tunes you need Tuesday: OK Go

At least two months ago, when Of the Colour of the Blue Sky came out, I promised an OK Go Tunes You Need Tuesday and here it is.  You know OK Go from their video a couple of years ago with the treadmills, but they're more than fun videos, they're a very talented band and this is a superb album.  You should get it.

The End.

Not really.  But I could end it there, that's how much I like this album.  It's supergood and hard to describe.  OK Go calls it a dance album, but it's a mix of rock and pop and fun.  The songs are catchy and funky, the band's sound is fantastic, and well, maybe I should let the first track, "WTF?" speak to what OK Go sounds like.

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So, that's good stuff.  OK Go is great at doing good stuff.  They're a phenomenal band.  This is from their bio on their website:

Some of the other cool shit they’ve made lately: a record accompanied only by trombones, a play, an essay in the best-selling collection Things I’ve Learned From Women Who Dumped Me, op-eds in the New York Times and Huffington Post. They’ve testified before Congress and played in the Senate chambers. I repeat: they played music in the chambers of the United States Senate. They’ve been commentators on All Things Considered. They interviewed a member of N’Sync in the bathroom of Radio City Music Hall. They have a project where they walk the streets with fans handing out burritos to the homeless. They raised most of the money to buy a house for soul legend Al Johnson, so he could move home to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

And they make music too, like "Needing/Getting."  

04 Needing_Getting

I mentioned the OK Go website, but it's worth more than a mention.  It is what a band website should be.  OK Go goes beyond what most bands do and posts video of performances on tv shows, embeddable official videos, and streams live performances.  It's because they care about their fans and about making cool stuff, lead singer Damian Kulash said it on The Colbert Report last night.  

Back to the music.  I'll leave you with my two favorite songs from Of the Colour of the Blue Sky, "Back From Kathmandu" and "Louisiana Land."  Enjoy.

11 Back from Kathmandu

14 Louisiana Land