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yyys date with the night
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by Stacey Starfucker
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 14/04/2003
  • Label: Wichita
So, I’m with my parents at their local church meeting. I am like, So totally bored and I’m trussed up like some virginal freak (as if!). Anyways, to relieve the boredom I slide my head phones up into my ears and cover them with my hair. The yeah yeah yeahs are like hanging out in my cd player, singing something about having a ‘date with the night’.
As the music kicks in I start to watch mom and dad as they shake people's hands and smile like morons. I yawn as the beats in my ears start to kick in, and then.. and then something weird starts happening to my body. I start to get hot underneath my stiff collar. My dress starts to feel tight. I think I might be fitting. I’m on the floor, my hips are writhing up and down, strangely in time to the manic head fuck of garage rock and Karen O’s whining. She sounds like Patti Smith and Debbie Harry’s bastard child, though I don’t think they’d be too happy about that.

Anyways, I’m on the floor and I’ve got my white panties (the ones that mom makes me wear) somewhere around my ankles and I’m making like the chick in the Exorcist, though my head aint spinning.
‘Gonna walk on water’ Karen hisses, like the snake after eve ate the apple.
‘I’ll set you. I’ll set it off. I’ll set you, I’ll set it off. Off Off Off .’
I can feel my pulse quicken as I start to scream in time to Karen O. Oh Oh Oh..it's like the night I spent with Brad, the gardener. My back up against the garden shed.Oh Oh Oh…OH HOLY SHIT.
Everyone is staring down at me on the floor, and then I realise the song has ended. I don’t know what came over me, but the priest has a smile on his face and I’m sure he winked at me.

I pull my panties up around my hips to try and hold my dress together where the button's popped. I’m sweaty and there ain't no way to hide it. In an attempt at redemption I yell:
‘Oh help me lord I have sinned. Rock music has taken over my body and I can’t help myself.’ Mom and dad look on in horror. ‘Satan made me do it.’ I yelp.
I don’t think mom and dad will be going back to the church. Not like, until hell freezes over.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs 9 / 10
Words: Stacey Starfucker

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

i think this is possibly the most embarrassing thing i've ever read.

chortle

Dear christ. Are they hoping for a begging email from a playlouder editor or something? Absolutely chronic...still, gave me a laugh. I'll have to try and knock out some pile of arse review myself, if this review can get on the site then...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

Nah- tis cool...seeing the whole world through sex-tinted spectacles...Could be a revolution.. more more more!

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

Yeah! More sex! More sex!

It does review from the "drowned in sound" mentality... taken it too far? Is there too far?

Lines are made to be walked over and reviews are meant to be entertaining. That's my view, as the founder of DiS.

I think Stacey's great - tho no-one seems to have met her yet. When are you coming to a DiS meeting missy? Or are we not cool/famous enough?

Sean

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

hmm. but i tend to like it if reviews actually touch on what the music actually sounds like. or gives a vague idea, cause, y'know, thats what i expect from a review ;)

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

Ermm.. what exactly do you want? Step by step guide how to play the song, what the middle eight sounds like in terms of comparisons to 127 different bands and take each lyrics apart with regard to it's cultural significance?

Surely you've heard the YYYs before and this review gives at least a rough idea what the song is like, how it affects the reviewer and therefore, what it sounds/feels like. You're told it's a good song, in the reviewers point of view and therefore, probably worth checking out.

Or would you rather a plain old press release rehash?

I like this review, a lot!
Rob

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

well, actually, until I saw the video on MTV2, i hadn't heard any YYYs :P

But I dunno.. obviously I'm not saying it should include a step-by-step breakdown, that'd just be silly :p but that just struck me as typical NME-style "they're so cool!!!!!1!1!" wank reviewing, that's all ::shrug::

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

dont think it called them cool... NME just write like a bunch of cunts. do you know any 40year olds who are 'cool'? they're all trying to re-live their yooth.

in other news, me and my mates pissed on the IPC tower a few weeks ago. HORRAY!

Rob

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

the reviewer sucks
the yeah yeah yeahs suck

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

I actually agree on both counts.

She's clearly trying very hard to do a "Miss AMP" and not quite grasping the fact that besides being obsessed with sex, Miss AMP actually has a keen eye for characterisation and language. This review is just shock tactic smut with no substance and no passion. Rather like the YYY's, so I suppose it succeeds as a review on that count...

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it left me thinking "how adoloescent".
is this the future generation of Dis reviewers?

ok so it may be on the cutting edge side of inkeeping with the Karen O Mothafucker slut theme...
but need it be so crass

sean you gimp

note the misuse of apostrophes and tedious use of grammar: it's obviously sean adams pretending to be a girl again.

Re: sean you gimp

most likely.

Re: sean you gimp

Nope it's honestly not me!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

This is the first yeah yeah yeahs song i havent fallen totally in love with. It doesnt really have much to it, its just pelvic thrusts and a few yelps in an attempt to be bang.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

Rockin' - It's like Swells has grown tits. More reviews like that purlease.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

What a fucking great review!! Makes the rest of us look like the old farts we really are....

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

shyeah, this made me laff til me beer spilled all over my lap!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

Ace review - the Yeah Yeah Yeahs make me feel the same way - Karen O-for-Orgasmic. Luckily for me I do not go to church and i simply do not wear panties.

Hurrah! My favourite single and review of the week ;)

Re: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night

that song is quite possibly one of the most irritating songs i have ever heard. (no offence intended of course)