# Yeah, yeah, yeah! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183 "2010-02-23T22:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![uncle\_squeegee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b5e925/32.png) [@uncle\_squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncle_squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/21 "2010-02-24T22:53:26Z")
And there’s the band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But I’m not familiar enough with their catalog to know if they sing any self-referential songs. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/22 "2010-02-24T23:14:22Z")
“Sweet Soul Music” by Arthur Conley has a lot of **yeah** s also. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/23 "2010-02-25T03:30:45Z")
This is a painful thread to read. It was my Uncle Max who wrote “Yeah, yeah, yeah” but never got a penny of royalties. _(Just a year before his untimely death he met the guy who wrote “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah” and only made a flat $250, but that’s another story)_ So, when I followed in his footsteps, I made sure to copyright my musical snippets. I now make $0.0000025 each time a band starts a song “One, two, a-one, two, three, four!” ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/24 "2010-02-25T04:03:53Z")
Don’t forget “Yeah!” by Usher. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/25 "2010-02-25T04:49:31Z")
I was going to nominate “Lithium” by Nirvana, but to my hearing, the yeahs are in groups of two. I count 12 in a row for each chorus. “Man on the Moon” by R.E.M. flouts the triple yeah by putting four in a row after every line in each verse. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/26 "2010-02-25T06:16:16Z")
Brand New’s “Sowing Season (Yeah)” unsurprisingly has a lot of Yeahs in it. Kind of like Yeah, Yeah…Yeah!..Yeah!..Yeah! So does “Yeah” by the Meices. > [@uncle\_squeegee](#): > > And there’s the band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But I’m not familiar enough with their catalog to know if they sing any self-referential songs. [Bang](http://lyrics.duble.com/lyrics/Y/yeah-yeah-yeahs-lyrics/yeah-yeah-yeahs-bang-lyrics.htm) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/27 "2010-02-25T16:40:49Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Devo’s _Uncontrollable Urge_ has yeahs sprinkled liberally throughout…at least 24 in a row in the beginning of the song. As a DJ, I liked to segue from the B-52’s “Dance This Mess Around” to “Uncontrollable Urge”… something like 58 “Yeah’s” in a row. Louis Prima did a song entitled “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”. Possibly the earliest instance of this as a pop song title. If you ever feel like wasting some time, try to figure out how many Beatles songs contain the words “yeah yeah yeah” (i.e., at least 3 “yeah”'s in a row with no other words between them). ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/28 "2010-02-25T16:42:11Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > The Stones came up short, able to only get their ya yas out. And it sure wasn’t **their** ya-ya’s :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/29 "2010-03-11T01:53:59Z")
In the Jerry Lewis movie [The Patsy (1964)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058456/), it features a scene where some backup singers (all played by Lewis) sing “Yeah, yeah, yeah!” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/30 "2010-03-11T18:07:39Z")
Roger Daltrey in Baba O’Riley. I don’t need to be forgiven. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183/31 "2010-03-12T03:31:41Z")
[Ghostbusters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4uxIo4t7xM)has “yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah” at 2.20 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-yeah-yeah/530183.md?page=1)