I took some birthday money and bought a bunch of new music right around this time last year. Actually, I even wrote a post about it… this one. Of the seven CDs I bought, two rose quickly to the top of the heap: Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad (the beginning of a beautiful friendship) and TV On the Radio’s Dear Science.
Dear Science wound up in third place on my Best of 2008 list in what turned out to be a really good year for new music (Rihanna’s album isn’t on that list because it came out in 2007).
This year started out a lot slower but has picked up in the past few weeks. However, right now I don’t have a list of albums I’d like to treat myself to the way I did last year… maybe after the top ten lists start coming out.
I’ve featured one TV On the Radio song since then, ‘Dancing Choose‘ back in July, so I figure it’s time to give them another spin.
‘Crying’ is a fabulous song, a call for revolution that really gets your feet moving.
Hold your breath through late breaking disasters,
Next to news of the trite.
And the codes
And the feelings that meant to be noble
Like coke in the nose of the nobles
Keeps it alight.
And the wrath
And the riots
And the races on fire
And the music for tanks with no red lights in sight.
Got you
cryin’
cryin’
Oh whyin’
Oh my my my
Gold is another word for culture.
Leads to fattening
Of the vultures
Till this bird can barely fly.
And Mary and David smoke dung in the trenches
While Zion’s behavior never gets mentioned.
The writing’s
On your wall
And the blood on the cradle
And the ashes you wade through
Got you callin’ God’s name in vain
Leave the damned to damn it all!
Got you
cryin’
Cryin’
Oh whyin’
Oh my my my
Broken rose colored glasses
Can’t see for the thorns
And you just can’t stand no more!
What a clumsy kind of low
Time to take the wheel and the road
From the masters
Take this car, drive it straight into the wall
Build it back up from the floor.
And stop our
Cryin’
Cryin’
Oh whyin’
Oh my my my
Our cryin’
Our cryin’
Our cryin’
Still you try, try, try.
Meet Me In Montauk 
Two “crying” songs in a row? Are you trying to tell your readers something? Everything okay? 🙂
On first listen, I’m not liking this one as much as those you’ve featured by this group before. But… I do feel like watching Rachel Getting Married, so thanks for that 🙂
They really have a cool sound. I hear a bit of FYC in this song.
Yeah, definitely in the vocals. Also Prince.