Gold Lion

Song: Gold Lion
Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Album: Show Your Bones
Link: Gold Lion
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Mood: fiery, feisty, infectious

Description: On Gold Lion, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs simply rock out. It starts as a plodding (in the tempo sense, not the mood sense) rocker, and slowly builds into a wall of sound that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs specialize in. There’s guitars and drums and distortion and Karen O’s vocals, which have an amazing intensity about them. My favorite piece of singing she does is her “uh-uh”, which are so high pitched it’s freaking scary. I have to admit, the first time I heard this song, it didn’t seem so great. But it slowly built on me, and it became incredible addicting. There’s just no way you can not sing along to her nonsense lyrics, like “Gold lion’s going to tell me where the light is…Take our hands out of control…Now tell me what you saw!” I read online that it is about Las Vegas, and ‘Gold Lion’ is a nickname for one of the casinos, but that kinda seems a bit too random to be true. Whatever they’re about, they’re sung very well; she manages to get more range and emotion into them than almost every other singer I have ever heard. Not that the song is actually emotional – the sound is chaotic and the guitars are brash. But all in all, an addictive song.