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TV on the Radio — Killer Crane
Album: Nine Types of Light
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Released: 2011
Length: 6:08
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After the rain
A killer crane
After the rainbow

Across the sky
Her grace is glide
Across the sea
Across creation

And over time
Her grace she slides
Escapes its station

A cold wind blows
The day this stows
Glown heart glownation

Leave it behind
Your restless mind
Your jelousies

But isolation
Demands your patience
To be found together in time just to say

Sunshine I saw you through the hanging vine
A memory of what is mine fading away
But this night heals the ground
And the moonlight steals the sound
I could leave suddenly unafraid

And after all
We're free to fall
Once all the pain goes

And how we stood
And what was good
Could lie us so long

In isolation
A transformation

Blue laughter leaves me
Leaves me blue
And all the ? to see it through
This laugh of love and lie tingle

A killer crane
After a rainbow
May we found together in time just to say

Sunshine I saw you through the hanging vine
A memory of what was mine fading away
But this night heals the ground
And the moonlight steals the sound
I could leave suddenly unafraid

Sunshine come crawling through the hanging vines
A memory of what is mine fading away
In this night heals the ground
And the moonlight steals the sound
I could leave suddenly unafraid

Sunshine I saw you through the hanging vine
A memory of what was mine fading away
And this night heals the ground
And the moonlight steals the sound
I could leave suddenly unafraid
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 hayduke2 wrote:

way cool           (great image too)




I Agree!  Thanx RP!   
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Check out 'Staring at the sun'
Posted 6 years ago by Krist    [ Reply ]
Does anyone else think of Genesis (Peter Gabriel) when you hear this? 
Posted 7 years ago by cmcisaac    [ Reply ]
 More_Cowbell wrote:
Cranes are viscous birds

 
Especially if you serve them with a molasses or honey sauce.
Posted 7 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
It makes me happy whenever this band comes on.
Posted 7 years ago by GTT    [ Reply ]
Very likeable and good for ears
Posted 8 years ago by 1066country    [ Reply ]
way cool           (great image too)
Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
I like these Guys!
Posted 9 years ago by Rockit    [ Reply ]
So strangely put together that it sounds like the "Imagination Land" song from South Park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pifQm3IZ1tc
Posted 9 years ago by mrselfdestruct    [ Reply ]
no
Posted 9 years ago by ploba    [ Reply ]
love TV On The Radio {#Kiss}
Posted 9 years ago by adpucci    [ Reply ]
definitely an acquired taste but it's quite nice
Posted 9 years ago by ceicilbee    [ Reply ]
 shellbella wrote:
This just gets on my nerves....

 
Mine too, sorry.  Nothing going for it, to my ear.
Posted 9 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
Actually kinda like this!
Posted 9 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
GOOOOORGEOUS!
Posted 9 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
No thank you please.
Posted 10 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
One of the few albums/bands I wouldn't buy anymore
Posted 10 years ago by nicknt    [ Reply ]
 meloman wrote:
Strong Strawbs vibe.

 
There is a wistful lost-in-the-Sixties vibe to it...
Posted 11 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 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.  
Posted 11 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
Come on already RP. this is a great album. how come you only play this particular song? Please try  a few others. thanks! :)
Posted 12 years ago by benpfree    [ Reply ]
they have never caught me before this
sounds good tonite.
Posted 12 years ago by Giselle62    [ Reply ]

Turned up it goes from an 8 to a 9 !
Posted 12 years ago by R7-12    [ Reply ]
i love those guys, but radio paradise unfortunately holds none of my favorite tvotr-tunes in their archive... :o(
Posted 12 years ago by Nadine    [ Reply ]
trying to decide if this is my new favourite song...hmmm...nah, it gets a 5.  A little too out there for me.  
Posted 12 years ago by brucej76    [ Reply ]
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. 
Posted 12 years ago by michaelgmitchell    [ Reply ]
This just gets on my nerves....
Posted 12 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
I'll kill that crane if it shuts him up.
Posted 12 years ago by QueenLucia    [ Reply ]
More good stuff from tvotr.
Posted 12 years ago by iTuner    [ Reply ]
 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.  

Posted 12 years ago by zair99    [ Reply ]
 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.

Posted 13 years ago by DrLex    [ Reply ]
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.
 


Posted 13 years ago by ploba    [ Reply ]
sorry but this guy's singing style is just annoying the hell outta me.
Posted 13 years ago by Red_Dragon    [ Reply ]
Strong Strawbs vibe.
Posted 13 years ago by meloman    [ Reply ]
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....
 
Posted 13 years ago by gemtag    [ Reply ]
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

Posted 13 years ago by martinc    [ Reply ]
Okay, this is clearly a band to watch!
Posted 13 years ago by jhorton    [ Reply ]
Loving it!
Posted 13 years ago by ksua    [ Reply ]
 More_Cowbell wrote:
Cranes are viscous birds
 

yes, rather oily too.

Posted 13 years ago by billybob123    [ Reply ]
I have to have this album... They have become my favourite band of the last 10 years. So incredibly creative {#Notworthy}
Posted 13 years ago by Limpopoking    [ Reply ]
Strange, quite original and so beautiful: 8 almost 9.
Posted 13 years ago by Orodrigues    [ Reply ]
I listened to this song just to drown out the sound of the printer, but alas, it too is repetitive whining.
Posted 13 years ago by iam_overlord    [ Reply ]
Cranes are viscous birds
Posted 13 years ago by More_Cowbell    [ Reply ]
I can tell this is more than most folks can handle.  Thanks RP
Posted 13 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
 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.

Posted 13 years ago by AliGator    [ Reply ]
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?
Posted 13 years ago by citybiker    [ Reply ]
...i get a hint of chemical brothers out of this...
Posted 13 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
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. 
Posted 13 years ago by benpfree    [ Reply ]
I haven't been compelled to follow this band.  Until I heard this song.
Posted 13 years ago by govna    [ Reply ]
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}
Posted 13 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 13 years ago by newwavegurly    [ Reply ]
"Twinkle, twinkle, Killer Crane"

Well, that was my first thought.
 
Posted 13 years ago by rcurrier    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 13 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Thanks Bill!!  Didn't even know a new album was out.  Going to have to go listen to the whole thing.
Posted 13 years ago by marc1980    [ Reply ]
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.
Posted 13 years ago by malvey254    [ Reply ]
Love this album, especially the first track, "Second Song."
Posted 13 years ago by AliGator    [ Reply ]
...hey, this is cool, especially unrolling out of strange overtones - nice one, bill!..
Posted 13 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]