Comments on: This New TV On The Radio Song Is Fantastic In Way Too Many Ways For Me To List http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Al Shipley http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683362 Al Shipley Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:49:18 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683362 <p>So wait, you're working on the assumption that a large number of readers at work get to download blast music in the office but not at home? If that's true, man I'm jealous of those people.</p> So wait, you’re working on the assumption that a large number of readers at work get to download blast music in the office but not at home? If that’s true, man I’m jealous of those people.

]]> By: Al Shipley http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683322 Al Shipley Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:49:13 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683322 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list#c7314152">Maura Johnston</A>: Oh, I know a lot of people do their web surfing at the office in the daytime. But I definitely don't get to listen to any of the cool links I come across during the day unless I remember to go back to them at night when I'm at home.</P> @Maura Johnston: Oh, I know a lot of people do their web surfing at the office in the daytime. But I definitely don’t get to listen to any of the cool links I come across during the day unless I remember to go back to them at night when I’m at home.

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683332 Chris Molanphy Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:11:35 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683332 <p>@<a href="#c7313487">Al Shipley</a>: I have to cherry-pick maybe two or three moments per day when it wouldn't look fishy for me to put headphones on at my desk and listen to audio foolishness on the interwebs. But yeah, you have a point.</p> <p>If I can download something and leave it on my desktop for listening at home (I carry a laptop between work and home), I will, but if it's on YouTube or a stream or something, I'm liable to forget to play it later; so I sneak it in at work.</p> @Al Shipley: I have to cherry-pick maybe two or three moments per day when it wouldn’t look fishy for me to put headphones on at my desk and listen to audio foolishness on the interwebs. But yeah, you have a point.

If I can download something and leave it on my desktop for listening at home (I carry a laptop between work and home), I will, but if it’s on YouTube or a stream or something, I’m liable to forget to play it later; so I sneak it in at work.

]]> By: Tauwan http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683202 Tauwan Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:07:56 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683202 <p>@<a href="#c7332563">brownham</a>:</p> <p>What I think T'Challa is trying to get at here is some of us are, yet again, being those random, faceless internet commenters quick to supply the snark and negativity to yet another band with a little popularity? TVOTR are obviously letting their hair down and catching a groove, so why can't we?</p> <p>Problem is I just can't "catch the beat" or give in to this song's come ons. And for me to feel like that is fine. I remember laughter, yes, but I also remember how and when a couple of other bands I know and enjoy did the exact same thing, sang in the exact same voice, jumped on the exact same "dance-like-trance-like-get-ya-hustle-on-groove" and a lot of peeps wouldn't give it the time of day. TV on the Radio does it [quite awkwardly and average if you ask me] and all of a sudden I'm supposed to bow in the presence of greatness? No. Thank You.</p> @brownham:

What I think T’Challa is trying to get at here is some of us are, yet again, being those random, faceless internet commenters quick to supply the snark and negativity to yet another band with a little popularity? TVOTR are obviously letting their hair down and catching a groove, so why can’t we?

Problem is I just can’t “catch the beat” or give in to this song’s come ons. And for me to feel like that is fine. I remember laughter, yes, but I also remember how and when a couple of other bands I know and enjoy did the exact same thing, sang in the exact same voice, jumped on the exact same “dance-like-trance-like-get-ya-hustle-on-groove” and a lot of peeps wouldn’t give it the time of day. TV on the Radio does it [quite awkwardly and average if you ask me] and all of a sudden I’m supposed to bow in the presence of greatness? No. Thank You.

]]> By: brownham http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683212 brownham Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:57:27 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683212 <p>@<a href="#c7330861">T'Challa</a>:</p> <p>what does this song have to do with laughter?</p> <p>....</p> <p>:\</p> @T’Challa:

what does this song have to do with laughter?

….

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]]> By: T'Challa http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683222 T'Challa Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:02:25 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683222 <p>Doesn't anybody remember laughter?</p> <p>This is one of the most joyous songs I've heard all year.</p> <p>Bless TVOTR. I'm counting the days until they hit L.A.</p> <p>Tunde is the MAN!!</p> Doesn’t anybody remember laughter?

This is one of the most joyous songs I’ve heard all year.

Bless TVOTR. I’m counting the days until they hit L.A.

Tunde is the MAN!!

]]> By: Plague http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683232 Plague Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:16:21 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683232 <p>@<a href="#c7323500">brownham</a>: <br> Stanky, overripe cheese at that.<br> Don't worry, you'll get a whole record of this crap.<br> If they are "indie", they can never be a jamband, right?</p> @brownham:
Stanky, overripe cheese at that.
Don’t worry, you’ll get a whole record of this crap.
If they are “indie”, they can never be a jamband, right?

]]> By: Jon Can Dance http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683242 Jon Can Dance Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:03:18 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683242 <p>So is this what Coachella sounded like this year?</p> So is this what Coachella sounded like this year?

]]> By: Tauwan http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683252 Tauwan Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:50:44 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683252 <p>@<a href="#c7323500">brownham</a>:</p> <p>True dat.</p> <p>I also can't help but think of !!! when I play the track, meaning I rather be listening to them than this. But I'm biased. Never really cared much for TVOTR radio anyway.</p> @brownham:

True dat.

I also can’t help but think of !!! when I play the track, meaning I rather be listening to them than this. But I’m biased. Never really cared much for TVOTR radio anyway.

]]> By: brownham http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683262 brownham Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:13:21 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683262 <p>it's weird I kinda think it's cheesy</p> it’s weird I kinda think it’s cheesy

]]> By: MayhemintheHood http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683272 MayhemintheHood Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:55:18 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683272 <P>Idolator is definitely a work related website for me. I work in an office, and rarely do I not have at least one ear bud in, if not both, and I only come on here while at work(because that's when all the cool stuff is being put up). I rarely visit this site when i'm home...so Maura must know what she's talking about.</P> <P>I'll say again that the new TVOTR song kicks ass and get's better every time i've listened to it. They're are what music should sound like in 2008, and the future.</P> Idolator is definitely a work related website for me. I work in an office, and rarely do I not have at least one ear bud in, if not both, and I only come on here while at work(because that’s when all the cool stuff is being put up). I rarely visit this site when i’m home…so Maura must know what she’s talking about.

I’ll say again that the new TVOTR song kicks ass and get’s better every time i’ve listened to it. They’re are what music should sound like in 2008, and the future.

]]> By: Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683282 Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:51:31 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683282 <p>I used to listen to tracks linked from Idolator through my dictation headphones.</p> <p>Nobody at my firm was the wiser.</p> I used to listen to tracks linked from Idolator through my dictation headphones.

Nobody at my firm was the wiser.

]]> By: Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683292 Maura Johnston Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:11:47 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683292 <p>@<a href="#c7320914">metalkate</a>: no, that's not it! i just figure that many people here were able to work while wearing headphones. mea culpa?</p> @metalkate: no, that’s not it! i just figure that many people here were able to work while wearing headphones. mea culpa?

]]> By: metalkate http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683302 metalkate Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:37:11 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683302 <p>maybe she thinks we all work at record labels, where nobody does anything but fuck around on the internet all day anyway. i see all these stories about the tragic personnel turnovers at record labels, but then i'm like, wait, we're talking about publicists. maybe they should look into more meaningful lives anyway.</p> maybe she thinks we all work at record labels, where nobody does anything but fuck around on the internet all day anyway. i see all these stories about the tragic personnel turnovers at record labels, but then i’m like, wait, we’re talking about publicists. maybe they should look into more meaningful lives anyway.

]]> By: SomeSound-MostlyFury http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683312 SomeSound-MostlyFury Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:22:26 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683312 <p>@<a href="#c7319047">Al Shipley</a>: They block streaming audio and flash at my work, so I also have to wait until I get home to play good links and videos.</p> @Al Shipley: They block streaming audio and flash at my work, so I also have to wait until I get home to play good links and videos.

]]> By: Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683342 Maura Johnston Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:40:22 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683342 <p>@<a href="#c7313487">Al Shipley</a>:</p> <p><a href="http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s27idolator&r=3">[www.sitemeter.com]</a></p> @Al Shipley:

[www.sitemeter.com]

]]> By: Tauwan http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683352 Tauwan Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:26:24 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683352 <p>Pass.</p> Pass.

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683372 Chris Molanphy Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:44:23 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683372 <p>@<a href="#c7311271">slowburn</a>: I even hear elements of "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)."</p> <p>Wow. This is something I wasn't expecting to hear from these guys: total body music.</p> <p>Mission accomplished: they've lured me back in. (I am among the, like, 10 indie-rock fans who liked the first TVoTR album way better than the second.)</p> @slowburn: I even hear elements of “Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground).”

Wow. This is something I wasn’t expecting to hear from these guys: total body music.

Mission accomplished: they’ve lured me back in. (I am among the, like, 10 indie-rock fans who liked the first TVoTR album way better than the second.)

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683382 Anonymous Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:21:48 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683382 <P>HAWT.</P> <P>Is anyone else hearing a little bit of "Don't Stop Till U Get Enough?" in this song? And, I love his vocal tics on this one.</P> HAWT.

Is anyone else hearing a little bit of “Don’t Stop Till U Get Enough?” in this song? And, I love his vocal tics on this one.

]]> By: MayhemintheHood http://idolator.com/400631/this-new-tv-on-the-radio-song-is-fantastic-in-way-too-many-ways-for-me-to-list/comment-page-1#comment-683392 MayhemintheHood Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:09:22 +0000 http://874df6d1790c7fe167773bf0705fe302#comment-683392 <P>Sweet! I've been dying to hear a track from this album. "Golden Age", or whatever it's called, definitely doesn't disappoint.</P> Sweet! I’ve been dying to hear a track from this album. “Golden Age”, or whatever it’s called, definitely doesn’t disappoint.

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