
^ "Yeah Yeah Yeahs Chart History (Dance Singles Sales)".
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^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". ^ " Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll" (in German). ^ " Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll" (in French). ^ " Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll" (in Dutch). ^ "MTV Video Music Awards | 2009 | Highlights, Winners, Performers and Photos from the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards". "Watch: Yeah Yeah Yeahs tear it up with werewolf". ^ Roxy, Sabbath & Tangerine SFX | Mellotron M4000D Sound Card 02, retrieved. ^ "Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix)". ^ "Project X - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll ( A-Track Remix ) (music video) HD". "Heads Will Roll: A Brief History Of Beheading In Song". It somehow sounds both retro and futuristic. Freak-disco convulsions envelop you in a surreal house party. "New Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Heads Will Roll" ". ^ Lapatine, Scott (February 22, 2009). "15 Essential Dance Rock Tracks From the 2000s". "Hear A-Trak's Remix of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Heads Will Roll" ". It was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video. In the UK, there are two different versions of this video, the second replacing the violent conclusion with repeated clips from the previous section of the video, but it shows the confetti falling onto the band. The music video contains some mockery of horror in general instead of blood, there is red glitter and confetti and Karen O keeps singing while decapitated. The video then ends with the band having been murdered while Karen O continues singing, her head severed from her body. He then proceeds to chase after the audience and kills most of them. A light flashes halfway through the music video and the werewolf transforms. It features the band playing in a (presumably) underground venue when a dancing werewolf whose dancing is reminiscent of Michael Jackson (who died four days before the single was released) appears on stage. The music video for "Heads Will Roll" was directed by Richard Ayoade. The song is built around a vintage sounding string riff, which was sampled from a Mellotron sound card: "Roxy SFX 2" from the Mellotron M4000D Sound Card 02. The remix has over 166 million views on YouTube. Ī remix by Canadian DJ A-Trak appeared in the film Project X. The song is sung from the viewpoint of the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The CD and 7-inch singles were released in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2009. A 10-hour remix of the video gained over 9.2 million views.įollowing Poly Fox's popular upload, several other remixes using JVH-C's remix began appearing on YouTube." Heads Will Roll" is a song by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released as the second single from their third studio album, It's Blitz! (2009). On October 21st, 2016, YouTube user Poly Fox uploaded a video remix of the Brazil Dog Dance that utilized JVH-C's remix of "Heads Will Roll." The video (shown below) gained over 2.8 million views. As of April 11th, 2017, it has over 983,000 plays on Soundcloud and a YouTube upload of the track has over 675,000 views. In 2015, musician JVH-C released a remix on Soundcloud that would become the remix used in popular YouTube remix videos. That remix has gained over 51 million views on YouTube, over 17 million more than the original song's music video. The track charted well in Europe, peaking at #89 in the UK and #1 in Belgium's Dutch charts.Ī remix of the song by A-Trak was featured in 2010's DJ Hero 2 and the 2012 film Project X. "Heads Will Roll" is the second track off the album, and was the album's second single, released June 29th, 2009. It's Blitz! was released on March 6th, 2009.