It's Blitz!

Ei jättänyt itsestään mitään muistikuvaa. Ei offensiivisen huonoa, ei mitään mielenkiintoista.

heads will roll though

Le genre de trucs qui passait en boucle sur Europe 2 à la fin des années 2000. Rien qui te faisait changer de station, mais rien qui te faisait monter le volume.

Not a band I’m overly familiar with. It wasn’t bad but didn’t really leave much of an impression on me

3/10

Interesting, well produced, not my cup of tea though.

I guess this list is like 90% rock albums? I've gotten one country album, one world album, one jazz album, one R&B album, one hip hop album, and about 60 rock albums so far. So, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I gave their first album a chance, at the time the rock world seemed to be going nuts about Karen O, but I just didn't get it, from her supposed "charisma" to her affected vocals to her stage presence or "outrageous" persona. "Maps" was cool and has proven to be a modern rock classic, but I didn't get on the bandwagon. The Siouxsie / Dale Bozzio / Chrissie Hynde mashup is intriguing, I guess, and works for the young fans this band pulled in early on. I never heard this record, though, and am glad to hear that a lot of the annoying vocal affectations Karen O had on the earlier stuff is much less prominent here. There's also more of an emphasis on synths... not til "Dull Life" do we really get rock guitars. It did start to drag after that song, though, as the energy kind of left the building in the 2nd half. I liked this more than I expected to, but not enough to want to hear it again.

One or two tracks I enjoyed but wouldn’t listen again

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs just don't appeal to me. They put out good albums, but it just doesn't hit the dopamine for me.

Damn 2009, I was here for this the first time round. Never particularly liked the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and still not loving it, but it's fine.

Never heard of them before

Too "sinthy" for me. I enjoyed songs such as Dull Life, Heads Will Roll and Soft Shock, but this isn't an album I would listen to again. 2-3 stars (I would give it 2.5).

Second by this band in three days, and this one wore thin on me. I don't like the lead singers voice and the tracks are too dancy for my taste.

I like the cover-foto but that's it basically. Nothing remarkable here.

I love the cover art, but I can't say the same about the music. Quite uninteresting 00's indie.

I listened to the first song and thought this might be okay. The second track rolled on and I actually knew it, but only from a remix (not the official one), like heard it dozens of times. This was looking good! Then it dissolved into a soppy mess of blandness and angst, leaving me more than a little conflicted. It started out so well, but ended up sounding a bit like Coldplay (and I mean that in a bad way).

I don't think this album benefitted from concentrated listening... OK for background music but not my fave.

This was pretty nice. First half was better than the second. Probably wont revisit this though.

Idk, I liked Fever To Tell... this was a little bland. It didn't get through to me.

I'm left as unimpressed by this record as any of its contemporaries. This brand of "critically acclaimed by default pop rock album with chamber elements" does nothing for me at all.

I can't listen to the normal version of Heads will Roll now that Dance Till You're Dead exists. It just isn't the same without that dog vibing to the song. Other than that, the album is ok but nothing that interesting.

Like 80s pop with a hangover. Not for me.

Boring, repetitive.

Blah blah blah, more like

Not crazy about electronic music like this. It’s a 2 for me.

Need some time to percolate this

Meh

Fairly repetitive and kinda dull. Not really a fan. Best song: Heads Will Roll

2.07

She has good voice. Bland music though. She’s not overpowered by the instruments so that’s a plus. It’s listenable (and totally forgettable.) 2.5/5

Squeaky voice annoyed me to no end. Music for hipsters. 2/5

Couldn’t decide if it wants to be boring or annoying.

First song is great. Otherwise whatever.

I keep waiting to "get" the Yeah Yeah Yeah, but I'm always left with them reminding me of the try-too-hard to look like not-trying-too-hard indie bro of the mid-00's. Like, if you don't like it, it's your fault and you should feel intellectually inferior...anyway. Some songs are ok, others are about 20 falsettos too many. Didn't hate it.

Pretty good. Not great, not bad. This is the best review of all time

Começo promissor pelo ritmo acelerado e alegre, com o vocal sexy não se confirmou pela sequência de músicas que deixam um aroma insonso.

Was alright. There’s a high sound that gets a bit annoying after a while. A frequency I like her voice

More like "yeah - no".

I thought it was okay. Heads will roll great choon

OK

heads will roll 🤤 idk it exists nothing else really speaks to me

Not awful, but still uninteresting throughout with a few exceptions. It get a bit better when the pace picked up. Highlights: Dull Life

Failed to grab me and not as energising as their debut. Karen O undoubtedly a brilliant singer.

# Playlist track - Zero # Notes - The opening tracks are SO DIFFERENT from the rest that the whole things even seems like a scam of sorts. - Zero and Heads Will Roll are amazing, but it goes downhill from there, really fast. - The last few ones, especially the acoustic versions are downright awful. - It's boring, repetitive and doesn't bare any resemblance to the energetic and fun opening. What a shame.

I didn't really care for this one too much. Female vocals and tame instrumentation just didn't do much for me.

Don't mind the band too much but this album misses the mark. Reckon this album benefits from being released around the same time the book was. If it were to be updated I suspect this wouldn't make the list.

Not a bad album.

Mostly bland indie dance rock, with the occasional good, standout song. ‘Zero’, ‘Heads Will Roll, ‘Soft Shock’ and ‘Dragon’ are the picks here. And to be fair they are quite good. The rest of the album however, while pleasant enough, is mostly forgettable.

Thought I didn't know what the Yeah Yeah Yeahs sounded like, but I hated Heads Will Roll when it was on the radio. The rest, if I heard it, I couldn't tell apart from Metric. That doesn't speak well of either band. I might have thought Heads Will Roll was Metric. I thought this stuff had a I'm-cooler-than-you-please-look-at-me thing to it that indie rock absolutely did not need trying to disguise itself as fun. More of an uncaring reaction than an I hate it reaction now that I'm old, except that because of this list when I hear this much vocal fry I'm going to think of Britney Spears pop. So that's another way I'm sadder about cultural history. Thanks list. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Nothing special. Monotone and repetitive

i don’t love the sound of her voice. heads will roll i like.

I wasn't impressed

Yeah (just one). Karen O is the only thing that keeps this engaging for me. The occasional drum fill works. The occasional synth drone works. In Skeletons, they both work. But for the most part the synth often seems intrusive, like it never really joined the band.

This is the second album I've had recommended from this band. It's funny, because I reread my thoughts for that one, and I felt then what I feel now. The album's alright, but I would be hard pressed to include it in any list of music to listen to before we croak, let alone two.

p925. 2009. 2 stars. Unremarkable power pop with no standout tunes. Perfectly acceptable, but not essential listening in any way.

Not my fave sonically pretty coherent but I think track nine should’ve been the album closer track 3 ‘Soft Shock’ was my best

Starts pretty well but I became less interested the further in I got, pretty tight indie synth otherwise. High 2.

2.5 started good but fell off a cliff after skeletons

First listen. Ok

Leaves you wanting more, in the worst possible way. It has most of the makings of something good, but never takes it to the next level. The album started with a lot of promise with the first two tracks, but it never reaches its peak.

Reading Wikipedia it said the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were roommates with Metric. That makes a lot of sense. They sound very similar to Metric, Florence and The Machine and The Kills, just not as interesting.

Overrated as fuck

Cheap and flat indie pop/rock. Gave me nothing. Includes hit Heads Will Roll.

So I was prepared to NOT like “It’s Blitz!” by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – as I had heard some of their stuff awhile back to lackluster reviews, so it didn’t surprise me when it started slowly why I was out cutting the lawn… It is fairly original, and there was a decent amount of diversity throughout the album – and really not a bad track on it, just not all that many gems either in my opinion… The best tracks IMO were “Dull Life” & “Shame & Fortune” – as both are really well-done, and I did think the album got better as it went on… Nothing earth-shattering here in my opinion, but not too shabby for a post 2000 album, as I’m pretty hard on those – as not many have impressed me to date… Solid 2…

I'm am getting exposed to albums, artists and genres I otherwise would have missed. While I have heard of this band, this was the first real listen I have given. Not much to say. This album is pretty good musically but the lyrics are cryptic and feel random phrases in a song. Maybe it was just a bad day for me...

How the hell is Yeah Yeah Yeahs one of 1001 albums that's essential to listen to before death? This is not revelatory at all. It's just power pop. And I hate the vocals. And the name.

Initial thought is that this is Pop/Dance masquerading as “indie”. Big NOPE for me. The position of the synth so high in the mix seems like an engineering error. The “set it and forget it” dance beat used nearly throughout the first half of this album is lazy as hell. The latter half trades it in for a slowed down snoozer approach. Not sure how much of an improvement that is. I don’t hate the vocals (with the exception of Runaway). Shame and Fortune was the single stand out track I thought was great. Can’t find much else I like here.

Not my jam

Música un poco más cañera pero realmente con poco que decir musicalmente. Es peculiar pero realmente no aporta nada que parezca merecer especialmente el destacar frente a otros

Dance/synth from the 2010s ish wouldn’t normally be my thing but I LOVE Karen’s vocals with it. That said, this isn’t my favorite album of theirs. Rating 2 stars because I know I like the latest album better.

Groupe totalement inconnu. Pas désagréable, mais pas très intéressant.

It went from bearable to annoying about half-way through. It's not something I'd ever want to hear again, but it's not 'The Cramps' bad and I did listen to the whole album.

Not objectively bad but not for me. Got 4 songs in and was too bored so had to leave early.

An egg was sacrificed for this?!

Trotos

It’s Bland! 2/5

Never heard the album or any of the songs. All right I guess, but none of the songs seem memorable or resonate. Seems pretty derivative. Not sure why it makes the list.

Enjoyed acoustic versions

Nur kurz rein gehört, ist mir zu hektisch und elektronisch.

2.5 - alright heads will roll obviously a banger - 4/5

Really didn't do it for me.

I love 2000s indie music but this is an album that I could never understand the hype. I tried the album back then and I tried it now and nothing really stood out. Sorry Karen O it just wasn’t for me.

I'm not saying this wasn't a pleasant surprise but I am saying its not an album - amongst 1,000 - I have to listen to. Like most pop music it follows a curve rather than sets it. I'm sure for youth of a certain generation it has a resonance which includes festivals sunshine and all things pre-thirtiers but thats not my generation.

02.05.24 Faves: - Heads Will Roll - Soft Shock - Skeletons - Runaway Opinion: I've heard some songs from this band before but it isn't something I'd listen to willingly.

unfortunately this wasnt really my thing :(. It was pretty competently made but ended up sounding very samesy for me with only one or two songs sticking out, though i did enjoy those. Idk im tired

Runaway

Diferente a su estupendo debut Fever to Tell (2003), este disco supuso una salida airosa para una banda que afrontaba el difícil 3er disco de su carrera. “Zero” y “Heads Will Roll” son dos pelotazos que condensan todo lo bueno del disco. El resto no está a ese nivel pero aún así conforman un listado muy disfrutable. En 2009 hubo discos mucho mejores e influyentes: Animal Collective, The XX, The Flaming Lips, The Horror, The pains of being pure at heart, Girls, Prefab Sprout, The Raveonettes, Grizzly Bear... It´s blitz está a la altura del Tonight de Franz Ferdinand, también su 3er disco, editado el mismo año y con similares inclinaciones melódicas. La portada es fabulosa, toda una declaración de principios. Karen O es parte del camino emprendido por Siouxsie Sioux, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry o tantas otras, solo por eso merece la pena discos como este.

Meh

2/5 had one good song, but didn’t really Resonate with me.

heads will roll !

Medium good. I never really got sucked in to the music, but I didn't hate anything.

I hvert fald 1 godt nummer...

Female band. 3/10

my little pop punk loving ass loved heads will roll when i was like 14

It gets weak pretty fast, as soon as it looses it's tempo it looses my attention.

I just don't like electronic music

Pointless pop, just washes over.

I really like Karen O as a singer but the music don’t do anything for me.

I just don’t like it

Honestly, an era of music I'd rather forget about

-not a fan of the vocalist -yo heads will roll is on here lol -lowkey a lot of these songs just annoying af -extremely uninteresting lyrics imo -katy perry negs fav tracks: Heads Will Roll Runaway least fav: Dull Life

Not my cup of tea. In my opinion, only 2 good songs, one of them is viral on TikTok. 2/5

Just ok for me. The first two songs were kinda promising.

My first impression is that It'S BLITZ! feels like an updated version of the Wax Trax! Record label sound from the mid 1980s and 1990s mixed with a Blondie punk vibe, at least for the first 3/4 of the record. Also a bit of Ladyhawke/Metric thrown in for good measure. Good, but not as revolutionary as the music press would have you think. Lyrics are cryptic, but I'm okay with that. I listen to music for the groove, melody, and harmony, not just for the lyrics, as some others do. Also, it is possible the words were chosen for the sounds they make when uttered and not for their meanings. One critic referred to their lyrics on this record as gnomic, and I think that is apt. Lyrical glimpses. Impressionistic, not narrative tales. Her vocals seems range bound, but after hearing her cover of "Immigrant Song" with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, I know that is not case. I would have liked to hear her expand her vocal exploration on this record. Frankly some of the songs, particularly on the back half of the record would have benefited from it. "Heads Will Roll" didn't really do much for me. My favorite tracks were "Zero", "Skeletons", and "Hysteric". If you love this, you might dig 12 Rounds, Collide, The Epoxies, Ladytron, Metric, Florence and the Machine, and Ladyhawke. I found all of them a bit more interesting than this.

It’s 2,5!

Mwah

not my kind of music

First track was good, the rest so-so.

The band offers a consistent collection of songs that feel and sound as if they have one foot in the 80's and the other in the 00's. A lot of synths. The sameness of the songs made it hard for me to pull out anything that really grabbed me. I've heard others sing the praises of the album, so I might be missing something.

I really don't like the sound they make

Album was very “meh”. Not bad but nothing special

Some great songs, a bad album

Not really my speed. Kind of Deborah Harry/Blondie after a maudlin night of drinking.

Never heard this before started off unimpressed but the vocals came more to the front further into the album. I can't deal with vocals being over blown by the instruments. If you want an instrumental don't put any word in that part of the song.

I've heard the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the radio for years and I've always liked what I've heard from them. I was excited when this came up, because I've never listened to an entire album from them. Well, now I know why. The first three songs were the ones that got radio play. After that, the formula starts wearing a little thin. It probably gave birth to what the kids are calling DIY. Unexpected banger -- really, none, but Shame and Fortune's probably the best of the rest.

One of the next big things that sort of fizzled. It’s kind of fun, I guess, but they’re having a better time than I am. *sigh*

What is this? A bunch of marginally interesting soundscapes, with Karen O singing a bunch of banal lyrics over the top of them. Doesn’t work for me.

That's an incredible photo! Props to the photographer on this one. I find myself wondering if it symbolizes any themes on the album. So, my only experience with Yeah Yeah Yeahs up to this point is "Maps" -- it's one of the first songs I learned to play on real drums, after mastering it on the hardest difficulty on Rock Band. So here we go... "Zero" instantly gives me a Pretenders vibe. Never realized "Heads Will Roll" was this band! "Soft Shock" passed my by and I barely realized it was happening. "Skeletons" is a beautiful but bitterly sad song. Really cool production choices here, like the drumsticks clacking together during the outro buildup. But speaking of buildup, I was waiting for it to explode with a bit more emotion and it never happened. Does the release come with track 5? Ok! "Dull Life" feels like a return to the energetic new wave dance punk vibes the first two songs alluded to. Killer guitar riff on this one and some standout vocals. "Shame and Fortune" finally brings the driving drums I've been craving, but I find the repetitive bass/synth line robs the song of something it needs. Can't put my finger on it, but it just needed a little more... complexity or variety. "Runaway" is a beautiful song. The buildup that starts at about 2:00 in, though, prepared me for an explosion that didn't QUITE deliver. That seems like a theme running through this album, for me. I'm often wanting twice the energy, twice the momentum, a more cathartic emotional payoff and it never seems to come. My subjective expectations not being met aren't the band's fault though. "Dragon Queen" is fine. Really playful vocal from Karen O! I found myself tuning out "Hysteric" until the outro. Maybe that deserves another listen? "Little Shadow" is an appropriate closer, and I find myself grateful I wasn't paying very close attention to the lyrics. Thematically, this is a dark album that exposes open wounds and loneliness and various forms of heartbreak. It takes a certain emotional constitution for me to wade through albums like this. But, overall, there's just something missing from the production. The punch and the energy that seems to be deliberately held back. I'll have to ponder the rating...

Cool. - but not my cup of tea

It’s just okay. Nothing spectacular, I thought it would be more Beaty and uplifting?

Fever To Tell was on regular rotation when it came out, but I never listened to anything else by Yeah Yeah Yeah since. This was felt quite a detour from their original sound, started off alright, then got quite dreary. Much prefer their first album. Album artwork is pretty cool though. 2.5

2 is the score for 'I don't hate it, but it's not distinguishable and I won't remember it tomorrow' Not a fan of the vocalist

Already familiar with Heads Will Roll. Pretty fun synth sound. Yet I find her voice a bit on the irritating side, kind of unskilled-in-a-bad-way. Tapers off into boring territory.

Starts strong but I don't really vibe with the album as a whole.

I don't like this type of rock that much. Only liked one song

Where’s the catchy bits? This was fine, I guess, other than not holding my attention in any way. No thank you.

So this one started out promising for me and then just stalled after. Nothing really interesting happened after the first 4 songs and I got bored very quickly. None of the music really had any personality for me. I can’t say it was bad but it was just kinda meh.

Meh

Seems to lose direction at points and can suffer from a lack of structure. Production is clean and has some nice high points, but not enough is pulling me back for another listen

If anything this made me realize I don't like Heads will Roll as much as I'd remembered... 2*

"Heads will roll" er en siper sang, men resten var veldig meh

Knew only heads will roll. I was ok, but a little bit slow

An alright album, never really listened to much of the YYYs but some songs are worth a relisten. Best song - off with your head

Really only liked one song... Dull Life. It was so good and the rest just seemed repetitive and flat. 2 stars

not my vibe

Only a few tracks are rock/dancy like I expected. Couldn’t really get into this.

Kinda innovative in a way, and unique style of vocals, but not my cup of tea ..

Could have gone my whole life without listening to this one and I’d be just fine. Jennifer Lawrence vibes for some reason. I just imagine here in scenes with these songs as the soundtrack. Didn’t connect with any of the lyrics and only one song made my head nod. Not quite a roll

Electronic, poppy Reminds me of sylvan esso or thao Nguyen. Precursor, but I like those artists a little better. I think my favorite track was little shadow.

Fine delicious indie.

The most popular track on this album was okay, the rest were a snooze fest

Nah.

Not my thing tbh tries to be something it's not.

My first time listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This album reminded me of a lot of the electronic-pop that was coming out in the early 2010s so I assume this record had a bit to do with that. Not a huge fan of the overall sound.

I didn't even finished, might be good but not for me

The first two tracks are an absolutely belting 1-2 punch - I’m struggling to think of many albums that start stronger. So it is beyond disappointing that the album quickly takes a nosedive, becomes more pedestrian and quickly forgettable A real shame

This was a massive improvement from the other yeah yeah yeahs album. Actual singing and rhythmic indie music is Much more enjoyable. Heads will roll was a pretty decent pop song and have heard it before. This album has more Replay value than the other album but overall it’s barely decent and nothing spectacular. 5.3/10

Honestly, for all the high reviews I had seen before giving it a listen, I expected a lot more. I have a pretty open mind when it comes to music, but I never heard one track on this album that truly grabbed the ear and made you go "oooh". Sort of average composition on each track. Catchy in parts, but I don't see what all the rage was about on the album.

off with your head💅 sounds like chrwches however you spell it (not good)

Two great songs followed by eight mediocre ones.

Some of the tunes were catchy but I didn't love it

Highlights: "Heads Will Roll," "Zero," "Shame and Fortune" The Siouxsie and the Banshees cover band get a makeover with sterile '00s club sounds. Thrill as the frontwoman bludgeons you to death with repetitive yowling over sleepwalking pentatonic exercises. Guaranteed you've never heard this much vocal fry in life. But fear not! It's also mostly interminable straight-to-commercial adolescent ballads. Awful. Mistakenly put here for its hit single.

Fun, very listenable, art-dance-noise-punk mix.

Zero: love the sinth bass 16th notes entrance, wish it went a little harder Heads will roll: heard this song before. I feel like I want it to be good but after hearing it once I'm usually fine going another long stint before I hear it again Soft shock: I like the singing, I like the sinth, I like the drums, and all the little add ons, but together its not my vibe. I think its too simple. Im not excited to hear the next verse cause I already kind of know thats its gonna be the same Skeletons: I usually judge songs fairly heavily on their intros, and so far these intros make me think its gonna be a reasonably good/creative and varying or atleast catchy song, but i keep getting let down Dull life: this is much better. This is much more what I want from this artist. The intro was super good, and it only got better from there. Much more energy and creativity in my opinion Shame and fortune: really like the shakers in the backround. Solid song Runaway: this is a good one. Love the layering. Wish it exploded a little more towards the end Dragon queen: its pretty ok. Just want more from the song Hysteric: Little shadow: I feel like this is 2 stars. dull life was the only song I really liked in this album. Kind of a let down

Not for me

Couple of decent tracks. Off key vocals get repetitive after a while.

Dull, but not actively bad. I just kept waiting for the song to start!

Apart from the first two songs this record was just average indie pop. I was hoping for more

Couldn’t get into this one. I did like the acoustic version of Hysteric though.

Filled with synth-pop indie rock tracks. Lead singer’s voice is good.

очень сочные синты, но не очень сочный альбом как-то вышел целиком

This is the second album of theirs that I have gotten, and I found both to be pretty mediocre and uninspiring. I'm not a fan of the music or the singer's voice/vocal style. Just not for me.

Not my cup of tea

Kind of bland and boring. Once was more than enough

Did not click with me at all. I can see how other people enjoy it though.

not my thing

So you’ve got “Heads will roll” here that I feel like everyone knows, and is pretty decent. As for the rest of the album, just your usual loud punk rock that I’m not really a fan of

Boring dirge. 4/10

Yeah, it's kinda chill, the singer giving me some Santigold vibes at the start, but yeah, just doesn't hold yeah attention for the whole thing, yeah know? So yeah, a good listen if yeah in the right mood. 2/5 yeahs

It was okay. Would not choose to relisten.

Nah nah nahs

Heads will roll toppen, resten sådär

A couple of catchy tunes at the start, and then this settles down, and I feel like I know what I am going to get from this. Quirky electronic pop with guitars, basically. The voice works, but I don't like it, if that makes sense? Perhaps a bit one-dimensional and not that expressive? Also 58 minutes long is too long. They try to mix it up with a few slower songs, but these were not as compelling as the full-throttle pop tunes. Just the one Yeah from me.

This sounded incredibly tinny. Maybe it was the streaming via my AirPods that forgot abut the bass? I'm such a music snob. My War Against Pop means I have no room for this. There's absolutely no soul. It's such a cold album. Not a bad record, but not my style. I bailed after seven tracks.

Pretty average

Eh.

Ik zei nog zo.. géén vrouwen !

- third album by indie pop / synth band the yeah yeah yeahs - most of it was written in the studio in a collaborative way - singer karen o’s signature vocal style - sort of disinterested, slurred, but can get impactful when it calls for it - this album is…. fine - theres some really good songs and then a bunch of forgettable melodramatic ones fav - zero - love the energy and vocal delivery, highlight of the album least fav - skeletons - melodramatic and kinda painful to listen to 2.5/5

bellissima e famosissima 'Heads will roll'

Mihinkäs energia katoaa muutaman ekan biisin jälkeen? Se olisi kantanut levyn läpi, akustiset ei jaksa kiinnostaa vaikka ihan kivoja ovatkin. Heads will roll on hyvä biisi

Loved the 1st three tunes then the album sort of lost its way and everything blended together.

Somehow missed this band and opted to spend my short attention span in the 2000s on The Strokes as THE American indie, pop rock Ersatz instead. What's there to say? This album is danceable. It's nostalgic. It's fun. It's sad. There's all the emotions in an album. But there's a reason I hadn't heard it before, and it's because it's missing the je ne sais quoi. Is Karon O's vocal ability too smooth? Is the musicality of it all too bland? What's compelling me to care? Fave tracks: Zero, Faces. Finish and start with a bang!

It’s very of it’s time. “Edgy” hipster rock that thinks it’s more powerful and meaningful than it actually is. A short-lived fad.

Not their strongest. I much preferred their looser earlier style. The sequenced nature of the synths betrayed that on this record.

Okay.

no está completo en spotify y no me interesó lo suficiente como para buscar canción por canción en youtube. la voz de la vocalista es hermosa pero las canciones que escuché no me llamaron la atención para nada.

Yeah Yeah Yeah's Synth Punk from 2009. Singles: ------------------------------------ Zero (#7 US Sales, #18 US Alt, #49 UK) Heads Will Roll (#5 US Sales, #1 US Dance, #89 UK) Skeletons Standouts: Skeletons Others: Zero, Head Will Roll, Soft Shock, Runaway, Little Shadow Rating: 2.5

I know this band for "Maps" and that's about it. Not a bad album, but really not much that stood out to me. I agree with Alex that it's probably not one that should be on this list. If the album with "Maps" is on here, that I'd understand more. But we'll see if and when we get there. Favorite tracks: Hysteric. Album art: Pretty cool action shot of someone squeezing the life out of an egg. My favorite part of the album for sure. 2.5/5

Pitchfork-bait.

Ok - nothing too exciting really, even the bangers are a bit dull by now

It’s wacky but I wasn’t feelin this wack

There wasn't really anything special about it to me except for the fact that I didn't recognize Heads Will Roll until it played.

leuk poppy album, veel verschillende genres

Not the best I've heard

Saul gone 😔 but this sounded good, excited to try the new one in September

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' *Fever To Tell* was my second favorite album of 2003, a year that was admittedly short on great albums by my count: apart from The White Stripes breaking out into the mainstream, and The Strokes, Mogwai, Grandaddy or Broadcast doing their thing, there was not much going on in terms of *truly* exciting stuff. Oh, 50 Cents hit the charts, too--I guess *this* was fun, even though everyone with half a brain at the time knew that sort of thing would age poorly, as fun as it was to hear on the spot. Those dreadful naughts... It all went down to the drain for a lot of music starting from that year. At least, Yeah Yeah Yeahs sounded *fresh*, unruly and untamed with their NYC garage aesthetics. *That* was a breath of fresh air, before going to the long apnea of the decade that ensued (not that folks with decent music tastes knew such decade would be *that* dreadful at the time--for one, I would have taken a *larger* breath had I known). Fast forward to 2009. After a half-baked sophomore effort, Yeah Yeah Yeahs attempt a grand comeback, with the help of usually great producer Nick Launay and TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek. You can't really blame the intentions of all those nice, usually talented people (including the band themselves): they wanted the band to be relevant again, which meant that the sound of this record *had to* move forward compared to previous ones. But there's a snag: as this team gathered all their forces to do so, they totally *neutered* what made Yeah Yeah Yeahs great in the first place. We could go on with the details here, but we'll just stick to *one* symptomatic issue: Karen O's voice. In too many places of this *other* half-baked record, she sounds literally short of breath, which takes the cake knowing what she can do as a singer. Yes, there are a few thoughtful arrangements in those songs, some of whom are decently written, I guess, in spite of some predictable shenanigans in them. But such benefits come with a price, and the price is extremely high here. Those production values are indeed nothing but a gilded cage for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, they sound as if they're wild exotic birds imprisoned in it, and frankly, it makes me feel very sad for them. The cover sure seems to suggest you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But when it comes to this band, I prefer my eggs sunny side up, and NOT that messy, shapeless blob of a record, Grammy nomination notwithstanding. On the positive side of things, there are two ballads on the record, "Skeletons" and "Runaway" that might be worth taking a detour to. But anyone who loved "Maps" on the first album knows those nice tunes can't compete with their obvious model here. As those fans know none of the livelier cuts on *It's Blitz* can either compete with the ones on the first LP. It's especially clear when you listen to the overtly *terrible* three last tracks, displaying everything that's hackneyed about textbook late naughts production (faux-groovy, disco-like rhythm sections, overtly polite synth and guitar licks, bland vocal parts--the list could go on...). This sort of thing can still give some dated charm to Phoenix or Gossip, I imagine. But for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, it just doesn't work at all. But I imagine that I shouldn't sound so surprised by this debacle taking way too much attention to the fashionable sounds of those days... 2009 was indeed another dreadful year for music fans. Apart from Animal Collective breaking into the mainstream--er... let me correct that: "finding critical consensus by default"--well, apart from that, what was going on in terms of exciting stuff? Not much, it seems. Fortunately, things slowly got a little better once we entered the 2010s. But that's a story for another time, kiddies... Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 839 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory: 89 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 39 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important: 34 (including this one)

The singer is very good at copying that style of female singing that we have been hearing everywhere for the past 20 years or so? (Like ripped up jeans, when will it be going away???) There were some interesting parts, just didn't move me to feel anything but slight annoyance.

It was okay, not really my cup of tea.

Ehhh It's ok kinda boring and bland to be honest. There earlier stuff is much better, too much generic synth-pop on this one.

Haven't really ever been a fan of the yeahs. I think Karen O has a good voice and they make some fun sounds but her lyrics kill me. The acoustic part of the album seemed a bit more enjoyable.

Really enjoyed the first two tracks from the album but it fell off from there for me and became very repetitive tone wise that almost put me to sleep. Wanted more punk

Some good tracks like heads will roll and shame and fortune mixed in with some full ones

2.9 - I’m missing the buzzsaw guitars. Karen O has given herself a broader and quieter palette to explore adult feelings. Mostly songs like “Soft Shock” tread water in a liminal space. I wonder if most of these songs are ever going to go somewhere and then the strings swell and they’re over. Humph. And there’s that atrocious “Off with his head!” song that saturated every Spotify playlist I listened to for the past decade. The album ends on a high with the gorgeous “Hysteric” and “Little Shadow” but by that point I’m all but checked out.

Thought it was a bit annoying

Niet heel erg spannend.

Completely forgettable just like the other album from them on this list. Please don't let there be a third. I don't get it. There's other bands that can do what they are going for so much better. At least Fever To Tell had Maps. This has...nothing that I can really remember. Just like I said on the other album: Karen O has a solid voice, but they just can't seem to write good songs for her to sing. Not the bottom of the barrel, but it ain't good.

This is so of its time. Written in the studio, this is a triumph of digital editing and slick production. Nick Launay brings his excellent taste and great ears to create a slick and (vaguely) dance-able aesthetic, much more sophisticated than the 3-piece punk vibe that the band brings. The album is front-loaded with the singles, although I like some of the rockier tracks that follow, eg Dull Life (which is reminiscent of Siouxsie and the Banshees) or Shame and Fortune. After all is said and done, I don’t really remember any of the tracks once they finish playing. I prefer it when they don’t veer too far from their punk roots. I really like her voice, though.

Why is this on the list? There are much better albums from Yeah Yeah Yeahs that are more deserving. This one loses me after the first couple of tracks.

der song mit 200 mio streams wurde inletzter zeit durch tiktok bekannter. besser wirds dann auch nicht

Not really something I'd listen to on my own for fun. And honestly I find rock/pop like this boring, sorry

This was a boring release compared to their first album. The production was sterile, and all the tones were frigid cold.

De muziek klinkt meteen interessant. De zangeres is wat overdreven en doet me denken aan Kate Bush. Ik ga me op een gegeven moment zelfs een beetje ergeren aan haar. Jammer dat ze door die leuke beats heen zit te zingen. **

I had high hopes, but sadly this album just didn't do it for me. It sounds like most other glam rock albums without bringing anything new to the table. The songs themselves are pretty forgetful. 2/5

“Attitudes, tones, put-on sneers, and audible grins.” Whatever.

Light up beat album. Kind of fun. Not sure it's my kind of music. Never heard it before this listen.

Yawn. "Heads Will Roll" is a great song; always enjoyed. But this is the epitome of a 1 hit wonder. The rest of the album all sounds the same. I will give it 2 stars, only because I am feeling generous.

Right. The dude who compiled this 1001 list thing is an idiot. Out of all the albums that exist, he chose to include this one? (Eh, this album isn't terrible; it's just a mediocre album that's come along at a time in my torturous journey through a list of music compiled by a guy who clearly has no experience or taste and has only serendipitously hit upon actually good albums.)

Not ready for nostalgia for this kind of stuff just yet

Seems pretty good. 2/5

It’s mediocre at best. It’s vor allem zu lang.

Opens strong, then drops off heavily. I don't get the cult of personality around Karen O and don't like the sound of her voice: enunciate more, yelp less.

Tää oli vähän niin kuin The Sounds, mutta huonompi. Ehkä astetta elektronisempi. Jotenkin väsynyt ja uninen meininki ja ei tarttuvia kertsejä.

I wouldn't call myself a fan of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, but I know a couple of their albums alright. Nothing here stood out compared to their other stuff.

Meh Meh Mehs

Basis of most of the songs are really good but they never do anything with them so gets very samey.

3 good tracks

Um álbum de pop chato que não iria ouvir. Inicialmente é mau mas vai melhorando, não sei se é da qualidade da música ou se nos habituámos as músicas. Nota: 3/10

Relatively enjoyable. Kinda slow at times, really enjoyed the more upbeat stuff.

It’s ok. Nothing that really moved me. As I was listening a song came on that was really good … but I realized album was over and Spotify had suggested me an Arcade Fire tune. So 2.5 stars, which I’ll round down

Uno bop

Meh

It's fine, nothing I'd listen to that often.

A little bit boring. A single song was worth it for me

Didn't listen to it all, but might revisit.

This is a good album, it has a strong open and very good close. The middle lost me for a bit but luckily the ending pulled things together. I didn’t hate listening to it but I also didn’t enjoy it the whole time

That late 2000's were a pit for music. This is representative some of the better released. Needed to be on this list?

First two songs are good (Heads will roll is top tier) but then it drops off and is okay but nothing spectacular

This isn't awful but it's pretty boring. Basic indie rock for basic hipsters. like if you thought the strokes was a bit too dangerous, maybe you'd like this. I dunno, not for me. 2/5.

Belanglos! Beliebig! Austauschbar!

Wow this sucked. Other than off off off with your head i wouldnt want to hear any of this even once

I am out of comments for the garbage that is on this list. 1

Boring. Talentless junk. Why this sh *t is on the list, but not Lady Gaga, Doobie Brothers, Foreigner, Phish, Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Cranberries, Heart, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Leon Russell, Leo Kottke, Toto, Pink, Linda Ronstadt, Thompson Twins, Foghat,Blues Traveler, Mountain, Cyndi Lauper is beyond me.

the OG heads will roll. just wasn't my vibe

Boring. All Build Up and No Payoff. Big disappointment after Fever to Tell.

Not my type :(

This album was boring me since the beginning. 💦 I was considering skipping it completely, but I gave it a chance. Runaway is the only song that impressed me. 💗💗💗 Faces and Little Shadow also caught my attention, but that's about it. Nevertheless, I'm glad I gave this album a chance. 😊I like the cover🥚🥚 Thank you 💛

Meh meh meh

Two YEAH YEAH YEAHS albums on the list is insane! More disposable dreck from a band that is not essential in any way, shape or form. As throwaway as any music released in the last 50 years. Sometimes I really hate this project and the book it's based on.

Music to be bored by.

j'ai pas ecouté jusqu'à là

🤮

i dont really care for it

I remember when Yeah Yeah Yeahs came out and they were played on the radio. But they never grabbed me at the time. So, let's see how this goes. Oh yeah, they have that "Zero" song. What the heck does "shake it like a ladder to the sun" mean?? Oh yeah, they also have that "Off with your head, dance til your dead" song. Ugh - really didn't like that one. I think on both these opening songs they only lasted a couple of minutes on the radio before I changed the station. Not a good start. Maybe the rest of the album is better than the radio songs. Only song I liked was "Shame and Fortune" - it has a cool sound. The rest of these were either annoying or boring/forgettable to me. Funny how that 1 song that I liked has the least plays on Spotify of any song on this album - clearly I am not aligned with the rest of the fans of this band. Thinking this band isn't for me. Liked songs on Spotify: 1/10 Rating: 1/5

Awful. Like being continually slapped across the face with a plastic spatula. I put up with it for three tracks and was losing the will to live.

Definitely bored listening to this

"Heads Will Roll"❤️

Ok not my jam

Nah

Im sorry this is so bad I genuinely cannot listen to it oh my gosh

25th album with group. I wonder if Fever to Tell was this bad, and I just wasn’t critical enough. Good Songs - Dull Life. Bad Songs - Zero, Heads Will Roll, Soft Shock, Skeletons, Shame and Fortune, Runaway, Dragon Queen, Hysteric, and Little Shadow.

Si pudiera ponerle 0 estrellas definitivamente lo haría. Fue un verdadero reto escucharlo completo esperando que en algún momento algo me gustara aunque sea un poco, pero no pasó.

Nog for me

Not a fan. It seems I should be, but I didn't hear anything that I liked.

Grauenhaft!

Meh

Don't mind some of their other stuff, really didn't rate this

I did try, but it’s really not very good, at best poor. I listened to some Urban Voodoo Machine afterwards to make myself feel much better.

I'm pretty sure Dull Life was the Dammit riff from blink182

blah

On dirait que c’est du rock pour les Suicidaires. Insupportable

not for me tbh

Meh

Did not engage me and I'm unlikely to revisit it.

Sometimes a bit cringe but otherwise great

Crappy singer who is very thankful for tech, backed by very good musicians. Poor guys.

👎🏻

Not my thing at all. Too noisy lol

Once again there are parts I can appreciate but just not for me. 1

Why this group again?

was not cohesive or melodic enough for me to want to listen to it again. 1.5

I don't like it

Not my kind of thing. All felt like background music. Favourite song Runaway.

dance-y pop stuff with some weird new age bullshit-sounding lyrics and imagery. Bleh.

Not for me

Usually, I try to write a more in depth review when I listen to albums. But, this album sucked. It was torture to listen to. At least, I know the title of the song that was playing during Halloween when I was working at Savers.

I quite enjoyed the first track, and it all went downhill from there. The vocals started to grate. By the time we got to "skeletons", I'd had enough. Oh... and the electronic "bagpipes" on that track were the final straw. It's a 1.

Nah

Wow, what a generic and underwhelming album for my birthday! Despite their Spotify introduction, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are neither "alchemic," "transformative," nor "magical." Happy adulthood, I guess :/

Nah

Meh except “Runaway” is pretty good 1001 album worthy: Nah - 5/9

1. zero - 1 2. headz - 1 3. zoft - 1.5 4. zkeletonz - 1 5. life - 1 6. zhame - 0 7. runauuay - 1 8. dragon - 0 9. hyzteric - 1 10. zhadouu - 1.5

This sucked except Dance Till Your Dead or whatever.

Tiny winky

8====D

Yeah yeah

Alternative band of the early 00’s. No great music in my opinion.

The only thing that kept me listening was to see if there was a reason that this had been included in the list. Difficult to find one.

It's not a very memorable album, is it? Except for the lyrics, the songs pretty much sound the same.

Repetitive and unpleasantly so.

Album sucks just like all their other ones.