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Length
  
37:25

Artist
  
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Fever to Tell (2003)
  
Show Your Bones (2006)

Release date
  
29 April 2003

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Released
  
April 29, 2003 (2003-04-29)

Studio
  
Headgear Studio (Brooklyn, New York)

Producer
  
David Andrew Sitek Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Label
  
Insomniac/Interscope Records

Genres
  
Indie rock, Alternative rock, Garage rock, Art punk, Garage punk, Dance-punk, Post-punk revival

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album

Similar
  
Yeah Yeah Yeahs albums, Indie rock albums

Fever to Tell is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003 by Interscope Records. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and mixed by Alan Moulder.

Contents

Fever to Tell was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and was certified gold in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The video for "Maps" received nominations for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and the MTV2 Award at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. The New York Times chose Fever to Tell as the best album of 2003. In June 2005, the album was ranked number 89 on Spin magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005. It is also featured in the 2010 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2009, the album was named by NME, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone the fifth, 24th, and 28th best album of the 2000s decade, respectively.

As of March 2009, the album had sold over one million copies worldwide.

Track listing

All tracks written by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. All tracks produced by David Andrew Sitek and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Fever to Tell.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – production
  • Brian Chase – drums
  • Karen O – vocals
  • Nick Zinner – drum machine, guitar (all tracks); mixing (tracks 1–7, 9, 10)
  • Production

  • Chris Coady – post-production (tracks 8, 11)
  • Cody Critcheloe – artwork
  • Rick Levy – mixing assistance
  • Roger Lian – track editing
  • Paul Mahajan – engineering
  • Alan Moulder – mixing (tracks 1–7, 9, 10)
  • David Andrew Sitek – production (all tracks); mixing (tracks 8, 11)
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Songs

    1Rich3:37
    2Date With the Night2:36
    3Man1:51

    References

    Fever to Tell Wikipedia