• TV on the Radio are one of my favourite bands, and here is why
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I'm not one to bother with the effort of making many threads lately, but I thought I'd expound my passion for this neat New York based band. Buuut, I didn't feel like making a huge thread about them when there's an equally good wikipedia page on them, with more info than one would ever need to know So here you go [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tv_on_the_radio[/url] But alas! That is not why you are here I see. To get to the point, the reason I like them is their brilliantly vivid music that pulls you in to their world like dust to a vacuum cleaner, with a great soulful style that melds great rocky guitar riffs with soft tuneful moments and electronic music ambience. Just have a listen, and I'm (hopefully) sure you'll find them at the very least half decent (if its any extra help my favourite album is Return to Cookie Mountain, they've also got most their material on the ol' Spotify for the limeys) (click through, 2/3rds aren't embeddable) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTy-e6qEWRE[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqI0FYN-r5c[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhs7vlr_j_I[/media]
Not all their material is on Spotify. There is the infamously awesome OK Calculator too! And it is only for finding on the internet due to how it was released. The first I heard from them was some track off Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes. Then I heard Dear Science, and then, the extremely terrific album in between these, the wonderfully brilliant Return to Cookie Mountain. I absolutely love all their songs on that album. And all their albums are so different too, the least good one is probably OK Calculator, but it has some really good songs, too of course. Some of which were released on EP's and singles later on. Like On The Train, which I love for some strange reason. I'm so saddened they recently took a pause, I missed all their shows this summer, but as Tunde released a track with Massive Attack he might just join the live in a couple weeks when I'm seeing them. Also, the song David Sitek made- "With a Girl Like You" for the collaboration album "Dark Was The Night" is a really brilliant song. And Kyp Malone, their falsetto vocalist and guitarist, (who sports an awesome beard-fro combo) has recently started a solo project called Rain Machine, I haven't heard them, but I can't imagine it not being good. And well, this may just show how much of a fan I am. But how couldn't I be?
Shit I recognise that first song, and I love it. Cooooool.
Saw them at lollapalooza, I have two of their albums. they're p. good
Hipster music
[QUOTE=Augmatic Disport;17219344]Hipster music[/QUOTE] .
[QUOTE=Augmatic Disport;17219344]Hipster music[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=dustbusta;17222128].[/QUOTE] If you want to be an image obsessed elitist, I suppose you can go right ahead, but in the meanwhile I'm gonna listen to music I like
Oh how I agree. I got accused of listening to hipster music before, but what they might not realize is I listen to kind of everything I like. It's Penderecki to Shining by TV on the Radio, Puppetmastaz and Modeselektor. It's probably because I'm not too fond of regular sounding catchy music and the regular RnB stuff that airs all the time. Well, I never even liked that as a kid, I don't know why I'm supposed to now. Regardless of what image people may stamp on me I'm going to keep listening to the stuff I've got to like throughout my days. And whenever a new good band comes about I will listen to it as well.
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