Project 1001: It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I love this album. There is no filler. All the songs are really good. Some are even excellent! Count me as a fan. My rating:
Spin magazine called It’s Blitz “the alternative pop album of the decade…(that has) remarkable emotional depth and finesse.”1
Pitchfork said the band created “great, compelling pop-rock”.2
NME asserted “it’s no revolution, but ‘It’s Blitz!’’s heartfelt love letter to the transcendent possibilities of the dancefloor is an unexpectedly emphatic reassertion of why Yeah Yeah Yeahs are one of the most exciting bands of this decade.”3
The Austin Chronicle swam against the critical tide of high praise for the record: “Blitz is clean, easy, and catchy. The art is erased, but that strobe-light sweat smells just as sweet as spandex drowning in PBR.”4
Enjoy and listen without prejudice. Cheers!
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Charts
• Peak on Billboard 200 album chart: #225
• Singles on Billboard Hot 100 chart: n/a
• RIAA certification: Gold | October 8, 20206
Released on September 23, 1991. Here’s what else was happening:
Pop Culture
• Number one song: “Right Round” by Flo Rida7
• Number one album: Fearless by Taylor Swift8
• Number one movie: Madea Goes to Jail by Tyler Perry9
• Most watched TV programs: American Idol, CSI, The Bachelor, Two and a Half Men, NCIS, Desperate Housewives, CSI: Miami, The Mentalist, Cold Case, Eleventh Hour, Survivor, 2410
• NYT bestseller, fiction: The Associate by John Grisham11
• NYT bestseller, non-fiction: The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci12
Some other albums released that month
• Everyday Demons by The Answer
• Fine Fascination by Red Light Company
• Little Hells by Marissa Nadler
• Middle Cyclone by Neko Case
• Reintegration Time by Shout Out Out Out Out
• Untitled #23 by The Church
• All I Ever Wanted by Kelly Clarkson13
Sport
• Mar 3 The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for 2nd Test against Pakistan; match abandoned.
• Mar 7 Despite only being 17 years old, Brazilian soccer star Neymar makes his professional debut for Santos.
• Mar 13 30th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Louisville beats #10 Villanova, 69-55.14
Notable Births
• TBD
Historical Events
• Mar 4 International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur becoming the first sitting head of state to be indicted.
• Mar 4 U.S. Steel announce the closure of the Stelco Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario due to the increasingly worsening effects of the global economic slowdown.
• Mar 11 Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.15
Notable Deaths
• Mar 4 Horton Foote, American screenwriter (To Kill a Mockingbird; Tender Mercies), and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (The Young Man from Atlanta), dies at 92.
• Mar 6 David Williams, American R&B, pop and rock session and touring guitarist (Michael Jackson; Madonna; Rod Stewart; Bryan Ferry), dies of cardiac arrest following a stroke at 58.
• Mar 18 Natasha Richardson, English actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale), dies of a traumatic brain injury at 45.16
Ibid.
Runaway!!