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Skeletons (Yeah Yeah Yeahs song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Skeletons
| cover = skeletons_single.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Limited edition 7" sleeve designed by Nick Zinner
| type = single
| artist = Yeah Yeah Yeahs
| album = It's Blitz!
| released = March 1, 2010 (7" vinyl)
January 31, 2010 (iTunes Store)
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Art rock,Christgau, Robert. "[http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=14519 Consumer Guide: 'It's Blitz!']". MSN Music: May 2009. Archived from [https://web.archive.org/web/20100714231347/http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide/2009/?photoidx=116 the original] on 2010-06-10. new wave, electronica
| length = 5:02
| label = Interscope
| writer = Brian Chase, Karen Orzolek, Nick Zinner
| producer = Nick Launay, Dave Sitek
| prev_title = Heads Will Roll
| prev_year = 2009
| next_title = Sacrilege
| next_year = 2013
| misc =
}}
"'Skeletons'" is the third single from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third album 'It's Blitz!'. The 7" edition of the single, limited to 500 copies, was released on March 1, 2010. The single was also released on January 31, 2010, in the iTunes Store.[https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/skeletons-single/id352631490 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Skeletons] at iTunes Store UK
Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men covered the song in 2013.
Cover artwork
The photograph on the 7" vinyl sleeve was created by the band's guitarist Nick Zinner, who is a professional photographer. The artwork features a barn in rural Massachusetts during a snowstorm, and is a reference to the location where the song was written.
Track list
Record Store Day Release
A limited edition 7" 33 RPM vinyl copy of "Skeletons" was released for Record Store Day in 2010. The record contained the single, as well as, a B-side of the song being played live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York. The live version of the song was mixed and engineered by Harley Zinker and Tom Carlisle at Fireplace Studios in New York.
References
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