Date With The Night

Amazing Artwork From The Past – Cover Of Debut LP By YEAH YEAH YEAHS Released 20 Years Ago

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1 May 2023

Band: YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Album: FEVER TO TELL – debut LP
Released: 29 April 2003 – 20 years ago

Artwork: by art-punk musician and all around creative artist SSION.

SSION: “I had never used Photoshop before. I feel like that’s part of the reason that it looks
the way it looks. I just didn’t know what I was doing. At the same time I think that’s sort of what they were after. Karen sent me that movie Wild Style [Charlie Ahearn’s 1983 cult hip- hop film]. She was really into how when you go on the subway or whatnot, there’s tons of flyers on top of one another, and things get peeled away so there’s all these layers. It looks like beautiful, and trashy – it’s that feeling of New York. For me, it was something that’s retro.”

YYYs released a short film to celebrate the 20th birthday of that debut album.

The two sublime singles.

– DATE WITH THE NIGHT –

– MAPS –

Full Album

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‘Date With The Night’ By YEAH YEAH YEAHS – Released In 2003…

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7 February 2020

Band: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (NYC, US)
Single: Date With The Night
Released: 14 April 2003
B-sides: Yeah! New York  and Bang By Little Stranger 
Album: Fever To Tell – the band’s debut LP
Score: Only released as a single
in the UK where it peaked at #16

Here’s the original video clip.
Pure dynamite…

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FIVE INFLAMMABLE SUMMER BANGERS – Part 7…

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Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer…

Another week! Another hit team of five heated jackhammers! Let’s rock…

1. ‘Made With Hate’ by PROPHETS OF RAGE
(Single 2019)

2. ‘The Way In’ by THE DREAM SYNDICATE
(Album: These Times – 2019)

3. ‘Date With The Night’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS
(Album: Fever To Tell – 2003)

4. ‘Black Hanz’ by THE MOONLANDINGZ
(Album: Interplanetary Class Classics – 2017)

5. ‘Disco Sofa’ by GARETH SAGER & THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
(Album: Juicy Rivers – 2018)

All Summer Bangers so far
collected here on Spotify…

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See/hear you next week, music junkies…

YEAH YEAH YEAHS Released Raw Garage Debut Album ‘FEVER TO TELL’ 15 Years Ago

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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

27 April 2018

BAND: YEAH YEAH YEAHS

ALBUM: FEVER TO TELL – debut longplayer

RELEASED: 29 April 2003 – 15 years ago…

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE wrote: “Karen O is one excitable girl. She’s the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the guitar-drums-gal band whose debut full-length album, Fever to Tell, proves that the New York rock renaissance runs deeper and wilder than the Strokes. Show O a hottie, or just set her up with the tensile riffs that Nick Zinner on guitar and Brian Chase on drums sock out in unison, and she’ll whoop and shriek and wail and pant in paroxysms of true-believer rock & roll. It’s not roots rock. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are closer to Siouxsie and the Banshees (but with a grin) and Led Zeppelin (but with estrogen) than to the blues, though they won’t pass up a good lick wherever they find it. Zinner places his guitar parts like a knife thrower, hurling single notes that leave wide-open spaces. Then he plunges through the middle with power chords. All the while, O moans and struts, having a fine time with old rock poses but using them to reach for something true. – Score: 4/5 – Full review here.

TURN UP THE VOLUME says : “A raw, garage and blues rock bolide speeding and burning fiercely with Karen O’s indomitable and howling vox fueling every single eruption on this flaming debut as if this was her last performance ever. Inflammable stuff all the way. Vicious score!”

THREE TOP TRACKS: Date With The Night / Maps / Black Tongue…

* DATE WITH THE NIGHT – savage midnight paranoia…

* MAPS – amplified passion…

* BLACK TONGUE – Boy you just a stupid bitch / And girl you just a no good dick…

Album in full…

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To Hell With Blue Mondays – Date… YEAH YEAH YEAHS

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Weekly firework to splinter Blue Mondays into a thousand pieces…

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DATE WITH THE NIGHT is the mighty reckless track that got me into YEAH YEAH YEAHS instantly. An overpowering slam dunk from their early days when frontwoman Karen O had a very close relationship with her microphone. Here’s your kooky Blue Monday date…

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On their 2003 debut album FEVER TO TELL…