DiS preview-o-rama: Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new LP
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This week, myself and the David Niven-like rock warrior, Michael K. Diver took a trip to darkest West London, or at least High Street Kensington, to listen to the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs LP, Show Your Bones.
As we supped warm lager and munched some form of high-quality crisp, we jotted some incisive commentary onto a piece of white A4 paper, which shall now be replicated here to whet your appetite for the record.
Show Your Bones in Grades
Rather than spoil a proper review with notes about each track, we've opted for an academia-style grading system. How mature.
'Gold Lion' C+
'Way Out' B-
'Fancy' C+
'Phenomena' C
'Honeybear' D
'Cheated Hearts' B-
'Dudley' C
'Mysteries' E
'The Sweets' B-
'Warrior' B
'Turn Into' C
'Deja Vu' (UK bonus track) B+
Show Your Bones in Quotes
As the playback progressed, we took a series of quotes from each other and compiled the following as something of a textual representation of the record's flow. Some bits are just stupid though, really.
Michael Diver: "I like the drums on this."
MD: "It's all so safe so far"
Colin Roberts: "I want a cigarette"
CR: "Bits of this track sound like Q and not U"
MD: "No they fucking don't"
CR: "It's just becoming background noise"
CR: "This sounds like lots of other, not very good, bands"
MD: "Yeah. They have singing and everything"
CR: "It's kinda mutating into something interesting now. Finally!"
MD: "I'm digging these slower songs. They are nice and furry"
CR: "It appears they've found a soul beyond the rock n' roll"
MD: "Whatever dude, they've just turned their amps down"
MD: "This seems unbalanced. The LP is top-heavy with rock. Badly sequenced"
CR: "It appears to have gone rather bland again"
CR: "...and now it sounds like The Flaming Lips!"
MD: "IT WISHES!"
MD: "This would have been better if they'd just stopped fucking around"
CR: "The acoustic guitar ends up sounding predictable and boring"
MD: "The placement of the bonus track SUCKS"
MD: "I might just venture that the stroppy bonus track is the most immediately satisfying track on the record"
CR: "Well ventured, sir. I like this song, I'd DJ with it"
MD: "Wow. We suck"
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this is exactly how i feel about it
the acoustic guitar is shitey.
*YAWN*
So I've heard.
I mean.
:(
they should just re-release fever to tell.
i'd buy it again.
My gf loves this shit
It gives me fucking earache
such
a good review. I am a fan.
they should have just put Diplo's gold lion remix on 12 times and be done with it
Definitely a C-
Not the album - the preview.
Really, next time you should just rate the tracks using smiley faces, stars, and glitter :)
Has anyone actually REALLY listened to this album?
These reactions are so predictable. Let's not spit them out just yet.
Hence why we
deliberately stated it was just a PREVIEW and there is a REVIEW coming soon. ignoramus.
i'm for
rating tracks using different styles of smiley.
a :D could be a very good track
something like a :'( a bad track
or maybe i'm getting too netgeeky about it all
Cor
What a lazy preview.
ANOTHER
top notch feature from bill and ted. good work boys. told me ablsolutely nothing apart from the fact u dont like avoustic guitars.
Shit review. Good album.
Although sufficiently different from the first album one to upset everyone who just wanted a rehash. (And I've included the Diplo remix and B sides on my own little copy :) )
what's the point of record previews anymore anyway?
everyone fucking downloads everything and we may as well just take a shit and photograph it, then upload the photo on to the site.
judging by the comments underneath this piece, there's plenty of people who've already made up their mind, so we decided just to have a more personable take on things.
it was quite clearly a tongue-in-cheek piece, designed to give a brief flavour of proceedings and remind people that it's a few weeks away.
if you feel it's that shit, you should write your own. such is the beauty of the the internet.
bye!
i liked the preview
so there
it made me do a :)
not heard the album yet
but I actually really like Gold Lion and that seems to have been slated rather a bit so I'm still looking forward to the record. Gold Lion is a grower.
Was there actually a point to this feature? DiS is getting very crap-comedy orientated recently.
I think the album is, unexpectedly, very good.
yeah
i was never much of a fan before but I really like the new album. Phenomena is class.
(And i thought the feature was more Beavis and Butthead than Bill and Ted. "Flange" hur-hur-hur...)
meh meh meh's
i've heard this album for the past month and a half, and whilst immediately bland and dissappointing, it does slightly grow on you to a level of kind of middling, where you quite like a few tracks but aren't that bothered if you ever hear them again. It's a lot blander, and the songwriting for the most part isn't spectacular. I mean it's almost as if people like this on Karen O's personality alone, which can't carry a record through surely!
and what's with her new hair, it's bloody awful!
Is there anyone here....
....who likes both Fever to Tell and Show Your Bones?
FtT is one of my favourite albums, and I listened to this several times but had to give up eventually. I love Fever to Tell because it's furious and frenetic and messy and violent and glorious! Show Your Bones just bored me....
Gold Lion
= A *
I think
next time you should use sock puppets.
wow
express an opinion and behold the wrath
I like the preview
but I also hope that you're wrong about the album...
alternatively...
you could go to their myspace page and listen to the whole ecord there?
it does get better after a few listens, but i'm still not 100% won over
I just said it was lazy
:) not shit. There's no need to get pissed off!
I do quite regularly write my own, and I wasn't having a pop at you.
I just personally dislike soundbites, I haven't heard the album I was looking for some indepth comment(something which DIS is usually very good at), but instead we got by your own admission "a brief flavour of proceedings and remind people that it's a few weeks away."
Fair enough. Just don't call it a fully fledged preview.
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