You'd be sensible for thinking Yeah Yeah Yeahs are just the more-style-over-less-substance cousins of The Strokes. It's easy to be put off by fashion magazine spreads and ridiculous Tim Burton haircuts when you're sat on holiday in Bognor, wearing Converse trainers with holes in and the last piece of clothing you bought: a two-year-old band t-shirt currently sporting a displeasing toothpaste stain. This band isn't meant for people who sit on the internet looking for Postal Service remixes.
Then the undeniable riff of 'Cheated Hearts' crawls into the world like an Underground train at first before building to the kind of crescendo they outlawed in 1969 for fear of tremors. It then drops for one of the greatest moments in living blurred indie-memory, all shattered-disco-ball "doo-oooh-ooh"s while Karen O drizzles, with a slight cat-purr croak, that she thinks she’s "bigger than the sound". Then Nick Zinner hits his [insert public health warning about here] gravity-bending, crank-it-to-one-hundred-and-eleven super peddle and a wall of noise hits home like a tsunami full of carnival rides. If by now you're not breathless, you probably like Jet.
Put simply, this is one of the songs of the year for the fashionistas and the indie geeks alike. Believe the hype, buy into the myths and prepare to start maxing out your credit card to dress really-really stupid, whilst realising scenesters are just geeks like you.
The best song on the album
by a long way, if not the only good song on the album. Not amazing though.
isn't it a bit contrived though?
"oh fuck.. er, what are we going to do with this song? it sounds a bit boring..
let's just drop a riff on it! shazam!"
what? contrived?
surely all songs are contrived, what with them being written and everything...
anyway, i like this a lot. i used to think i didnt like anything the yeah yeah yeahs had done after the ep, but this changed my mind. its really, really good.
what i meant was
they sound too aware of what people liked about their first album. the unpredictability. the feeling that it could explode at any moment.
it just sounds forced this time.
Sure it's contrived
It's no 'Turn Into'.
yip
Show Your Bones has grown on me so much since i bought it. I was distraught when it seemed like they'd "matured", but this song is a perfect example of how the songwriting's improved.
its grown on me a lot too!
i really really like it now, after having been fairly disappointed on the first few listens. i do miss the screechy boisterous karen o but i have the first album and EP for that, and BYOP, to fulfill my needs :)
Show Your Bones is a great pop album
and, whilst this is one of the highlights, I'd argue that there are plenty of other contenders for the best track on it - Phenomena, Dudley, Mysteries, and the previously mentioned Turn Into to name 4. However, I suppose the fact that Karen O's 'screeching' delivery has been toned down compared to, say, Rich or Tick from the first LP, can be seen as good or bad thing depending on your viewpoint. Personally, I think that Show Your Bones is more consistent than previous efforts, but lacks a standout track as good as Pin or Maps from FTT or Miles Away from the EP.
Can't stand this song.
Another lame duck single from an incredibly disappointing, half-hearted, substance-free second album.
quite like this song
and a nice video with it
Turn Into was pretty good too, though I still think Maps (on FTT) is by far and away their best.
I'm sick
of seening this video
Dudley is the best song on the album.
"Karen’s vocals here remind me of Sophie Ellis Bextor: her ooh’s are highly pitched and slightly threatening, and musically it's Seafood."
From the DiS review of 'Fever To Tell'.
"Go have a fucking wash, you ugly whore."
Andrew Future's user comment. Legendary.
best songs
Not the best song from the album to show their talent.Possibly the worst.They are so much better than that.Notably Fancy,Phenomena and Warrior.