TV on the Radio

1STmammal2wearPants
1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
edited February 2008 in Other Music
Some of their new album I can't get into, but the songs that are good are REALLY good on their new album, Return to Cookie Mountain.

"A Method" and "Dirtywhirl" are awesome Beach Boys-ish tunes, and "Wolf Like Me" is just fuckin great rock. Every song on this album sounds different from one another, and I can't totally place their sound, because it's all over the place. Very cool band.
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  • Tek Money
    Tek Money Posts: 642
    'I was a lover' is my favorite song on this album. But indeed it is good. I would like to see them live.
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    Two of my favorite songs peformed live off the album:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=BqaBW35SGwc
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mwh_HsyyxRs

    pretty amazing stuff.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Tek Money wrote:
    'I was a lover' is my favorite song on this album. But indeed it is good. I would like to see them live.

    i saw them monday. they were awesome.

    what songs cant you get into mammal?
  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    soulsinging wrote:
    i saw them monday. they were awesome.

    what songs cant you get into mammal?


    The first couple off their new one.
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  • ezekiels_oblivion
    ezekiels_oblivion Posts: 200
    TV on the Radio are excellent, every song on Return to Cookie Mountain is brilliant. Desperate Youth is great but Cookie Mountain is sth unbelievable. It's a rare thing for me to like, I mean really really like every song on an album. I don't understand too what part of the album you couldn't get into?
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  • ezekiels_oblivion
    ezekiels_oblivion Posts: 200
    1STmammal2wearPants wrote:
    The first couple off their new one.

    Which new one?
    En mi vida,
    el oscuro me mantiene
    cuando yo te vi
    en la lluvia me prometiste tu sangre

    Estrella de la mañana
    Samael te persigo a ti
    y si me quedo sin alas
    ademas me muero por ti
  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    ezekiels_oblivion wrote:
    TV on the Radio are excellent, every song on Return to Cookie Mountain is brilliant. Desperate Youth is great but Cookie Mountain is sth unbelievable. It's a rare thing for me to like, I mean really really like every song on an album. I don't understand too what part of the album you couldn't get into?


    There are several types of music being done on return to cookie mountain, therefore it would be difficult to pin down one particular style that these guys play. since the music all sounds different from one another on this album, i don't dig a few tracks on there. I can't currently get into them. can't digest them yet. That being said, I like a lot of this album, and maybe I will "get" these songs later on. I don't see why it's so hard to understand- the album isn't exactly accessible to the average listener. The album for the most part is great though.
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  • ezekiels_oblivion
    ezekiels_oblivion Posts: 200
    1STmammal2wearPants wrote:
    There are several types of music being done on return to cookie mountain, therefore it would be difficult to pin down one particular style that these guys play. since the music all sounds different from one another on this album, i don't dig a few tracks on there. I can't currently get into them. can't digest them yet. That being said, I like a lot of this album, and maybe I will "get" these songs later on. I don't see why it's so hard to understand- the album isn't exactly accessible to the average listener. The album for the most part is great though.

    Yeah I guess I understand what you mean but to me what you say ''the several types of music being done on the album doesn't play a significant role, it actually makes me to like it more. I think it's a great, rather succesful ''collision'' of music styles, it seems to me that it functions great as an unity. I didn't go to bisect the music in styles and I wouldn't recommend it to no one. These styles are actually 1 feature - TVoTRstyle, and that's the thing that makes their music timeless in a way. /That's just my humble opinion/
    En mi vida,
    el oscuro me mantiene
    cuando yo te vi
    en la lluvia me prometiste tu sangre

    Estrella de la mañana
    Samael te persigo a ti
    y si me quedo sin alas
    ademas me muero por ti
  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    ezekiels_oblivion wrote:
    Yeah I guess I understand what you mean but to me what you say ''the several types of music being done on the album doesn't play a significant role, it actually makes me to like it more. I think it's a great, rather succesful ''collision'' of music styles, it seems to me that it functions great as an unity. I didn't go to bisect the music in styles and I wouldn't recommend it to no one. These styles are actually 1 feature - TVoTRstyle, and that's the thing that makes their music timeless in a way. /That's just my humble opinion/


    Oh yeah, I definitely think it's cool what they're doing- they're so unique that you can't place them- but I just don't like some of the music that comes out of that. They are a very talented group however.
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  • ezekiels_oblivion
    ezekiels_oblivion Posts: 200
    1STmammal2wearPants wrote:
    Oh yeah, I definitely think it's cool what they're doing- they're so unique that you can't place them- but I just don't like some of the music that comes out of that. They are a very talented group however.

    And that's the beauty of the variety of opinions and a simple truth lies in it; we are all unique (like TVotR) in an non-unique way.
    En mi vida,
    el oscuro me mantiene
    cuando yo te vi
    en la lluvia me prometiste tu sangre

    Estrella de la mañana
    Samael te persigo a ti
    y si me quedo sin alas
    ademas me muero por ti
  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    I keep listening to 'dirtywhirl' on a loop. such a beautiful song.
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    2010 Hartford 
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    2021 Sea.Hear.Now
    2022 Camden
    2024 MSG I, Fenway I, Fenway II
  • Westernsky
    Westernsky Posts: 363
    I want them to open for my favorite band... should they ever announce any more tour dates, that is. :D

    Love the whole album, but currently I keep replaying Wolf Like Me.
  • blacknapkins
    blacknapkins Posts: 2,177
    1STmammal2wearPants wrote:
    Two of my favorite songs peformed live off the album:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=BqaBW35SGwc
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mwh_HsyyxRs

    pretty amazing stuff.

    Thanks for posting these ... very cool and makes me excited to be seeing them again in April.
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  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    listening to return to cookie mountain for the first time in a while. this album is just so rich in sound and ideas
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Starring at the Sun & Wolf Like Me are two of my favorite songs this century.
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    glasshouse wrote:
    listening to return to cookie mountain for the first time in a while. this album is just so rich in sound and ideas

    word, my friend. it's a shame they're not at bonnaroo this year!
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    They're great, yea. I missed their set at Lolla, but on the way back, I ended up on the same flight as them haha. Nice guys.
  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    I missed them at lolla because I waited up front for PJ. I'm also pissed I missed Amy Winehouse pre all out train wreck too, but I got to be in the 10th row for PJ so it was worth it
  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    I just discovered "Hours" off their last album, what an awesome beat/groove/whatever. I love this band, I'm pissed I missed them at Lolla last year!
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Wolf Like Me is a great song but I cant get into anything else on the album.
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