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Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (20th Anniversary Edition)

TV On The Radio

  • TV On The Radio: Tiny Desk Concert | NPR
    • Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, the band plays a breathtaking and career-spanning set.
  • TV On The Radio Play A Jaw-Dropping "Staring At The Sun" On 'The Tonight Show': Watch | Stereogum | Nov. 22, 2024, 2:07 p.m.
    • The first time that I saw TV On The Radio play “Staring At The Sun” was at a Baltimore DIY venue called the Supreme Imperial, which hasn’t existed for a very long time and which I think was a converted auto-body shop. Google tells me that this was May 2004, so their debut album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes would’ve just come out. Katrina Ford, the great singer from the Baltimore band Celebration, sang backup, just as she did on the record. My memories of that night are hazy, but I have a clear image of the band just levitating on that song — channeling some primal energy and taking me to another place. Two decades later, coming off a years-long hiatus, TV On The Radio can still evoke that feeling while playing “Staring At The Sun” in the sterile confines of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It’s really something.
  • Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (20th Anniversary Edition) by The Yetee | The Yetee
    • Originally released in 2004, TV on the Radio’s debut album is nine songs about (in no particular order) — discordant living, misrepresentation, how nothing nothing can be, life, afterlife, love and love “after hours.” These are pop songs. These are rock songs. These are art songs.   Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes began right where TVOTR’s 2003 debut EP Young Liars left off, propelled into uncharted sonic territory. Undeniably catchy songs with incredible production, arrangements, champion crooning (including stunning a cappella performances) and a host of extras that makes this a seriously solid album.   This limited edition 20th anniversary edition adds 5 bonus tracks to the album, including two previously unreleased ( neither in physical format nor on digital service providers ) tracks - "Dry Drunk Emperor" ( 2005 studio track ) and "Final Fantasy" ( 2004 album outtake ).