Yeah!

After years in development, The Jack Nicholson's debut LP — clocking in at a whopping 11 minutes — looks like it will be hitting our shores next month. Though it's yet to be finalised, and there's talk of recording new material, one thing's for sure: it'll be bloody awesome! Track details are sketchy at the moment, but the inclusion of "Yeah!" — still number one in the charts of every first-world country — has been confirmed. With the working title for the album being "Yeah!" that doesn't come as much of a surprise.

Even before their album's release, The Jack Nicholsons have proved to be incredibly influential, with artists such as the woeful Jeff Mangum refusing to record again after "Yeah!" raised the bar to insurmountable heights. Indeed one can't even flick on the radio these days without hearing a flood of Nicholsonesque pop, and for a band who've only released one song for public consumption, that's staggering. But perhaps the best testament to their brilliance comes by way of has-been Bob Dylan, who has taken a wild left-turn into instrumental prog-rock after stating that he had wasted his best years writing complex verse. "When it [Yeah!] first came on the radio, I was amazed at how simple it was," he told a reporter early this year. "I'd been writing all these overblown lyrics about fiddlers and senators to try to get to the heart of the human condition, but then The Jack Nicholsons come along and sum it up in one word: Yeah! I was just thinking, How could I have missed that after all these years? And now when I look back across some of my lyrics, I'm just embarrassed by how idiotic and bloated they seem. I mean what the hell is a Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat?"

So what can we expect from this long-overdue release? Nothing short of better than everything else.