Operator Please - Yes Yes Vindictive (2007)

Review by Stephanie Maker

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There are only a few select things with musicalities that make me dance like a moron like I do when Operator Please are on. These include: Those two Sneaky Sound System tracks that were big (I have a sense of irony), Princess Rodeo (for the love of god look them up) and Paco Doesn’t Love Me by The Spazzys (sadly, it’s my theme song).

This said, my friend’s will probably argue that I don’t dance in a way that isn’t moronic.

I have bandwagon issues with Operator Please. I have similar issues with Johnny Depp. I have loved Mr Depp since Nightmare on Elm St. I think it may have been made before I was born (see, I loved him while I was only a cheeky thought in the minds of my gorgeous parents) THAT is how deep and meaningful my affection for him is. But - there are these putzes that run around proclaiming their love for him because of Pirates.

It makes me quite irate – unreasonably so. I feel that, in a roundabout way, this explains my ‘issues’ with Operator Please.

Nonetheless I do love Operator Please. I think they’re magic. Crazy sexy and just brilliant.

I was struck by the fact that some of the songs that were doing the rounds before the album came out sound so different now that they’ve been put down ‘for serious’.

Terminal Disease in particular is a damn site angrier than it was before. It’s still great, just different. I think I noticed this difference because I haven’t had the pleasure of watching a band grow and develop live and then find the CD. For me it’s generally been the opposite way around. (i.e. I love The Vines and finally got to see them at the Big Day Out).

I know it’s almost self evident that the live stuff sounds different from the studio recorded, but hey, I’m not entirely at peace with that yet. All in all, I guess I’m trying to say that "Yes Yes Vindictive" doesn’t seem to capture the energy that Operator Please exude live.

If you’ve been listening to the Operators since they emerged from their high school battle of the bands competition, then I don’t doubt that you’ll fully enjoy "Yes Yes Vindictive" as much as you would like.

However, if you’ve been living under a rock and aren’t yet loving Operator Please (people can complain as much as they like, but nothing will change the fact that Get What You Want and Just A Song About Ping Pong are damn catchy pop tunes) - then "Yes Yes Vindictive" is your chance. Get it in ya…

ALBUM RATING: 3 out of 5

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