TV on the Radio

  xxx said:

The problem is that the masses at large start beating this deafening drum in their name and then you get resentful because you can't help but thinking 'they're not that good.' It's like the "Clapton is God" or "Beatles bigger than Jesus" syndrome.

You've made my point for me, xxx. None of that actually has anything to do with the band or the music. But you actually get pissy with the band, it's all bullshit.

  Braintree said:

I saw them in Detroit a few years ago opening for the Faint. They put on a good show but the bass player had his back to the audience the entire show. This was also when they were all black.

pretty sure the white dude is a founding member though

  essines said:

  Braintree said:

I saw them in Detroit a few years ago opening for the Faint. They put on a good show but the bass player had his back to the audience the entire show. This was also when they were all black.

 

pretty sure the white dude is a founding member though

Huh...maybe he was wearing a hood or something, because I don't remember a white guy.

oh ok i feel you. im literally feeling you here

  Fred McGriff said:

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

i heard cookie mountain when it came out and everyone was raving about it and didnt like it so much, deleted it and moved on. but i heard it again and again and again recently and it really grew on me. i'm not a mcgriff/deepex style fanboy but i got love for cookies and the odd song off dear science. haven't even heard the ep and don't care. anyway took me a while to appreciate

 

you're the one who made me listen to cookie mountain, fanboy faggot

*gun to head* now hear this *presses play*

aye but i also "made" you hear the fall too

tsk tsk. so much vitriol

no

yes

  tidbit said:

no

lol @ fanboy mcgriff

why is everyone saying vitriol

COZ I"M SO DAMN PISSED AT THE WORLD!! MY STOCK OPTIoNS!!!! NOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*checks dictionary*

yes stiil no

that's what i remember most about penexpers, was his egregious use of the word vitriol

  Fred McGriff said:

that's what i remember most about penexpers, was his egregious use of the word vitriol

i will remember you for your use of the word 'egregious'

thats' what you remember about pen expers?

read the rules

both you faggots played right into my hands

checkmate

young liars > all, first 2 albums are okay, dear science is crap. don't care much for ok calculator but it has its moments. /band

  Fred McGriff said:

both you faggots played right into my hands

 

checkmate

lol

I am fanboy when it comes to TV on the Radio , I have no problem is admitting that. It was amazing when I got to see them live last summer.

In my humble Opinion

Return to Cookie Mountain > Young Liars > Desperarte Youth , Blood Thirsty Babes > Dear Science

did anyone see Colbert report last night? TV on the Radio has a short interview and a wicked performace and Colbert asked Kyp Malone if he can stroke his beard

  Deepex said:

Alright. I'm a huge TV on the Radio fan, and not because it was "forced down my throat" or because I'm trying to be hip. I didn't discover them through a trendy magazine or a website. A musician friend sent me a song online from their first EP Young Liars. I didn't get it at first. It was interesting, but it didn't click. But I found myself coming back to it, and it started to make more and more sense. On their first LP and EP they had a very stripped down, minimal sound. One of the things I love about TVotR is their amazing ability to impressively fuse genres. These releases had distorted post-punk/dreampop/post-shoegaze guitar sounds, chugging looped material, tons of electronic instrumentation, powerful layered vocals borrowing from blues/soul/doo-wop/barber-shop quartet and include some very interesting lyrics and harmonies. They seem very earnest about their art.

 

Their sound began to evolve when they added members to their lineup and they released their greatest record to date, Return To Cookie Mountain. This album is not an album you can skim over and know weather it is good or bad. You have to gel with it. TV on the Radio say this too. Upon first listen, I played it through and didn't really think to much. Not bad certainly, but nothing spectacular. The more I listened, the more the album revealed itself to me. This album adds new layers of complexity, instrumentation, and influences. Live drums, mixed with drum machine, their guitar sound bigger and better, and the lyrics are profoundly poetic and open. All of this and it still maintains a surreal, headphone music atmosphere. You can really tell that lots of their emotion and time went in to writing these songs. To me it is a huge album. It didn't seem that way at first, but every time I listen to it, the more I fall into it. A certain lyric will click into place, a particular part stands out, and my idea of that song evolves. The lyrics are better than any release I've come across in recent times, dealing with soul searching topics about religion, politics, love, the state of our world. They have big ambitions. I listened to this album without reading stupid press reviews, or even feedback like I left here, and maybe that's why I've been able to get into it. If I was expecting the things that people write about it, then I may be disappointed to. Let the music speak for itself.

 

I've seen TV on the Radio live 3 times, and every time they are alive and full of energy. Their songs take on a new life in the live arena. They are more energetic, and the members take the song structure liberally claiming in an interview that, "it would be mind numbingly boring if these songs stayed static." Every time I've been very moved by the show.

 

Dear Science definitely seems like a shift to a more accessible sound. I didn't like it very much at first, and I still don't like it as much as Cookie Mountain, but god damn it still has some great songs!

 

So fuck the way shitty media outlets portray a bands image. TV on the Radio themselves have talked about that. You can tell they are almost uncomfortable with the attention they've been getting lately. They are quite and shy guys. Yeah, they are an easy target for you smug assholes to one up your musical taste on without giving them a real chance. Don't believe the hype, believe the music.

couldnt have said it better

it's because the songs are good and performed well.

It's nice to dip into a thread and see it's all gone Lebowski.

Tv On The Radio are dicks. They censured my website, or at least, their record company did. I hate them I hate them so much.

  Fat Roland said:

It's nice to dip into a thread and see it's all gone Lebowski.

 

Tv On The Radio are dicks. They censured my website, or at least, their record company did. I hate them I hate them so much.

can you expand on this a bit more?

  nene multiple assgasms said:

it's because the songs are good and performed well.

ahh, ok. so there's no mystery. I just don't have the same taste.