Wait: Fever to Tell, the breakthrough debut album by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, is being expanded to commemorate the band's first 15 years of recording.
From the exciting New York City music scene at the dawn of the 21st century, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs--singer Karen O, guitarist/keyboardist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase--were responsible for avant-garde dance punk that was visceral yet still beautiful and melodic. (London's The Times brilliantly described them as a mix of Blondie and Siouxsie and The Banshees.) Critics raved about them upon the release of major-label debut Fever to Tell (The New York Times named it the year's best album, and it made decade-end lists from NME, Pitchfork and Rolling Stone), with the yearning "Maps" becoming a touchstone single among indie kids and pop audiences alike. It received considerable exposure as a featured track in the popular music video game Rock Band, and Beyoncé's "Hold Up," from her acclaimed album Lemonade (2016), even interpolated its chorus into hers.
After days of teasers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced the full specs on a deluxe edition of Fever to Tell. This 2LP box set includes the first appearance of the album on 180-gram black vinyl (a picture disc edition commands high prices on the secondary market) and has been newly remastered by engineer Stephen Marcussen. A bonus LP includes 17 tracks, including nine unreleased demos, six B-sides and compilation-only tracks and the unheard outtakes "Shake It" and "Boogers." An accompanying 164-page hardcover book includes unpublished personal photos by Zinner and pages of Karen O's notebook. A champagne cork-shaped USB stick includes all the audio from the LPs plus over 100 minutes of music videos and live performances. (Most have been issued on the 2004 DVD Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow, while a 23-minute featurette on the band's U.K. tour of 2003 is released for the first time.) The packaging is rounded out with five "newspaper lyric posters with exclusive photos by Nick Zinner, Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs, Julian Gross, Patrick Daughters and Cintamani Calisea," a sticker, an iron-on patch and one of 10 random prints of Zinner's photos, signed by the entire band; a fishnet stocking wrapping the box completes the set.
The box is limited to 2,000 copies; the first 500 orders will also include a bonus cassette including four additional demos. For the thriftier fan, a 1LP reissue with the newspaper lyric posters will also be available. Everything ships on October 20. Pre-order the box or the LP from the band's official store.
Fever To Tell: Deluxe Edition (Interscope/UMe, 2017)
LP 1: Original remastered album (released as Interscope B0000349-02, 2003)
- Rich
- Date With The Night
- Man
- Tick
- Black Tongue
- Pin
- Cold Light
- No No No
- Maps
- Y Control
- Modern Romance
LP 2: Bonus material (previously unreleased except where noted)
- Date With The Night (Four Track Demo)
- Black Tongue (Four Track Demo)
- Pin (Four Track Demo)
- Maps (Early Four Track Demo)
- Poor Song (Four Track Demo)
- Tick (Four Track Demo)
- Shot Down (Four Track Demo)
- Ooh Ooh Ooh (Four Track Demo)
- Maps (Four Track Demo)
- Shake It
- Machine (Touch and Go Records single TG244, 2002)
- Modern Things (from Fields and Streams - Kill Rock Stars KRS 341, 2002)
- Graveyard (Touch and Go Records single TG244, 2002)
- Shot Down (from Gimme Skelter - Nettwerk Records 0 6700 30321 2 4, 2003)
- Yeah! New York (U.K. B-side to "Date with the Night" - Dress Up/Polydor 065 744-7, 2003)
- Boogers
- Countdown (from "Maps" single - Interscope B0002074-11, 2004)
USB: Video (all except Track 1 previously released on Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow - Interscope B0003591-09, 2004)
- There Is No Modern Romance (Tour Documentary by Patrick Daughters & Stephen Berger) 26 minutess of unreleased, unseen behind-the-scenes video of the band on their 2003 UK tour *
- Fukuoka Nagoya Osaka Tokyo (Japan Tour Behind The Scenes)
- They Don't Love Like I Love You (Interviews by Lance Bangs & Spike Jonze)
- Maps (Official Video)
- Date With The Night (Official Video)
- Y Control (Official Video)
- Pin (Official Video)
- Y Control (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
- Black Tongue (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
- Maps (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
- Rich (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
- Miles Away (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
- Poor Song (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
Cassette (previously unreleased)
- Phone Jam
- Art Star (Four Track Demo)
- Bang (Four Track Demo)
- Our Time (Four Track Demo)
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