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Album Review

Release date: 29 April 2003

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Fever To Tell

Not exactly the fuck-and-run job they initially promised, then

Things move fast in the world of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs . When they first arrived in Britain a year ago, it seemed likely they'd make a debut album fixated on the simple art of fucking. Instead, 'Fever To Tell' is more complicated: seeking to explain love, sex and the remarkable, brittle, sometimes disturbing connections between the two. In 37 minutes. Love and sex are hardly...

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  • Sep 12, 2005

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  1. Rich
  2. Date With The Night
  3. Man
  4. Tick
  5. Black Tongue
  6. Pin
  7. Cold Light
  8. No No No
  9. Maps
  10. Y Control
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell: Wikipedia Album Entry

Fever To Tell is the first album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003, through Interscope. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and mixed by Alan Moulder.

Fever To Tell was nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album and was certified Gold in the UK. The video for "Maps" was nominated at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and the MTV2 Award. The New York Times chose Fever To Tell as the best album of the year. In June 2005, the album was ranked number 89 on Spin magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005. It is also featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

According to The Guardian, the album has sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell Lyrics

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - man Lyrics

I got a man who makes me wanna kill
I got a man who makes me wanna kill
I got a man he makes me wanna
I got a man who makes me wanna kill

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rich Lyrics

I'm rich like a hot noise, rich, rich, rich
I'll take you out boy
So stuck up, I'd wish you'd stick in to me
Flesh ripped off

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night Lyrics

I got a date with the night
Burnin' down my finger
Gonna catch the kids dry
Gonna walk on water

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Tick Lyrics

You make me
You make me
You make me
Tick tick tick

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Black Tongue Lyrics

Hot

You can keep your black tongue
Well I found at the mortuary

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin Lyrics

Things are still the same
Well I know, I know
Lost my seat again
Well I'll go, I'll go

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cold Light Lyrics

Cold light
Hot night
Be my heater be my lover
And we could do it to each other

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - No No No Lyrics

Well, I'm frozen
Like a soldier
Don't know where it stays all over the place

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps Lyrics

Pack up, I’m straight, enough
Oh say, say, say
Oh say, say, say
Oh say, say, say

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y-control Lyrics

oh so all my lovin' go's
under the fog fog fog
and i will leave them all
well i'm just a poor little baby

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Modern Romance Lyrics

Don't hold on
Go get strong
Well, don't you know
There is no modern romance

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