# Best 'Yeah!' in rock and roll **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850 "2008-09-30T14:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/41 "2008-09-30T19:27:51Z")
Gotta be that Four Insects hit from the “The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes” episode of The Flintstones. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/42 "2008-09-30T20:20:32Z")
Remember when they sent out one of those space probes, Voyager or Pioneer or whatever it was, and it included a picture of a man and woman and a diagram of our solar system? They should have included a recording of the “Yeah” from “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” Then the aliens would have thought, “This species really fuckin’ rocks.” They would have thought that even if they did not previously have a concept of “fuckin” or “rocks.” It’s that good a yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/43 "2008-09-30T20:28:25Z")
> [@bink](#): > > I like the one(s) in _Ballroom Blitz_. I _love_ that one. That whole song is just silly, over-the-top rocking goodness. I finally introduced my wife to the song the other day when we were in the car at 65 mph so she couldn’t get away. She made fun of me for lip-synching the “Yeah”. Anyway, the Who are the best Yeah-sters. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/44 "2008-09-30T20:33:10Z")
I’m gonna nth _Won’t Get Fooled Again_, in part due to the whole David-Caruso-puts-on-his-sunglasses-makes-a-joke-cue-theme-song thing _The Soup_ always jokes about. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/45 "2008-09-30T20:49:56Z")
**The Cult** - King Contrary Man Must be a hundred soul saving Yeah Yeah Yeah’s in that song… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/46 "2008-09-30T21:10:29Z")
It’s not technically a “yeah” but from Led Zeppelin: “Way down inside… Woman…you need… LOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” Worst song goes to Usher’s “Yeah!” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/47 "2008-09-30T21:20:06Z")
Oh I have one. Queen’s Princes of the Universe “I am immortal…I have inside me blood kings (YEAH!!! YEAH!!!”) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/48 "2008-09-30T21:31:49Z")
Yeah, yeah oh yeah, what condition my condition was in. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/49 "2008-09-30T21:41:51Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > this is what I came to post, is there a Zombie song that doesnt feature a “Yeah”? I don’t believe so. In fact, that is an integral part of the Rob Zombie drinking game. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/50 "2008-09-30T21:42:53Z")
I’m not sure but I THINK it’s Flea who yells “Aw shit, YEAH” in the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ version of “Love Rollercoaster”. Then after the first chorus there’s a part where Anthony’s like, “Aw yeah yeah the love rollercooooaaaster…” In fact, I’m listening to it right now. ---
**Author:** ![A\_shameful\_cracka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@A\_shameful\_cracka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_shameful_cracka)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/51 "2008-09-30T21:53:03Z")
“Won’t Get Fooled Again” is the winner, but honorable mention goes to the "Yeah"s in “In Bloom” by Nirvana, just because they are uniquely unenthusiastic. “Knows not what it means when I say…yeah”… ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/52 "2008-09-30T22:09:16Z")
**Pearl Jam** - _Porch_ You can close and lock the thread now. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/53 "2008-09-30T22:58:18Z")
I like these [Yeh Yeh](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOkYeG1b3E)s from this UK #1 from Georgie Fame in 1965; the song finishes on a good one at about 3.00 btw… the rest is DJ chat and a chart run down. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/54 "2008-09-30T23:11:44Z")
I agree with the #1 choice, of course, but as a second, I’d like to submit the “Yeah!” thrown in by the Beastie Boys between “Girls” and “Fight For Your Right to Party” on Ill Communication. It seems to have exactly the right amount of enthusiam and lecherousness in it, as if to say, “Yeah, YOU know what I mean!” ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/55 "2008-09-30T23:41:49Z")
No love for Mony Mony? ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/56 "2008-09-30T23:47:40Z")
Grrrr, I couldn’t find a video of this to link to, but if you watch VH1 Classic for any length of time you’ll see their commercial made up entirely of a video compilation of the great “Yeahs” of all time. Actually, I think there are at least two different versions of it. My personal favorite is Bruce Dickinson’s “Yeaaaaaaaaah!!!” near the beginning of “The Number of the Beast” (which is in the commercial). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/57 "2008-10-01T00:57:06Z")
Chorus of Devo’s _“Uncontrollable Urge”_: > [@](#): > > Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah! > Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah! _“Superhero”_ by Jane’s Addiction: The sneering “oh yeahs” at the end make it the perfect theme song for Entourage. ---
**Author:** ![laughingboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@laughingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laughingboy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/58 "2008-10-01T03:05:28Z")
> [@rhythmonly](#): > > I’d nominate Robin Zander from Cheap trick for “That 70’s Song” and “Yeah Yeah”. Surely, you mean Zander and Nielson’s "Yeah Yeah"s from “Come On, Come On”, not “Yeah Yeah”, yeah? Certainly the quintessential “call and response” yeahs. I’ve always enjoyed the study in yeah dualism from The Cars’ first album – Ric Ocasek’s yeahs on “My Best Friend’s Girl” followed up by Benjamin Orr’s yeahs on “Just What I Needed.” But “Won’t Get Fooled Again” gets my vote here too. BTW, this clocks in on my iPod with a mere fifty seconds left on a song that runs 8:31. Yet some people remember this moment as near the beginning? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/59 "2008-10-01T03:23:02Z")
Let’s not forget Gary “Pedophile” Glitter’s Rock-n-Roll #whatever: Da dun dunnnn dunnn - yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850/60 "2008-10-01T06:29:37Z")
There’s always Iggy Pop’s primal YEEEAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH! at the start of **TV Eye** , from the 1978 live album of the same name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-yeah-in-rock-and-roll/465850.md?page=4)