It's Blitz!

light two. unremarkable pop rock. I can't stand the songs where they hit every single eighth note. No rhythmic diversity. Compositionally unimpressive too I think it's telling that their most famous song is actually more famous as the remix version

Faces and Heads will roll are my favourite!

Other than Heads Will Roll I found this album a bit something and nothing. I don’t want to just be waiting for the big hits but I really struggled to see whpy this album was included in the list…

This was ok but ultimately not really for me. I liked Soft Shock and Faces and I thought Heads Will Roll and Dragon Queen were ok - nothing really gripped me though! also not a fan of acoustic versions on the main album - I’ve just heard this and now you want me to hear it again but worse ???? anyways …

Just an ok album for me. Nothing really grabbed me by the scruff of the neck. Some ok pop tunes but pretty forgettable overall

Pretty meh. Not sure why it’s on this list.

Meh meh mehs

It was fun. I don't know if I'll go back to this one, but I like "Heads will Roll." I knew that one well already, so it was cool to learn where that one came from.

The music is ok but i don't like Pattys voice

最初はイマイチだと思ったが、徐々に声に慣れて聞けなくはなくなった。面白みはない。track4は悪くないかな。track5も良い。が、次は好きじゃない。こういった声が高めで細く、うまさを感じない声は苦手。完走せず。

Not my kind of music, i fount it very uninteresting.

Individually there are some good songs I like, but as an album it keeps getting quieter & slower to the point I keep wondering when it will end. Songs I liked: Heads Will Roll, Hysteric & Soft Shock 2/5

Boring generic late 00s alt rock. Just did nothing for me.

Ok not my favorite

квинтэссенция миллениальского саунда. документ своей эпохи. ХЭДС ВИЛЛ РОЛЛ и СКЕЛЕТОНС вывезли. 🥵💥💥✅

I’d never heard any Yeah Yeah Yeahs before. Listened attentively while driving - no chance to read anything about it. Couldn’t work out what it was trying to be: so much synth but still guitars chugging away? Singer aiming for what? Some sounded like they wanted to be U2 with bombastic stadium anthems, but they couldn’t write anything catchy. Some made me wonder if they wanted to be Siouxsie and the Banshees, but no energy in the drumming, nothing attention-grabbing in the vocals. Then I got a chance to look at Wikipedia. Someone seriously described this as synth-punk?? This album is practically the opposite of punk. Someone said the singer and guitarist are both amongst the greatest ever? Yeah, na. For me, this album is Pretty Poor, 3/10.

Come across as a load of nothingness. Heard similar more times than I can remember. Little to commend it and little to dislike. Stuck in a sea of meh. 2/5 14/5/26

I never liked them before, but this wasn't as bad as expected. Some not bad stuff on here beyond their radio hits.

I like heads will roll

I listened to about 9 songs in this album, it was really bland and I the chorus slowly became repetitive.

flat and boring.

Kinda ok

This seems like the kind of music I would expect to hear while dancing at a nightclub. Except I don’t go to nightclubs, and I don’t dance. It’s fine, up-tempo, nothing offensive. Good danceable beat. Nothing I will be adding to my collection.

not really

It’s synth pop.

Unknown band. OK music. OK album.

Cool album overall, it has a couple of bangers. Not a lot of albums can represent this sort of sound better than this one. Would be on the fence on whether it deserves inclusion. 7/10 [KEEP]

no esta mal, pero no me generó nada. es un álbum así sin más. no me pareció malo, pero es para escuchar una vez y listo

This is a pretty standard early thousands indie disco floor filler album. Not bad, but not something you'll go back to time and again. Sits perfectly nicely in the background, without ever challenging or inspiring. Could equally be any number of local bands from around the world that were decent, if unspectacular.

Started on a relative high with Zero. Unfortunately, many songs did not follow through on the promise of awesome indie sleaze rock that the first song made. Heads Will Roll genuinely sucks, it's so annoying. I felt the same about Dull Life. Skeletons is alright. The rest of the album varies from vaguely okay to pretty grating. Sad, as I do enjoy other Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs from other albums.

No. Too much

An album of two halves, with the electronic based tracks far stronger. Opens with a series of engaging tunes, from the euro-pop affectations of Zero to the standout OMDish celtic overtures of Skeletons. But then disappears into a steam of forgettable filler.

I don't think YYY ever released a great album - it was diminishing returns after their first EP (which is superb). A few good tracks on this, but a lot of filler.

This started well and was quite enjoyable, but then I felt lost its way a bit and got a bit boring

Not terrible, weirdly the 4th two star album in a row all by bands who have much better work in their back catalogue. Tom.

Am I missing something? I have no idea what is noteworthy about this album. It wasn't outright terrible, but... why? Forgettable pop rock.

This wasn’t quite as terrible as the first record by them we reviewed, but it was still terrible.

This was a slight improvement from the last album we listened to by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs but that bar was pretty low to begin with. The songs on this album are far less grating and actually have some artistic creativity to them. Not much to hang my hat on other than it didn’t completely suck.

Someone wrote that the genre for this album should be called “Indieslop” and I think that’s a great description. I never bought into the hype on this band - Look it’s the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! They must be super rad, they released on DGC! They moved BACKWARDS stylistically from post-punk to synth-pop, aw man they’re so cool! Karen O is the best, just ignore that you can’t understand a single word of what she’s singing, alright? This is kitschy, east village vibe core and, while the critics can have their darlings, I’m not fucking with it.

Damn shame. I really liked Fever To Tell, but this is an entirely different feel. They went and prettied everything up. Tore the heart and grit out of music. Makes me sad.

The first two tracks aren’t bad, but it didn’t hold me for the rest of the album.

Oldest story there is: former guitar rock group whips out the synths and tries to go pop and falls flat on their face. In my opinion, at least—other people like this a lot, I guess. Painfully boring and indistinguishable from a hundred other similar groups, with only three superior songs: “Heads Will Roll”, a great pop song with cool U2-esque guitar work, and surprisingly enough (or maybe not; this band wrote “Maps” after all) the album’s two colossal, tearjerker ballads “Skeletons” and “Little Shadow”. Best track: “Skeletons”

it was okay

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s are a band that always passed me by and i’m not sure why, as i quite liked Karen O’s other work. I fear the answer may lay with the amount of synths on this album. Its not that i dont like the songs, just that i dont really care. It all just feels s bit like going through the motions.

“Heads Will Roll” is a great song. The rest is a load of guff.

This just sort of passed me by. It was fine, but I have nothing really positive or negative to say about it. It exists. None of it grabbed me in any way. I do love the cover though. Should be a 2.5 really, but I'm rounding down. 2/5

2.3, skoleband-lyden, de var heldige at ramme den lige i røven med Heads Will Roll. Forsangers stemme også utroligt ensformig i længden

Not as good as their other album

Demos were the highlight for me

I really like the first yeah yeah yeahs album but this doesn't do much for me. I think the stylistic change would be really good in theory but it's just missing something in practice, I like the demos a lot though

I just could not get into this. Found it too jangly and jarring, didn't provoke any emotional response. Songs are unmemorable although I nearly liked 'Hysteric - acoustic' and 'Little Shadow - acoustic'

Heads will roll is a classic! I thought it was by someone else though? Huh. Couple other listenable ones. Overall not for me and didn’t enjoy it too much.

feels like mid tier coworker music

The first four tracks are great, after that it's just a mush

Hints of punk, No Doubt, couple of other bands. Vocalist’s voice eventually became grating to my ears. Songs were mildly entertaining but I found them ultimately “blah” without a variety of change. Yet another example of an album in this list that I don’t understand why it’s in this list. 1 1/2 stars

Bland, inoffensive. I take offence

This sounds like when you walk into H&M

no thanks

started quite good but then got boring

…okay

It's like they gave a Taylor Swift wannabe a synthesizer.

06/03/2026 *1. zero - okay.... like an american lcd soundsystem? like the strings. love the instrumental about 2:30.... really lovely vocals. not massive on the lyrics though. nice dance music but lyrics are a bit nothing. nice! 2. heads will roll - already know this. high pitched guitar in this isn't my favourite... like the a-trax remix aloooot more :/ 3. soft shock - not massive on this one immediately.... sounds very millenial indie, bit dated now. getting bored towards the end. 4. skeletons - regret saying the last one was boring bc this is so much worse. her voice is beautiful, but it's starting to get a bit grating? like kindof cursive... 5. dull life - jesus christ you can tell this is from 2008. bit stomp-clap-y. what do any of these lyrics through the whole album mean? maybe i don't get it, but it seems very vacant. reminding me of the songs that would play in the menu on kinect sports rivals on the xbox one (not good!) 6. shame and fortune - liking the bass in this one.... bit boring again. *7. runaway - piano.... how does it keep getting worse. to be fair, it's getting better as it goes on. not something i would choose to listen to, but now the strings(?) in the background have kicked in, it's not as bad :) vaguely reminds me of mars argo.... used to be obsessed with her when i was like ten lol. like the screeching towards the end. 8. dragon queen - seeing people in the reviews calling this indie sleaze.... how is this sleazy??? hate the clapping. 9. hysteric - still not a fan, but do like the dreamy vibe. do not like the clapping effect again..... finding it boring. 10. little shadow - like the organ and the acoustic guitar together. better than the others, but still boring. for me, it's not enough rock in a pop-rock album.. didn't really know what to expect from this one. liked the first track, but it quickly nosedived. realised once i got to the chorus of heads will roll that the version i like is a remix and i do not actually like the original lol. will not be listening to this one again :)

★★½

I've never liked the electronic crap in music.

eeeeeeem not my type

Not my thing

It really seems like there’s a lot going on but it doesn’t really amount to much

Meh idk kinda boring

Most if it it's background music

Enjoyable.

Few interesting tracks like, for example, „Dragon Queen”, „Heads will roll”. Rest of them seems a bit bland, like FIFA main menu music.

heads will roll is classic tell me lies but this isn't really my type of music

Not into the synthy indie rock thing. Really boring for me

Объективно отличный альбом, просто не мое

gidik kız

The last few songs did drag a bit. The first half of the album is a good listen.

Eh, plain alt album for me. Had the “off with your head.. dance till were dead” song on it.

1. Bonne intro 2. Classique!! 3. Okok.. mid 4. ÇA PART QUAND ?? 5. Bon sequencing, son plus punchy après une berceuse 6. Mid 7. Le ventre mou est bien bien mou 8. Groovy, intéressant, mieux! Bonnes textures. 9. On est reparti dans du no-groove-U2esque PTN 10. Bon 11. Au moins, ça finit mieux Avis final mitigé… 2-3 bons morceaux qui méritent une réécoute. Le reste très très ennuyant, Non-Groovy-Flat-U2esque.. 2/5

Standard indie rock that doesn't contain anything to make it worthy of the title 'great'. It's fine but not great in any way.

This album comes from my youth, but somehow I really dreaded listening to it. I had only ever heard the hits, but didn’t even want to hear those with this go around. Rather annoying and somehow doesn’t feel true to who the band is/was

Had never heard of the band before Tried to give it a second listening to be sure I wasnt "missing it", but my earbuds had difficulty pairing and proclaimed "No connection" - I've therefore decided this is a sign and forms my comprehensive review: No connection....2 star

I'm not really into the alt and synth pop sound. It's the more rock oriented tracks that save the album for me. Karen O's vocals are fine, but they have this wispy ethereal quality to them that I don't enjoy.

osma stvar okej, ostalo ili dosadno i bezvezno ili blago naporno. ne znam. trunku bolji od onog njihovog prvog albuma koji sam slušo al to ne znači mnogo

Why is this on here? I don't feel like it particularly adds anything to the conversation of it's moment

Ok. Not enjoyable to any great interest.

Heads Will Roll is great. The rest ehh not bad but not really feeling it.

Sigh. Nothing to inspire me here

I’ve jus never really liked them.

Favorite track(s): Heads Will Roll, Dull Life

Nul

Not a bad album, but probably wouldn’t listen again. I wanna feel inspired

One classic song filled with a bunch of edm filler that didn’t resonate with my black ass

Remarkably unremarkable, and yet here I am, remarking.

Boring

off off off

Another one song album

This is ok. The last song is the best on the album. Very dancey but in a predictable way. They leaned too far away from their earlier work.

Heads will roll, is a good song

I will never listen to this album again

Being generous. This was not an album for me but I wouldn’t hate it if it was on in the background of a busy restaurant

Favourites: Zero Heads Will Roll ★ Skeletons ★ Little Shadow

- Och, 'hespenrol', toch meh - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummer al toegevoegd aan MMMM

cosi cosi. non é il mio stile. rock pop? pop rock? pop e basta? non si capisce bene. qualche pezzo carino, forse. heads will roll pezzone.

not my style

not my fav vocal

The voice got old very quickly for me, still a couple good songs though. Can’t see myself revisiting the album.

Don’t really have much to say. It was just kind of whatever. Didn’t bother me too much but can’t say I liked any of the songs. 2 stars.

Didn't care for this. I played it while cooking and the main emotion I felt was annoyed.

Really wasn't for me. Kinda just sounded like generic indie rock, with nothing making it stand out from the current music in the genre

This was profoundly okay. It certainly grew on me but ultimately it’s forgettable

it's ok

No "Maps"? No thanks.

Eh?

Dece

Not really my kind of music, but I have a certain respect for Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Favorite songs: Soft Shock, Little Shadows.

Heads Will Roll and Zero are club bangers, the rest is somewhere between decent and dull. The lead singer's voice can be pretty, but she often sounds faux-miserable. I think it just needs more, I can't help feeling disappointed. Not that every song needs to be a party anthem, but I couldn't tell you a single thing about 80% of the album.

I don't know what to give this album. Like it's not the worse thing ever, but this was such a disappointing album when it came out. I was enormously into Show Your Bones (still love many tracks on the album) as well as loved much of Fever To Tell. This album was a big departure from their sound when I feel they should have kept going forward with what they had on Show Your Bones, that there was still a lot of meat on those bones. This album feels like they threw that away when there was more to eat! They can have such a great heavy sound. Instead it's this all over the place album that has no core, no sequence, no identity that feels genuine. This album sounds like what a solo Karen O album would be expected to sound like. Like dance-y, different vocal stuff, more fluff, less meat. It'd be okay if that's what it was. I don't feel like it does what it's doing very well, or at least I don't find it compelling. It's kinda see-thru, like you already got it figured out before it finishes telling you. It's like "oh okay, it's this kind of thing..." to each track, even though these tracks vary from one to the next, which is part of the issue: each track is another thing that sounds like it's part of something larger, but that larger thing isn't here, so you just have a piece of that larger thing; it's an album that is a collection of these disparate parts and pieces. I'm still salty 'cause I bought this album outright when it came out thinking there'd be no way I wouldn't like it, then was greatly let down and out whatever it cost (I bought it through a friend's Apple Music 'cause my broke-ass didn't have a computer at the time). My life was in a low place too. Not good associations going on. And I tried listening to get something it of this album and never could. That's it: 2 stars (tempted to go 1 star, but there's still way-worse music than this that I want to save 1-stars for). I don't like this album. I'd be okay never hearing it again.

Pretty good but no classic.

Part 80s throwback, part mediocrity. Really nice voice but it needed to make more effort.

Very meh for me. I like the energy but the music mostly didn't do anything for me. Favorite track: Dull Life

Its a vibe

eh

Этот довольно пресный, местами даже раздражающий

It's fine..best albums?

Very un memorable. Will skip again

Heads Will Roll is great, otherwise didn’t enjoy

It's Mid!

Not really my jam. Good for them though

Prescindible. No malo, pero es un rock que no me gusta.

skeletons seems like they are going for a maps part 2 but it never really hits the way the latter does. I was a fan of fever to tell and that record has only grown in my esteem over the years. when they started pushing a more polished, electronic sound I grew less interested, but can see how others might prefer or welcome this...more mature version.

Close but no cigar. First thought that this is Nico but after four songs I dropped out on what comes to being interested.

This is so dance oriented music that I find it ridiculous it's considered rock music. I liked their "Show Your Bones", but after that the albums have gone by the wayside, with barely a single play through. Not for me.

Didn't particularly like her voice, the lyrics or the arrangements...sorry!

Yeah, no. Pretty boring.

Background music, didn't catch my attention at all. Had potential but all sounded very similar. I liked the last song "Faces" the most.

Slightly over synthed for my liking. I can't find any offence in this music. It starts pretty well with the 2 very recognisable songs. It just doesn't fit into my narrow rock expectations and a bit disco vibe which managed to get worse in that it loses the energy and goes pretty limp wristed very quickly in the second half. Not something I can say I wouldn't listen to but just doesn't capture me so a very harsh 2.

Generally lack luster edm stuff and some middle to low tier indie melodies

This is TOO stuck in 2009, and not in a nostalgic way. It is a bit grating and eye-rolling, especially the singer's nasally late-00's indie rock voice.

eh

Started strong, drifted off a bit after the first three songs. Probably won't listen again

It wasn't awful, but I definitely found it boring. I'd maybe listen to one song on this album again: "Shame and Fortune".

Yeah yeah yeahs was the worst concert I ever attended live back in 2023. But back then I didn't know any songs from them, and so I tried going into this album unbiased... but it's just waaaay too boring.

It's not Blitz, it's shitz!

Interesting but not something I would listen to.

First two tracks really drew me in and made me think this was gonna be, like, a disco punk album. But for the most part the rest of the album is pretty boring and forgettable. A lot of other music from this time period sounds pretty similar and is much better than this. Overall, not a fan.

It’s so refreshing to find where songs you’ve heard in different medias actually come from.

Not for me, the acoustic stuff on the deluxe edition wasn't too bad tbh, works better but the main body of the album very synth and keyboard driven

Dragon Queen is okay. It took me forever to listen to this album, not my thing.

BORING!!!!

Heads will roll is already on some of my playlists but that is also the only song from this band that I know of and that I have heard before today. After listening through the album I get why that one song has so many more listeners than the others. I can't put my finger on exactly why but the other songs didn't catch my attention at all. Its something that could play in the background and at no point would I sing along or find myself getting caught up in the beats.

Dave was right, it’s giving Bathroom Break

Only listened once due to time constraints but didnt hate it. I kinda thought I would.

Snelle inhaal review #4: Okayish dancepunk album, maar doe mij maar Crystal Castles ofzo

Niet erg boeiend

For crap american pap, some of its OK.

This album feels like the quirky lovechild of Rocky Horror and Napoleon Dynamite. Kind of fun and weird in a good way at first, but after a few songs the vocals wear on me and I’m ready for something different.

dancing dog

I’m not sure why I didn’t listen to It’s Blitz! when it came out. I liked Fever to Tell a lot, and Zero and Heads Will Roll were great singles. Especially after the underwhelming Show Your Bones. On a first listen, nothing tops those singles. Soft Shock is good. Skeleton irks a bit with its Highland-style countermelody. The sequenced synths start to feel wearying; Nick Zinner’s one-finger synth lines don’t have the same expressiveness as his four fingers on a guitar. The drum machines obscure what I know to be Brian Chase’s more inventive acoustic drumming. When, I wonder, did drum machines become more limited than the people they were built to replace? It all sounds very 2009. Or at least how I remember 2009. A little Metric, some Feistian keening. Faint traces of Animal Collective and Fever Ray. That whole era’s sonic bootprint is stamped all over it. And for all that I liked those singles at the time, I’d had enough of 2009 even before it happened. I was already fed up by 2005. That’s probably why it’s not easy to go back now. Still, there’s a lot that I like — most of the record, in fact — though the pacing feels off. I found myself waiting for a slow, spare number like Hysteric. Then they follow it with Little Shadow, a second slow closer. Not a bad ending, but a wan one after all that came before. The acoustic version of Skeleton, which was tagged onto the expanded edition I listened to, would have done a better job at track four than the electric version. Even so, it - like the acoustic Soft Shock - has the air of a mid-2000s advertising sync. I looked it up: the Karen O commercial was from 2005. That’s when the bloat set in. When everything started sounding like that. Still, there’s enough to admire here to make you wish you didn’t feel like you were being sold a T-Mobile G1 while listening to it. 2.5 When it came out much was made of this 3-piece rock band’s daring pivot to dancey synth pop but truthfully it was superficial change. This was just another Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. It’s Blitz has the same weaknesses but fewer moments of justification than its predecessors. As usual they simply hook their listener into submission. There are no long (or even medium-sized) lines in either the lyrics or the music. Short guitar/keyboard riffs go round and round and round. Short melodic ideas go round and round and round. A second one of each is introduced and then we are bludgeoned with that for a while. The singer sings nonsense but as the chorus of The Beatles ‘She Loves You’ taught them; singing the nonsense three times usually does the trick. That has been the story of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s process since album 1, track 1: [idiotic guitar riff] ‘I’m rich/ Like a hot noise/ Rich rich rich’ (Rich) Nevertheless these arbitrary fragments are mercilessly enjoyable; the addictive drama of Karen O’s brilliant voice, at once powerful and fragile and Nick Zinner’s clinical unsubtlety on his guitar (or synth). It is songwriting as stickle bricks; each piece is so colourful and pleasant in itself, who cares that you can’t make a cathedral out of it? Not my toddler, who sticks two of the bigger pieces together and declares that she has made a robot. Wonderful work I tell her, and I mean it. So how good are the 11 robots on It’s Blitz? They’re alright. Somehow the two previous albums had better ones. Far better ones. Y Control and Maps and Gold Lion and Fancy all create their potent drama out of familiar rock tropes and in doing so invite you to believe for a couple of minutes that something profound is being reached at. You bring your own ‘meaning’ and ignore the lyrics. On It’s Blitz the shop front now reads ‘Dance! (dance, dance)’. The rock artifice is discarded and with it the suspension of disbelief that makes the Yeah Yeah Yeahs seem even faintly credible as songwriters. As I said at the outset it’s really a superficial change - you could always dance to the YYYs and you always knew they were basically shit. I quite like this cover and would be interested to know how many eggs they went through to get it just so. 2/5

There are parts of this that I really liked ('Skeletons' is a keeper), but unfortunately, it had quite a lot of meh, too. Kinda tough to pin down exactly why this isn't better than it is. I mean, it seems like they've got a winning recipe here, but it's just missing some important ingredient that would have made it gel. Perhaps an egg?

Everyone knows this band for the second song on this album, and that's about it. Nothing else is notable.

I actually liked a couple songs but wouldn't go back to it.

Overrated

I don't understand bands that don't have a bass player. What's Up with that?

Eh

Not for me

No sé nada de ellos. A ver qué me encuentro. La portada, se momento, está bien. Otro disco que podría haberse quedado en mi ignorancia. Cada canción tiene una linea melódica que exprime más allá de lo saludable. Tres, cuatro o cinco minutos con una sola idea musical está para mí más cerca de cadena de montaje que de música.

Album 807 of 1089 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (2009) Rating : 2.5 / 5 Not bad. I preferred their earlier garage band type sound as opposed to this synth-laced dance-punk.

Boring

Surprised how many I recognized

Less skin crawlingly pretentious than the previous Yeah Yeah Yeahs we did, but this is still absolutely devoid of any substance. A truly terrible band.

Not my thing

Meh, not really my thing. At first, it just sounded like The Pretenders... until it didn't.

eh

It's like dance punk but uninteresting

I actually thought the last song was amazing, but the rest just felt mostly the same. The big hit has never really sat with me, so can respect the talent but just not my style.

1.5

Not my type.

Good beginning but ultimately falls flat at the end

Po prostu meh.

Chick music. "Heads will roll" dance song

meh

Het was gewoon echt niet boeiend genoeg, nog eerder 2 dan 4

It's alright. A fine pop/dance/disco thing. It's fine. No real idea why this is on the list, though. Feels more like a "we need to update this list...toss in a few albums from the last couple of decades at random to make it look like this is something we keep updated." I'm happy I gave this a listen. Will I ever need to give it a listen again? No.

This album feels a lot more dance and electronica driven than the other album on the list. The couple top singles are frequently featured in dance mixes, this one isn’t for me.

Good fun.

No songs hooked me

Not my style

Boring. Lacks energy, and I don't like the hit song from the album. Ironically, the best song was "Dull Life", which was energetic & souded like Yeah Yeah Yeahs first EP.

Yeah yeahh!

It was ok, noting amazing

I've listened before, was definitely pretty hyped on it but Idk I never listen to this thing lmao. It's like decently energetic but I think honestly if I want something sort of close to this where it's like a 00's (mainstream) punk band filled out by some electronics I probably would rather hear Sleigh Bells lol. It's like good but doesn't feel so specific to me that no one else could've made it and they waffle and try these drawn-out songs that don't really work. Just get to the point and punch me in the face with a new sound. Y'know? You literally called the thing "It's Blitz!"

This page has been handing out alot of positive Band names this week...Yes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, even the Happy Mondays. I'm still not really buying what these mid-late-00ies Indie Bands are throwing down, though...

Alright

Not a single memorable song for me.

Yeah, this feels like a watered-down, overproduced record by a mediocre pop band. Barely more bite than Avril Lavigne. Their other album was better. This sounds like Rock’n’Roll in pouty suspenders from Hot Topic.

Ei jättänyt itsestään mitään muistikuvaa. Ei offensiivisen huonoa, ei mitään mielenkiintoista.

heads will roll though

Le genre de trucs qui passait en boucle sur Europe 2 à la fin des années 2000. Rien qui te faisait changer de station, mais rien qui te faisait monter le volume.

Not a band I’m overly familiar with. It wasn’t bad but didn’t really leave much of an impression on me

3/10

Interesting, well produced, not my cup of tea though.

I guess this list is like 90% rock albums? I've gotten one country album, one world album, one jazz album, one R&B album, one hip hop album, and about 60 rock albums so far. So, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I gave their first album a chance, at the time the rock world seemed to be going nuts about Karen O, but I just didn't get it, from her supposed "charisma" to her affected vocals to her stage presence or "outrageous" persona. "Maps" was cool and has proven to be a modern rock classic, but I didn't get on the bandwagon. The Siouxsie / Dale Bozzio / Chrissie Hynde mashup is intriguing, I guess, and works for the young fans this band pulled in early on. I never heard this record, though, and am glad to hear that a lot of the annoying vocal affectations Karen O had on the earlier stuff is much less prominent here. There's also more of an emphasis on synths... not til "Dull Life" do we really get rock guitars. It did start to drag after that song, though, as the energy kind of left the building in the 2nd half. I liked this more than I expected to, but not enough to want to hear it again.

One or two tracks I enjoyed but wouldn’t listen again

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs just don't appeal to me. They put out good albums, but it just doesn't hit the dopamine for me.

Damn 2009, I was here for this the first time round. Never particularly liked the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and still not loving it, but it's fine.

Never heard of them before

Too "sinthy" for me. I enjoyed songs such as Dull Life, Heads Will Roll and Soft Shock, but this isn't an album I would listen to again. 2-3 stars (I would give it 2.5).

Second by this band in three days, and this one wore thin on me. I don't like the lead singers voice and the tracks are too dancy for my taste.

I like the cover-foto but that's it basically. Nothing remarkable here.

I love the cover art, but I can't say the same about the music. Quite uninteresting 00's indie.

I listened to the first song and thought this might be okay. The second track rolled on and I actually knew it, but only from a remix (not the official one), like heard it dozens of times. This was looking good! Then it dissolved into a soppy mess of blandness and angst, leaving me more than a little conflicted. It started out so well, but ended up sounding a bit like Coldplay (and I mean that in a bad way).

I don't think this album benefitted from concentrated listening... OK for background music but not my fave.

This was pretty nice. First half was better than the second. Probably wont revisit this though.

Idk, I liked Fever To Tell... this was a little bland. It didn't get through to me.

I'm left as unimpressed by this record as any of its contemporaries. This brand of "critically acclaimed by default pop rock album with chamber elements" does nothing for me at all.

I can't listen to the normal version of Heads will Roll now that Dance Till You're Dead exists. It just isn't the same without that dog vibing to the song. Other than that, the album is ok but nothing that interesting.

Like 80s pop with a hangover. Not for me.

Boring, repetitive.

Blah blah blah, more like

Not crazy about electronic music like this. It’s a 2 for me.

Need some time to percolate this

Meh

Fairly repetitive and kinda dull. Not really a fan. Best song: Heads Will Roll

2.07

She has good voice. Bland music though. She’s not overpowered by the instruments so that’s a plus. It’s listenable (and totally forgettable.) 2.5/5

Squeaky voice annoyed me to no end. Music for hipsters. 2/5

Couldn’t decide if it wants to be boring or annoying.

First song is great. Otherwise whatever.

I keep waiting to "get" the Yeah Yeah Yeah, but I'm always left with them reminding me of the try-too-hard to look like not-trying-too-hard indie bro of the mid-00's. Like, if you don't like it, it's your fault and you should feel intellectually inferior...anyway. Some songs are ok, others are about 20 falsettos too many. Didn't hate it.

Pretty good. Not great, not bad. This is the best review of all time

Começo promissor pelo ritmo acelerado e alegre, com o vocal sexy não se confirmou pela sequência de músicas que deixam um aroma insonso.

Was alright. There’s a high sound that gets a bit annoying after a while. A frequency I like her voice

More like "yeah - no".

I thought it was okay. Heads will roll great choon

OK

heads will roll 🤤 idk it exists nothing else really speaks to me

Not awful, but still uninteresting throughout with a few exceptions. It get a bit better when the pace picked up. Highlights: Dull Life

Failed to grab me and not as energising as their debut. Karen O undoubtedly a brilliant singer.

# Playlist track - Zero # Notes - The opening tracks are SO DIFFERENT from the rest that the whole things even seems like a scam of sorts. - Zero and Heads Will Roll are amazing, but it goes downhill from there, really fast. - The last few ones, especially the acoustic versions are downright awful. - It's boring, repetitive and doesn't bare any resemblance to the energetic and fun opening. What a shame.

I didn't really care for this one too much. Female vocals and tame instrumentation just didn't do much for me.

Don't mind the band too much but this album misses the mark. Reckon this album benefits from being released around the same time the book was. If it were to be updated I suspect this wouldn't make the list.

Not a bad album.

Mostly bland indie dance rock, with the occasional good, standout song. ‘Zero’, ‘Heads Will Roll, ‘Soft Shock’ and ‘Dragon’ are the picks here. And to be fair they are quite good. The rest of the album however, while pleasant enough, is mostly forgettable.

Thought I didn't know what the Yeah Yeah Yeahs sounded like, but I hated Heads Will Roll when it was on the radio. The rest, if I heard it, I couldn't tell apart from Metric. That doesn't speak well of either band. I might have thought Heads Will Roll was Metric. I thought this stuff had a I'm-cooler-than-you-please-look-at-me thing to it that indie rock absolutely did not need trying to disguise itself as fun. More of an uncaring reaction than an I hate it reaction now that I'm old, except that because of this list when I hear this much vocal fry I'm going to think of Britney Spears pop. So that's another way I'm sadder about cultural history. Thanks list. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Nothing special. Monotone and repetitive

i don’t love the sound of her voice. heads will roll i like.

I wasn't impressed

Yeah (just one). Karen O is the only thing that keeps this engaging for me. The occasional drum fill works. The occasional synth drone works. In Skeletons, they both work. But for the most part the synth often seems intrusive, like it never really joined the band.

This is the second album I've had recommended from this band. It's funny, because I reread my thoughts for that one, and I felt then what I feel now. The album's alright, but I would be hard pressed to include it in any list of music to listen to before we croak, let alone two.

p925. 2009. 2 stars. Unremarkable power pop with no standout tunes. Perfectly acceptable, but not essential listening in any way.

Not my fave sonically pretty coherent but I think track nine should’ve been the album closer track 3 ‘Soft Shock’ was my best

Starts pretty well but I became less interested the further in I got, pretty tight indie synth otherwise. High 2.

2.5 started good but fell off a cliff after skeletons

First listen. Ok

Leaves you wanting more, in the worst possible way. It has most of the makings of something good, but never takes it to the next level. The album started with a lot of promise with the first two tracks, but it never reaches its peak.

Reading Wikipedia it said the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were roommates with Metric. That makes a lot of sense. They sound very similar to Metric, Florence and The Machine and The Kills, just not as interesting.

Overrated as fuck

Cheap and flat indie pop/rock. Gave me nothing. Includes hit Heads Will Roll.

So I was prepared to NOT like “It’s Blitz!” by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – as I had heard some of their stuff awhile back to lackluster reviews, so it didn’t surprise me when it started slowly why I was out cutting the lawn… It is fairly original, and there was a decent amount of diversity throughout the album – and really not a bad track on it, just not all that many gems either in my opinion… The best tracks IMO were “Dull Life” & “Shame & Fortune” – as both are really well-done, and I did think the album got better as it went on… Nothing earth-shattering here in my opinion, but not too shabby for a post 2000 album, as I’m pretty hard on those – as not many have impressed me to date… Solid 2…

I'm am getting exposed to albums, artists and genres I otherwise would have missed. While I have heard of this band, this was the first real listen I have given. Not much to say. This album is pretty good musically but the lyrics are cryptic and feel random phrases in a song. Maybe it was just a bad day for me...

How the hell is Yeah Yeah Yeahs one of 1001 albums that's essential to listen to before death? This is not revelatory at all. It's just power pop. And I hate the vocals. And the name.

Initial thought is that this is Pop/Dance masquerading as “indie”. Big NOPE for me. The position of the synth so high in the mix seems like an engineering error. The “set it and forget it” dance beat used nearly throughout the first half of this album is lazy as hell. The latter half trades it in for a slowed down snoozer approach. Not sure how much of an improvement that is. I don’t hate the vocals (with the exception of Runaway). Shame and Fortune was the single stand out track I thought was great. Can’t find much else I like here.

Not my jam

Música un poco más cañera pero realmente con poco que decir musicalmente. Es peculiar pero realmente no aporta nada que parezca merecer especialmente el destacar frente a otros

Dance/synth from the 2010s ish wouldn’t normally be my thing but I LOVE Karen’s vocals with it. That said, this isn’t my favorite album of theirs. Rating 2 stars because I know I like the latest album better.

Groupe totalement inconnu. Pas désagréable, mais pas très intéressant.

It went from bearable to annoying about half-way through. It's not something I'd ever want to hear again, but it's not 'The Cramps' bad and I did listen to the whole album.

Not objectively bad but not for me. Got 4 songs in and was too bored so had to leave early.

An egg was sacrificed for this?!

Trotos

It’s Bland! 2/5

Never heard the album or any of the songs. All right I guess, but none of the songs seem memorable or resonate. Seems pretty derivative. Not sure why it makes the list.

Enjoyed acoustic versions

Nur kurz rein gehört, ist mir zu hektisch und elektronisch.

2.5 - alright heads will roll obviously a banger - 4/5

Really didn't do it for me.

I love 2000s indie music but this is an album that I could never understand the hype. I tried the album back then and I tried it now and nothing really stood out. Sorry Karen O it just wasn’t for me.

I'm not saying this wasn't a pleasant surprise but I am saying its not an album - amongst 1,000 - I have to listen to. Like most pop music it follows a curve rather than sets it. I'm sure for youth of a certain generation it has a resonance which includes festivals sunshine and all things pre-thirtiers but thats not my generation.

02.05.24 Faves: - Heads Will Roll - Soft Shock - Skeletons - Runaway Opinion: I've heard some songs from this band before but it isn't something I'd listen to willingly.

unfortunately this wasnt really my thing :(. It was pretty competently made but ended up sounding very samesy for me with only one or two songs sticking out, though i did enjoy those. Idk im tired

Runaway

Diferente a su estupendo debut Fever to Tell (2003), este disco supuso una salida airosa para una banda que afrontaba el difícil 3er disco de su carrera. “Zero” y “Heads Will Roll” son dos pelotazos que condensan todo lo bueno del disco. El resto no está a ese nivel pero aún así conforman un listado muy disfrutable. En 2009 hubo discos mucho mejores e influyentes: Animal Collective, The XX, The Flaming Lips, The Horror, The pains of being pure at heart, Girls, Prefab Sprout, The Raveonettes, Grizzly Bear... It´s blitz está a la altura del Tonight de Franz Ferdinand, también su 3er disco, editado el mismo año y con similares inclinaciones melódicas. La portada es fabulosa, toda una declaración de principios. Karen O es parte del camino emprendido por Siouxsie Sioux, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry o tantas otras, solo por eso merece la pena discos como este.

Meh

2/5 had one good song, but didn’t really Resonate with me.

heads will roll !

Medium good. I never really got sucked in to the music, but I didn't hate anything.

I hvert fald 1 godt nummer...

Female band. 3/10

my little pop punk loving ass loved heads will roll when i was like 14

It gets weak pretty fast, as soon as it looses it's tempo it looses my attention.

I just don't like electronic music

Pointless pop, just washes over.

I really like Karen O as a singer but the music don’t do anything for me.

I just don’t like it

Honestly, an era of music I'd rather forget about

-not a fan of the vocalist -yo heads will roll is on here lol -lowkey a lot of these songs just annoying af -extremely uninteresting lyrics imo -katy perry negs fav tracks: Heads Will Roll Runaway least fav: Dull Life

Not my cup of tea. In my opinion, only 2 good songs, one of them is viral on TikTok. 2/5

Just ok for me. The first two songs were kinda promising.

My first impression is that It'S BLITZ! feels like an updated version of the Wax Trax! Record label sound from the mid 1980s and 1990s mixed with a Blondie punk vibe, at least for the first 3/4 of the record. Also a bit of Ladyhawke/Metric thrown in for good measure. Good, but not as revolutionary as the music press would have you think. Lyrics are cryptic, but I'm okay with that. I listen to music for the groove, melody, and harmony, not just for the lyrics, as some others do. Also, it is possible the words were chosen for the sounds they make when uttered and not for their meanings. One critic referred to their lyrics on this record as gnomic, and I think that is apt. Lyrical glimpses. Impressionistic, not narrative tales. Her vocals seems range bound, but after hearing her cover of "Immigrant Song" with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, I know that is not case. I would have liked to hear her expand her vocal exploration on this record. Frankly some of the songs, particularly on the back half of the record would have benefited from it. "Heads Will Roll" didn't really do much for me. My favorite tracks were "Zero", "Skeletons", and "Hysteric". If you love this, you might dig 12 Rounds, Collide, The Epoxies, Ladytron, Metric, Florence and the Machine, and Ladyhawke. I found all of them a bit more interesting than this.

It’s 2,5!