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ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE Reveals 250 Greatest Songs Of The 21st Century

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After 25 years of music in this Century Rolling Stone Magazine
looks back and picked their 250 favourite tracks.

As expected hip-hop-pop is the big winner pushing guitar rock into a figurant
role although Radiohead (with surprising track choice, The White Stripes (with
their classic cracker) and Yeah Yeah Yeahs at No. 2 (completely unexcepted)
are in the Top 10.

Full List HERE.

Let’s have a closer at the Top 10.

10. Thinkin’ About You by FRANK OCEAN
More than 1,4 billion streams on Spotify

Album: Channel ORANGE (2012)

9. Toxic by BRITNEY SPEARS
More than 1,7 billion streams on Spotify

Album: In The Zone (2003)

8. Idioteque by RADIOHEAD
More than 47 million streams on Spotify

Album: KID A (2000)

7. Allright by KENDRICK LAMAR
More than 961 million streams on Spotify

Album: To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)

6. Dancin’ On My Own by ROBYN
More than 401 million streams on Spotify

Album: Body Talk (2010)

5. All To Well by TAYLOR SWIFT
More than 450 million streams on Spotify

Album: Red

4. Seven Nation Army by THE WHITE STRIPES
More than 2,030 billion streams on Spotify

Album: Elephant (2003)

3. Crazy In Love by BEYONCE
More than 1,8 billion streams on Spotify

Album: Dangerously In Love (2003)

2. Maps by YEAH YEAH YEAHS
More than 278 million streams on Spotify

Album: Fever To Tell (2003)

1. Get Ur Freak On by MISSY ELLIOT
More than 327 on Spotify

Album: Miss E… So Addictive (2001)

‘MAPS’ By YEAH YEAH YEAHS – Tearjerker Released 20 Years Ago

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16 May 2023

Band: YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Song/clip: MAPS
More than 80 million views on YouTube,
more than 152 million streams on Spotify

From YYY’s grand debut album FeverTo Tell released 20 years ago (29 April 2003).


Album artwork

Video: “The clip shows the band playing in an audition in a high school gymnasium, with different light filters changing the color of the room. Karen O’s crying in the video was not staged. She explains: “They were real tears. My boyfriend at the time (Angus Andrew) was supposed to come to the shoot – he was three hours late and I was just about to leave for tour. I didn’t think he was even going to come and this was the song that was written for him. He eventually showed up and I got myself in a real emotional state.”

Watch/listen.

YYYs: Website – Facebook – Instagram

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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YEAH YEAH YEAHS: Website – Facebook –Instagram

Stream 5 Brand New MUST-HEAR Albums Right Here…

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Just released: 5 brand new longplayers that will impress your ears and your speakers…


1/ ‘God’s Favorite Customer’ by FATHER JOHN MISTY (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Already singer/songwriter Josh Tilman‘s fourth album. Another collection of touching reflections and affecting musings about love, life and the troubled world we live in.

Stream here…

FJM: Facebook

2/ ‘Lump’ by LUMP
LUMP is a collaboration between captivating Brit Award winning singer/songwriter
Laura Marling and Mercury Award nominated Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Throws). Expect
some mystifying splendour that will grab your attention firmer with every spin. Top!

Stream here…

LUMP: Facebook


3/ ‘Maps’ by SOFT SCIENCE (Sacramento, CA, US)
Third LP by Californian 5-piece. Amplified psych pop strokes with shoegaze echoes.
Melodic rainbows colored with multi-layered guitar sequences and dreamy vocals.

Stream here…


SOFT SCIENCE: Facebook

4/ ‘Hell-On’ by NEKO CASE
Eight solo album by Virginia singer/songwriter, getting better with every LP. Varied
moods, varied sounds, varied paces, but always first-rate result. Gripping work!

Stream here…

NEKO CASE: Facebook

5/ ‘Frogressive Punk’ by DETIETI (Moscow, Russia)
This experimental and adventurous outfit mixes post-punk, prog rock, funk, art pop
and more into an exciting Frank Zappa-like cocktail that will please all of your senses.

Stream here…


DETIETI: Facebook

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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