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I heard Heads Will Roll for the first time in ages recently, and was reminded what a banger it is. This album proves the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had more great tunes where that came from.
YYY's dropped off massively for me as Fever to Tell was a real favourite, whilst it's follow up A side was dreadful (somehow it's B side was pretty good!). I therefore didn't bother with this 3rd album but upon listening to it now I was obviously heavily exposed to Zero and Heads Will Roll by radio (6music in UK). This album is definitely better than Show Your Bones but still lacks the energy and audacity of their debut. This time however it's front loaded and whilst the rest is decent enough it touches on pleasant which is not something I come to their door for.
A really good album.
Best Song: Heads Will Roll. Really slick, ethereal feeling. I with the rest of the album had leaned as hard into the pseudo-electronic aesthetic as this song did. Worst Song: Shame & Fortune. Felt like very cookie-cutter rock, wherein they felt like the guitar hook was a lot catchier than it really was. Overall: A delightful pop-rock album. Many of the songs sounds similar enough that it starts to sound a bit monotonous, but that monotony isn't terrible in this case. Generic in a good way.
Vocals are a standout for sure, interesting production. Solid record but nothing that was super memorable to me
Don't mind some of their other stuff, really didn't rate this
Love me some Karen O.
Never heard the Yeah Yeah Yeahs before this project, but they have definitely made me a fan.
Meh. Just another female fronted rock band. Nothing stood out, nothing special. Just more blah, boring music.
Not bad. Not bad at all. I've listened to them before, but not this album. I will come back to it, and will check out their other albums.
Never heard of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs until now. Of course, I knew "Heads Will Roll," but I never connected it to them. This album feels like the definition of an 8 out of 10. It’s really good, and I can hear how it influenced some newer artists. I’d listen to it again, just not anytime soon. Solid 8/10. And am I crazy, or does "Skeletons" sound like a Kate Bush track?
This album marks a clear shift for the band, trading their scrappy garage rock edge for a sleeker, synth-driven sound. The production is glossy and layered, giving everything a smooth, pulsating rhythm that feels made for late nights. It’s got a sense of urgency, but it’s a controlled urgency, less chaotic than their earlier work and more about atmosphere and mood. Tracks like “Zero” and “Heads Will Roll” carry the record with their sharp hooks and driving energy, standing out as the most memorable moments. The slower songs, like “Skeletons” and “Hysteric,” bring a more emotional weight, though they don’t always hit quite as hard. The band’s willingness to reinvent their sound is admirable, even if not every experiment fully lands. It’s Blitz! is a solid, stylish album that shows a band pushing into new territory. It might lack some of the raw spark of their earlier records, but it makes up for it with a sleek confidence that fits them surprisingly well. It’s not a perfect reinvention, but it’s an interesting one.
This was profoundly okay. It certainly grew on me but ultimately it’s forgettable
This was a bit like if you were to put The Distillers through some dull, vacuous mainstream pop rock filter. There's even a track on here called "Dull Life" to not-so-subtly qualify that. It constantly plays out as though it's desperately begging to be let off its leash, but the air-conditioned, corporate production and its tendency to segway into half-baked, "delicate" slop just as it promises to build up a head of steam, ensures that it all remains a bit tepid and flat. The Spotify version has FOUR acoustic bonus tracks tacked on at the end, which is where I cut my losses.
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.
it's ok
No "Maps"? No thanks.
Good! Good vibes all round.
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Again, know them for a long time. Few songs have somewhat filler-perception but overall it's a great example what indie music should be.
Karen O is everything and I watched her repeatedly smash a corded microphone—just whipping it around and smacking it against the stage—at Red Rocks a week before I moved to New York, with my sister and Gabby and Salma… and I felt 19 again then and I feel 19 again now. Damn that’s how I want to do comedy—just flip out and smash stuff. I love this album! Also this was such a nice reminder that I love the song Runaway
Yeah yeah yeah!!!
Always love to start my day with a record I've never listened to before, and here we go! The start is great, somehow the Yeah Yeah Yeahs took a different direction, 'cause the last time I listened to one of their albums, I think it was their debut "Fever to Tell", they were all into raw, guitar-driven indie rock. How different this is, the first three songs are true bangers, up-tempo synth/disco pop, with a special nod to "Zero", great start of a record. It takes another turn with "Skeletons" still electronic, and synth dominated but with a Celtic twist, pretty odd for a band from NY. By the time we arrive at "Dull Life" and the rest of the album, there are guitars, but the "surprise effect" is now dampened by some more mediocre songs. "It's a Dull Life" sounds far from original, and "Runaway" is a very poor attempt to an indie ballad, which seems to last forever. Luckily, the album picks up again with the bit cheesy but funky disco track "Dragon Queen" and "Hysteric", where they try to blend their new sound with the old. Last but not least, "Little Shadow" is a beautifully crafted ballad that resembles, in a far distance, Mazzy Star. I would say 3.5/5, but we can't, so due to the unevenness of this record, 3/5
finally, human music, not 70s granpa soul rock. first album on here I listened to all the way through. it's quite ok.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are always fun to listen to. I've heard this album before and it has it's gems and it's fillers. Overall a good listen.
With this album, Yeah Yeah Yeahs went for a pop feel. "Zero", "Heads Will Roll", and "Skeletons" are solid tracks, but some songs are a little too smoothed out for me. I would rather have listened to the "punk-ness" that marks other Yeah Yeah Yeahs offerings.
Heads will roll album dnf
Eh?
Some classic tracks here, but nothing too special. Glad to have 'Heads will roll' back in my head, but overall this is way too polished, especially compared to early work. Enjoyable but a bit forgettable.
Grooooossartigi Band! It's Blitzschnell gange bis ich die erste Tracks han müsse speichere. Rundum e feins Stück Album, mit guetem Abgang und eme lang ahhaltende, vorzügliche Nahgschmack. Für feuf yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahs fehlt doch no biz s chrible im Buch aber guet gmeinti vier yeah yeah yeah yeahs gits wie de blitz.
Yuuu erfrüschend aber doch nöd ganz min sound. Aber na bar cooli female rock tracks mit indie ihflüss. Für es 3 setti das lange.
Such wonderful 2000s/2010s vibes, truly wonderful. Perfect level of chill but also hype. Who knew they made heads will roll. Fiya!
Great album only reason I give it go ur is because I wasn’t able to finish listening
I prefer earlier Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I have nothing to compare it with but thought it was ok....nothing outstanding but worth a listen.
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I heard of this group but never listened to them much. I enjoyed listening to this LP.
5/10. solid album, just not my style.
Not really my kind of music, but I have a certain respect for Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Favorite songs: Soft Shock, Little Shadows.
Like a disco at the end of the world. Dark, moody, spiky electronics and fierce vocals. Heads Will Roll is a classic.
A really great example of dancey guitar music done right. Imo it's better in every sense than most of the indie/dance sound of that time. It sounds a lot more like a band doing their own thing, compared to some. They were one of them bands who managed to cross over from that independent New York DIY scene into the mainstream without losing credibility, and I think this record is a good example of that. I imagine the 'cool' kids with their haircuts and ketamine like this as much as the arty kids. Karen O is cool as fuck too, her later stuff is fantastic and she's done some great collaborations. Does occasionally drift, probably a few songs too many, but on a whole it's a great record
Know heads will roll but otherwise haven't heard this album before. Definitely taking cues from the dance indie acts of the time, I thought it was really good. Still has the older YYY sound at the core but the electronic side of things added to it. Got a feeling this might grow on me even further but from a first listen there was a bit of filler than knocks a star off.
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.
Only know yeah yeah yeahs from their singles, which were fine but didn't really make me want to go seek more out..... Really enjoyed this though. Knew zero and heads will roll, but think the rest was new to me. Soft shock, dull life and runaway were good too. Thought the acoustic tracks at the end were great too. At least 4, I'll be back
Heads Will Roll hitazo. me gusta el album, no se si es mi genero fav pero me gusta q es consistente pero no repetitivo a re. mi voto es secreto...
I fuck heavily with this.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an indie band I just never bothered with too much before. I liked Heads will Roll but didn’t go any deeper into their discography. I think the reason why is that they released their album Mosquito right about the time I was getting into more indie/alt stuff and that album has one of the worst album covers of all time so I basically avoided them entirely. Anyway this album has an ok cover and is actually pretty decent overall
Interesting sound. Quite unique… but not my thing.
Banger
Good.
nice
Fun album I like the yeah yeah yeahs
I think this was better than the last Yeah Yeah Yeahs album I had but I’m still unsure if they deserve a place on this list. I liked this more and it had a cool alt, poppy, synthy vibe and I reiterate that the lead singer has an incredible voice. Overall, it’s still a fairly average album.
Don't you just hate it when a group has an amazing sound and style for the first song of an album and then immediately do nothing else like it for the rest of the album? If not, this might just be your favourite album.
Great hits and nice songs overall! Heads will roll, Runaway
This album was definitely a staple of the 2010s indie and dance scene. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs started off with a gritty garage rock sound, but this album shifted toward a more polished, electronic driven dance punk direction. The track that really blew them up beyond indie circles was the A-Trak remix of “Heads Will Roll,” which became a massive club hit. It’s still a fun album to revisit, but because it was such a defining part of its era, it definitely feels locked into that specific time period. That said, it still holds up well as a high point in the dance rock crossover trend of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
It's fine.
Been meaning to get into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, awesome place to start. Doesn’t feel like it’s aged a day. Does have a couple of lulls on the first listen, but those will probably pass with another. Even then, the highs WELL outweigh the lows.
Heads will roll is the real gem 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.
As much as I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' more rock first couple of albums, this is my favorite. It should be used as an example of how to "go electronic" while still staying edgy and not alienating your fan base.
Pretty good but no classic.
A really solid album, there’s been some really solid bangers back to back on here. I think this is another one between 4 and 5, im conflicted on where to put it. The tracks are amazing, and I really like the acoustic tracks too. I’m surprised I haven’t heard these back when it came out
Great album, deliciously feisty
Yeah, that's a solid album, no completely duff track and some bangers. Recommended even if it's not life-changing.
I've already listened to his album (19). It's not Fever to Tell.
I feel like its got a bit of that disco/post punk stuff that was happening around this time, which I quite like, there's a lot of cool synth stuff happening as well, some of the quite lo-fi basslines and stuff are quite unique. Vocalist is also great and I think was inspired by people like PJ Harvey in quite a lot of places, she's got a great and versatile voice as well. There's definitely a lot of variety in here generally, as the start of the album sounds nothing like the end, not sure if that was on purpose but its always cool to hear some development and innovation in pop adjacent albums. The last song sounds exactly like wet leg do now, so they must have completely ripped these guys off. Favourite songs: zero, heads will roll, soft shock, skeletons, shame and fortune, dragon queen, little shadow, faces. Overall around 7/10
The number of albums from the post-millennium that I feel worthy of inclusion are very limited. I would add this album to the list not for its exceptionality but for its generalized interpretation of what the first decade was truly like from a music perspective. 3/5
Part 80s throwback, part mediocrity. Really nice voice but it needed to make more effort.
Heads Will Roll, Skeletons, Hysteric
this was really good a few standout songs i really liked
Really fun album, absolutely ADORE the synth work on this one
Very meh for me. I like the energy but the music mostly didn't do anything for me. Favorite track: Dull Life
Tremendous album! Magnificent!
I prefer first album a bit. This feels transitional
Its a vibe
fun, will probably revisit a few of the songs, but a little boring at parts
3 1/2 Stars: What a killer one-two punch with those opening tracks. Zero and Heads Will Roll are absolute, bounce on the dancefloor bangers. Sadly, the rest of the album never reaches those same heights. The audio equivalent of blowing your load early.
Haven’t listened in ages….total banger!!
Good; kinda chill.
6/10 Favorite: Heads Will Roll
I love the vibraphone-esque tones on Soft Shock This album reminds me that there is a ton of great stuff out there that doesn't really make its way into the public listening sphere. Going into it I thought "this will be an easy 4 star" but it is better than I thought. The build and flow of the songs are masterful
zero hysteric
i actually didn’t mind this, there were 2 or 3 songs i didn’t love but the rest of them i enjoyed more than i thought
Decent.
I enjoyed this! Upbeat, good bangers, won't necessarily revisit many of these tracks. 3.5
It's nice.
It was fine. I liked it better than later Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs. I knew the song Heads Will Roll. I’ve never been a big fan of this band.
eh
poppy, punky, sometimes synthy. Some higher energy tracks, some slower tracks. not too bad
I'm pretty sure Dull Life was the Dammit riff from blink182
Will listen again.
Enjoyed this. Really a 3.5 for me
Love Karen O her voice is just a melting pot of emotions that drag you in. Like a duvet the band are tight you can hear different emotions coming through some great songs on hear Zero, Skeletons and Heads will roll. I really liked the acoustic versions and how it stripped back to reaveal her voice more.
A great album. Not sure why the debut isn’t the album in this list unless both are included.
Этот довольно пресный, местами даже раздражающий
Maybe Maybe Maybe
Yeah
Mere festliigt end jeg havde forventet.
Didn't know that that meme song was Heads Will Roll from this album, sped up Pretty okay album, nice to listen to, but I'm not craving more of it
Not bad. Heads will roll is still a favorite.
It's fine..best albums?
Dope
Very morose and dull. The musical equivalent of treading water. Hard to listen without wanting better.
Best Track - "Heads Will Roll"
Very un memorable. Will skip again
I really like this band but this album just doesn’t do it for me.
I was to harsh last time, but I still don’t love the singing
yeah i would say i like it so ill say i like it
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Not heard this before, and enjoyed it, though it was mostly background while I was working. Played it through a few times and the first 2 tracks are the stand-outs, the rest blends in a bit. Perhaps because I was writing, so not fully focused on the music. The acoustic versions on Spotify were a nice bonus, though, and I think I preferred them.
(The) Yeah Yeah Yeahs adapt graciously with It's Blitz. The band's peak in my opinion will always be with the self titled EP and Fever To Tell. But the general "Pitchfork" historian consensus says that the band's follow-up "Show Your Bones" was a step back. I disagree since I ate that album up during the pandemic, but that's besides the point. Once a band gets big off a distinct image or sound, they must adapt to keep people interested. By their third record, the band decide to lean more towards synth-pop while still relying on some old tricks. The result is something worthwhile, though not every song hits for me. That's alright though, I feel like there's always something ear-grabbing going on. It's a feel-good kick-ass dance-punk record and that's sick. It's Blitz is bliss (8/10, 4/5 on this scale)
Great keyboard work. Great vocals. Good songs. Solid dance album. I'll come back to this one, for certain. 4/5
A fun electronic/rock/alternative album. Not the greatest thing I've ever heard but I definitely could have gotten something WAY worse on a Monday. It also made me realize the version of "Heads Will Roll" I'm the most familiar with is a remix
Solid, never listened to them before, great from the first note.
Um disco eletrizante, mas desbalanceado. Pra começar, adorei o synth rock revival que ele apresenta, realmente te move. Tudo aqui é finamente encaixado, especialmente os vocais. Gostei muito do trabalho desta vocalista. Quando digo que o álbum é desbalanceado, me refiro à ordenação das faixas. Ele começa com suas duas canções mais marcantes e fortes, mas conforme o disco vai progredindo a energia das faixas parece que vai se dissipando. Não acho que essa foi a escolha mais inteligente ou lógica para a ordenação das canções. Ao final do álbum, você fica com uma saudade imensa da energia vital que a banda gozava nas faixas iniciais. Mas apesar disso, não senti falhas muito fortes em nenhuma das canções, nem nas mais desanimadas. Os elementos técnicos são sempre satisfatórios, e eu não vejo a hora de ouvir mais a fundo o resto do trabalho da banda. Ótimo disco, memorável e elétrico. 4/5
Best album of all time???
Another one I haven't listened to in awhile, but still holds up. It's kind of bland in spots, so a 3/5.
Unique sound! Lovely album, theres just an emergy that felt like futuristic riot grrl, this is an album that I wish i could return to more and more
Tried to listen to all but eh. Pantera has been around forever and any time i caught them it was "It has all the elements I like - but I just don't." Something about the harsh sound of both guitar and voice combined is graty on the nerves. Song 3 'Hollow' was okay - but not representative of their work as a whole. On my patented -100 to +100 rating scale where ripping open that box to find the product inside is misrepresented by the photo on the box is a -30 this is -50.
Given how obsessed I was with indie rock in the 2000s, it’s strange that I never really gave much mind to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This would have been a teenage favorite album if I had found it when it was released. It has the same disco infusion of the Killers’ Day and Age, and Heads Will Roll and Zero are magnificent tracks. All that said, I just don’t see myself coming back to this. Indie rock is a time capsule to me now, tinged with nostalgia. I go back to feel the old feels, but there’s no appetite for new additions to the collection.
Heads Will Roll is great, otherwise didn’t enjoy
This album starts so strong with Zero and Heads Will Roll that anything that came afterwards paled in comparison. However I do like that they went into another direction. Dull Fortune is another highlight of the album. *Shatters egg*
starts off very strong, unfortunately looses a lot of momentum by the end. I rate it Yeah Yeah out of Yeah Yeah Yeah.
It's Mid!
fun album
Started out fun…..then got kinda boring.
8/10
Classic 2000's indie band and sound. But one of those bands I never really got into, for one reason or another. It's not bad, it's pretty good, it just doesn't grab me the way similar artists do.
Not really my jam. Good for them though
It was ok
A very fun listen. Some nice, scuzzy rock that doesn't require you to think too hard about it while listening. It is full of energy and rather rambunctious, but it's not overbearing.
Buen sonido aunque un poco genérico.
The bad vocals really let down what could have been a great album. I liked the instrumentals quite a bit which made me give this 3-stars.
Prescindible. No malo, pero es un rock que no me gusta.
Adding it to my collection for sureee
Good.
Gonna get on a little high horse real quick, sorry. Not a bad album at all. Well written, mostly enjoyable, will explain more. Why do we get two yeah yeah yeahs albums on this list? Fever to Tell is stronger, I get that one. But like if you are making direct comparisons, this over a second Strokes album, specifically Room on Fire but also New Abnormal? I just do not understand the ranking procedures of this list. While I'm at it, I know this is not same genre, but for the love of God give me Riot! or Black Parade or the self titled Blink album over this please. I don't get why any rock post 2000 has to be music that falls under the indie/garage rock moniker or like "the members met while studying at Juilliard/NYU/Oberlin" just give me some pop punk or like some alternative rock idk the list feels very weak in that regard. How you gonna have two arcade fire albums and not the american football record, they should be dork math music enough for Dimmery. It's impossible to please everyone but come on. Rant done. I think it's silly that the most popular song off this album is heads will roll simply because of that remix. That is a huge case of TikTok popularity before tiktok of course, but the bite sized "this song sounds great! I want to hear more, oh that was the only good part of the song." I liked soft shock and skeletons and I'm pretty "that was pretty good but whatever" to the rest of it. I can see being a huge fan of Fever to Tell prior and loving the yeah yeah yeahs and then loving this as a later follow up but I don't have that.
I had high hopes for this since the Yeah Yeah Yeahs wrote one of the best songs of all time - Maps, and definitely my favorite song to come out of the early 2000s scene in NYC. I wasn't disappointed this album is really good. I love how the group meshes synth, drum, and guitar into such an interesting post-punk dance soup. I saved more than half this record for future listening and I'll be listening to this in full a couple more times for sure. Really solid and it took so long for me to listen to more Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Great addition to this list, they are keeping on the tradition of NYC art-rock that Talking Heads were doing decades earlier. 5/5
Oh this is fun! In these semi private rants I often complain about 90s indie rock/trip hop, because of its over-the-top depressing mood. Here we have the revamped 2000s, that inherited from the good (yet sad) 90s and added fun. And this one shows that flavour, mixing pop/"punk" (of course it has nothing to do with punk but you get the point?) with dance, some slow songs, etc. In some parts it reminded me of the Cardigans, but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are not as good as them, as this album gets a bit boring after the first 3-4 songs. TL;DR Fun album, starts super good but fail to keep the quality during the duration of the record.
I love this record.
What I remember most about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was they were the kind of urban hipster trash coming out of NYC that my best friend in high school liked, along with bands like the Strokes. I didn’t like any of those bands, I was too busy listening to NOFX and Rancid, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs had a girl singer. Big pass. I wasn’t even into Distillers then because Brody left Tim. Good times indeed. Fast forward about 20 years and the dulcet sounds of ¨Zero¨ burst through my headphones, sounding like an American, female-fronted Bloc Party. I guess cool kids mix electronic into their dancey rock and or roll, like putting ecstasy in their cocaine. This is something 18 year old me would hate and 38 old me pretends to like to feel cultured. Like Bloc Party (and a bit the Weeknd), the Yeah Yeah Yeahs give the feeling of having taken too much cocaine and trying desperately to either feel high enough to enjoy it or come back down to earth and be at least half a person. It’s soulless music for soulless people, but that doesn’t make it bad. Even Bowie had his Thin White Duke phase. It's all there: the beats, the guitars, the hooks. It’s sexy music but I do wonder how sexy it sounds the second time. Best songs: ¨Zero,¨ ¨Skeletons¨ ¨Little Shadow¨
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.
Some great songs again the beginning but then faded into background noise for me. Could see myself liking it more on a second listen but don't feel overly compelled to give it one
Yeah yeah iconic sound
2000 something were the time when indie rock finally went bad and this album is a good example of that
Close but no cigar. First thought that this is Nico but after four songs I dropped out on what comes to being interested.
blah
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.
Really solid indie rock
Definition of a 3
Some really good songs overall not for me
Ahh 2009, I remember it fondly. I was getting really heavily into grunge music almost two decades past its peak. As a result, I really wasn't paying attention to the music of the day because, as an angsty 15-year-old, I was probably dismissing it as "boring techno crap" (this was before I really got into Nine Inch Nails, New Order etc., so I was naturally a bit naive). So, as a result, I completely missed out on artists such as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and with 'It's Blitz!', there's plenty to love for my older, more cultured ears here. With Karen O's etherial yet punchy vocals (sitting nicely somewhere in between Debbie Harry and Kate Bush), and some eclectic musical arrangements courtesy of multi-instrumentalist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase, 'It's Blitz!' is a fun album full of raw energy and eletro-punk pizzazz. I dig 'Zero', 'Skeletons', 'Dull Life' and 'Shame and Fortune', although the big hit on this album, 'Heads Will Roll', is a bit mid. But I cannot fault this album's boldness to traverse different styles, especially in the back half. Its an album that gets more and more interesting the deeper you delve into it. There's so much going on throughout this record (fuzzy guitars, shimmering keys, cinematic string arrangements) that I can't help but be impressed by how daring the music gets in places, not to mention the beautiful production by Nick Launay (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Public Image Ltd, The Slits, Killing Joke). 2009 Sam would've hated this album. 2025 Sam quite enjoys it. Big YEAH! to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs!
High energy guitar & synth dance music huffing the fumes of the early 00s indie boom. It's uptempo, bouncey pop - rising tension and big explosive choruses and massive hooks with very polished production. Very fun songs that really sound great, even if there's not much too it. Music for jogging, but in skinny jeans.
7/10
3.5. Think there are some sublimely lovely moments in this but I think I connect more with the YYY’s sweatier albums.
Decent. It's in the category of "records I wouldn't shut off but won't go out of my way to listen to."
Hysteric is quite good. Little Shadow, too. Rest of it, a little too dance-y.
Started off strong! Was a good album, not something I listen to a lot, but that whole NY garage revival scene is a fun niche genre.
I liked it. Didn't knock my socks off, but I liked it. One thing I dislike about this project is the 5 star rating system. This one would probably be better than my typical "3", but not really a "4", especially after I just gave James Brown a 4. James Brown this is not. So, in my mind, this one's about a 3 1/2.
First thing I am going to say is, its better than a lot of the post-2000 music that has made this list. Its not moody it definitely has some pop. Its definitely not punk, more indie rock to me. Overall good, nothing groundbreaking. I feel there is too much going in the background production, for just two dudes carrying all the Instrumental weight. I think they should put a bass in Karen O's hands and make her do a little more work.
I like this one. I might put it in my iTunes. I didn't know one of the songs was theirs. I liked the alt rock sound. It reminded me of when I was in school. Which was when this album was released. I am not sure how I missed it
4.3 stars rounded down.
Didn't particularly like her voice, the lyrics or the arrangements...sorry!
I really enjoy this kind of 2000s music. Heard some of these songs before over the year. Really enjoyed this album and the use of instrumentals. Essential Indie music.
I never would have guessed that Heads Will Roll was from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I heard the song remixed a ton, especially in bars. I just never made the correlation that it was them. That’s honestly my thought process for this album. After listening the Fever to Tell and thinking it was okay, that was surprisingly an improvement. All the hard punks elements got replaced with some dance-synth and it actually worked for the better. The songs felt more catchy and Karen O’s vocals benefited more here than Fever to Tell. Nice to see the band evolve in a positive way after feeling less than impressed from their efforts before. Favorite track: Zero Other hits: Heads Will Roll, Skeletons, Soft Shock, Little Shadow, Hysteric, Runaway
Good stuff
Very upbeat album. I found it an enjoyable listen
It was ok. Did not love
Yeah, no. Pretty boring.
On dirait que c’est du rock pour les Suicidaires. Insupportable
OK, sans plus.
Some songs I liked, but I kinda struggled unfortunately, wasn't in a sad indie girl mood
I vote Yeah (Yeah Yeahs)
Cool, with one very nice song that I knew already (Heads will roll), but just OK to me.
Voll der Florence and the Machine Klang, was zeitweise ganz gut war, aber irgendwie klang alles sehr ähnlich und ich bin nicht so n Fan von repititiven Vocals
Heads will roll natürlich ein zeitloser Banger. Runaway hat mich sehr geflasht, komplett verdrängt, dass das von dieser Band ist. Ist auch das beste Lied von denen, genial. Ansonsten Zero und Skeletons auch top und der Rest ist auch gut.
Ersten zwei Lieder waren schön, dazwischen auch wieder 1-2 schöne Lieder wie z.B. Hysteric. Aber solides Album. Find das Albumcover einfach kacke.
Prvo sam se stvarno zapitala šta će nam dva njihova albuma ali ovaj je toliko drugačiji od prošlog a podjednako uspješan da ipak možda podržavam.
Super cool, good fun, enjoyable
Background music, didn't catch my attention at all. Had potential but all sounded very similar. I liked the last song "Faces" the most.
I really enjoyed this album
I listened to it twice and really enjoyed it both times!
A nice background vibe and I never knew where heads will roll came from! 😂 really a 3.5
3,7/5
I liked it a lot
I thoroughly enjoyed this album. I understand why it is so popular now. Is it a reach to say that this inspired the sound of MBDTF? Solid 9.
Grew up listening to 70s and 80s rock. This music has less talent. The songs are too long for the type of music. I do like her voice, very versatile
3/5. ... great sound
This was an unexpected gem, at least a rhinestone or opal if nothing of greater value. It confounded my expectations after the first two tracks that are solidly British alt-rock of the era (Heads Will Roll and it’s more famous remix are a classic) to then play through to the acoustic set of the last few songs (minus Faces), all in all pretty enjoyable. Maybe a weak 4 as I did dip in and out a bit in the middle, but a step above the average. Would (and will) listen again.
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.
Really enjoyable album. I might be over-excited after a run of mediocre listens, but this caught my attention from the first track. It's high energy, fun. She has a great voice and, although it feels a bit poppy, it has enough rock to get behind. It's interesting that there is no bass guitar, with the basslines being picked up by the keyboard. I think this mixed with the female vocals gave the whole album a light and airy optimism. There is good variety in the album with some dancy tunes like "Heads Will Roll" but also some expansive, soaring tracks like "Skeletons" with ambient backing keyboard. Its a coherent album that sounds great all the way through and it will definitely be getting repeat listens.
Another killer album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Karen O and company still feel like the one of the coolest bands of the early 2000s. The high schools geeks turned indie stars manage to sound fresh and a little bit darker with the new synths on their third album. The result is one of their best works that's up there with there high energy debut album. "Heads Will Roll" is an easy standout track with "Dull Life" close behind.
Suprisingly amazing combination of indie rock and electronic music. While album includes alternate versions of 4 songs, their accoustic nature amplifies soft vocals to the point where they are better compared to original versions. While rating it 4 would be logical, since I see little chance of relistening the whole project, it includes Head Will Rolls - it's a 5. +Heads will roll +Soft shock (acoustic)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs can be counted for a unique album that doesn't sound like their previous material, or at least not their debut, Fever To Tell. The indie/alternative aspect to this album sounds like it's from the aughts, but the synth and punk sound are straight from the eighties. That combination alone makes for a unique listen. Karen O's vocals aren't typical either, and I love how she doesn't sing to be attractive. Super punk. The lyrics are punk rock; they're more on the dark side, but the lyrics and tone have a bounce and lightness that make them fun. 3.5
Another great Yeah Yeah Yeahs inclusion! This album sees the band become a lot more polished, while still maintaining a unique and fun edge. (While the difference between their first and third albums is rather stark, their second album, "Show Your Bones", definitely serves as a midway point between the two sounds in the YYY's career, and is a good listen in and of itself for anyone curious about their sound progression). Wikipedia speaks of this album making heavy, rather incidental use of an "ARP synthesizer" on this album. I won't pretend to be an expert in music equipment, but I will say that this album definitely has a cohesive, almost palpable sound, and I guess this is the reason why. So many of the individual songs on this album are solid, but this sound keeps the album thematic and just set san incredible tone. I feel like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have always bordered on this kind of punky synthy dance-disco sound, but this album is probably the most dialed in occurrence of that sound. In fact, I would go as far as to say that "Heads Will Roll" has become a crown jewel example of that particular sound, often on rotation in some way or another in any alternative-type dance environment. Great songs, great melodies, great vocals; and overall great as an entire album. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs continue their destiny as a unique act, even among the already strange and unique. To borrow a lyric from "Heads Will Roll", their entire musical process is "dripping with alchemy"; from the point of coming together to record an album to the point of completion on unique and vibrant material, their work has a mysteriously magical quality about it.
Wonderful and so happy to get this A1 gift from this great musical toy! She’s just so excellent and the tunage so varied and compelling.
Own this one on vinyl, had to spin it at one in the morning (at a moderate volume) :-) 13 year old me thought this is a perfect record 28 year old me thinks this is a perfect record
yeah
57/1001 :: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz Heard before? ✅ Would I revisit? ✅ Rating: 8 Fav Tracks: Head Will Roll, Skeletons, Hysteric Listen before you die: I guess so? So…I really really like this album. I consider myself a YYYs fan. I’ve never seen them live but that’s probably a miss on my part and every time they put out an album I make an effort to listen to it. And frankly for me they rarely miss… All that said, I’m a little surprised this album is on this list and frankly it’s making me reconsider how good it is. Maybe it’s better than I think? And listening to it again I’m getting that feeling. It’s really enjoyable. It’s less abrasive than Fever To Tell (which I really love) but I think that shows the growth of the band. Karen O is such a great singer with such a unique voice and style. Nick Zinner is all around awesome musician and their drummer Brian Chase is quite underrated. The drumming actually has a lot more of a jazz feel than I remember which is cool and compliments Nicks indie instrumentation.
A coherent album that is consistently full of surprises (and which took me by surprise).
nice and upbeat. brightened my day
Generally lack luster edm stuff and some middle to low tier indie melodies
Pop Rock with disco synth. bring it on! Favorite track: heads will roll other picks: zero, skeletons, dull life, dragon queen
For Heads Will Roll Alone, it’s 5 stars
It’s really good and has some catchy songs without being anything outstanding. Still an enjoyable listen though
Just in time for football season!
Haven't listened to this one in a while, apart from hearing the singles every so often on the radio. Looking back now, this album was probably part of the end of the era that was the 2000s indie rock revival, or whatever you call it yourself. It was something of an end of an era for me too, coming out the year I finished secondary school. I was never a huge YYYs fan, but had great respect for them, and thought they seemed like basically the coolest people in the world at the time. Listening back to this now, I forgot just how many fantastic songs are on it. The first 2 are incredible, and the next 3 are pretty great too. Then there is a bit of a lull in the middle before coming back to form with Dragon Queen. Then the last 2 songs tie it all together nicely.
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.
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eh
The third best YYYs album. Still pretty good.
Incredible start. Zero is a mix of the best of early 2000's rock. Heada will roll is the main single from this and it is very fun a catchy, but gets kinda samey at the middle. That's true for most songs in here, they follow the same pattern for most of the time. Runaway seems to stand out, being mostly piano-based. Hysteric is a pretty sweet song, love the voice in this one. The acoustic versions are nice, but the album as a whole can't scape that feeling of sameyness.
Pretty good, it's a band I've not really encountered much but its in my lane for sure. Maybe not a slam dunk, but many interesting sounds. looking at a 4 early on. Something I might actively put on.
So much to unpack with this album. Gave it two listens and it probably needs more. The lyrics alone need study.
Loved it. Tapered off a bit at the end but very fun overall.
heads will roll origin
Pretty good album.
Started strong, drifted off a bit after the first three songs. Probably won't listen again
Once I heard Maps I was hooked. They have a cool blend of rock punk, Pat Benatar. Karen O crying for real on the Maps video was awesome. Real emotion thats why I listen to music.
This band and The Strokes are in the same bucket for me. Those 2000-2010 rock bands which made perfectly good music but just didn't/don't grab my attention for whatever reason. I liked the acoustic tracks at the end much more than the rest of the album. 2.75 stars.
I don't know why the YYYs aren't part of my musical diet more, considering I almost always enjoy them when they pop up. While I'm not sure this is among the 1,001 albums you need to hear before you die, it's very solid.
I really enjoyed this, definitely worth another listen.
Quite enjoyable, but not something I would listen to normally. 3/5
The sound of indie sleaze
Karen O. is one of my favorite female vocalists. She’s the voice of indiesleaze. I should probably listen to more of their albums. This shit rocks.
🔥🔥🔥🪩🪩🪩💃💃💃🎸🎸🎸🎸 wow i really liked this a lot 4/5
(4) THIS IS SO SUMMER
It wasn't awful, but I definitely found it boring. I'd maybe listen to one song on this album again: "Shame and Fortune".
Apart from the one single I constantly hear in the radio and am completely sick of, this was a decent album. I can safely say I’m a fan of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I really liked the album. I finally heard the original version of the Heads Will Roll. The whole experience was flowless 4.5/5
fun 2000-2010 nostalgic feelz ★★★½
Good
Bra blandning av lite popigt och rock. Även lite shoegazeigt ibland. Trevligt men inte mitt favoritalbum i deras kollektion
Catchy, energetic, poppy rock music. It's a fun album, and the last two tracks, Hysteric, and Little Shadow, show some range to perform songs that are quieter but still engaging.
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.
Yeah yeah yeah this is just fine fine fine.
It's not Blitz, it's shitz!
Thoroughly enjoyed this
Loved it! I knew some of the songs, but the entire album is so cool.
Interesting but not something I would listen to.
Honestly loved this. So fun, good range and depth. Can’t believe I’d missed it!
It was a well done album, but the genre just didn't really speak to me personally
I'm pretty sure I've never been cool enough for this music. That doesn't mean I don't like it. It's a great combo of weird, catchy and hyper-produced. I actually quite liked it. Well done to all three Yeahs.
Nice powerful music. Like it.
Forgot how good this album is... Definitely 4.
OK but not great. Some of the tracks quite interesting but nothing really memorable
Before this, I really only knew the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from that time the lead vocalist got featured on a song by Swans. Now I know that the one thing Dance-Punk was missing is women, as is the case with most kinds of dance and punk, and quite honestly just music in general outside of pop. I love the atmosphere of the whole album and the singer herself brings a lot to the overall sound. A good mix of some dancey stuff and some really nice, layered, artsy songs. Also this album's Runaway is significantly better than Kanye's runaway, fight me.
Surprisingly good, liked the acoustic tracks at the end. 3 stars.
I gotta be honest, I didn't realize people cared about any of the albums that don't have "Maps". And I don't even like that song, so it's an even bigger shock that I really enjoyed this one!
I enjoyed this album - "Heads Will Roll" is a fun one. Played it through twice and while there was nothing I can say I really disliked, I also can't say anything stuck out to me as being amazing.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Интересный альбом депрессивной направленности. 6,5 из 10.
Fiftieth album and definitely not a bad one at that. Heads Will Roll and Runaway were a couple of my favourites! I genuinely don’t think I could give a pop album a bad score. High 3.
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.
I'm sick and I really don't wanna listen to this but oh well. Heads Will Roll is great, but I was disappointed with their other album this list made me listen to, so not too excited. Zero is a good start! Already better than Fever to Tell. Especially like the ending. Heads Will Roll is amazing, when of the most fun songs I've ever heard, so yeah, love it. I'm really liking the vocals on this album! Soft shock is good, even if not the best song out there. Skeletons is a slower, more sensitive moment. Almost like a ballad. Like it! Dull Life tricked me, I was not into it at the beginning but when it gets going I love it! The next few tracks don't really do it for me. They're not bad in any way, just not my cup of tea. The closer too. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by this album! I was expecting more of that not-so-well-executed punk they did on their debut, but I'm so glad they ditched that sound. So yeah. Despite the fact that the first half is much better than the second, there isn't a bad song here, so I can't be too mad at it. Good experience!
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
Karen O has a compelling voice. Heads Will Roll is top tier. Loses some of the NY garage punk edge from earlier work, diving more headlong into the house-inspired synth-indie. Definitely sums up a time, but loses place as this sound was fairly widely established by this point (Goldfrapp broke though 4 years earlier). But YYYs still do it well.
I think I prefer a few of the parts over the sum and they are enjoyable enough for me to overlook getting bored about midway through the record.
This would be a 3.5. Love Karen O and crew and there are a few 5 star songs here, but also a few mediocre ones.
Dragon Queen is okay. It took me forever to listen to this album, not my thing.
A thrilling reinvention. With synths replacing raw guitars, 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘉𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘻! turns dancefloor-ready beats into something urgent and emotional. Karen O’s voice is the anchor — soaring, snarling, vulnerable — often in the same breath. From the explosive 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰 to the aching beauty of 𝘏𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤, the album balances energy and intimacy with ease. It’s bold, stylish, and deeply human. A rare case where going pop didn’t mean selling out — just leveling up.
I wasn't a big fan of Fever to Tell. This record is a lot better, though I don't plan to listen again.
For a synthesiser focused album I enjoyed this more than I would have thought. Great start of the album we with Zero and Heads Will Roll. Also liked Dull Life. The other songs sort of faded to the background of my mind, not unpleasant (except for Dragon Queen) but drifted away a bit.
Спасибо, конечно, за Heads Will Roll, и по совместительству то, что благодаря этому треку вся планета так или иначе знает о существовании Карен О, которая конечно икона. Группа хорошая, альбом ничего. Лучшая песня - Dull Life.
BORING!!!!
I liked it
When this came out I hated it because it was electronic and I 1) wanted more of their garage rock sound and 2) didn't respect artists that didn't play real instruments. Luckily, I've grown up and I really enjoyed this album. So shout out to growing as a person and getting over your weird, gatekeep-y attitudes towards what "real" music should be.
Not my thing. Didn’t listen to it all
Love the raw power of this one! It’s tough to rival the awesomeness of the first three tracks here. Solid album from beginning to end.
Loved it! Makes me wanna listen to more. Great instrumentals and vocal work. 'Heads Will Roll' is amazing and my fave pick from the album.
I haven't even finished this album yet as I'm writing these notes. I usually do, but I don't need to for this album. First time listen, and I will have this bitch on repeat. Maybe I'm biased because I love alternative music, or that I'm already familiar with a small handful of songs by the Yeah Yeah Yeah, but I do think it's the biasness talking when I say this album is really, really good. Side note: One of my all time favorite album covers
I liked this a lot. They’ve got a good mix of analog and digital sound.
Karen O could sing the phone books and it would sound amazing. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs rule. 3.5 stars
Good album. One I own and well worth another listen.
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.
Sync sucked the novelty out of a lot of these tracks, but still putting it between 3 and 4
Dave was right, it’s giving Bathroom Break
Loved this album. It's synth sound along with Karen's voice really scratch the right itch in my brain. I do wish that Karen would sometimes like... just let out a bold loud note. That would make a song stand out to me a bit.
187/1089 - It's alright! I liked the songs with guitars better than the songs with electronics, especially Dull Life.
Really dull late 2000s sound. This electro disco indie or whatever was a horrible time for music. Way too polished compared to their first album
Decent mix. Preferred the acoustic stuff.
Fun indie rock album, lots of synth and heavy beats. Cool fusion of genres.
Cute
Certified banger. Really enjoyed it
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
Iedereen kent natuurlijk heads will roll en de remixes van deze track, maar dit album heeft ook andere leuke nummers zoals skeletons en dragon queen. Een fijne stem om naar te luisteren en fijne melodies, what more do you want?
Best leuk, niet heel spannend
Niet erg boeiend
This grew on me over a few listens. The synthesizer sound isn’t as immediate as the mote guitar based sound of Fever To Tell which is an all time fave of mine . The singles are obvious bangers but the rest grew on me. And Karen O is great
Fun !
Quelques bons moments mais rien d'extraordinaire. La chanson Runaway qui commence avec un petit riff de piano... If you know you know
Indie synth rock
I want to rate this album higher but it's just really okay
Loved it
81% Best: Soft Shock; Dull Life; Dragon Queen Must-Hear? Maybe
For crap american pap, some of its OK.