It's Blitz!

Yeah! I like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! 4/5

AJ: this is fucking excellent. Cat, listen to this. Lots of strange synth sounds, then they’re an indie rock band. Lots of build ups and peaks. I love her voice. I love the drummer. It feels so weird that I love this. They’re so weird, I love this. Imagining sunset set at a huge festival, thousands of people on good happy drugs. Big unified bounces an smilies and wows. I’m stoned. It was a good ride home.

Good album. Something different to the previous we listened to in our gwoup. Also fine after a tough drinking night. Good for regeneration the day after (''fein zum Ausnüchtern'' as we call it in our regions). 3.9

First timer for me the band! I like the raw voice from the singer. In general love the combo of electronic and rock. Makes it a little bit softer for me to hear. Personal Top3 in no order: Soft Shock Runaway Dragon Queen

3.5/5

Nice

4.3/5 - great album and good for a listen every so often. listened 3x to deluxe edition (5 bonus tracks)

Kinda the same song over and over but I like that song so it's ok with me

Road trip/chill out/game night party album!

Zero, Runaway, and Hysteric are standout tracks

Head will shake

Chilll

Liked it a lot. Classic songs on there

I love the yeah yeah yeahs and this album but the pacing is so strange and inconsistent I have trouble giving it a 5

Ganske bra

I could get lost in this voice...

Great!!

I like: Soft Shock Skeletons Dull Life Runaway Dragon Queen Hysteric

8/10

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are always a ton of fun. They get a little less noisy here, trending more towards the electronic and synth sounds popular at the time. But they never lose the energy that is their trademark. This is still unquestionably rock, but it's also super danceable. It's fun!

absolute bangers

Beautifully rendered pop-rock album: at once fun and danceable and a little dangerous while also being surprisingly emotional, especially toward the closing three tracks. A well balanced work, reflecting many elements of popular music filtered through their own special unique musical perspective. Care was obviously placed on the track ordering as it feels like a journey rather than just a collection of songs. I love Karen O’s voice, able to blend to whatever the song needs, from detached to hyped to achingly, crackedly beautiful. Bonus that my wife loves this album. Will definitely return. Only wish there was a half star option, because this is a 4.5, but just can’t justify a 5 star rating.

Great all out rock!

4+

Impassioned vocals against icy, droning disco grooves. It works on me. I don't know this band very well but found this album compelling.

Not what I was expecting, i thought these guys were simple, shouty, guitar based punk. But no, more 2009, 6 Music, electro, ballad pop. It’s good but not great, I like it but I don’t love it.

Big fan of yeah yeah yeahs, so original and a great sound. This isn’t anywhere near as good as mosquito but still some great tunes on here and an easy listen

I only knew this band by their song Heads Will Roll which has been memed to death on videos all over the internet. I was pleasantly surprised to learn they had more to offer over the course of the album. The strong side is clearly the production, with songs like Skeletons and Runaway having grandiose building sections that feel as if you're listening to a movie soundtrack. Some lyrics are hard to interpret and fall to the wayside along with some tracks having painfully slow starts. More in depth rating would be 3.7. Standout Tracks: Skeletons, Dull Life, Runaway.

reminds me of highschool!

Loved this album when it came out I was at uni. Not one Iv listened to much recently though I really liked Yeah Yeah Yeahs most recent album (Cool it down), so I still listen to them frequently, but tend to stick on Fever to tell over this one. Was great listening back to this today, one I’ll need to keep playing more frequently. Great band.

The New York rock revival of the 2000s led to some incredible bands with enduring legacies. In that vein Yeah Yeah Yeahs feel kinda forgotten. This album slaps though. A beautiful synthy alt rock masterwork full of high energy songs grounded by soft emotional tunes. If you've never heard Heads Will Roll or Skeletons, give them a listen. It is not my favorite Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, but it is absolutely worth your time.

Yay yay yay!

det här är ändå bra, lite för elektropoppigt emellanåt för att det ska bli en femma

Really enjoy the dance music aspects to this album. Think I preferred it to Fever to Tell! Essential Tracks: Zero Heads Will Roll (Playlist) Runaway

This is a great album. Not quite the consistency of Show Your Bones but still some really good songs and overall a great sound. I think for that time it came out and the dip music has had in the intervening period it stands up even better than I remember.

Think I like Fever to Tell better… but Love me some Yeah Yeah Yeah’s!

it was ok

Loved the album. Was a casual fan of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but this makes me want to listen more.

Heads will roll is such a fun song I like the album artwork + title, a couple songs in and it already fits really well I don't always love pop rock but I'm enjoying this album , even if the sound seems a bit stuck in the 00s at times (the impression I got from 'soft shock') I like the direction they head in with dragon queen and heads will roll, these songs excited me the most as I like the disco incorporation A lot of the songs were giving subdued and reminded me of the empty feeling I get on a Sunday unfortunately which wasn't really a nice thing Their song 'Maps' from their first album is a song that I adore because of how impactful the repetition is throughout the lyrics, and a lot of their songs in this album seem to have this essence of simplicity which works at times (like on skeletons) but at other times it feels a bit banal. Dull Life is a stand out for sure, catchy and fun to dance to whilst brushing my teeth

Love this a lot. Electrifying and sleazy in some moments yet calm and beautiful in others Favourite tracks: Zero, Heads Will Roll, Soft Shock, Skeletons, Runaway, Dragon Queen

Nostalgia glasses were on, but I can’t deny that I enjoy this

Very good. Edging towards five star territory, but I'm not loving the vocals enough for a top rating.

Seriously addictive pop music. It only slightly falls short of 5 stars.

This brings back good memories of the before times. A solid indie-synth-pop album.

3.5 stars. Alternative synth-y pop rock. Driven by the phenomenal dance anthem, "Heads Will Roll", but not a ton else to write home about but not many duds either. "Zero" is the second best track.

Was it enjoyable? Yeah. Was it well-made? Yeah. Did I like it? Yeah.

It's good!

C'était bieng

j’ai bien aimé il faudrait que j’écoute plus

bardzo przyjemny, oryginał tańczącego psa

I like this record. Again, not sure if it’s 1001 material.

Remind me of the Knife all and all pretty good, the last songs are not as memorable as the beginning

Hysterical and Skeletons are highlights

The yeah yeah yeahs is one of the dumbest names for any band ever but this record slaps so fair is fair.

Good

just as good as their other album fever to tell

nice 4*

Loved a lot of this.

Started fast went slow

A lot of surprises on this album. I was really only familiar with heads Will Roll and Maps but this album surprised me. It's almost a dream pop album in some areas, if anything "Heads Will Roll" stands out as being very unlike the rest of the album. Highly recommend

Liked this well more than I thought I would, nearly a 5

Protect Karen O at all costs.

hi yeah yeah yeahs

Awesome.

Yes Yes Yes! This is quite nice. I definitely didn't realize Heads Will Roll was the original version of a popular A-Trak song (well remix actually). Awesome song. Pretty solid indie rock - I like the vocalist. There's some Metric vibes here for sure.

Big fan. Hell yeah yeah yeahs

Pretty awesome, really enjoyed it. 4 year's out of 5

I thought I didn't like it but then Dull Life woke me up and I realized it was pretty damn good. Dull Life is the best one.

Was shocked at how much I liked this album. The mix of rock and electronic was cool, and I really enjoyed the female vocals with it all. Definitely want to explore more of this band.

I like this album. I'd listen to it again. Not sure there are enough distinct songs that would make any of them favorites, but I'm only on track 3. Runaway is my favorite track so far (#7). It would be a good cleaning album. Hysteric is good also, followed by Little Shadow.

Not a bad album better than expected. Liked the acoustic songs at the end.

A rather enjoyable album

Brave, fearless, modern. "Heads Will Roll" is a banger. Simple as that.

Dig it

Eclectic. Interesting. Really like this. Underrated band.

Today is a good day. This record was my first exposure to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and contributed greatly to my appreciation of modern music. The first half of this record is just one classic on top of another. If you don’t get pumped up listening to Heads Will Roll, I can’t help you. The slow build of Dull Life really capitalized the whole A side. The B side can drag a bit, but I’d still say none of the tracks here are skippable. It’s true, this isn’t Fever to Tell, but It’s Blitz!

Prefer other album

Right up my indie alley.

Great blend of alternative rock, pop, and electronic music with a gifted vocalist. Very much a product of a wide range of influences into an original and cohesive whole. Had heard of the band but didn’t know anything about their music. This album had me looking for more by YYY.

Aldrig hört förut. Förvånansvärt bra.

Fun rock album. Some songs don't have the greatest of lyrics, but still overall fun to listen to.

I knew I would like this, as I love all the singles I’ve heard before. And the album did not disappoint! Listen again: yes! Purchase for my collection: yes Favourite Song: Heads Will Roll

easy listening pop - still good

It was good, but there was a 2-star review here that I agree with outside of opinion, in that the album kind of fools you with the title, cover, and first few songs, since it’s a much slower album than you’re led to believe. Heads Will Roll is a banger, though, and the slower songs are still good. In conclusion, RIP egg.

I ran hot and cold on this album. The hots were easy 5s, the colds were probably a 3. Four seems fair.

This is good!

3.5/5 the first few songs are very good, the rest just ok

I like it.

a few songs i’ve definitely heard before

A solid indie album

Unique sound. Bit of space-poppunk. Of course, I knew heads will roll, but never heard the rest. Im gonna check out their other albums. Excellent basslines, groovy melodies too. Singer has a unique style, although the non-words sound a bit (a lot) like sex sounds

Through the first few tracks it was feeling like good-not-great alt dance pop. When I got to Skeletons I started to worry that I wouldn't be able to escape the feeling of this being a direct precedent to a lot of the awful indie music that would come out in the following decade, even if I liked this quite a bit more. But then, to my ears the tracks/beats started to get more textured, more interesting, and the album started to move into great territory. And it started to remind me of why a younger me *almost* enjoyed those terrible indie bands - the sonic encapsulation of youth, exuberance, moodiness, sexiness, infatuation with drunken nights and faux love, etc. etc.

Yeah yeah yeahs has been out of my radar since 2005. I thought that Fever to tell was all for them and that Karen O and company had little to offer after that awesome album. I was wrong. It’s blitz is a great piece of work with contagious riffs and potent earworms. Their dance punk evolved and took LCD Soundsystem elements to come up with something interesting. Karen O’s voice is always a great display of energy and sensuality. Thank you for this recommendation!

Buen disco de pop-rock, enérgico, con voz con carácter y melodías sencillas. Un tanto guitarrero.

Prime YYYs, most banging album they have

Decent record, sounds cool, full of swagger and style. Yeah yeah yeah.

Female vocals fun nostalgia

Great 2000s indie rock

Great album. Loved the little acoustic set at the end

Excellent 4+/5

Actually enjoyed it, altough at the end it started to slow down a little. Nice variation of pop music.

The second best YYYs album, but a slightly distant 2nd. The poppiest. Starts off really strong, Zero is a total banger. Heads Will Roll is ok, they went full on for the pop market and it worked, although it makes me sad that this is their most played song as it's not even in their top 20 songs. Soft Shock and Skeletons are both gorgeous in different ways. Skeletons reminds me slightly on Karen O's solo stuff on the Where the Wild Things are soundtrack. Then it loses momentum. Dull Life to Runaway are more like the second album, not bad songs but fairly safe and mostly a let down after the debut, or after the first 4 songs of this record. Dragon Queen is just kinda pap. Hysteric is bliss on a stick and one of their best ever songs. in hindsight, the coda Little Shadow is a precursor to the sound they explored more fully on their recent comeback album, which is also decent.

This album is just a pleasant hit of my late 20s

I found this quite enjoyable. Pretty polished and engaging mix of electronic pop and alt rock, with Heads Will Roll and Dull Life standing out for me. The consistency of the tracks raise it up a notch for me.

Damn, I forgot how many memorable hooks there are on this album.

heads will roll is an all time banger and the rest of the album is pretty good too

классная музыка. не такая авангардная, как могла быть, но и не совсем попса. стоит послушать, крепкие 3+ за Heads Will Roll добавим до 4

Спасибо треку Heads Will Roll за ностальгию по школьным годам и дискотекам. Думаю, вы тоже его узнаете. А теперь к остальному альбому: блин, ну недотягивает он всё-таки до идеального. Эх. Чувствуешь себя слегка на эмоциональных качелях: идут 1-2 взрывных трека, от которых прям хочется вскочить на месте и прыгать и махать руками как сумасшедший, а затем бах - грустненькое завозят. Ну хорошо, даже не грустненькое, а просто какое-то никакое. Энергии меньше, настроения у песни как будто нет, ну ты и сидишь эти 5-6 минут никакой. А потом снова в пляс. Не хватает большей однородности. А так вообще очень хорошо зашла пластинка.

This one is a lot of fun (they were definitely still on fire at this point).

Huge yeah yeah yeahs fan - this isn’t their best album

I’ve been sleeping on Karen o as a singer.

I guess this is indie dance pop? Whatever it is it’s well executed here. I feel like I’ve heard Heads Will Roll dozens of times and never knew it was the yeah yeah yeahs. Skeletons, Hysterics, and Little Shadow were my faves. Excellent album cover.

This is great pop. Good energy and variety

I think Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been very solid over their career. They have also managed to not sound the same on any two discs. This is, in and of itself, worthy of note. Soft Shock and Runaway are particularly good. Does it belong on this list? I don't think so, but still a very good release.

It was fun to hear such a modern sounding record even if I don't think it really belongs on a list like this. A unique blend of dance and rock music. "Dragon Queen" had a great outro.

I really liked listening to this album. Dancey with some slower/acoustic songs that blend together well, it is artsy, cool, electrifying, but not simple/superficial. I'd give it a 4.5 but will stick to 4 out of 5.

Spicy overcast day jammin out in grade school cars - i can dig. Big hair album.

I've gotten through most of the album and I enjoyed it The production is crisp and I love Nick Zinner's work Karen O is as awesome as ever Notable Tracks: Heads Will Roll, Dull Life, Runaway, Hysteric

I enjoyed this album a lot, but it also wasn’t quite my taste. Aside from obvious highlights like Heads Will Roll, I wasn’t sold. Karen O is a great vocalist for this kind of sound and the disco-inspired production is impressive, but this isn’t what I’d put on for my personal listening. I can still respect that it’s good though, and props to this website for taking me outside of my comfort zone!

Never noticed Heads Will Roll on the tracklist when I put this on so enjoyed it when it came on Enjoyed this, this is my kinda thing in general. This could definitely go in my regular rotation

4,5

Once again I have been won over by 20-30 year old female-led rock music. I think I liked this one more than elastica but not quite as much as hole overall. I was surprised to hear heads will roll aka the frat lip sync song on here and it was my favorite song along with dull life. This album also did a good job of moving from powerful, energetic songs in the beginning to more slow stuff by the end.

Liked it but not every song was a winner. Solid 4.

I didn't think I knew of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but turns out I'm familiar with the song Heads Will Roll. Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an indie rock band with a female lead from New York. This is their third studio album. This album was co-produced by TV on the Radio's keyboardist/guitarist David Sitek. These guys sound quite a bit like TV on the Radio, or Arcade Fire. Karen O's vocals are awesome! Overall, a great album. I didn't know how it would go. It seems like there is a fine line with indie music between excellent music and shit music. This falls into the excellent category. I will definately listen again. Favourite songs: Heads Will Roll, Runaway, Zero, Shame and Fortune, Hysteric, Faces, Soft Shock Least favourite song: Little Shadow 4/5

Going to rate this 4 stars purely for Zero (a song I still have on running playlists 14 years going). The rest of this though is really trying to reach that height and just not making it. What else can I say.

Indie band with a dance vibe. Tracks with different tempos on the album. 'Dull life' is a nice track.

I only knew "Maps" before listening to this album, and this was NOTHING like that. As much as I don't like rock/alternative bands going poppy, this was actually really fun to listen to. It wasn't so poppy to turn me off of listening to it again, or from listening to more of their albums

I had heard "Heads Will Roll" before but not much else by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The vocals were incredibly emotive, the lyrics fell somewhere in between predictable and meaningful depending on the song, and the instrumentals pretty captivating. That's a yes for me.

visai nieko, patiko, labiausiai zero, soft shock ir faces

"Dull life" is pretty good and "heads will roll" gives a certain queen of hearts vibe which I find pretty amusing. Overall, the more I hear it, the more I like it.

Slays. Still prefer the other one though

I though I was going to be really bored after the first couple of songs, but the last half was surprisingly good and brought me back around. I accidentally listened to the deluxe version and when the acoustic versions started playing I thought the album was taking a massive turn, but instead they're my preferred versions of some of the less good songs on it. It makes the album better for me, so that raises it up enough for the next star rating. Wasn't expecting what I got from the music of the album and the enjoyment from me, so I think I owe it at least a 4.

Yeah Yeah Yeah! This band is the gift that keeps giving.

Dance till' you're dead

Not my fave genre. That said, I liked the mellower songs. I like Karen O's voice very much

I'm not sure why this is on the 1001 albums list, but I did enjoy this album.

This is a classic; heads will roll is the highlight of course - but that doesn't detract from the rest of the experience! I never thought YYYs could be so much fun - Maps was pretty good, but this is almost there, if a bit more snazzy for my taste. YYYs are pretty much one of my fav bands now, not just because of Karen O :)

Really pleased with how much I liked this!

Love anything by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

I don't quite know how to describe this, which is frustrating as I've listened to it through 5 odd times and really enjoyed it. I've downloaded it and will listen to it more, but if you're hoping for an in-depth descriptive review, I'm sorry, but give it a listen anyway...

I liked this. Mostly the first half of the album, but I might listen to it again in its entirety.

No real banger around, but a lof of great tunes. I really like the sum rather than any particular part.

Pretty cool album, I think I'd listen to this again

Why do I feel like I’ve heard of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and yet couldn’t tell you a single song by them? I couldn’t even tell you the genre. And yet, I’m almost certain I’ve heard them before. That’s a bit odd, isn’t it? Songs I already knew: None Favourites: Heads Will Roll, Faces After the first two tracks on this album, my hopes were high for something amazing. It was a very strong opening and I was immediately hooked. However, after these first few songs, the quality definitely dips a little until we get to the final song Faces, which again is very strong. I want to make it clear here that there were no bad songs on this album, but going from amazing down to good feels like a bit of a drop, despite still being obviously good. I especially liked the vocalist - her tone is great and very easy to listen to. Overall, I had high hopes for an incredible album, but in the end it was only very good. Still ain’t no bad thing though, eh?

This was my real introduction to Yeah Yeah Yeahs besides Heads Will Roll, because that's already iconic in itself. Karen O's voice is so soothing, and these songs sound so fun to see live. Also, I love the album cover. Fave track(s): Soft Shock, Dull Life, Dragon Queen

I knew the one song everyone knows but the full album was longer and better than i expected it to be and i really enjoyed it and will give it another listen.

"Heads Will Roll" is my second favorite Yeah Yeah Yeah's track, and I think it's a seminal song in the world of indie rock. It really captures their exciting, edgy yet clean sound, and excitement from Karen O who I think is infinitely cool and impressive. The rest of the album is tight. I think their hits tend to stand out a bit for this band- more than the average band that has really big songs. I liked it, but maybe not enough for a 5/5.

An indie rock classic. Dragon Queen was an old favorite, but Hysterical or Soft Shock may be my new standouts

I dig it. Yeah yeah yeahs have been on my radar, I knew a song on the album but I liked the whole thing, would explore more

Much better than I expected; really good.

It’s nice electronic rock with some great songs 4/5

BANCO. 8.5/10

This album doesn't hit as hard and feels more polished than the previous Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It still sits on the precipice of art rock and noughties indie which is a nice place to be.

I like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but I haven't listened to a whole lot of their music. I believe I have listened to It's Blitz! before, but probably only once. I was suprised that the recommended album from Yeah Yeah Yeahs doesn't include "Maps". "Hysteric" was the happy surprise from this album, but familiar tracks "Zero", "Heads Will Roll" and "Skeletons" are tracks that I have in my personal playlist too. I will listen to more from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Good album - like most of the songs. Indie/rock/garage kind of sound

Yup, they're pretty good. I don't quite like this album as much as Fever to Tell. Blitz has a much cleaner and pop-ier production, which suits the songs on this album well.

I find Yeah Yeah Yeahs imminently fun and irresistibly charming. The way they balance more catchy electronic elements into the mix on this album sees them expand their sound and make it poppier. They are an interesting band that kind of float back and forth between flirting with mainstream accessibility and more challenging tendencies. I enjoy both modes.

Another one I cheerfully listen to, but, their debut album is the one I love. Could listen to Maps daily and still love that track. On this one, love Heads will Roll, Soft Shock, Dull Life but just find them enjoyable to listen.

Heads will roll!

"It's Blitz" is the third studio album by the indie band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It was received and pereceived as more dance-oriented. I would agree that the first two songs are very dance/disco-oriented but then the album goes more dramatic with the keyboards, guitars, drums and the lyrics appearing more personal in the remaining songs. This is a very good album. The music was written and recorded in the studio over a two month period which is unusual in that cost-crunching time frame. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs consist of Karen O (vocals), Brian Chase (drums, percussion) and Nick Zinner (guitar, keyboards, drum machine, bass). Their hit "Zero" gets the dance going. Synths, drum machine, hypnotic, classic Karen O. I love its chaotic ending. It's about escape. Be who you are; you're a zero so screw it. "Heads Will Roll" keeps the dance going but in an eerie way. String intro. In the video, a werewolf kills everyone including the band. Is there more meaning than just get on the dance floor? "Soft Shock" changes the dance party and is my favorite Yeah Yeah Yeahs' song along with "Maps." The synths are wobbly and again hypnotic at the beginning going into a great far-east type melody. Karen O's singing is great and about a relationship ending. The fourth song and third single "Skeletons" is again about a relationship ending. This is stark though with only wobbly synths in the beginning. The synths and drum machine change to almost a Scottish marching theme which ends in what sounds like a snowstorm. The drama builds eventually in "Runaway" with a slow piano beginning going into layered synths. She telling her man to runaway but wants him to stay. A second-half album highlight. "Hysteric" is the hidden gem on this album. Softer keyboards. Guitar. Drums. More tradtional rock song. Great keyboard melody later on. Karen's best singing and lyrics on the album, wanting her lover back. I have this album yet never really have listened to the whole album in depth. I was impressed. Not a bad song on the album and the songs get progressively more serious. A recommendation for this one and glad I bought it at some point in the past.

Pretty sweet album. So different from the last YYY album I had, and an improvement for the better imo. More chill with more focus on melodies. 8/10

Sounds like 2009 in the best possible way, very enjoyable. Good period synths sounds.

Cracking album.

Well produced dance/rock album. Great vocals, groovy electronics and bass, good guitars [alliteration ;)] favs - dull life - zero - skeletons - heads will roll

8/10

Yeah!

Surprisingly good album

Late 2000s indie classic. Karen O is an all-time great frontwoman. Album cover made me hungry.

The album surprised me as I had no knowledge going in. It was surprisingly good front to back. I enjoyed the energy of the songs. Favorites heads will roll and dragon queen.

I have never listened to this album before, but I really enjoyed the indie electronic sound to it. The vocals were very enjoyable and had a 90s punk vibe similar to Gwen Stefani in No Doubt.

Pas mauvais! Des bons riffs électro, je connaissais pas bcp le band, mais ça sonne très bien!

J’aime ce band. En fait j’aime cette période où musique rock et électro tentaient de nouveaux rapprochement. Ça vieilli super bien. Ça aurait pu sortir cette année.

I really enjoyed this album, I was excited to listen to a whole album from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and this didn't disappoint. I'm now really excited to go listen to their new album from this year. I love the punky guitar riffs without the stressful sounds of punk that I hate so much. I really like the vocals and I think overall it has a cool sound. It's got so much variety with the acoustic versions and particularly loved the last track Faces.

Brilliant album, very enjoyable. Karen O is great. Very positive, melodic, easy to listen to. Would listen again. Just very good, very nice - if not completely life changing

Probably one of the best indie rock records of the first decade of the 2000s. Already the first song "Zero" sets the tone for the whole album with a lot of energy and also the music is very interesting. Then, after the impressive hit "Heads Will Roll" the project continues in great style until the end.

Surprised how much I liked this. A great find!

I love this album. I've always heard the popular songs by Yeah Yeah Yeah's like Maps or Heads Will Roll, but this album has a lot of hidden gems like Zero, Soft Shock, Skeletons, etc.

I'd heard 'Heads Will Roll' a while back and never listened to the full album. Nothing quite as strong as that though, and it definitely tailed off towards the end but a decent effort over all.

Very interesting. I like it.

Það er eitthvað við þetta band. Góð plata.

Surprisingly good. Never heard of them. Liked the album.

very good, will keep listening

Pretty good album. I liked the vibe of it

This album starts off a very decisive note but then seems to develop into a different direction. By the end of the listening, it almost dwindles completely. I have to admit that the melancholic note on which it ends it's just right up my alley. I very much enjoyed it but I understand why other people might think that it lacks that oomph to actually make it great.

некоторые акустические версии понравились больше неакустических, dull life прикольная (ну и head will roll заслуженно завирусилась), но в целом не мой вайб

It’s as if the YYYs got sucked into a synthesiser - in all the right ways. That being said, the acoustic extras highlight Karen O’s luxurious sound delightfully.

It’s funny that I got through over 100 albums before I started getting artists from *my* teen years. Well I didn’t really grow up with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, except for “Maps” on Rock Band. Shoulda heard them more. August 8 2022

It oh

I like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Karen O is such a strong lead, and while this isn’t even my favorite album by them (Fever to Tell is) I think it has enough strength to rate highly.

First time listening to a full Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. And it's good. Would listen again for sure. But there is a bit in the middle or towards the end that it just sort of drags and I can't figure out why. This is in between a 3 and a 4 for me, but I'll bump it up because I really liked quite a bit of the album.

I’m giving it a 4 because I love the song Heads Will Roll (remix is better)! Overall I expected higher energy for every song because I was only familiar with that song, but I did enjoy it.

I really enjoyed this! I like how upbeat and dance-y lot of the songs are, and the acoustic ones are very pleasant, too! Heads Will Roll is of course great, but I also liked Zero and Runaway a lot.

Great but some songs sound like an apple commercial

This album is a fucking banger. The men cried out and the girls cried out

Fun album! Love the variety and pacing. Will definitely check out more yeah yeah yeahs

Banger after banger. I was expecting something more akin to their garage revival Fever to Tell, but this is just as great. Well-polished indie pop influenced by electropop dominating pop music at the time, but the vocal style is still very punk at heart. I've definitely heard "Heads Will Roll" before and glad this is the album it came from. Only a couple weak songs, and there's a mix of energetic dance tracks and heartfelt ballads, all of which use enveloping synths to create powerful and interesting effects. Favorites: Zero, Heads Will Roll, Soft Shock, Dull Life, Runaway, Dragon Queen, Hysteric

Big new thing at that time

I’ve never heard of this band or this album, but I do like 2000s indie rock. It feels much more produced and loud than the indie rock I know, which is not at all a bad thing. Turns out I do one song by this band, Heads Will Roll, as a meme song (I think the meme song is a remix, which is actually much worse in my opinion than the original). The rest of the album seems to be much more in line with what I was expecting for an indie band. I did kind of like the super high energy of the first two tracks, which is a bit of a shame as the rest of the album is much more mellow. Still a very good indie album. Fav Track: Soft Shock 4/5

sta guapo ytal osea es ckomo muy tranki pero no, esta perfe para escuchar tipico cuando vuelves en bus d noche y asi, d trankis vaya. Y tmb tiene el classic meme d cancion k todos conocemos asi como dato

It’s a pretty solid and creative album, favorite song was Hysteric. Singer has a wonderful voice!

Was not looking forward to this but liked it a lot more than I remembered.

A weird one. But one that I enjoyed quite a bit more than I expected. A few parts were a little jarring and distracting. Mostly it was very good as background working music though.

Leuke band, lekker energiek. Start van de plaat is geweldig en na een nummer of 4 wordt het iets minder spannend. Maar ik heb er met plezier naar geluisterd (2x zelfs!)

Jeetje, wat fris ineens!

This starts off just okay but then gets very good on the back side, which feels much less frantic and forced. As much as I like Karen O’s voice, she deploys the same tricks on song after song (especialy the rockers). “Soft Shock” and “Runaway” and “Dragon Queen” and “Hysteric” and “Little Shadows” are best cuts. All of the best ones are quieter and dreamier (mostly later in record), which together make for a satisfying ending. YYYs were certainly au courant and very much “now” back in its time, but (sigh) not so much anymore. Still this had them almost living up to their ( unjustifiably huge) hype. 3.6 > 4

Fun dance-rock with a fantastic vocalist.

Better album than Fever to Tell. Hadn't given the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as much of a serious listen before and I am glad I did. 4/5

enjoyed this album far more than i thought - even more than fever to tell. a sound that i didn't expect from the band, more mellow and easy to listen to

I really like Karen O and crew and had never listened to this album. Just familiar with the hits. Great album.

the year is 2003 and a wee 17 year old not-nigel is again crushed up against the stage at manc academy 2 for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. messy, noisy and at times incoherent punk rock. this album is not that. they clearly learnt how to record and produce music and developed a hell of a lot as a band. that said it's not actually a bad thing, this is a pretty good album produced in that awful period when guitar bands thought they were dance acts but it was like they'd never heard a dance track in their lives epitomised by the fucking klaxxons. some utter shite was produced around that time so this is refreshingly alright to listen to. yeah yeah yeahs would probably have a pretty good best of album, but the avante garde art punks would come out in hives at the suggestion.

Listening to this record was like eating Custard Cream crumbs out of a dumpster whilst riding a big dicked black man.

Yeah yeah yeah?

Opens with some huge synthy powerful beats. Loses power as it goes on although still some good songs. Really liked "Little Shadow" Karen O's voice is fantastic throughout.

karen o's distinct voice combined with a fusion of electronic melodies and alt rock instrumentals makes for a nice album

Very-very-very solid

Cool electronic disco with quite a few bangers, the quite track Hysteric stands out to me (although I wish the chorus was better). Overall, a good album.

Never heard of them before this. They are really good. What an album. She has a really great voice and the songs do differ a lot. Great sound

Ég hlustaði mikið á Fever to tell, en hafði ekki hugmynd um að þau hefðu gert eitthvað annað. En viti menn, þetta annað er bara ljómandi áheyrilegt og skemmtilegt líka.

The YYYs are a band I'm aware of but never really delved. Lots more dancey than i expected. Overall good though I think it will bite properly after several listens. Really liked Runaway. Engaging singing/lyrics from Karen O. Great production and distinctive unpredictable tunes.

Oh those were the days! I have good memories of this record and have nothing negative to say about it really, I love the sound and evolution of the band, I don’t have this on vinyl, I should get a copy. My girlfriend hates Fever to tell but she should like this one.

At times danceable and at times reflective, It's Blitz! sees Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the precipice of a change in their careers, with an album cover that's representative of the sounds inside. Favorites: Zero, Heads Will Roll, Soft Shock, Skeletons, Dull Life, Shame and Fortune, Runaway.

Yes yes yes

loved this album when it was first released and listening back, it still sounds effortlessly cool to my ears

loved it. very upbeat

Quite enjoyable! 8/10

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a three piece rock band in my mind; killer guitar and Karen O's lead force. It's Blitz! is just so damn dance-able. Keyboard, electronic drumbeats, and synths. Not what I think of when they come to mind but so damn fun, Reminded me that I should listen to We Are Pilots by Shiny Toy Guns. If there is a complaint, Yeah Yeah Yeahs love their long, drawn out, repetitive intros and endings to songs. But songs like Hysteric have almost a dreamy, haptic feel to them.

Just a great, muscular recording by a band at its peak

Love the mix of rock/punk and electronica. Feels very 2009 and I'm glad I revisited.

Also, an extended addition that's worth the extra time.

egg

03/17/2022 Full of energy and attitude. Sounds exactly like the 2000s, when all the music nerds were on Hype Machine trying to find the next alt rock masterpiece before anyone else.

Incredibly fun! The singles on this album I'd heard many times before and are great but this whole album hangs together really well

Yeah gotta love it

Yeah! Yeah! and again Yeah! Fewer "hits" than the last album by them, but I thought this one had a much more deep and dark sound. Really great stuff. I like this more than Fever to Tell, which I gave a 4, but I don't feel this is *quite* truly a 5.

1,001 albums... "It's Blitz!" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs This album took me by surprise in more than one way. First of all, it kicks the door open quite spectacularly with a swaggering, supremely confident opening track - something which made me immediately sit up and take notice. It's also much more dance-orientated (much as I hate that phrase) and keyboard heavy than I'd anticipated. In fact, it seems to - in some ways at least - sit in the very centre of a three-circle venn diagram labelled "pop," "rock" and "dance" in much the same way that New Order did at their best, not that the charismatic Karen O reminds you of Barney Sumner in any way at all. That said, my initial excitement did wane here and there and it's not quite the classic that the first song suggested it might be.

Not a bad album honestly. "Heads Will Roll" is the best song. 7/10

Such a great album. I liked one or two songs off earlier albums, but this was album was terrific

16th February 2022 Listened on the walk back to the office having met Austin for lunch and finished there. Surprised by how much I liked it. Hints of 80s glam, electro, and indie all rolled into one.

Loved it, mix between absolute bangers and slowed down acoustic versions.

I have some bad vibes with "Yeah Yeah Yeahs" for no good reason. However, listening to this album was a good experience to remember that rock could be just fun, even when the song themes are not exactly about funny things. I really liked it!

this is another album i had already heard, but it was maybe a year ago and it was in need of a relisten as i could remember nothing. im really glad i revisited, as i dont remember it being anywhere near as fun as it realistically is. easily one of the most impressive and danceable indie rock albums out there.

Observations that It's Blitz! is frontloaded are absolutely fair, but even listening for that, the album keeps my attention. This band can conjure a mood like no other, and it's one that Karen fits into seamlessly while remaining absolutely sincere and absolutely unique.

Good

I listened to this, wondering if there were actually two different bands on this album. The dance-beat centric songs were so incredibly different from the more melodic, atmospheric songs. I loved Skeleons, Hysteric and Little Shadow. Not so much the other songs, but I bet they'd be great live.

Surprise! This band is good.

What an opening "Zero" is- melodically strong, a perfectly based build to a crescendo of angular, fuzzed-out guitar figures. Its only downfall is the ridiculous amount of compression added towards the end "Heads Will Roll" is another winner and sounded out from the back of my mind as something I'd heard before, installed in my consciousness without ever knocking at the door. Its greatest strength is its simplicity, repeating one or two refrains over a single progression, driving forward to consume all in its path... including a lot of the rest of the album. From this point onward, "It's Blitz!" sounds a bit like a festival in the middle of the afternoon: before a lot of the more exciting stuff has kicked off, but an absolute pleasure to spend time with. The gentler, softer numbers succeed more for me: "Skeletons", "Hysteric" and "Little Shadow" are all gorgeous and jostle for a place at the top tier of this album. The other up-tempo tracks, "Dull Life", "Shame and Fortune" and "Dragon Queen", still carry off an intriguing alchemy of disco, punk and late '00s art-rock, but don't quite rock to the same effect as the first two tracks. Vocalist Karen O is a great fit for the material, sounding at-ease and on-edge, owning the songs with every sneer, yelp and occasional burst of sincerity. The synth-driven arrangements are right in time with the boom of the late noughties, without having particularly aged since- there remains a nice amount of guitar in the mix for anyone ready to argue the Yeah Yeah Yeahs "sold out" here. Producer Nick Launay is well known for his work on most of Nick Cave's albums dating back to "Junkyard": what a different experience this one was. "It's Blitz" is to the point, straightforward and fun to a point that may alienate some self-professed music critics, but for me its immediacy wins out.

Ptn mais y'a des bons albums après les années 70? WTF Prefs: Zero, Heads Will Roll, Skeletons, Dull Life, Runaway, Hysteric Moins pref: Dragon Queen

Pretty great. Both loud and quiet, driven and loose. Nicely executed and well produced.

An unexpected gem of an album. Not a fan of 2000s indie-disco but this represents a really strong entry for the genre. Karen O’s voice is totally captivating, equal parts vulnerable and commanding with more than a hint of Siouxsie thrown in the mix. Superior to their preceding album and does not fall fowl of the same introspective tropes. Brilliant, in other words.

Excellent showing of what this kind of pop can be.

heads will rolllllll

What a vast improvement over the other album of theirs I listened to! I really enjoyed this album...they definitely found their sound and were able to much better compliment the vocals with the music. I'll be going back to re-listen to a couple of the songs for sure!

I thought this album was SO much better than Fever to Tell. Had highs and lows throughout the album and I actually enjoyed it overall. Heads Will Roll is fantastic.

6 years added a lot of polish. I gave their first album 1 star, this had VAST improvement. I dug it a lot.

Ehdin kirjoittaa jo negatiivissävyisen arvion nuoruuteni suosikkilevystä, kunnes huomasin että tämähän on aivan eri levy samalta yhtyeeltä. Onneksi tämä levy on paljon paremman ja tuoreemman kuuloinen! Lisäpisteitä myös siitä kuinka bändi on selkeästi aikuistanut soundiaan vuosien varrella, eikä nojaa enää pelkästään "vihainen nainen huutaa" -tematiikkaan. Elektronisia elementtejä käytetään tyylikkäästi, niiden kuitenkin olematta liikaa esillä. Varsinkin Heads Will Roll ja Dull Life potki kovaa. Erittäin positiivinen, vahvan nelosen arvoinen yllätys.

Actually liked this a lot! There were some really great tracks in there, I don't know why I've never really listened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I heard Maps and was like "not for me," but didn't really give any of their other stuff a chance. Zero was the standout for me.

A perfect mix of The Bangles, Garbage and No Doubt. In fact, if Susanna Hoffs, Shirley Manson and Gwen Stefani could somehow have a baby together, well, that would be weird. But if Jack and Meg White would have had a baby, that baby would likely be a lot like Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist Karen O. Hell, they probably would have named her Karen O. Are we counting the bonus acoustic versions in our review? Because I prefer some of those to the original version. This also led me to the band's great cover of Big Star's "Thirteen", which means something. Just an overall great listen, acoustic tracks included. It falls maybe an iota short of classic status, but since it's new to me, I'm hoping multiple listens will improve it up that small notch.

This was a cool album. She has a great voice - sounds a lot like Chrissie Hynde - and the songs were catchy and interesting. Highlight was probably "Heads Will Roll" but I also like "Zero" a lot. I think her voice turns a lot of these songs from 2's to 4's but they're still 4's regardless.

I had never listened to this band before, but I really liked this album. I love pop music that manages to be a bit challenging in terms of its lyrics. Musically, it works great and the production is excellent 4/5

Having just reviewed "Fever to Tell" a couple of weeks ago, I was glad to get another Yeah Yeah Yeahs album to review. That one hadn't been my favorite, but I knew there was something about the band that I really liked. I really enjoyed this one a lot more! I like the groove of it very much. I even found that I had known and liked a YYYs song, "Heads Will Roll," a song I've heard here and there without knowing the artist. (I see that it was mashed up with Thriller on Glee.) It is my favorite on the album. It had everything I liked about the first album with a much more polished sound.

This is the second Yeah Yeah Yeahs album to be served to me on 1001. I enjoyed this one much more than the first one. I guess it is the dancier vibe to the album. But, it also could simply be my mood today versus the other day...

Iznenadilo me pozitivno, posluso sam i ne mogu reci da mi je krivo. Nek pjesme jesu malo dosadnjikave, ali sve u svemu nelose. Cetvorka za iznenadenje

Couple of songs on there I didn't realize were them.

Good stuff

Pop así como épico. Me ha gustado.

Energetic modern sounding pop for the unmasses. Fabulous as a live band, equally fantastic when recorded, this album has a couple of absolute bangers, and several more contemplative tracks, which as a whole makes for a great balance. Top tracks: Zero, Heads will roll, Shame and fortune

Enjoyed it. Was very familiar with Heads Will Roll, liked it then, liked it now. The rest was also good. Though the tone of album really chained from the first few songs to the last. Which is not a problem in itself but the tonal differences were so big that I caught myself wondering if it was still the same album.

It's like LCD Soundsystem for your mom and with really nothing it sets out to tell you, it's just kinda there and wants to piss off fans of the previous albums, but in retrospect over a decade later, fuck it, you'll probably like it too!

Pop así como épico. Me ha gustado.

It's a fun album with a distinct sound. I wouldn't mind putting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs into a rotation of music to listen to more often than once, so for that, 4 stars. The acoustic songs at the end of the album are also a nice touch. Great to hear the song without the heavy synth presence.

Really good. Listen to the accoustic versions again for sure.

I love this album! It starts off with two absolute bangers and then slowly descends into a more relaxed melodic vibe. Listened to the album twice in a row I enjoyed it that much!

Heads Will Roll was Def their best song. And I wanted every song to be as good as that one

4/5 that was a surprise! nice!

The more I listened to it the more I liked it. The first two tracks don’t really flow with the remainder of the album. Some of the tracks had hints of the Pierces and the Bangles. Enjoyable and certainly one I would listen to again

FUCKING PARTY BOPS

Really good and really enjoyed this album

Really great stuff - great sound and voice - a good surprise

Yes yes yes

Great album, great band

Nice mix of energetic punk indie and regular indie songs. Love Heads will Roll.

really enjoyed that, definitely adding to the list

Cool

Downloaded on iTunes back in 2009 and am very familiar with a number of tracks

Very good. Same impact on me as hearing LCD Soundsystem for the first time. Two sides of the same coin.

3.5/5. Surprised me, I liked it more than I thought I would.

Wow this is a damn good album, less arty, more polished than Fever to Tell and just a notch below. The dance tracks are very good, the more arty tracks are good but as I say a notch below Fever to Tell. A nice discovery 3.75 🌟

I'm a new fan.

Good time.

A pure delight to listen to. 4/5

Great! Bit clean for my tastes but it was still nice.

very cool

Yeah... yeah... yeah...

good album

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Not perhaps as influential as their earlier work but a great example of talent, production and vision delivering a cohesive outcome that stands the test of time.

Really liked this one

This was an album I poo-pood quite a bit for a long time, and listening to it now I'm not entirely sure why I did that. I can get down with this.

Heads Will Roll - best song of all time? Dull Life, Runaway, Hysteric, and Little Shadow all great

The acoustics seem a bit disjointed, like 2 albums stuck into one, however both are quite good albums