Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

Another unique sounding early aughts indie band. Could get a bit droney at times, but overall I liked it. Although it seemed more enjoyable with headphones than over a speaker.

i can appreciate the weirdness and there's some glimmers of stuff here i like, but overall i just find it really grating. they obviously have talent and are clearly pulling on some good reference points but the final product just doesn't work for me. the a cappella shit is just the final nail in the coffin (if i never hear Ambulance again, it'll be too soon) only by the strength of Wear You Out does this crawl up to a 2

April 26, 2024

HL: "Dreams", "Staring at the Sun", "Ambulance", "Poppy"

I heard through the grapevine this album was a bit shoegazey. Did not disappoint. Another great offering from a band I didn't know I liked until doing this album-a-day six hundred odd times.

The loop pedal is the unsung hero here. "Ambulance" is a prime example, though I wasn't sure what to make of it at first: the simple doo-wop/soul background sounds eerie & industrial the way it's looped.

Het eerste nummer klinkt alsof het door de telefoon is opgenomen. Het is creatief, maar gelukkig word ik er niet van. Dan volgt de hit. Voor degenen die het nog niet geluisterd hebben. Toegankelijker dan die hit zal dit album niet worden. Ook hier wordt volop geëxperimenteerd. De zang is ook in die hit bijzonder te noemen. Alleen krijgen ze het in dit nummer aardig weg-geproduceerd. Het gaat te ver om elk nummer door te akkeren. Maar door al die experimenten bij elkaar is het wel een interessant album om één keer te horen, maar zeker niet een album om vaker op te zetten. Goed dat het op de lijst staat, maar een voldoende is er niet voor te geven.

eh

Meh, not as good as the other one, which I had a while ago - just not as engaging or catchy. Decent enough, but no more than that.

Can’t say this one really grabbed me. It was creative. Favorite song was Staring At The Sun

I liked this album a lot. It's much nicer than I thought it was possible based on the description and Wikipedia page. So many styles are encapsulated inside the same album that it becomes hard to analyze them thoroughly.

It's better than the "Dear Science" album from the band (released later, but that I got on the 1001 list before).

An interesting project that ultimately sounds incomplete.

I’ve never really listened to TV on the Radio. It was weird. It hit me juuuuuust right.

Fin nok, lige indtil demo numrene der var i den plade jeg hørte på Tidal 😅

Way too many weak tracks but Dreams pushed it to a 3.

stronger than Dear Science

I fell in love with these guys with the "Young Liars" EP and rushed out to get this record when it was released. Though they went on to expand their sound on later albums, I still prefer the directness and purity of this earlier work. By leaving more to the imagination, it somehow makes the atmosphere richer. I love their use of electronic elements throughout, and their choices for distortion and tone are exquisite. This album is a great example of being dark and heavy while still retaining a real human beauty. Besides enjoying the tangled webs they weave with their arrangements, I think the thing that is most exciting about their sound is that it's truly centered around the human voice.

It was fine. I hadn’t listened to this one in a while and I didn’t like it as much as I remembered.

This is the second TV on the Radio album that I've gotten in this generator. The first, Dear Science, was a teriffic album. This one... Not so much. A lot of shrieking and random humming on this album. Also, really weird and experimental music and noises that just didn't hit for me. Super disappointing seeing how much I liked that first album of theirs that I reviewed. Dude has a voice that sounds like Prince by times.

Favourite songs: Don't Love You, Bomb Yourself

Least favourite songs: The Wrong Way, Ambulance, You Could Be Love

2/5

Literally never heard of these guys in my life, but it’s like… very *very* good type of indie, got some good alt rock flavor of the time

Really disappointing. Probably the most overrated of the early aughts indie bands. 2/5

Certainly alternative rock from the early 2000s, there's this sound you can pick up from it, but I like the addition of a sort of soul sound to it all, like if Lenny Kravitz started making music in this era instead. That being said, it is very repetitive, and almost none of the songs have a climax, it's usually the same song it was five minutes before with an extra voice and instrument or two. That isn't always true, but it certainly felt like it. Otherwise pretty alright, just feels like it should've done more.