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TV On The Radio — Killer Crane
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Nadine
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 12:26
 
 Giselle62 wrote:

sounds good tonite.

 

yes.

xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone)
Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 16:40
 
 benpfree wrote:
Come on already RP. this is a great album. how come you only play this particular song? Please try  a few others. thanks! :)
 
This is not the only song played off the album.  The other one that has been played has a 5.4 ranking, similar to this song.  Those numbers are not promising.  

Personally, I like about half of this song.  Unfortunately that half is jumbled up throughout with the half I don't like.   

I think it sounds like Elbow run through a blender.  

benpfree
Posted: Nov 06, 2012 - 14:17
 
Come on already RP. this is a great album. how come you only play this particular song? Please try  a few others. thanks! :)

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Aug 19, 2012 - 20:33
 
they have never caught me before this
sounds good tonite.

R7-12
(Abbotsford, BC)
Posted: Aug 19, 2012 - 20:21
 

Turned up it goes from an 8 to a 9 !

Nadine
Posted: Aug 04, 2012 - 04:47
 
i love those guys, but radio paradise unfortunately holds none of my favorite tvotr-tunes in their archive... :o(

brucej76
(Tdot, Canada)
Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 18:03
 
trying to decide if this is my new favourite song...hmmm...nah, it gets a 5.  A little too out there for me.  

michaelgmitchell
(Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 08:30
 
Here I am just chillin' on a Sunday morning, listening to RP. This track doesn't particularly grab me. But I'm listening. Not even AWARE of the PSD button now! Duh. Maybe I don't need it that badly.

Edit: One exception I WILL use the PSD. Dengue Fever. 

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 16:54
 
This just gets on my nerves....

QueenLucia
(The dark side of the moon)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 16:53
 
I'll kill that crane if it shuts him up.

iTuner
Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 22:34
 
More good stuff from tvotr.

zair99
(In Cognito)
Posted: Dec 30, 2011 - 20:25
 
 DrLex wrote:

I think the main reason why this sounds like a monotonous drone is that it has, like pretty much any mainstream album released nowadays, no dynamic range at all.
 
Yeah, it's still pretty bad in the dynamic range department, but this album actually seems like a step back from that "compress everything to clipping" attitude that dominates the market at the moment.  I pretty much just want to kick whoever makes the decision to do that right in the shin and watch them hop around for a bit. It'll make up for the constant ear-assault I get when I try to listen to their music!

Take the recent (Grammy-winning) Arcade Fire album, for instance!  I agree that the music itself is excellent, but holy crap is that album compressed to hell and back!  After all their to-do about pressing it to vinyl, then turning that pressing back to digital to get the "analog" sound, they still decided to peg the entire CD at the clipping point just for the hell of it, apparently. I had to use some crappy headphones to listen to it, because on my (only halfway) decent Grado's the wall of sound was just piercing.

This song at least has some quieter parts and some louder parts.  Yah it's compressed, but I've heard much MUCH worse as of late.  


DrLex
(Belgium)
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 06:24
 
 fredriley wrote:
Ho-Hum can move to irritating after a bit, and this song is one such and I've had to reach for the blessed relief of the mute key. A few more sung notes might be nice - I've heard plainsong with more variety than this.
 
I think the main reason why this sounds like a monotonous drone is that it has, like pretty much any mainstream album released nowadays, no dynamic range at all.


ploba
(the other coast and hang a left)
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 06:21
 
o yeah, beyond annoying - had to mute this one!

 oldslabsides wrote:
sorry but this guy's singing style is just annoying the hell outta me.
 



Red_Dragon
Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 06:19
 
sorry but this guy's singing style is just annoying the hell outta me.

meloman
(Warsaw, Poland)
Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 01:42
 
Strong Strawbs vibe.

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 13:13
 
I like this song. 

It reminds me of my uncle Bill, singing his Air Force songs sung back in WWII. I'm sure drunk as hell, waiting for the next mission. He was a P-52 fighter pilot in Italy, and was shot down behind enemy lines at least once. He liked strafing trains and mostly enjoyed harassing side-car motorcycles.    

This song sounds a lot like him. These out-of-mouth tales are dying as these old veterans are passing away....
 

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 13:07
 
I lived in Europe in the early sixties. We did have TV on the Radio as we could listen to Ed Sullivan on Star and Stripes radio and the Canadian Armed Forces station would play Wayne and Schuster


jhorton
Posted: Oct 15, 2011 - 17:01
 
Okay, this is clearly a band to watch!

ksua
Posted: Sep 28, 2011 - 04:41
 
Loving it!

billybob123
(Southern California)
Posted: Sep 01, 2011 - 14:06
 
 More_Cowbell wrote:
Cranes are viscous birds
 

yes, rather oily too.


Limpopoking
(The Parish of St. Alfonzo)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 00:18
 
I have to have this album... They have become my favourite band of the last 10 years. So incredibly creative {#Notworthy}

Orodrigues
(Resende (RJ), Brazil)
Posted: Aug 25, 2011 - 22:22
 
Strange, quite original and so beautiful: 8 almost 9.

iam_overlord
(Brighton, MA)
Posted: Aug 04, 2011 - 11:19
 
I listened to this song just to drown out the sound of the printer, but alas, it too is repetitive whining.

More_Cowbell
(Northern IL)
Posted: Aug 04, 2011 - 11:14
 
Cranes are viscous birds

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Aug 03, 2011 - 01:05
 
I can tell this is more than most folks can handle.  Thanks RP

AliGator
(The Bluegrass)
Posted: Jul 30, 2011 - 20:37
 
 benpfree wrote:
I really wish RP would play other songs off of this album. The whole album is really good and this is not the best song. 
 
Hear, hear.

I mentioned "Second Song" earlier in this thread, but "You" is such a great song as well. And "Will Do." Rawr.


citybiker
(Chicago)
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 09:46
 
Remember that very brief time in the world of small electronics, when you could but portable radios with AM/FM dials and separate dials for UHF/VHF stations? Before the days when Max Headroom greeted us with his presence?

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 13:06
 
...i get a hint of chemical brothers out of this...

benpfree
Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 13:02
 
I really wish RP would play other songs off of this album. The whole album is really good and this is not the best song. 

govna
(beantown)
Posted: Jul 25, 2011 - 13:00
 
I haven't been compelled to follow this band.  Until I heard this song.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jul 23, 2011 - 08:58
 
Pretty good album. Strangely enough I actually like the hit that they released first; Will Do the best. Perfect song for RP for anyone that has upload slots. Apparently that will not be for some time.{#Sad}

newwavegurly
Posted: Jul 19, 2011 - 08:16
 
When I came to the website to see who was singing this, I was expecting it to be an old Genesis (Peter Gabriel era) song I had never discovered.

rcurrier
(San Juan Capistrano, CA)
Posted: Jul 15, 2011 - 13:21
 
"Twinkle, twinkle, Killer Crane"

Well, that was my first thought.
 

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Jul 13, 2011 - 09:52
 
Ho-Hum can move to irritating after a bit, and this song is one such and I've had to reach for the blessed relief of the mute key. A few more sung notes might be nice - I've heard plainsong with more variety than this.

marc1980
(Victoria, BC)
Posted: Jul 06, 2011 - 08:48
 
Thanks Bill!!  Didn't even know a new album was out.  Going to have to go listen to the whole thing.

malvey254
Posted: Jul 02, 2011 - 15:46
 
Amazon's MP3 store has been selling this album for $4.99.  It's a no-brainer for one of the best albums of 2011 so far.  Almost every track is good.

Edit - Oops, looks like that was only for June.  Still, at $7.99 it's worth it.

AliGator
(The Bluegrass)
Posted: Jun 30, 2011 - 18:51
 
Love this album, especially the first track, "Second Song."

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 08:46
 
...hey, this is cool, especially unrolling out of strange overtones - nice one, bill!..