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Karen O makes an entrance worthy of Warhol or Lee Van Cleef on her Yeah Yeah Yeahs debut EP, introducing herself on "Bang" with an unmistakably sexual growl, a rock-&-roll hunger somewhere between Mick Jagger and Jon Spencer. It's the sort of game-changing bravado that cannot be ignored. And when she primally screams about sex and desperation and madness over sonic blasts of noise and melody that conjure up second wave punk and new wave and early hardcore, often on the same song, it's exciting, almost stunning; it's clearly one of the more important EPs of its era.
Recorded at The Funhouse, New York, New York.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitar); Brian Chase (drums).Rolling Stone (8/8/02, p.78) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A punk-rock dream come true...you should get a jolt out of every song....It's a truly inspirational sound, as well as a headache-inducing racket..."
Spin (1/03, p.72) - Ranked #28 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" - "...Drums whip-crack, surf-punk guitars claw your back like chipped nails, and vocalist/train wreck Karen O. howls like a cat in heat on a hot Brooklyn roof."
CMJ (7/8/02, p.12) - "...The YYY's are New York City's answer to self-indulgence. This EP will spoil and tease you hard." Yeah Yeah Yeahs Music | List Price | $9.98 (You save $0.53) | | Category | Rock Albums, Rock/Pop CDs | | Label | Touch & Go | | Orig Year | 2001 | | All Time Sales Rank |  7259  | | CD Universe Part number | 3916965 | | Catalog number | 938 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 09, 2002 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Additional Info | Extended Play |
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"Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Emerging sometime in the '80s, Oklahoma boys The Flaming Lips have held steady to a peripheral, but significant location in the indie-rock world, visionaries blessed with a hyper-keen pop sensibility. In 1999, four years removed from the surprise alterna-pop hit "She Don't Use Jelly," the trio fronted by the fetching, impelling whisper of Wayne Coyne hit a remarkably high note, making scores of year-end 'best of' lists with THE SOFT BULLETIN, a mellifluous, masterful slice of Brian Wilson-level pop distorted through a few looking glasses. Following an acclaimed album is always a craggy cliff of anticipation, but if BULLETIN was the Flaming Lips' PET SOUNDS, then the ethereal YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS may be their SMILEY SMILE, a record which skillfully straddles the line between pop and experimentation.
YOSHIMI offers lush, enveloping arrangements, forging a soundscape both comfortably predictable and satisfyingly, even dizzyingly, diverse, awash in Todd Rundgren-like grandiosity, yet startlingly simple in structure like the better work of Paul McCartney. Despite having the air of a quasi-concept album, YOSHIMI betrays little pretension, even in the face of the Lips' trademark deceptively complex lyrics. The exceptional YOSHIMI easily cements the Flaming Lips' place in the vanguard of the rock world.
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips' long awaited follow-up to 1999's The Soft Bulletin. Guest artist Yoshimi P-we plays with psyche-noise-experimental group the Boredoms and leads her own band OOIOO. The Yoshimi in the songs, however, is a fictional character. 11 tracks. 2002.
Recorded at Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York between June 2000 & April 2001.
The Flaming Lips: Wayne Coyne (vocals, guitar); Michael Ivins (guitar, bass, background vocals); Steve Drozd (guitar, drums, background vocals).
Producers: The Flam
| | Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights CD (2002)
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Vocals which fall somewhere between Ian Curtis's plaintive, edge-of-oblivion wail and the winking, laconic drawl of James's Tim Booth, ripping uncompromisingly through unpredictable, unforgettable lamentations from the reflective ("NYC") to the imploring ("PDA"). When the darkly etched, implosive, mournful lyrics poke out as they do on the unrelenting "Obstacle 1" ("she puts the weights into my little heart and she gets in my room and she tears it apart"), the hook is set for an important debut by a band that portends to be around a while.
The stunning debut album that incorporates so many postpunk influences: Joy Division, Television, Morrissey, . Includes the bonus track "Specialist".
To make music marked distinctly of a specific period that's somehow so compelling as to be timeless is no mean feat. Interpol initially sounds as if they must have been roaming about Manchester as the 1970s screamed to a close, yet they emerged across the ocean in New York City some two decades-plus later. Combining the insistent drone of Joy Division with the dreamy melodies of the Chameleons, the fire of Mission of Burma, and an occasional jagged edge a la The Fall, the foursome inconceivably manage to defy anachronism on their debut full-length TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS. Just how they do it is indefinable, perhaps it's just a trick of the light, or the life that breathes gloomily, radiantly throughout, but it's undeniable.
Interpol: Carlos D., Daniel Kessler, Paul Banks, Samuel Fogarino.
| | Yeah Yeah Yeah's Machine (2002)
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This single is comprised of exclusive tracks from the band's studio sessions, as well as a previously unreleased demo from their formative days. Brooklyn's Yeah Yeah Yeahs have become the future of rock 'n' roll with their raw energy, enthusiasm and pure charisma. They're also press darlings, with features and reviews in Rolling Stone, Spin, Details, Mojo, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, GQ, Fortune and much more. Touch And Go. 2002.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitar); Brian Chase (drums).
Producers: David Andrew Sitek, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
| | Yeah Yeah Yeah's Fever To Tell CD (2003)
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FEVER TO TELL was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
Punky New York scions the Yeah Yeah Yeahs may have been strapped with an unfortunate albatross by receiving Next Big Thing status in the wake of the supernova explosion of the Strokes, the White Stripes, et al. However, if one hasn't already heard either of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs excellent Touch & Go EPs or witnessed one of the outfit's electric live shows, one listen to FEVER TO TELL should swiftly dispel any doubts about the trio's credibility. Visually outrageous singer Karen O., primal drummer Brian Chase and devilish guitarist Nick Zinner take an artier-than-most approach to the garage-rock world; think the Velvet Underground as channeled through the Fall or Sonic Youth with just a wisp of the Pretenders.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' music explodes in a sea of overt sexuality and frenzied emotion, hinting at hooks and sometimes even getting totally enveloped in them, as on the disarmingly charming "Maps." On the other end of the spectrum lies the raw MC 5 full-on punk-blues of tracks such as "Man" and "Tick." On FEVER TO TELL, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs prove their ability to stand out in a crowd, offering perhaps the most original recording to be hailed in the '00s garage-rock revival.
Recorded at Headgear, Brooklyn, New York.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitar, drum machine); Brian Chase (drums).
Producers: David Andrew Sitek, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
| | Yeah Yeah Yeah's Show Your Bones CD (2006)
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SHOW YOUR BONES, the Yeah Yeah Yeah's 2006 sophomore full-length, was one of the most anticipated releases of the year. The band's fiery, unhinged 2003 major-label debut, FEVER TO TELL, yanked the band out of NYC clubs and onto the world stage, and while most of the musical cognoscente anticipated a sonic shake-up of some sort for the sequel, in exactly what direction the YYYs would head was a source of much speculation. Would they follow Liars into the murky depths of willfully alienating avant noise, or would they Liz-Phair themselves right into glossy commercial irrelevance?
In fact, it's neither of the above. As tracks like "Gold Lion," "Honeybear," and "Cheated Hearts" show, the band clearly isn't out to ruffle any feathers, but they're also not forsaking the infectious, art-tinged punk that got them where they are. Guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase are spot-on as usual, and Karen O is in lovely, if somewhat restrained, voice throughout. The production is bright and full, and enhances the glammy, anthemic underpinnings of the band's sound. And although it's not going to inspire any future prom themes a la "Maps," SHOW YOUR BONES has strengthened the YYYs claim to being that rarest of animals--a legitimate Top 40 rock band with a genuine artistic sensibility.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitar); Brian Chase (drums).
Recording information: Stay Gold Studios, Brooklyn, New York (2006).
Additional personnel: Money Mark (keyboards); Dave Sitek (sampler).
| | Yeah Yeah Yeah's Is Is CD (2007) Extended Play
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"Rockers to Swallow," the album's opening track, and the title cut are standouts: both burst from the gate with fierce energy, clattering rhythms, and singer Karen O's ferocious caterwaul. The album's slower songs ("10 x 10") lend texture and variation to the disc, but rarely allow the surging power to lag. IS IS galvanizes as a rock record should, and as such is worthy of attention from both casual and serious fans.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2001 debut EP announced a considerable new force on the New York City rock scene; after a couple of studio full-lengths the band demonstrated the same focus and fury on another EP, 2007's IS IS. The disc's five tracks prove the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are still talented indie rock alchemists mixing primal energy with an arty sensibility.
Personnel: Karen O (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitar); Brian Chase (drums).
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$11.69 | | Roy Wood Wizard CD (2006) (Import) England
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As a founding member of both The Move and ELO, Roy Wood is regarded as one of the most important rock musicians to emerge from the UK. This 2006 collection brings together his outstanding work for the first time on one album, featuring classic tracks like Wizzard's first single, "Ballpark Incident", a top 10 hit for the band in 1972, as well as their UK number 1's "See My Baby Jive" and its follow-up, "Angel Fingers". With a selection of ELO and The Move hits included, the album is a brilliant retrospective of Wood's exceptional career and even highlights the track he is sometimes best known for, "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday", which reached number 4 in the UK chart in 1973.
| | Monster Squad Fire The Faith CD (2007)
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Monster Squad: Chris, Jason (vocals, guitar); Ultimate Justin (vocals, bass guitar); Phil (vocals); Matt Kadi (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Moises Sandoval (guitar).
| | Worship From The Heartland CD (2007)
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Track Listing of songs: Open the Eyes of My Heart; There Is None Like You; God of Wonders; Butterfly Kisses; Farther Along; Love Can Build a Bridge; God Will Make a Way; Above All; I Can Only Imagine; From a Distance; Be Thou My Vision; Shout to the Lord;
| | Buffalows CD (2008)
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The Buffalows, native to the Santa Cruz Mountain range of the California coastal mountains. Between Pacific Ocean fog moving inland beneath a full moon and ancient redwoods move ancient shaggy creatures. Deep in these woods music can be heard stirring the leaves.Rarely seen and seldom heard these songs echo the great ones of days past and honor the young who hold the days yet to come.Three of the songs here are from the rock musical Young Billy."Legend of Billy the Kid", "Quien Es" and "Lady of Spain" are part of the score performed here by the Buffalows. More about Young Billy at www.youngbilly.com. The original band that inspired the formation of The Buffalows was the Buffalo Brothers Band that played in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 70's. That band played original music and music by Gram Parsons, Neil Young, and Hank Williams...spawning the pre-Grunge form they termed "Heavy Metal Country".
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