite

квинтэссенция миллениальского саунда. документ своей эпохи. ХЭДС ВИЛЛ РОЛЛ и СКЕЛЕТОНС вывезли. 🥵💥💥✅

I’d never heard any Yeah Yeah Yeahs before. Listened attentively while driving - no chance to read anything about it. Couldn’t work out what it was trying to be: so much synth but still guitars chugging away? Singer aiming for what? Some sounded like they wanted to be U2 with bombastic stadium anthems, but they couldn’t write anything catchy. Some made me wonder if they wanted to be Siouxsie and the Banshees, but no energy in the drumming, nothing attention-grabbing in the vocals. Then I got a chance to look at Wikipedia. Someone seriously described this as synth-punk?? This album is practically the opposite of punk. Someone said the singer and guitarist are both amongst the greatest ever? Yeah, na. For me, this album is Pretty Poor, 3/10.

Come across as a load of nothingness. Heard similar more times than I can remember. Little to commend it and little to dislike. Stuck in a sea of meh. 2/5 14/5/26

I never liked them before, but this wasn't as bad as expected. Some not bad stuff on here beyond their radio hits.

I like heads will roll

I listened to about 9 songs in this album, it was really bland and I the chorus slowly became repetitive.

flat and boring.

Kinda ok

This seems like the kind of music I would expect to hear while dancing at a nightclub. Except I don’t go to nightclubs, and I don’t dance. It’s fine, up-tempo, nothing offensive. Good danceable beat. Nothing I will be adding to my collection.

not really

It’s synth pop.

Unknown band. OK music. OK album.

Cool album overall, it has a couple of bangers. Not a lot of albums can represent this sort of sound better than this one. Would be on the fence on whether it deserves inclusion. 7/10 [KEEP]

no esta mal, pero no me generó nada. es un álbum así sin más. no me pareció malo, pero es para escuchar una vez y listo

This is a pretty standard early thousands indie disco floor filler album. Not bad, but not something you'll go back to time and again. Sits perfectly nicely in the background, without ever challenging or inspiring. Could equally be any number of local bands from around the world that were decent, if unspectacular.

Started on a relative high with Zero. Unfortunately, many songs did not follow through on the promise of awesome indie sleaze rock that the first song made. Heads Will Roll genuinely sucks, it's so annoying. I felt the same about Dull Life. Skeletons is alright. The rest of the album varies from vaguely okay to pretty grating. Sad, as I do enjoy other Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs from other albums.

No. Too much

An album of two halves, with the electronic based tracks far stronger. Opens with a series of engaging tunes, from the euro-pop affectations of Zero to the standout OMDish celtic overtures of Skeletons. But then disappears into a steam of forgettable filler.

I don't think YYY ever released a great album - it was diminishing returns after their first EP (which is superb). A few good tracks on this, but a lot of filler.

This started well and was quite enjoyable, but then I felt lost its way a bit and got a bit boring

Not terrible, weirdly the 4th two star album in a row all by bands who have much better work in their back catalogue. Tom.

Am I missing something? I have no idea what is noteworthy about this album. It wasn't outright terrible, but... why? Forgettable pop rock.

This wasn’t quite as terrible as the first record by them we reviewed, but it was still terrible.

This was a slight improvement from the last album we listened to by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs but that bar was pretty low to begin with. The songs on this album are far less grating and actually have some artistic creativity to them. Not much to hang my hat on other than it didn’t completely suck.

Someone wrote that the genre for this album should be called “Indieslop” and I think that’s a great description. I never bought into the hype on this band - Look it’s the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! They must be super rad, they released on DGC! They moved BACKWARDS stylistically from post-punk to synth-pop, aw man they’re so cool! Karen O is the best, just ignore that you can’t understand a single word of what she’s singing, alright? This is kitschy, east village vibe core and, while the critics can have their darlings, I’m not fucking with it.

Damn shame. I really liked Fever To Tell, but this is an entirely different feel. They went and prettied everything up. Tore the heart and grit out of music. Makes me sad.

The first two tracks aren’t bad, but it didn’t hold me for the rest of the album.

Oldest story there is: former guitar rock group whips out the synths and tries to go pop and falls flat on their face. In my opinion, at least—other people like this a lot, I guess. Painfully boring and indistinguishable from a hundred other similar groups, with only three superior songs: “Heads Will Roll”, a great pop song with cool U2-esque guitar work, and surprisingly enough (or maybe not; this band wrote “Maps” after all) the album’s two colossal, tearjerker ballads “Skeletons” and “Little Shadow”. Best track: “Skeletons”

it was okay

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s are a band that always passed me by and i’m not sure why, as i quite liked Karen O’s other work. I fear the answer may lay with the amount of synths on this album. Its not that i dont like the songs, just that i dont really care. It all just feels s bit like going through the motions.

“Heads Will Roll” is a great song. The rest is a load of guff.

This just sort of passed me by. It was fine, but I have nothing really positive or negative to say about it. It exists. None of it grabbed me in any way. I do love the cover though. Should be a 2.5 really, but I'm rounding down. 2/5

2.3, skoleband-lyden, de var heldige at ramme den lige i røven med Heads Will Roll. Forsangers stemme også utroligt ensformig i længden

Not as good as their other album

Demos were the highlight for me

I really like the first yeah yeah yeahs album but this doesn't do much for me. I think the stylistic change would be really good in theory but it's just missing something in practice, I like the demos a lot though

I just could not get into this. Found it too jangly and jarring, didn't provoke any emotional response. Songs are unmemorable although I nearly liked 'Hysteric - acoustic' and 'Little Shadow - acoustic'

Heads will roll is a classic! I thought it was by someone else though? Huh. Couple other listenable ones. Overall not for me and didn’t enjoy it too much.

feels like mid tier coworker music

The first four tracks are great, after that it's just a mush

Hints of punk, No Doubt, couple of other bands. Vocalist’s voice eventually became grating to my ears. Songs were mildly entertaining but I found them ultimately “blah” without a variety of change. Yet another example of an album in this list that I don’t understand why it’s in this list. 1 1/2 stars

Bland, inoffensive. I take offence

This sounds like when you walk into H&M

no thanks

started quite good but then got boring

…okay

It's like they gave a Taylor Swift wannabe a synthesizer.

06/03/2026 *1. zero - okay.... like an american lcd soundsystem? like the strings. love the instrumental about 2:30.... really lovely vocals. not massive on the lyrics though. nice dance music but lyrics are a bit nothing. nice! 2. heads will roll - already know this. high pitched guitar in this isn't my favourite... like the a-trax remix aloooot more :/ 3. soft shock - not massive on this one immediately.... sounds very millenial indie, bit dated now. getting bored towards the end. 4. skeletons - regret saying the last one was boring bc this is so much worse. her voice is beautiful, but it's starting to get a bit grating? like kindof cursive... 5. dull life - jesus christ you can tell this is from 2008. bit stomp-clap-y. what do any of these lyrics through the whole album mean? maybe i don't get it, but it seems very vacant. reminding me of the songs that would play in the menu on kinect sports rivals on the xbox one (not good!) 6. shame and fortune - liking the bass in this one.... bit boring again. *7. runaway - piano.... how does it keep getting worse. to be fair, it's getting better as it goes on. not something i would choose to listen to, but now the strings(?) in the background have kicked in, it's not as bad :) vaguely reminds me of mars argo.... used to be obsessed with her when i was like ten lol. like the screeching towards the end. 8. dragon queen - seeing people in the reviews calling this indie sleaze.... how is this sleazy??? hate the clapping. 9. hysteric - still not a fan, but do like the dreamy vibe. do not like the clapping effect again..... finding it boring. 10. little shadow - like the organ and the acoustic guitar together. better than the others, but still boring. for me, it's not enough rock in a pop-rock album.. didn't really know what to expect from this one. liked the first track, but it quickly nosedived. realised once i got to the chorus of heads will roll that the version i like is a remix and i do not actually like the original lol. will not be listening to this one again :)

★★½

I've never liked the electronic crap in music.

eeeeeeem not my type

Not my thing

It really seems like there’s a lot going on but it doesn’t really amount to much

Meh idk kinda boring

Most if it it's background music

Enjoyable.

Few interesting tracks like, for example, „Dragon Queen”, „Heads will roll”. Rest of them seems a bit bland, like FIFA main menu music.

heads will roll is classic tell me lies but this isn't really my type of music

Not into the synthy indie rock thing. Really boring for me

Объективно отличный альбом, просто не мое

gidik kız

The last few songs did drag a bit. The first half of the album is a good listen.

Eh, plain alt album for me. Had the “off with your head.. dance till were dead” song on it.

1. Bonne intro 2. Classique!! 3. Okok.. mid 4. ÇA PART QUAND ?? 5. Bon sequencing, son plus punchy après une berceuse 6. Mid 7. Le ventre mou est bien bien mou 8. Groovy, intéressant, mieux! Bonnes textures. 9. On est reparti dans du no-groove-U2esque PTN 10. Bon 11. Au moins, ça finit mieux Avis final mitigé… 2-3 bons morceaux qui méritent une réécoute. Le reste très très ennuyant, Non-Groovy-Flat-U2esque.. 2/5

Standard indie rock that doesn't contain anything to make it worthy of the title 'great'. It's fine but not great in any way.

This album comes from my youth, but somehow I really dreaded listening to it. I had only ever heard the hits, but didn’t even want to hear those with this go around. Rather annoying and somehow doesn’t feel true to who the band is/was

Had never heard of the band before Tried to give it a second listening to be sure I wasnt "missing it", but my earbuds had difficulty pairing and proclaimed "No connection" - I've therefore decided this is a sign and forms my comprehensive review: No connection....2 star

I'm not really into the alt and synth pop sound. It's the more rock oriented tracks that save the album for me. Karen O's vocals are fine, but they have this wispy ethereal quality to them that I don't enjoy.

osma stvar okej, ostalo ili dosadno i bezvezno ili blago naporno. ne znam. trunku bolji od onog njihovog prvog albuma koji sam slušo al to ne znači mnogo

Why is this on here? I don't feel like it particularly adds anything to the conversation of it's moment

Ok. Not enjoyable to any great interest.

Heads Will Roll is great. The rest ehh not bad but not really feeling it.

Sigh. Nothing to inspire me here

I’ve jus never really liked them.

Favorite track(s): Heads Will Roll, Dull Life

Nul

Not a bad album, but probably wouldn’t listen again. I wanna feel inspired

One classic song filled with a bunch of edm filler that didn’t resonate with my black ass

Remarkably unremarkable, and yet here I am, remarking.

Boring

off off off

Another one song album

This is ok. The last song is the best on the album. Very dancey but in a predictable way. They leaned too far away from their earlier work.

Heads will roll, is a good song

I will never listen to this album again

Being generous. This was not an album for me but I wouldn’t hate it if it was on in the background of a busy restaurant

Favourites: Zero Heads Will Roll ★ Skeletons ★ Little Shadow

- Och, 'hespenrol', toch meh - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummer al toegevoegd aan MMMM

cosi cosi. non é il mio stile. rock pop? pop rock? pop e basta? non si capisce bene. qualche pezzo carino, forse. heads will roll pezzone.

not my style

not my fav vocal

The voice got old very quickly for me, still a couple good songs though. Can’t see myself revisiting the album.

Don’t really have much to say. It was just kind of whatever. Didn’t bother me too much but can’t say I liked any of the songs. 2 stars.

Didn't care for this. I played it while cooking and the main emotion I felt was annoyed.

Really wasn't for me. Kinda just sounded like generic indie rock, with nothing making it stand out from the current music in the genre

This was profoundly okay. It certainly grew on me but ultimately it’s forgettable

it's ok

No "Maps"? No thanks.

Eh?

Dece

Not really my kind of music, but I have a certain respect for Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Favorite songs: Soft Shock, Little Shadows.

Heads Will Roll and Zero are club bangers, the rest is somewhere between decent and dull. The lead singer's voice can be pretty, but she often sounds faux-miserable. I think it just needs more, I can't help feeling disappointed. Not that every song needs to be a party anthem, but I couldn't tell you a single thing about 80% of the album.

I don't know what to give this album. Like it's not the worse thing ever, but this was such a disappointing album when it came out. I was enormously into Show Your Bones (still love many tracks on the album) as well as loved much of Fever To Tell. This album was a big departure from their sound when I feel they should have kept going forward with what they had on Show Your Bones, that there was still a lot of meat on those bones. This album feels like they threw that away when there was more to eat! They can have such a great heavy sound. Instead it's this all over the place album that has no core, no sequence, no identity that feels genuine. This album sounds like what a solo Karen O album would be expected to sound like. Like dance-y, different vocal stuff, more fluff, less meat. It'd be okay if that's what it was. I don't feel like it does what it's doing very well, or at least I don't find it compelling. It's kinda see-thru, like you already got it figured out before it finishes telling you. It's like "oh okay, it's this kind of thing..." to each track, even though these tracks vary from one to the next, which is part of the issue: each track is another thing that sounds like it's part of something larger, but that larger thing isn't here, so you just have a piece of that larger thing; it's an album that is a collection of these disparate parts and pieces. I'm still salty 'cause I bought this album outright when it came out thinking there'd be no way I wouldn't like it, then was greatly let down and out whatever it cost (I bought it through a friend's Apple Music 'cause my broke-ass didn't have a computer at the time). My life was in a low place too. Not good associations going on. And I tried listening to get something it of this album and never could. That's it: 2 stars (tempted to go 1 star, but there's still way-worse music than this that I want to save 1-stars for). I don't like this album. I'd be okay never hearing it again.

Pretty good but no classic.

Part 80s throwback, part mediocrity. Really nice voice but it needed to make more effort.

Very meh for me. I like the energy but the music mostly didn't do anything for me. Favorite track: Dull Life

Its a vibe

eh

Этот довольно пресный, местами даже раздражающий

It's fine..best albums?

Very un memorable. Will skip again

Heads Will Roll is great, otherwise didn’t enjoy

It's Mid!

Not really my jam. Good for them though

Prescindible. No malo, pero es un rock que no me gusta.

skeletons seems like they are going for a maps part 2 but it never really hits the way the latter does. I was a fan of fever to tell and that record has only grown in my esteem over the years. when they started pushing a more polished, electronic sound I grew less interested, but can see how others might prefer or welcome this...more mature version.

Close but no cigar. First thought that this is Nico but after four songs I dropped out on what comes to being interested.

This is so dance oriented music that I find it ridiculous it's considered rock music. I liked their "Show Your Bones", but after that the albums have gone by the wayside, with barely a single play through. Not for me.

Didn't particularly like her voice, the lyrics or the arrangements...sorry!

Yeah, no. Pretty boring.

Background music, didn't catch my attention at all. Had potential but all sounded very similar. I liked the last song "Faces" the most.

Slightly over synthed for my liking. I can't find any offence in this music. It starts pretty well with the 2 very recognisable songs. It just doesn't fit into my narrow rock expectations and a bit disco vibe which managed to get worse in that it loses the energy and goes pretty limp wristed very quickly in the second half. Not something I can say I wouldn't listen to but just doesn't capture me so a very harsh 2.

Generally lack luster edm stuff and some middle to low tier indie melodies

This is TOO stuck in 2009, and not in a nostalgic way. It is a bit grating and eye-rolling, especially the singer's nasally late-00's indie rock voice.

eh

Started strong, drifted off a bit after the first three songs. Probably won't listen again

It wasn't awful, but I definitely found it boring. I'd maybe listen to one song on this album again: "Shame and Fortune".

Yeah yeah yeahs was the worst concert I ever attended live back in 2023. But back then I didn't know any songs from them, and so I tried going into this album unbiased... but it's just waaaay too boring.

It's not Blitz, it's shitz!

Interesting but not something I would listen to.

First two tracks really drew me in and made me think this was gonna be, like, a disco punk album. But for the most part the rest of the album is pretty boring and forgettable. A lot of other music from this time period sounds pretty similar and is much better than this. Overall, not a fan.

It’s so refreshing to find where songs you’ve heard in different medias actually come from.

Not for me, the acoustic stuff on the deluxe edition wasn't too bad tbh, works better but the main body of the album very synth and keyboard driven

Dragon Queen is okay. It took me forever to listen to this album, not my thing.

BORING!!!!

Heads will roll is already on some of my playlists but that is also the only song from this band that I know of and that I have heard before today. After listening through the album I get why that one song has so many more listeners than the others. I can't put my finger on exactly why but the other songs didn't catch my attention at all. Its something that could play in the background and at no point would I sing along or find myself getting caught up in the beats.

Dave was right, it’s giving Bathroom Break

Only listened once due to time constraints but didnt hate it. I kinda thought I would.

Snelle inhaal review #4: Okayish dancepunk album, maar doe mij maar Crystal Castles ofzo

Niet erg boeiend

For crap american pap, some of its OK.

This album feels like the quirky lovechild of Rocky Horror and Napoleon Dynamite. Kind of fun and weird in a good way at first, but after a few songs the vocals wear on me and I’m ready for something different.

dancing dog

I’m not sure why I didn’t listen to It’s Blitz! when it came out. I liked Fever to Tell a lot, and Zero and Heads Will Roll were great singles. Especially after the underwhelming Show Your Bones. On a first listen, nothing tops those singles. Soft Shock is good. Skeleton irks a bit with its Highland-style countermelody. The sequenced synths start to feel wearying; Nick Zinner’s one-finger synth lines don’t have the same expressiveness as his four fingers on a guitar. The drum machines obscure what I know to be Brian Chase’s more inventive acoustic drumming. When, I wonder, did drum machines become more limited than the people they were built to replace? It all sounds very 2009. Or at least how I remember 2009. A little Metric, some Feistian keening. Faint traces of Animal Collective and Fever Ray. That whole era’s sonic bootprint is stamped all over it. And for all that I liked those singles at the time, I’d had enough of 2009 even before it happened. I was already fed up by 2005. That’s probably why it’s not easy to go back now. Still, there’s a lot that I like — most of the record, in fact — though the pacing feels off. I found myself waiting for a slow, spare number like Hysteric. Then they follow it with Little Shadow, a second slow closer. Not a bad ending, but a wan one after all that came before. The acoustic version of Skeleton, which was tagged onto the expanded edition I listened to, would have done a better job at track four than the electric version. Even so, it - like the acoustic Soft Shock - has the air of a mid-2000s advertising sync. I looked it up: the Karen O commercial was from 2005. That’s when the bloat set in. When everything started sounding like that. Still, there’s enough to admire here to make you wish you didn’t feel like you were being sold a T-Mobile G1 while listening to it. 2.5 When it came out much was made of this 3-piece rock band’s daring pivot to dancey synth pop but truthfully it was superficial change. This was just another Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. It’s Blitz has the same weaknesses but fewer moments of justification than its predecessors. As usual they simply hook their listener into submission. There are no long (or even medium-sized) lines in either the lyrics or the music. Short guitar/keyboard riffs go round and round and round. Short melodic ideas go round and round and round. A second one of each is introduced and then we are bludgeoned with that for a while. The singer sings nonsense but as the chorus of The Beatles ‘She Loves You’ taught them; singing the nonsense three times usually does the trick. That has been the story of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s process since album 1, track 1: [idiotic guitar riff] ‘I’m rich/ Like a hot noise/ Rich rich rich’ (Rich) Nevertheless these arbitrary fragments are mercilessly enjoyable; the addictive drama of Karen O’s brilliant voice, at once powerful and fragile and Nick Zinner’s clinical unsubtlety on his guitar (or synth). It is songwriting as stickle bricks; each piece is so colourful and pleasant in itself, who cares that you can’t make a cathedral out of it? Not my toddler, who sticks two of the bigger pieces together and declares that she has made a robot. Wonderful work I tell her, and I mean it. So how good are the 11 robots on It’s Blitz? They’re alright. Somehow the two previous albums had better ones. Far better ones. Y Control and Maps and Gold Lion and Fancy all create their potent drama out of familiar rock tropes and in doing so invite you to believe for a couple of minutes that something profound is being reached at. You bring your own ‘meaning’ and ignore the lyrics. On It’s Blitz the shop front now reads ‘Dance! (dance, dance)’. The rock artifice is discarded and with it the suspension of disbelief that makes the Yeah Yeah Yeahs seem even faintly credible as songwriters. As I said at the outset it’s really a superficial change - you could always dance to the YYYs and you always knew they were basically shit. I quite like this cover and would be interested to know how many eggs they went through to get it just so. 2/5

There are parts of this that I really liked ('Skeletons' is a keeper), but unfortunately, it had quite a lot of meh, too. Kinda tough to pin down exactly why this isn't better than it is. I mean, it seems like they've got a winning recipe here, but it's just missing some important ingredient that would have made it gel. Perhaps an egg?

Everyone knows this band for the second song on this album, and that's about it. Nothing else is notable.

I actually liked a couple songs but wouldn't go back to it.

Overrated

I don't understand bands that don't have a bass player. What's Up with that?

Eh

Not for me

No sé nada de ellos. A ver qué me encuentro. La portada, se momento, está bien. Otro disco que podría haberse quedado en mi ignorancia. Cada canción tiene una linea melódica que exprime más allá de lo saludable. Tres, cuatro o cinco minutos con una sola idea musical está para mí más cerca de cadena de montaje que de música.

Album 807 of 1089 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (2009) Rating : 2.5 / 5 Not bad. I preferred their earlier garage band type sound as opposed to this synth-laced dance-punk.

Boring

Surprised how many I recognized

Less skin crawlingly pretentious than the previous Yeah Yeah Yeahs we did, but this is still absolutely devoid of any substance. A truly terrible band.

Not my thing

Meh, not really my thing. At first, it just sounded like The Pretenders... until it didn't.

eh

It's like dance punk but uninteresting

I actually thought the last song was amazing, but the rest just felt mostly the same. The big hit has never really sat with me, so can respect the talent but just not my style.

1.5

Not my type.

Good beginning but ultimately falls flat at the end

Po prostu meh.

Chick music. "Heads will roll" dance song

meh

Het was gewoon echt niet boeiend genoeg, nog eerder 2 dan 4

It's alright. A fine pop/dance/disco thing. It's fine. No real idea why this is on the list, though. Feels more like a "we need to update this list...toss in a few albums from the last couple of decades at random to make it look like this is something we keep updated." I'm happy I gave this a listen. Will I ever need to give it a listen again? No.

This album feels a lot more dance and electronica driven than the other album on the list. The couple top singles are frequently featured in dance mixes, this one isn’t for me.

Good fun.

No songs hooked me

Not my style

Boring. Lacks energy, and I don't like the hit song from the album. Ironically, the best song was "Dull Life", which was energetic & souded like Yeah Yeah Yeahs first EP.

Yeah yeahh!

It was ok, noting amazing

I've listened before, was definitely pretty hyped on it but Idk I never listen to this thing lmao. It's like decently energetic but I think honestly if I want something sort of close to this where it's like a 00's (mainstream) punk band filled out by some electronics I probably would rather hear Sleigh Bells lol. It's like good but doesn't feel so specific to me that no one else could've made it and they waffle and try these drawn-out songs that don't really work. Just get to the point and punch me in the face with a new sound. Y'know? You literally called the thing "It's Blitz!"

This page has been handing out alot of positive Band names this week...Yes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, even the Happy Mondays. I'm still not really buying what these mid-late-00ies Indie Bands are throwing down, though...

Alright

Not a single memorable song for me.

Yeah, this feels like a watered-down, overproduced record by a mediocre pop band. Barely more bite than Avril Lavigne. Their other album was better. This sounds like Rock’n’Roll in pouty suspenders from Hot Topic.