Fever to Tell

Fever to Tell
Studio album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Released April 29, 2003 (2003-04-29)
Recorded Headgear Studio, Brooklyn
Genre Indie rock, garage rock
Length 39:29
Label Interscope, Fiction
Producer David Andrew Sitek, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs chronology
Machine
(2002)		 Fever to Tell
(2003)		 Show Your Bones
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The A.V. Club (Favorable) [2]
Dusted [3]
Entertainment Weekly (B) [4]
NME (8/10) [5]
PopMatters (9/10) [6]
Pitchfork Media (7.4/10) [7]
Q [8]
Robert Christgau (B+) [9]
Rolling Stone [10]
Uncut [8]

Fever to Tell is the debut 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.[11] In June 2005, the album was ranked number 89 on Spin magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005.[12] It is also featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2009, the album was declared by Rolling Stone,[13] Pitchfork Media,[14] and NME,[15] the 28th, 24th, and 5th best album of the decade, respectively.

According to The Guardian, the album has sold over 1 million copies worldwide.[16]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 

No. Title Length
1. "Rich"   3:36
2. "Date with the Night"   2:35
3. "Man"   1:50
4. "Tick"   1:49
5. "Black Tongue"   2:59
6. "Pin"   2:00
7. "Cold Light"   2:16
8. "No No No"   5:14
9. "Maps"   3:39
10. "Y Control"   4:00
11. "Modern Romance" (After a period of silence, the hidden track "Poor Song" (occasionally mistakenly referred to as "Porcelain") will play following "Modern Romance") 7:28

Personnel

Production

Charts

Album

Year Chart Peak
position
2004 Billboard 200 55
UK Album Chart 13

Singles

Year Single Chart Peak
position
2004 "Maps" Modern Rock Tracks 9
Billboard Hot 100 87

References

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r639257
  2. ^ Battaglia, Andy (2003-05-06). "Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell | Music | Music Review". The A.V. Club. http://avclub.com/content/node/14235. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
  3. ^ "Dusted Reviews: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell". Dustedmagazine.com. 2003-05-23. http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/764. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
  4. ^ Reviewed by Josh Tyrangiel (2003-05-02). "Fever To Tell Review | Music Reviews and News". EW.com. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,446676,00.html. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
  5. ^ "NME Album Reviews - Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Fever To Tell". Nme.Com. 2005-09-12. http://www.nme.com/reviews/yeah-yeah-yeahs/7085. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
  6. ^ Begrand, Adrien. "Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell < PopMatters". Popmatters.com. http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/y/yeahyeahyeahs-fever.shtml. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
  7. ^ Carr, Eric (2003-04-28). "Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell | Album Reviews | Pitchfork". Pitchforkmedia.com. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/reviews/albums/8888-fever-to-tell/. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
  8. ^ a b "Fever To Tell Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic". Metacritic.com. http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/yeahyeahyeahs/fevertotell. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
  9. ^ "CG: Yeah Yeah Yeahs". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=4649&name=Yeah+Yeah+Yeahs. Retrieved 2011-09-19. 
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ Pareles, Jon (2003-12-28). "Music: The Highs; The Albums and Songs of the Year". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EED91E3FF93BA15751C1A9659C8B63. Retrieved 2008-05-17. 
  12. ^ "100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005". Spin. 2005-06-20. http://www.spin.com/articles/100-greatest-albums-1985–2005. Retrieved 2008-05-17. 
  13. ^ "100 Best Albums of the Decade". Rolling Stone. December 9, 2009. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31248017/100_best_albums_of_the_decade/24. Retrieved 21 December 2009. 
  14. ^ "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s". Pitchfork Media. October 1, 2009. http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7709-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-50-21/3/. Retrieved 21 December 2009. 
  15. ^ "The Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade". NME. November 18, 2009. http://www.nme.com/list/the-top-100-greatest-albums-of-the-decade/158049/article/158065. Retrieved 21 December 2009. 
  16. ^ Forrest, Emma (March 30, 2009). "Emma Forrest meets New York's favourite art-punk rockers Yeah Yeah Yeahs". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/30/pop-music-yeah-yeah-yeahs. Retrieved 21 December 2009. 
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Studio albums
Fever to Tell · Show Your Bones · It's Blitz!
EPs
Singles
"Date with the Night" · "Pin" · "Maps" · "Y Control" · "Gold Lion" · "Turn Into" · "Cheated Hearts" · "Down Boy" · "Zero" · "Heads Will Roll" · "Skeletons"
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