Top singles from the past
12 September 2021
Band: YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Active Since 2000 / 4 studio albums with
Mosquito as their most recent one, but
that’s already 8 years ago
Anniversary single: CHEATED HEARTS
Released: 11 September 2006 – 15 years ago
Album: Show Your Bones
The band’s second longplayer
Message from TUTV to YYYs…
Time to come back, better sooner than later.
Sing it, Karen 0…
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1. COUNTRY GIRL by PRIMAL SCREAM (Scotland)
TUTV: A full-steam ahead killer rocker.
Album: Riot City Blues
Go nuts here…
2. CHEATED HEARTS by YEAH YEAH YEAHS (New York)
TUTV: Tremendous stroke from an underrated longplayer.
Album: Show Your Bones
Press play…
3. YOUNG FOLKS by PETER BJORN and JOHN (Sweden)
TUTV: Sickly sticky tune. This is what great pop is all about.
Album: Writer’s Block
Hum, sing, or whistle along…
4. WASTED LITTLE DJs by THE VIEW (Scotland)
TUTV: Amplified indie pop glory.
Album: Hats Off To The Buskers
Let’s roll…
5. THE YEAH YEAH YEAH SONG by THE FLAMING LIPS (Oklahoma, US)
TUTV: The Lips’ frontman Wayne County liked
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ band name so much that he wrote a song about it.
Album: At War With The Mystics
Yeah yeah yeah…
Heart and soul music for the laziest day of the week…
If it’s all in my head
There’s nothing to fear, nothing to fear inside
Through the darkness and the light
Some sun has got to rise
My sun is your sun
Their sun is our sun…
Hands up if you like these ten stunning tracks as much as I do. Ten standout performances that send shivers down my spine, ten goosebumps crackers I can listen to any moment of the day, ten stunners I heard for about 1 million times, and will countless times again in the future.
Here’s why…
1. Dead & Gone’ by TOY (UK)
Smashing psychedelia with a mind-blowing finale…
2. ‘I Am Mark E Smith by FAT WHITE FAMILY (UK)
One of the best live bands of the past 10 years…
3. ‘Chlorine’ by THE DISTRICTS (Philadelphia, PA)
Overwhelming passion, towering intensity…
4. ‘Despair’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS (US)
Gorgeous pop queen Karen O at her very best…
5. ‘Baby I Call Hell’ by DEAP VALLY (California, US)
Kick-ass blues rock frenzy by two utterly cool ladies…
6. ‘Common People‘ by PULP (UK)
Jarvis Cocker‘s orgiastic performance leads to spectacular euphoria…
7. ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony by THE VERVE (UK)
Fist-pumping anthem…
8. ‘Laid’ by James (UK)
No festivals this year, but this is my ecstatic alternative…
9. ‘Fried My Little Brains’ by THE KILLS (UK/US)
I’m in love with Alison Mosshart, she does my brains in…
10. ‘Rocks’ by PRIMAL SCREAM (Scotland)
The steamy ripper The Rolling Stones never wrote…
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…
YEAH YEAH YEAHS: Facebook
From ‘Despair‘ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Here’s the amazing sky-high clip in full…
From their 2013 album ‘Mosquito’…
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…
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
Here come Five Glorious Albums, selected
by Turn Up The Volume turning 10 in 2019!
– 1. ‘Primary Colours’ by THE HORRORS –
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– 2. ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ by MANIC STREET PREACHERS
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– 3. ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ by KASABIAN –
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– 4. ‘It’s Blitz’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS –
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– 5. xx by THE XX
Clips that have a lasting impact on Turn Up The Volume’s eyes and ears…
‘Despair’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Highly intoxicating song. Sky-high video clip…
Single from their 2013 Mosquito album
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