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...scene in 2000, becoming the next-big-thing even before they had released a second EP. The buzz they generated landed the band a superb producer, TV on the Radio’s David Andrew Sitek, for their first complete album, 2003’s “Fever to Tell...
Perhaps both. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2003 debut, Fever to Tell, careened between art-school punk--the song Tick repeated the word tick an ear-curdling 49 times--and vulnerable pop exemplified by the hit Maps, in which O chased after a lover with the lyric "Wait/ They don't love you like I love you." As the rare avant-garde band willing to dip a black-painted toenail into the mainstream, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs attracted a small but protective following that many bands would kill for, but they weren't satisfied. "We don't want to preach...
...that stopped after a few minutes. Though he had never had a nosebleed before, they told me that he was a frequent nose picker, a habit his mother and grandmother assured me they had tried to fix. Seth?s father also told me the little boy had had a fever three days earlier, a temperature of 101.3 that hadn?t been elevated since. Other than that, there seemed to be no worrisome symptoms: he was acting and playing normally, wasn't congested nor did he cough; he had no sore throat or headache, no stomach aches, nausea or vomiting...
...told them how I thought the recent fever was most likely due to a brief viral illness and certainly if the fever recurred I would want to reexamine Seth. Again, I was met with blank expressions all around, except for Seth, who had found a stash of Pepperidge Farm goldfish in his mother?s purse and was happily munching them. I then asked if there was any information I hadn?t asked, if Seth had any other symptoms that I hadn?t touched upon. "You?re the doctor," Seth?s father said...
...physical and felt confident that I wasn?t missing anything - except of course, what was worrying Seth?s family. I scanned their faces slowly, but each one in turn looked away until I met eyes with the grandmother. She licked her lips, "My cousin?s grandson had a fever and then a nosebleed and he died of leukemia...