Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones poll

we need a new album already!

Shout out to the excellent bonus track "Deja Vu"

Zinner seems more interested in being in a Black Sabbath cover band these days.

Great album but it's easily Cheated Hearts for me. That was the song that really made me a fan.

"Cheated Hearts," for sure.

“turn into”, their best song and one of my favorite songs ever

I second that notion, Turn Into for the win

this album is fuckiiiiing amaaaazing

have to listen again but could be "honeybear," "dudley," "turn into," several others

"Mysteries" is intense.

"Cheating Hearts" gets me, though.

voted turn into, their best closer. always liked this cover-- it was the winner of a fan competition to design a YYYs flag and iirc the booklet was a collage of lots of other entries.

Turn Into or Way Out.

When we ran our club Clique in Manchester, i used to play Turn Into some nights, pretty early on just after the first batches of people had come in, and over a couple of years or so it became quite a 'moment' for some of the regulars. No-one else seemed to be playing it around the city particularly but it had a certain 'start-of-the-night' vibe to it that worked. We played more electro/nu-disco/mashup stuff but that song, especially when it does that slightly-freaking-out thing, was good for when you've just put your coat in, and you're about to have your 2nd drink. Anyway a couple of girls who we knew pretty well, used to dance down the front to it together, and then some years later when one of them was getting married they asked me and fellow resident NI (of this parish) to DJ the party. As the Second Dance of the night, after the traditional First Dance with the groom, the 2 girls, one now the bride and the other her chief bridesmaid did the gentle, platonic-romantic dance they used to do to Turn Into on their own, holding hands. It was a something of a magical moment for us as DJs.

So yeah Turn Into for me, definitely.

It's Blitz is the better album by a hair, but this is definitely Zinner's peak as a guitarist. He sounds like he's having a blast throughout.

I'm not really a YYYs fan but this is a good album. Voted for 'Cheated Hearts'.

This is the one I listen to the least out of their first three albums, but it's leagues above the last thing they shat out. I'm actually unsure what to vote for.

I'm actually shocked at how much I enjoyed this. I have always thought it was the weakest record of the initial three but now I'm not so sure. Voting Phenomena as the singles don't seem to need any help.

the weakest of the first three is fever, which is an awesome record

This album is great and it's hard to get past "Turn Into" so that.

I've been listening steadily since the poll started. Good show.

I love watching the Cheated Hearts video.

Karen O is such a massive performer.

Cheated Hearts is one of their finest moments

I like the simple pleasures of Honeybear.

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Big fan of this excellent record and it's "Turn Into" for me.

god the cover of their last album is one of the most grotesque things ever

boy, the sequence from "Phenomena" to "Mysteries" is a pip, isn't it?

Not sure how I got it in my head that this album was disappointing. I think maybe because I’ve never loved Gold Lion, but the rest of it is fairly scorching.

Mysteries, for that freakout at the end

ok so

1. i think this is their best record
2. i'm voting for "the sweets"

this sounded better than it's blitz to me the last time i listened but it's been a little bit... "turn into" is such a massive song but i think i prefer "dudley" and "way out". the texture of the non-electric guitar instruments on this record is rly great

im voting for "gold lion" tho for having the best mic-ing of a drumset of its time

I'm surprised Greil Marcus didn't expend a thousand words explaining how "Sometimes I think I'm bigger than the sound" links Karen O to the lineage of Elvis, Dylan, Robbie Robertson, etc.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'm going to have to agree with Brad here. After listening to this album about seven times in a row, because of this poll, this is their best album.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ok wow -- didn't expect this

This seems about right? Although I never liked Gold Lion, it always gave me Karate Kid montage vibes.

looks about right

"Way Out" deserved "Gold Lion"'s votes

and "warrior" deserved something it is a very cool song

Cheated Hearts
Phenomena
Mysteries
Dudley
Way Out
Turn Into

^^^^ my favorites in descending order

the best album like ever

otm

Yes

My fave band of the last 20 years.

the more i listen to this the more certain i am it is the best rock album

honeybear makes other songs look pitiful and incomplete

sometimes i think that i’m bigger than the sound

This is good. The half-hour documentary which came with the Fever.. box set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8V4_mgM77I

The best.