brooklynvegan: Happy New Year Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Clap Your Hands Say MC Steinberg! These Brooklyneers didn't make it onto my Best of 2005 list. But, who did? Find out at http://www.mcsteinberg.blogspot.com

Plus, I've made a challenge to someone for a freestyle battle on WFMU, find out who at
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Plus Yakov Smirnoff has shows all week in Branson, Missouri!
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Posted by MC Steinberg | December 27, 2005 6:14 PM

For all the talk about New Yorkers being jaded, I've never lived in a city that buys into hype the way people living in New York buy into hype. Who would pay $100 for CYHSY? I mean i like the album and all, but 1.) They really aren't that great of a live band and 2.) They are a local band.

Posted by paul | December 27, 2005 6:49 PM

wow, that is INSANE

i swear though it's mostly jersey teens paying for that shit, or people that just read about it on the cover or something

the amount of attention this band gets make absolutely no sense to me

none

Posted by mygod | December 27, 2005 7:18 PM

I'm one of the few people not to have posted a list yet, but I'm certain that when I do, CYHSY will be top 5, if not top 3...

Posted by matthew | December 27, 2005 8:36 PM

They were horrible on Conan last week.

The band looked bald and bored(boring indeed).

Posted by bushwick is beautiful | December 27, 2005 8:52 PM

the music is good. and the band is fun live. nothing ground breaking, but hey what is these days?

$100 per ticket???....there's also a band called the National that are playing that night, you might have heard of them. they rock.

Posted by CaptainFurburger | December 27, 2005 9:52 PM

A Clap Your Hands Say Meh ticket isn't even worth $1.

Posted by Bort | December 28, 2005 4:24 AM

but i'm sure a muse ticket would be worth it, wouldn't it?

Posted by Anonymous | December 28, 2005 10:28 AM

#26 On CMJ's list by the way. http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=7047253

Posted by Tim | December 28, 2005 10:37 AM

#26 On CMJ's list by the way. http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=7047253

Posted by Tim | December 28, 2005 10:38 AM

#26 On CMJ's list by the way. http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=7047253

Posted by Tim | December 28, 2005 10:39 AM

The GF said she heard CYHSY playing in GAP today.

Posted by Anonymous | December 28, 2005 2:54 PM

who's the poor shmoe who got his face obliterated by the address label on the TONY cover?

probably the drummer

we get no respect....

Posted by daveB | December 28, 2005 3:09 PM

not the drummer, the keys/guitarist. happily, his face is untouched on newstand copies.

Posted by Anonymous | December 28, 2005 4:05 PM

band sucks live in my opinion but YOU GOTTA LOVE THAT LP

Posted by serkan | December 29, 2005 10:58 AM

my friend is a big fan but me i'm still indecided but I like beats I can move to

Posted by dale jenkins | December 29, 2005 12:57 PM

i like the record. i think there are some great songs on there. i read an interview with the singer where he tried to say he doesn't listen to "modern" music, though. what an asshole.

plus, i bet they're real boring live.

that's that.

oh, also, they're all pushing thirty and i think they live in park slope. lame!

Posted by a. | December 29, 2005 1:36 PM

What if -just imagine now- he was a folk singer/songwriter from Philly who had a few demos, got a band to play with on them, and just played around dinky clubs in New York for the hell of it.

Just because we ascribe certain sounds being influeced by "modern music" (what's that? Linkin Park?), it doesn't neccessarily mean Alec is. The rest of the band is far more in touch with the current music scene than Alec. Read any interview. They are painful because he is in fact pretty boring by bloggers standards. It doesn't make him an "asshole" though.

Posted by jerry | December 29, 2005 2:38 PM

Hi, I have three tickets to this show. I'm not gonna be a cheapskate and sell them for a hundred dollars. theyre at an affordable and fair price. email me at whitestrpsrock@msn.com

Posted by Nick | December 29, 2005 3:32 PM

They suck! They're great! He's an asshole! He's a nice guy! They live in Park Slope--lame! They live in Brooklyn--they're cool! They're bald! They're cute! They don't deserve all the press they get! They work really hard and deserve all the press they get! BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by egg | December 29, 2005 3:49 PM

>>oh, also, they're all pushing thirty and i think they live in park slope. lame!

aren't we all "pushing thirty"? what does that have to do with anything? Bob Dylan is pushing seventy. what an asshole.

i dont know where they live but what is wrong with park slope?

Posted by Anonymous | December 29, 2005 3:49 PM

What's so lame about living in Park Slope? And please, oh please, don't say that if you live in dreaded Willamsburg.

And pushing 30 is old? Wow.

I hope that was a joke. Please please please.

Posted by Josh in Translation | December 29, 2005 3:55 PM

my friends says that dylan is a fan

Posted by dale jenkins | December 29, 2005 7:40 PM

OF COURSE that was a joke! boy...

Posted by a. | December 30, 2005 10:48 AM

but it's no joke that pushing 70 makes bob dylan ultra lame. he should have died in that motorcycle accident after blonde on blonde came out instead of ruining his legacy with christianity, grateful dead collaborations, the traveling wilburys and mtv unplugged. i wouldn't even consider going to see a bob dylan concert today. so whatever.

Posted by a. | December 30, 2005 10:55 AM

No. 8 on All Songs Considered Top Ten.
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/

Posted by dacaplan | January 2, 2006 2:01 PM

The Time Out Article

http://www.timeoutny.com/newyork/Details.do?page=7&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/535/features/leap_year.xml

Posted by brooklynvegan | January 18, 2006 5:38 PM