Monday, March 08, 2004
(2:39 AM) | Anonymous:
They Don't Love Me Like The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Love Me
I saw them tonight. By them I refer to THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS. The biggest hyped rock act since the white stripes and the strokes, and the thes, and the hoochy coochy la la las.Let me tell you: My bones, right down to my femur and my ulna, are completely rocked right now. Incredible.
The first act was some band called THE HEX, and they were okay. I'd write something about them here, and I had a lot of stuff I was thinking to write about them when it was going on, but the two bands after them completely erased all memory of their "punk rock" (like..not Pop-Punk..like OLD SCHOOL PUNK RAWK! punk rock). But, they were okay, not marginal by any means.
I apologize for my faulty reporting skills in regards to The Hex..but as I was putting together my thoughts on them during the long intermission...suddenly this great music starts up, and out of nowhere jumps out this lady in a chicken suit. Then a man in a cow suit. Then a lady in a Lion suit. And they start running around yelling things like "I SO F----ING CARE ABOUT YOU!!!!!!" and "RIDE MY INNER CHILD ALL NIGHT LONG" and .."I AM HUNGRY"..and they have the strangest dance numbers, and the crazy/coolest animations going on in the background, so I have no clue what's going on. What's more, the lady in the chicken suit is incredible hot..and I've never been attracted to a chicken before. Look..here's the chicken without her chicken head. She was strangely hotter with the chicken head hat...Heck, here's the whole band, and I'm glad someone had pictures of this, cause I sure as hop couldn't describe it. Put it all together with this Hardcore punk type stuff..I'm not sure exactly the style..somewhat like the band "Liars" if you've ever heard them. I liked it a lot, and laughed my head off.
LAUGHED MY HEAD OFF.....IT was like a punch in the face. OH Yeah, I got punched in the face. That was the great fun. A two-part delegation from the south side of Oklahoma City, AKA the red-neck side of the city, AKA Moore, Oklahoma AKA They are called Moore-ons...busted up in the crowd, one with no shirt, one with a decade old Sooners jersey. And somehow, out of nowhere..they start busting people on the back of the head. Not punching them..but like..winding up and slapping them hard, and then laughing a lot. This was going down about 8 people to the left of me, and eventually, about the 4th girl they hit in the back of the head, her boyfriend turned around and started yelling at them, so they punched him, and then straight up punched A GIRL square in the cheek. Let me re-iterate...A GIRL. So, I ran over for some reason, mainly because I'm stupid, and shoved the guy to get him off the girl, as he was screaming at her hunched over after he hit her and said "Come on, that wasn't necessary!" (I really can't figure it out..but for some reason whenever in violent situations, I am automatically exceedinly polite with my words, like the recycle bin pushers..I'm not making this up.) The guy then, yeah, punched me in the face. I looked back at him and said "Yeah, that really wasn't necessary either." and was probably about to get punched again when the security people came and the whole crowd was pointing the two out, so they shoved me and ran away, but they got caught, and that whole side of the crowd gave them the finger as they were carted out. So, I'm glad I didn't die.
But really, you'd be surprised - nothing prepares one to rock like a good punch to the face. PLUS - it made the girls in the area extra-sympathetic towards me, and actually allowed me to converse with people the rest of the show..instant friend maker, getting punched by hillbillies is. The craziness of that may only have been topped by the Lion of SSION screaming that she was going to "F-CK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF (us) AND I MEAN THAT, SO GET READY RIGHT NOW" at the end of their show. I've never been threatened with sex by a lion before..strangely...no..no..not enticing at all.
So, Ssion ended, and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs began. I had massive adrenaline going from, again, getting punched in the face, so this show may have been more enjoyable than normal for me. Either way, it so completely rocked that I can't even get words to describe it. They are definitely a live band. Consider how great the CD is, and then consider that times N. It is that much better. Surprisingly, MAPS, their big MTV2 hit is their worst in concert. Karen O is, I believe, the first female rock star. I mean..there have been plenty of other female fronted bands..or like Siouxsie and The Banshees or Joan Jett and crap..but they didn't have that swagger...whatever it is. It's the same thing that empowers people like David Lee Roth, back in the 80's when he was cool. The dude should look entirely ridiculous, the entire crowd should break down laughing at the things he does on stage, and the crap he wears, and the over-the-top theatrics, but there was something about him that made him the pinnacle of coolness precisely because he could do these absurd things no one else could. Karen O. is the same. At one point she was spitting grapes at the audience, and it was so cool. She crawled around on stage in a dress, and did all sorts of theatrics with the mic. Everything perfect laughable, yet something within her, not really that she just didn't care, more like she truly cares..or something. The songs were given this great fresh air live, and I don't think I've ever seen so much energy completely thrown into a concert. Also - she ate about 5 bunches of grapes. The Whole things. She apparently really likes grapes.
So I'm terrible at giving concert reviews, because I don't really remember what all was played too much or any of that other great stuff..too focused on singing along and punching my fist in the air..or like..standing there with a smirk nodding my head..you tell me which it was. However, I highly reccomend everyone see this show live. Sadly, they played Chicago last tuesday, so the great majority of our readership missed out..but for those in Tucson! Get Ready for a Tuesday March 9th You Will Never Forget, and not because it is the NHL trading deadline.
That is all.
