Ummm sorry timbo, it seems we are of the same mind on most subjects but I have to strongly disagree with you on this subject.
I think the Yeah yeah yeahs are quite unique and awesome. I learned of them prolly 07 or 08 when I 1st saw the video for "maps" I think the lead singer is very powerful with her vocals and her intensity but in way she emotionless in a Steven Wright type sense. if you can relate or know whom I am speaking of.
I am not sure what "banal" means I didn't seek the definition yet. but just by the rest of the message I surmised you were not excited nor do you enjoy or for that matter like the Triple Y's music.
For me its like Deja Vu cuz just last night before midnight EST. in Detroit,Mi I was watching one of their video's and getting excited about the upcoming session I was going to have with my desktop computer therefore which I was going to start another playlist consisting of all the Yeah yeah yeahs music because I enjoy it so much. Mind you I am all over the musical boundaries of taste. I love all types of metal, hard rock, allot of Rap / R & B, contemporary top 40 stuff, FUNK, Blues, a bit of the industrial music you'd hear @ what the IN crowd refers to as raves these days. but I love music.
and the triple Y's hit me like a sledge hammer. it was just different and I loved "maps" and since I heard that song, I put allot of their music on my current playlist. so I just wanted to express my thoughts on the subject since you started an entire thread about them.

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