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** "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes", their debut album, has a darker, slower and more atmospheric sound than their follow-ups.

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** "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes", their debut album, has a darker, slower and more atmospheric sound than their follow-ups.compared to its follow-ups, "Return to Cookie Mountain" and "Dear Science".
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** "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes", their debut album, has a darker, slower and more atmospheric sound than their follow-ups.
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!!Tropes exhibited by this band include:

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!!Tropes exhibited by this band include:!!Never you mind, trope professor:
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Gerard Smith, Dave Sitek, Kyp Malone, Tunde Adebimpe and Jaleel Bunton]]



* Gerard Smith: bass, keyboards (deceased)

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* Gerard Smith: bass, keyboards (deceased)
(died in 2011)
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* SpaceOpera: "Lazerray," assuming it isn't just WordSaladLyrics, seems to be a love letter to the genre.

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* SpaceOpera: "Lazerray," assuming it isn't just WordSaladLyrics, seems to be is a love letter to the genre.
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* SpaceOpera: "Lazerray," assuming it isn't just WordSaladLyrics, seems to be a love letter to the genre.
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Moving to Trivia.


* BlackSheepHit: "Dancing Choose" features Tunde rapping, which he had never done on record before.
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Names The Same is no longer a trope


* NamesTheSame: The band have a song called "Troubles" (iTunes bonus track to Nine Types Of Light) and one called "Trouble" (on Seeds, and a single). They are totally different songs, and this can be quite confusing for fans.
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* TalkyBookends: The video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRgpbYHEzvA You]]" intersperses the song itself--performed by Tunde Adebimpe in Music/{{Prince}} getup--with a seriocomic skit where the (ex?) members of TVOTR get together for brunch at a diner where Gerard Smith is working. A melancholy viewing experience, as it's about the last thing Smith did with the band before his untimely death from cancer.
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* RegionalBonus: Several of their albums have bonus tracks, but of note are the tracks "Nobody Else" and "Mystery Eyes" which are only available digitally on the Japanese release of Seeds. They are also available on the vinyl version. The reason for this is that they were recorded after the album (as a CD and download) originally came out.

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TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn-based band that was formed in 2000. They are known for their GenreBusting [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly sound]], often combining elements of HipHop, {{Soul}}, PostPunk, [[ElectronicMusic Electronica]], and AlternativeRock into their music.

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TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn-based band that was formed in 2000. They are known for their GenreBusting [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly sound]], sound, often combining elements of HipHop, {{Soul}}, PostPunk, [[ElectronicMusic Electronica]], and AlternativeRock into their music.



* GenreBusting
* GenreRoulette: Their albums contain any number of different song styles, including drum-and-bass, AvantGardeMusic, trip-hop, {{Funk}}, ACappella, PowerBallad, or NewWaveMusic. With this as well as GenreBusting and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly under their belt, it is safe to say their music defies simple categorization, although a good contender would be "art rock."



* GenreMashup: Post-punk, {{Funk}}, electro, dub, {{Afrobeat}}, hip-hop, ProgressiveRock, gospel, NoiseRock, swing, SynthPop... and that's just only a fraction of what you'll hear in an average TV on the Radio album. Seeds even features a PunkRock song in "Lazerray".
* GenreRoulette: Their albums contain any number of different song styles, including drum-and-bass, AvantGardeMusic, trip-hop, {{Funk}}, ACappella, PowerBallad, or NewWaveMusic. With this as well as GenreBusting under their belt, it is safe to say their music defies simple categorization, although a good contender would be "art rock."



* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Post-punk, {{Funk}}, electro, dub, {{Afrobeat}}, hip-hop, ProgressiveRock, gospel, NoiseRock, swing, SynthPop... and that's just only a fraction of what you'll hear in an average TV on the Radio album. Seeds even features a PunkRock song in "Lazerray".
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Badass Beard and Badass Mustache are being merged into Manly Facial Hair. Examples that don't fit or are zero-context are removed.


* BadassBeard: Tunde usually sports a respectable stubble, but Kyp Malone's facial hair could rival UsefulNotes/RutherfordBHayes'.
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Author Existence Failure (now renamed to Died During Production) is a trope for dying before finishing a work, not anytime a creator died.


* Gerard Smith: bass, keyboards ([[AuthorExistenceFailure deceased]])

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* Gerard Smith: bass, keyboards ([[AuthorExistenceFailure deceased]])
(deceased)
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* ''OK Calculator'' (2002)

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* ''OK Calculator'' (2002)(demo, 2002)



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their debut ''OK Calculator'' is a far more experimental and hip-hop influenced than their later studio albums.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their debut early demo ''OK Calculator'' is a far way more experimental and hip-hop influenced than their later studio albums.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their debut ''OK Calculator'' is a far more experimental and hip-hop influenced than their later studio albums.
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* TokenMinority: David Sitek is the only white guy in a band that is otherwise entirely black.

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* TokenMinority: TokenWhite: David Sitek is the only white guy in a band that is otherwise entirely black.

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* Kyp Malone: guitars, keyboards, loops
* David Andrew Sitek: vocals, guitars, bass, loops
* Jaleel Bunton: drums, vocals, loops, guitars

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* Kyp Malone: vocals, guitars, keyboards, loops
* David Andrew Sitek: vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, loops
* Jaleel Bunton: drums, vocals, loops, guitars



* BeastFable: "Stork & Owl" is essentially one of these in song form.



* GenreRoulette: Their albums contain any number of different song styles, including drum-and-bass, AvantGardeMusic, trip-hop, ACappella, PowerBallad, or NewWaveMusic. With this as well as GenreBusting and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly under their belt, it is safe to say their music defies simple categorization, although a good contender would be "art rock."

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* GenreRoulette: Their albums contain any number of different song styles, including drum-and-bass, AvantGardeMusic, trip-hop, {{Funk}}, ACappella, PowerBallad, or NewWaveMusic. With this as well as GenreBusting and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly under their belt, it is safe to say their music defies simple categorization, although a good contender would be "art rock."


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* WordSaladLyrics: Their songs can verge towards the nonsensical, especially those written by Kyp Malone.

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