Topic: TV On the Radio (Read 15259 times)

Stoob · « **on:** 06 Nov 2007, 05:37 »

Sooooo. How 'bout 'em?

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #1 on:** 06 Nov 2007, 05:59 »

I just got their album Return to Cookie Mountain,

It's kind of delicious.

But that's all I can say about that.

CmonMiracle · « **Reply #2 on:** 06 Nov 2007, 07:08 »

I liked their singles off both their albums and generally enjoyed the albums too but I find them a bit too scattered and experimental for me.

Kilgore_Trout · « **Reply #3 on:** 06 Nov 2007, 09:04 »

To be honest i don´t really like their work before "return to cookie mountain", saw them live this summer and it was quite a show.

Johnny C · « **Reply #4 on:** 06 Nov 2007, 10:17 »

Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes is absolutely great and if someone tells you otherwise they're a charlatan.

Ernest · « **Reply #5 on:** 06 Nov 2007, 10:23 »

I endorse this band. They are solid.

Ocarina654 · « **Reply #6 on:** 06 Nov 2007, 11:47 »

Return to Cookie Mountain is great, haven't heard anything else.

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #7 on:** 06 Nov 2007, 18:03 »

I really like their cover of Mr. Grieves on Young Liars, and their debut album is great. Also Return to Cookie Mountain. Is that what you wanted me to say original poster?

mfpole · « **Reply #8 on:** 06 Nov 2007, 19:33 »

I heard that this one time during a show, the power cut off and their amps all shut down. So then they all just yelled out their guitar and whatever else parts for the rest. That's always inspired me.

edit for silly typo

Stoob · « **Reply #9 on:** 07 Nov 2007, 05:34 »

cool, just wonderin' who else liked them. Staring at the sun, and wolf like me are some of my favorite songs.

CamusCanDo · « **Reply #10 on:** 07 Nov 2007, 20:52 »

Yea dude, they're pretty fucking rad.

NothingIncorporated · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 Nov 2007, 00:12 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 06 Nov 2007, 10:17

Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes is absolutely great and if someone tells you otherwise they're a charlatan.

I agree, they're not like anything else I've heard in a long time, but they are very good.

mberan42 · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 Nov 2007, 11:58 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 06 Nov 2007, 10:17

Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes is absolutely great and if someone tells you otherwise they're a charlatan.

monkandmovies13 · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 Nov 2007, 16:07 »

I think they're almost as overrated as Animal Collective.

Although I do enjoy the song Wolf Like Me quite a bit.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 Nov 2007, 16:11 »

A very stupid name for a band.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 Nov 2007, 16:15 »

I would see the band called TV On The Radio because they are fucking great.

Ernest · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 Nov 2007, 20:49 »

Quote from: monkandmovies13 on 08 Nov 2007, 16:07

I think they're almost as overrated as Animal Collective.

Although I do enjoy the song Wolf Like Me quite a bit.

elaborate

In my opinion, Wolf Like Me isn't even their best song

NothingIncorporated · « **Reply #17 on:** 09 Nov 2007, 05:58 »

Why is TV on The Radio a bad name for a band? It's a rather clever name if you ask me...

..for all you know it could connotate that by listening to television on the Radio allows you to create your own image of what's going on, which you can do in their songs (or at least I can)

SeanBateman · « **Reply #18 on:** 09 Nov 2007, 07:19 »

Quote from: monkandmovies13 on 08 Nov 2007, 16:07

I think they're almost as overrated as Animal Collective.

Although I do enjoy the song Wolf Like Me quite a bit.

Animal collective is way better than TVOTR. It's not even comprable.

monkandmovies13 · « **Reply #19 on:** 09 Nov 2007, 20:26 »

Funny, I would actually say there is more thought and originality in TVOR than in AC. I feel like Animal Collective...like...they make noises. With instruments and other random sounds they find interesting. And call it music. Not that I'm really stodgy and against all of that "experimental music" stuff, but I'm very wary of it because I don't subscribe to the pattern of thinking that anything crazy or not done before is neccessarily good or worthwhile. It has to be complex and show skill in some way, and I feel like every Animal Collective song and album sounds exactly the same. Whatever, maybe I'm just not listening hard enough.

Wait, this is a TVOR thread. Yeah, I guess I can see why people like them, but they hurt my ears. I am not that into static-y, noisy indie rock that is so layered and thick like TVOR's music. It just puts me in a weird mood, and is really hard to explain why it makes me feel like it does. But it's not a good feeling.

I will say that I think TVOR are more technically musically talented that Animal Collective.

Johnny C · « **Reply #20 on:** 09 Nov 2007, 23:26 »

Why does everyone suck Animal Collective's dick so much? They're good but they're by no means pedestal-worthy.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #21 on:** 10 Nov 2007, 03:06 »

Neither bands are really! Though I guess I would probably put Young Liars up there, but personally overall I do like AC better.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #22 on:** 10 Nov 2007, 10:27 »

Besides, no band can be better than The Dismemberment Plan.

Clobbersaurus · « **Reply #23 on:** 12 Nov 2007, 12:54 »

"staring at the sun" has to be one of the best tracks i've heard in the last 3 years.
it's been one of those 'staple' tracks on the mix playlist and i dont see it leaving anytime soon.

2HourHiatus · « **Reply #24 on:** 12 Nov 2007, 18:56 »

TVOTR are on of my favourite bands. Their showmanship is incredible. I saw a video of them play Wolf Like Me on David Letterman. By no means is Wolf Like Me my favourite song of theirs, but they tore up the stage. I swear that David Letterman soiled himself during it. And really, any band that has crazy high falsetto harmonies has got to be good.

Stoob · « **Reply #25 on:** 13 Nov 2007, 05:31 »

animal collective is good and all. but besides grass, leaf house, and the purple bottles they aren't all that great. Very overated

Johnny C · « **Reply #26 on:** 13 Nov 2007, 09:34 »

Quote from: 2HourHiatus on 12 Nov 2007, 18:56

I saw a video of them play Wolf Like Me on David Letterman. By no means is Wolf Like Me my favourite song of theirs, but they tore up the stage. I swear that David Letterman soiled himself during it.

Oh man I watched that one last night and it was utterly incredible.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #27 on:** 13 Nov 2007, 09:57 »

Quote from: Ã¶de on 10 Nov 2007, 10:27

Besides, no band can be better than The Dismemberment Plan.

Am I alone in really not thinking much of this band. I knew a girl who loved them to death a couple of years back and listened to most of their discog on her urging. I find them fairly unpleasant to listen to. The can be said, for me, for TV on the Radio. They're OK, they have a fairly original sound I suppose, but I more often find them irritating than engaging. Animal Collective I do like but I don't think they're fantastic at all. They're fun to listen to in relatively small doses but the AC worship I often hear espoused around the intertubes surprises me. I may not be in the majority but I think none of these bands deserves their respective heaps of praise.

SleeperCylon · « **Reply #28 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 10:03 »

They rock.

Return to Cookie Mountain, great album. Maybe best of 2006.

Rizzo · « **Reply #29 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 12:34 »

The Young Liars EP goes on at my place about every 3 days. Haven't heard anything from Return to Cookie Mountain and OK Calculator was crap as far as I'm concerned.
Despite that, Young Liars is one of my all time favourite records despite it's measly 5 tracks (quality not quantity. Still won't pay $25 for an EP...)
So, does Cookie Mountain measure up to Young Liars?

SeanBateman · « **Reply #30 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 12:38 »

Quote from: Stoob on 13 Nov 2007, 05:31

animal collective is good and all. but besides grass, leaf house, and the purple bottles they aren't all that great. Very overated

Man are you stupid.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #31 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 16:47 »

I watched that performance that was noted earlier of them being on letterman and was excessively bored. When I think about incredible showmanship and, "tearing it up onstage," I usually think of something along the lines of an At the Drive In performance (not to sound cliche-d). My friends wouldn't shut up about this band around a year ago and I never really understood it. I'm pretty sure I still don't. And thats... ok.

Johnny C · « **Reply #32 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 17:03 »

Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 13 Nov 2007, 09:57

words

Between this post and the succession of posts you've made in Movies, TV Shows and Books I find myself wondering if there's anything you do like.

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #33 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 17:55 »

I've heard them compared to Animal Collective, but I have yet to hear any of their stuff. Where should I start with them?

GenericName · « **Reply #34 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 18:15 »

Start with the Young Liars EP, I'd say.
Except I personally dont like a lot of their stuff. My bandmate introduced me to Staring At The Sun and Wolf Like Me and those are still the ones I like best.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #35 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 18:55 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 18 Nov 2007, 17:03

Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 13 Nov 2007, 09:57
words

Between this post and the succession of posts you've made in Movies, TV Shows and Books I find myself wondering if there's anything you do like.

Like I said, I do like AC, just not to the point of slavish worship. I dislike when hollywood ruins things by making them sappy/artificial/shallow/unimaginative/petty/boring, as they often do, especially when converting great literature to film. On the other hand, my ever growing itunes library contains nearly 1800 albums comprising some 800 bands/musicians that I like quite a bit at the very least. I'm just a bit digruntled with the current state of much of hollywood and rabid fanboy-ism over bands that I don't quite understand the tremendous hype over. I'll try to keep my tirades to a minimum since, as you correctly pointed out, they've become a bit too frequent. On a related note, I do like Panda Bear. A lot. I saw him live and it was a fantastic show. Although he's become more popular now with Person Pitch, I feel like the few AC fans (or fans of the other bands mentioned in this thread) who haven't done so already should certainly check out both this album and earlier stuff (Young Prayer for example) and see him live if at all possible. Good stuff, that.

Johnny C · « **Reply #36 on:** 18 Nov 2007, 20:49 »

I'm with you there, and in fact I feel like I like the band members' solo material more than I actually do their full-band records.

bells · « **Reply #37 on:** 20 Nov 2007, 00:15 »

for some reason, i thought they were some kind of pop punk band or something so i held off actually listening to them for a while...that'll teach me to judge bands by their names! i saw them at splendour in the grass in aus last year, and i swear the guitarist's afro was smoking. f-ing awesome show, they got brian and nick from the yeah yeah yeahs up on stage with them for a finale freak-out on wolf like me. desperate youth struck me the most, i thinks still a personal favourite. its good to see such intrinsically intelligent music spreading so far. not that it doesn't deserve to.

nauset · « **Reply #38 on:** 27 Nov 2007, 15:43 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 06 Nov 2007, 10:17

Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes is absolutely great and if someone tells you otherwise they're a charlatan.

i second this. they played a rocking version of ambulance with members of grizzly bear at the last show i saw of theirs.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #39 on:** 27 Nov 2007, 16:32 »

Quote from: Rizzo on 18 Nov 2007, 12:34

The Young Liars EP goes on at my place about every 3 days.
So, does Cookie Mountain measure up to Young Liars?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Young Liars EP is my favorite thing they've done. It's flawless. Return to Cookie Mountain has a few duff tracks. OK Calculator and Bloodthirsty Youth... never did much for me at all.

pinkpiche · « **Reply #40 on:** 21 Mar 2008, 13:52 »

What band is pedestal-worthy?

GenericName · « **Reply #41 on:** 21 Mar 2008, 13:54 »

If I made a band called "necropost", it would definitely not be pedestal-worthy.

GenericName · « **Reply #42 on:** 21 Mar 2008, 14:52 »

It's okay. Just try to be more careful from now on.

Rizzo · « **Reply #43 on:** 21 Mar 2008, 16:30 »

So I managed to get a copy of Cookie Mountain. It's pretty damn good. I think I might put it on now actually.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #44 on:** 21 Mar 2008, 16:38 »

It is delicious. I need to listen to their older stuff more though (Staring at the Sun, woo!).

GenericName · « **Reply #45 on:** 21 Mar 2008, 17:31 »

Coincidentally, I just put Staring At The Sun on a mix for a friend of "music you have to know".

RedLion · « **Reply #46 on:** 21 Mar 2008, 19:53 »

"...Cookie Mountain" is one of my favorite albums. I don't think there's even one throw-away track, and "Wolf Like Me" is an amazingly danceable song. I saw them live in Milwaukee awhile ago, and a guy had a wind-chime hanging from the bolt of his guitar.

Ikrik · « **Reply #47 on:** 22 Mar 2008, 00:06 »

TVOTR is musically delicious as someone so perfectly described it. I think it's a little odd to compare them to Animal Collective. When I listen to TVOTR I can tell what I'm listening to and I'm never confused or going "wth?" With Animal Collective I have periods where I think "....what are they doing? what is this noise?" and it completely ruins my concentration. I enjoy both bands but TVOTR is more coherent. When I make people listen to TVOTR they usually either go "hey, this is awesome...finally black music that isn't hip-hop!" or "this is terrible, where's the BEATZ?" but when I give people AC they either like it or go "this is music?"

Kai · « **Reply #48 on:** 22 Mar 2008, 07:06 »

Quote from: Ikrik on 22 Mar 2008, 00:06

finally black music that isn't hip-hop!"

what no there is never any black music that is not hip hop ever

blanktom · « **Reply #49 on:** 22 Mar 2008, 07:07 »

Quote from: Ã¶de on 10 Nov 2007, 10:27

Besides, no band can be better than The Dismemberment Plan.

amen.

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Stoob

CmonMiracle

Kilgore_Trout

Stoob

NothingIncorporated

monkandmovies13

NothingIncorporated

SeanBateman

monkandmovies13

Stoob

SeanBateman

bells

nauset