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New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album Show Your Bones
Chesire Cat:
Well you definately missed the point there, but as to what you said. Taking music out of context severly hurts its 'greatness' that elusive aspect that turns a good album into a great one. If Nevermind came out tomorrow it wouldn't make as big of a shadow as it did when it did come out. Sure it'll still be a solid album full of great songs, but it wouldn't make history tomorrow, but it sure as hell did in '92.
Now as to what I said, I think what I am getting at is a band should really grow with its fans. They should still try to challenge their fans but I dont think we as a fanbase are wanting what they gave us. I am having a bit of difficulty articulating what I am tryng to get across, but here goes. On the first album Maps might have been the best song on the album, but it wasnt the song that made the band special to us. It was the rawness and energy the first one conveyed, and the greater part of us want more of that. After two albums of it though, we(I) will begin to tire of it, and start looking to the more rhythmic songs and hope for more of them in the future.
Praeserpium Machinarum:
It sounds like you thinking of them as if it was almost a different band, it is still Yeah Yeah Yeahs just in a different way. Personally the thought of Fever to Tell II doesn't appeal to me, I don't want more of same, I want them to evolve. Which they have in my opinion, and while I don't necessarily like all the innovations(camp fire moments), I wouldn't want them to rehash old territory. Granted I am not that big a fan and I haven't made my mind up about the new album. But to complain about it not sounding exactly like Fever to Tell is just silly.
Gryff:
--- Quote from: Chesire Cat ---On the first album Maps might have been the best song on the album, but it wasnt the song that made the band special to us.
--- End quote ---
Speak for yourself, pally.
Chesire Cat:
... Are you saying it wasn't the best song on the album, or it was the song that made it special to you? Because they are two very different things.
And Praeserpium Machinarum, dont disagree with me on principle. Its cute and nice to say you want a band to evolve but the YYYs seemed to just drop an aspect of themselves more than evolve. I didn't want the same Fever to Tell rehashed I wanted the sequal, drawing on all the different aspects of it and refining it into something new a better.
And to the rest of you, instead of saying why I am wrong, say why you are right. And if you didn't really like them then, and dont really like the new album. Why give your opinion at all?
Gryff:
'Maps' was the song (or at least one of the songs) that made me like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs so much. I dug 'Bang' and their other wilder stuff as well, but 'Maps'… man, so good.
Anyway, I don't think the issue is whether the band should evolve/did evolve/evolved in the wrong way/whatever. It's about whether they made a good record or not. I still haven't heard it, so I'll reserve judgement, but it seems like some of you just don't like this album as much as Fever To Tell - which is fine.
If taking music out of context affected its quality, then surely those of us listening to music made 30-40 years ago would not be that impressed by it, because the times they have a' changed. To use your example, if Nirvana released Nevermind now, it would not be received the same way as it was in the nineties, but the music would still be as good. Good music is good music no matter what its context.
To say, "It would make a great 3rd album but makes for a lackluster second," says more about you as a listener than the band. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have no obligation to please their fans, and they don't strike me as a band who would change their sound for a shot at mainstream success, so it's fair to assume that they made Show Your Bones because they wanted to.
You have every right to criticise the album, it just doesn't seem like you're criticising it for the right things.
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