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TV on the Radio’s performance on ‘The Colbert Report’
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Just wanted to come out of my recent posting blackout to give a quick shout out to the sound guys at The Colbert Report. A number of bloggers have commented on last night’s TV on the Radio performance, pointing out that the band also played Saturday Night Live this past weekend, and that its Colbert Report outing sounded much better. Kudos, gang!
(On a related note: This might be my favorite item about TV on the Radio’s appearance on The Colbert Report, in spite of its being in dire need of an editor; it agrees that The Colbert Report is most definitely more relevant than the Grammys.)
UPDATED TO ADD: Digital Noise chimed in on this with its own analysis here. I’ll repeat myself and say props to the Colbert sound crew.
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February 10th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
The sound on TCR was pretty fuzzy (at least when the episode was broadcast on my part of the world) but their sound was pretty intriguing, so I might give them a listen. I haven’t seen the SNL performance so I can’t compare.
Speaking of Grammys, apparently the Colbert Nation’s been busy tweaking the Wikipedia pages of I Am America and An Inconvenient Truth.
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February 10th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
The link to the SNL performance is in the post.
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February 10th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Thanks, Ms. I! :) Should have looked more closely.
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February 13th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
my tv screen speakers didn’t do the sound well. Bought cd, played webstream and it sounded pretty good on Colbert. Too bad his voice gave out. Powerful song. Golden Age perfmed SNL is a weak track on DEar ScienCe. They were going for shorter ones. “He’s a What? He’s what? He’s a NewPaPErMAN” Colbert Stunt indeed. tvotr rocks loud and clear. gotta luvem.
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February 11th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
The links in the post turn out to be invisible, from where I’m looking. They’re not underlined, and it they are a different colour, the colour is much too similar to the text colour. So you can’t see there’s a link there unless you accidentally “mouse over” it. A template fix would be appreciated.
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February 11th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
You can also set your browser preferences so that links show up underlined by default (or in a color that’s easier for you to see – I don’t have any trouble with it, personally). Might try that to see if it helps :)
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February 11th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
(duplicate post, sorry)
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