The live performance's only problem is that it's simply too long - even those with the patience of a saint will be hard pushed not to skip to favoured tracks. It's best to break it up a little by flicking over to the videos, the best (and most recent) of which, for 'Y Control', must've had MTV in a right state. What's this, children hacking limbs off with axes? Yep. Kids run riot while Karen O prances about like a maniac. It's truly surreal.
A 20-odd-minute documentary, filmed by O beau (so I'm told) Spike Jonze, fleshes out the gig, with Jonze forcing his camera into the faces of the crowd. They're captured on the street, in the queue, in the venue, on the front row, and finally in the sweaty aftermath. Few subjects are reluctant to be caught on camera, although Jonze receives the cold shoulder from a couple of 'get that out of my face' girls. Of course, they all want to be Karen O. Backstage and tour footage from Japan (fairly uninteresting) and an award show performance of 'Maps' (by far their best song) finish off a DVD that, for the right money, would warrant purchase by even the fairweather YYYs fan, if only for the sick 'Y Control' vid alone. Watch it through your fingers.
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Not so big on their yelpy, leap-around-like-a-spandex-clad-loon material.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow DVD
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow DVD
I bought Blur's Starshaped early concert footage on the same day. Do yerselves a favor and have fun with Damon and the boys all over again, instead.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow
I do agree that its a beautiful song but its been so overplayed and obsessed over by mtv-ites who are only into that one song and feel the need to play it on repeat and attempt to sing along however badly they sing because their other songs are too wierd or too loud (e.g. Effloresce_Sean) that its been ruined for everyone else
but yea, y-control video is legenary
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don't get me started on most of you lot loving these sub-standard rip off merchant acts that parade about as "bands" with singers that sound like they are singing with their nuts trapped in an electrical storm
yeah karens a bit up her own arse sometimes, but c'mon!
RICH - best opening track to an album for about 5 years
BANG! - awesome on every level if only because no-one knew they were saying "fuck" on the radio til it had been out 3 months
Y CONTROL - that noise in the background - ever danced your nuts off to it live?
MAPS - wwe all know how good this one is
MYSTERY GIRL - becomes something scarily incredible live
BLACK TONGUE - sexiest song ever made; whats wrong with scuzziness? bring on the filth
the only complaint i have is that they've ben bone idle this year - sort it out! until then, I have the last SECONDS album to keep me happy - now THATS some really really good shit....
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow
I have also heard that a new album is on its way for this autumn!