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TV On The Radio's 'Dear Science' - 2008's best?? Music critics around the world seem to agree about one thing universally: TV On The Radio's 'Dear Science' is one of 2008's best records. Groundbreaking, experimental, innovative & funky.....this is what Prince could have sounded like if he'd have kept the torch burning.....
How come this album has not been discussed here yet? [Edited 1/5/09 1:56am] | |
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It has, there was a short thread anyway. I bought the album the other day after reading the thread and some youtube vids. Standouts for me?
Golden Age Family tree (love how this builds) Red Dress Shout me Out Really though, overall it's a great album, and is deserving of all the critical acclaim. It's like listening to several great artists in one go. I ear Bowie, Prince, Funkadelic. There's definately a British influence too. I read a Bio on one of them and they were into Joy Division and New Order. The sonic landscape they created on this one is outstanding, well worth a purchase! | |
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Marrk said: It has, there was a short thread anyway. I bought the album the other day after reading the thread and some youtube vids. Standouts for me?
Golden Age Family tree (love how this builds) Red Dress Shout me Out Really though, overall it's a great album, and is deserving of all the critical acclaim. It's like listening to several great artists in one go. I ear Bowie, Prince, Funkadelic. There's definately a British influence too. I read a Bio on one of them and they were into Joy Division and New Order. The sonic landscape they created on this one is outstanding, well worth a purchase! I'm just getting into this album, sofar I am liking what I hear. I love its diversity. It is funny how TVotR is hitting in so many faces just like that, and then you find out that this is their 3rd cd! | |
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been down with them since their first cd
have not picked up this new one yet but will nice to see people starting to get into them more i have been talking about them, Kings of Leon and My Morning Jacket for years now and all of them are blowing up about now and i love it | |
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I got their live in store at Amoeba Records. EP with 4 songs
1 Blues from Down Here TV On The Radio 5:43 2 Wolf Like Me TV On The Radio 5:15 3 Province TV On The Radio 5:09 4 Wash the Day TV On The Radio 7:51 Here's some streaming with interviews and footage http://www.amoeba.com/liv...radio.html test | |
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abierman said: Music critics around the world seem to agree about one thing universally: TV On The Radio's 'Dear Science' is one of 2008's best records. Groundbreaking, experimental, innovative & funky.....this is what Prince could have sounded like if he'd have kept the torch burning.....
How come this album has not been discussed here yet? Hadn't really though about it but that does bring Prince to mind. By the way, the video you posted is for the track "Golden Age" from the Dear Science album. Here's the video for "Wolf like Me" from Return to Cookie Mountain test | |
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abierman said: Marrk said: It has, there was a short thread anyway. I bought the album the other day after reading the thread and some youtube vids. Standouts for me?
Golden Age Family tree (love how this builds) Red Dress Shout me Out Really though, overall it's a great album, and is deserving of all the critical acclaim. It's like listening to several great artists in one go. I ear Bowie, Prince, Funkadelic. There's definately a British influence too. I read a Bio on one of them and they were into Joy Division and New Order. The sonic landscape they created on this one is outstanding, well worth a purchase! I'm just getting into this album, sofar I am liking what I hear. I love its diversity. It is funny how TVotR is hitting in so many faces just like that, and then you find out that this is their 3rd cd! Yeah, i have a new ambition in life. to get all their stuff. And i'll do it legit, cause i like this band alot. | |
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I can never remember which albums came out which year, but this might be my favorite along with The Last Shadow Puppets. The beat at the end of 'Red Dress' is absolutely fantastic. Could go on for 10 minutes. | |
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abierman said: How come this album has not been discussed here yet? Thread Lil' Kim Not Happy With 'Notorious', Calls Faith Evans Out Replies 136 Views 2,341 Thread started 01/01/09 2:42pm Thread Janet Pissed at Beyonce? Replies 143 Views 2,787 Thread started 12/30/08 11:51am Thread TV On The Radio's 'Dear Science' - 2008's best?? Replies 7 Views 63 Thread started 01/05/09 10:40am We're not "on pace" to catch up. test | |
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PFunkjazz said: abierman said: How come this album has not been discussed here yet? Thread Lil' Kim Not Happy With 'Notorious', Calls Faith Evans Out Replies 136 Views 2,341 Thread started 01/01/09 2:42pm Thread Janet Pissed at Beyonce? Replies 143 Views 2,787 Thread started 12/30/08 11:51am Thread TV On The Radio's 'Dear Science' - 2008's best?? Replies 7 Views 63 Thread started 01/05/09 10:40am We're not "on pace" to catch up. it's sad..... | |
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I got lucky and found a kickedback used version of the Deluxe edition. It's got remixes of "Dancing Choose" and "Crying" plus two extra tracks hidden after a long pause. test | |
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loves it! | |
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Spin Magazine picked them as TOP ALBUM in 2006 and 2008
JON DOLAN 1. TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain TVOTR don't take you back -- not to a utopian pop moment or to the funny first flush of a summer crush or to the way good music can make you feel so right. They're not ironic in a totally sincere way, and you're not sure if they go well with those pants. But they're the only rock band today that get so many different places without even imagining they have a map -- mixing garret punk, mid-'70s prog, from Pere Ubu to Genesis, beatbox hymns, and barbershop anarchism. On their second album, they mess all that noise up and turn the dystopian wallow of Radiohead's Kid A on its ear, finding a shocked freedom in alienation. (It's a fitting achievement for a band that named their 2003 debut EP OK Calculator.) Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone croon like drunks dancing on subway rails, turning terminal dread into an engine for catharsis; drummer Jaleel Bunton and bassist Gerard Smith heroically futz with corroded polyrhythms; and guitarist/producer Dave Sitek collapses sounds upon sounds. Sprinkling allusions to metaphorical wars and "history ablaze," purple rain and sharky waters, religion and art, they dig deep into the scary empty spaces of the world until reaching an eight-minute last track in which they "Wash the Day Away." Maybe not a sure-shot formula for consensus-building pop bigness, but more and more, that seems like an ancient notion in a time when it's you and your iPod against history and the line between me/you/us/them is a sidewalk chalk drawing in the rain. TV on the Radio don't flee from this weirdness, and their anti-Album of the Year is an hour you can spend a lifetime in. BRIAN RAFTERY
1. TV ON THE RADIO - DEAR SCIENCE The follow-up to 2006's bleak, beautiful Return to Cookie Mountain, Dear Science is full of wondrous pop experiments like opening romp "Halfway Home," which buries a bubblegum ba-ba-ba refrain under a thick coat of synths and guitars. Such moments are part of the reason Dear Science is SPIN's Album of the Year -- the second such accolade for TVOTR in three years. Parse the lyrics, and the phrase "album of the year" reveals a double meaning. For Dear Science is a document of the absurd, oft-contradictory realities that have governed American lives over the past 12 months, during which waxing anxiety was offset by irrational optimism. Consider the first two singles, "Dancing Choose" and "Golden Age." One depicts an overstuffed, senses-dulling culture that leaves its victims with "a palette blown to monochrome"; the other is a lush disco anthem -- part Off the Wall, part Wall of Sound -- that promises better times ahead: "There's a golden age comin' round." It's a jolting dichotomy, but an accurate one. Dear Science suggests that, even if the end seems nigh, we all need to keep smiling through the apocalypse. test | |
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