Back in the early 2000s, Karen O had a crush on a lame dude. "For whatever reason at that point in my life I was like yeah. I was totally into it," she told me when I was reporting this weekend's article about her and her band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Out one night at the Cooler, a now-defunct venue in the Meatpacking district in New York, the guy was ignoring her, and she was drowning her sorrows when she saw Debbie Harry at the bar. "I go up to her and I'm like, 'Yeah, um, I'm in a band and sometimes I just feel like a girl in a boys world.' She says, 'Honey, just enjoy it while it lasts.'" At the time, Karen O, whose last name is Orzolek, was horrified. "It felt condescending." But she has a different take on it now. "She's right as rain . . . I am a girl in a boys world but . . . it doesn't really matter, just enjoy it!"
For years, Orzolek had been seeking advice — albeit more subtly, usually — from any number of rock icons. As a high-school student in New Jersey, the singer had one of those life-expanding friends, the fearless teenage punk who's plugged in to the counterculture before everyone else. This girl dragged her into New York City to see bands like Sonic Youth, Pavement, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, P J Harvey and the late '90s band, Jonathan Fire*Eater (whose members later formed the group Walkmen). Around the same time she also got into the high-pitched oddness of vocalists like Neil Young and Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum.
The guitarist for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Zinner, also cites Fire*Eater as an inspiration. Zinner is the type of guy (every band has one) who can sit in the back of a bar with journalists and discuss obscure 4AD singles for hours. But then he also loves Van Halen. While we were strolling through the Brooklyn Flea Market during the time when I was working on my story, Zinner stopped in his tracks when he saw a framed Teen Beat-style poster of Van Halen in full neon spandex glory. (He restrained himself from buying it.)
Brian Chase, the Yeah Yeah Yeah's drummer, moved to New York after college with one goal in mind: play with the composer, multi-instrumentalist and all-around musician John Zorn. Instead, he joined the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and they all became rock stars.
Here are some tracks by artists who helped the Yeah Yeah Yeahs get to where they are.
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