Based on their performances last month on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Colbert Report," I may have to do a serious reinvestigation of TV On The Radio's Dear Science,. Everything that seems wrong with the record was completely right with the performance. Tempos were reckless, the interplay was loose and frantic, and they were essentially the anti-Radiohead. Radiohead's live performances frequently suffer from a overly strict adherence to the studio arrangements, which tends to suck the life out of their live shows. Compared to Radiohead, TV On The Radio is the Band, joyously tossing firecrackers at each other.
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Got DAMN, that wuz HOTT!! Dare I call it the best talk show performance since At the Drive-In on Letterman in '99? I do so dare! Extra HOTT points: 1. fox in a miniskirt on bari sax. 2. Kyp Malone rocking the Garth Hudson beard.
Posted by: Mr. Sweetie | March 12, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Never saw that At The Drive-In thing; only bought their album and was underwhelmed. I think I went to high school with the saxophonist in the red shirt. But best all-time talk-show performance surely has to be this. Or that time in 1975 when, in a clumsy cross-promotional gambit between Sun Ra and Folgers Crystals, the Tonight Show Orchestra was secretly replaced with the Sun Ra Arkestra (e.g., "We secretly replaced the Tonight Show Orchestra with Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Fun Slide Orchestra. Let's see if Johnny Carson notices, even though the musicians are throwing plastic airplanes past his head and are dressed in foil").
Posted by: Matt | March 13, 2009 at 03:17 PM
Matt, did you see Rachel Getting Married?
singer Tunde Adebimpe sings. a cappella, Neil Young's "Unknown Legend," from Harvest Moon.
Posted by: EB | May 09, 2009 at 06:15 PM