Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

[GirlsAloudFan]

Nice video for Zero. That "KO" leather jacket is awesome.

 

[FitzChivalry]

She looks really good in this. I mean really good.

That "KO" leather jacket is awesome.

Karen O makes me want to turn hetero.

Brian doesn't look to bad either.

 

[LemonMelon]

I enjoyed this. Highly inconsistent, and it really does feel like the sequel to Hot Fuss (not mention countless other '80s revival casualties circa 2005) to me at times, but it develops something of its own identity by the end. It's stylish, fun, but hardly a modern classic. Glad I spent 41 minutes on it though.

Highlights:

Zero
Soft Shock
Dull Life

Lowlights:

Heads Will Roll
Skeletons

 

[phanan]

So I've totally been non-existent in this thread, with all of the Shuttlecock U2 stuff lately. How's the album?

 

[FitzChivalry]

Lowlights:

Skeletons

Epic phail.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

So I've totally been non-existent in this thread, with all of the Shuttlecock U2 stuff lately. How's the album?

It's very, very good.

 

[LemonMelon]

Skeletons is inoffensive, but there are so many other tracks that are better. The only one I feel that flat-out sucks is Heads Will Roll. It has little melody or force. It's just kind of there.

I think that second side could be really awesome, but it slipped past me the first time.

 

[bono_212]

I've listened to it three times now, I definitely am liking what I hear, especially Hysteric.

 

[u2popmofo]

Pitchfork: News

Karen seems less than impressed with the leak. You've all broken her heart.

Assholes.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I've listened to it three times now, I definitely am liking what I hear, especially Hysteric.

Hysteric is my favorite song on the album.

 

[mobvok]

So, uh, anyone got the album-only iTunes track Faces?

Those acoustic versions of they have up sound pretty cool. Interesting that the YYY's two creative impulses for some of these songs were synths/electro blips vs. sparse acoustic guitar/strings.

 

[bono_212]

Hysteric is my favorite song on the album.

Occasionally we agree GAF, though apparently, where REM is concerned, this will never be.

 

[LemonMelon]

After full listen #2, I must say that I agree with my colleagues Ashley and GAF; Hysteric is fantastic. Didn't really notice it the first time through. Now my three favorites are as follows:

1. Zero (Elastica's "Connection" for the 21st century)
2. Hysteric ("you suddenly complete me" )
3. Soft Shock (wanders around a bit, but its melody is a stunner)

Oddly enough, even though I love the above quasi-ballads, Little Shadow and Skeleton do nothing for me. That ambient sound is all the rage right now, and YYY loses their personality when they indulge in that kind of thing. Karen O is a great singer, but she absolutely nails tracks like Zero, Dull Life, and Shame And Fortune. Anyway, as I said before, lots of great stuff, a handful of clunkers, but it's polished, fun, and generally a good time.

 

[bono_212]

I think I prefer the Acoustic version of Skeleton, but, in general, there's really nothing on the album I flat-out dislike.



(And I'm glad you like Hysteric! )

 

[u2popmofo]

Even though it's not much different than the original, I'm enjoying their cover of 'Sheena Is a Punk Rocker' from the War Child charity compilation.

 

[phanan]

I finally took this for a couple of spins today. I'm digging it. While I don't think anything reaches the heights of Zero, it's still very good. The only song I haven't been able to get into is Dragon Queen, but then again, it's only been two listens.

 

[jacez]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Hi Guys!....just listen to Yeah Yeah Yeah new album..and is really good!!

The Rolling Stone review mention U2 in the new Yeah Yeah Yeah album....It's Blitz

"Ballads like the Celtic–flavored "Skeletons" and "Little Shadow," with its swelling church–organ strains, lean toward the grandeur of U2"

cool!

 

[phanan]

Feel free to join the discussion...

http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f221/yeah-yeah-yeahs-its-blitz-193630.html

 

[jacez]

great music!..have to get this album!

 

[Bonochick]

Feel free to join the discussion...

http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f221/yeah-yeah-yeahs-its-blitz-193630.html

I merged. I should have checked for an existing thread after I moved the other one to B&C.

 

[impy13]

God, the acoustic versions are so fantastic. I wish they'd do an entire album like that.

That's not to say I don't adore all of It's Blitz. I most certainly do.

 

[u2popmofo]

You gave in?

EPIC FAILURE

 

[impy13]

It was a stream, dick.

 

[u2popmofo]

It was a stream, dick.

You didn't share the stream with me?

EPIC SADNESS

 

[impy13]

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?...albums&artistid=1943344&albumid=11081709&ap=0

 

[Saracene]

I keep checking JB Hi-Fi every week and the bloody album is still not out

 

[u2popmofo]

I keep checking JB Hi-Fi every week and the bloody album is still not out

The physical release isn't until next week.

 

[impy13]

This might be my favorite of the year now. Yikes.

The string arrangement on the acoustic "Little Shadow" is lovely, but for some reason its the only acoustic version I don't prefer to its album counterpart. The other three? Good golly.

 

[Jack In The Box]

I'm loving it, it's perfect to drive

I recommend Glasvegas, very similar sound

 

[sniggirb]

This might be my favorite of the year now. Yikes.

The string arrangement on the acoustic "Little Shadow" is lovely, but for some reason its the only acoustic version I don't prefer to its album counterpart. The other three? Good golly.

Ditto. Right now its between this and Metric for my favourite album of the year.