To stop Melissa W and I from gumming up other threads with our enthusiasm.
For speculation and discussion of new material (?!?!?) that will be popping up on the current tour.
This is not a classic or dud thread, this is not an OMG RH FANDOM IS SRS BZNZ thread, we may be silly and irreverent and overly personal so DealWithIt.gif
Anyway. I think I have recovered from the reappearance of the red trousers, and the ponytail. So. Now, shall we begin?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
New songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEpQ6iObaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZhZdlkEEQE
(Do you think this would be a better fit for ILE? I know it's music, but it's also just fangirling...)
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
I think that fangirls have as much a right to ILM as anyone else, and I'll FITE anyone who disagrees! This may just be me, but I often find ILM easier and more conducive to discussion than ILE is.
Anyway, it's going to take me hours to load those new songs,but I'll give them a listen. And try not to be distracted by the trousers.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
Luckily they're far enough away and bathed in enough pink lights that the red trousers aren't especially visible.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
I STILL KNOW HE'S WEARING THEM.
Also, that panoply of screens reflecting back an angel choir or infinite Radioheads. I love it, but I'm not sure I can take it.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
Both of the songs have this 80s or maybe early 90s vibe that I'm really liking. x-post
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
OMG the plainsong chant harmonies! The will never stop being choirboys, ever, will they?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
Identikit is maybe reminding me of Spanish Air by Slowdive a bit? With a slinky r&b groove to it. x-post again
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, are red trousers a 'thing' ?
I had a pair of red 501s, they're in the loft someplace now.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure about the bit where the band kicks in but that might just be my instinctive reaction to Thom's "Hitler invades Poland" dance, which always makes me cringe.
x-post HA HA OH GOD RADIOHEAD DO SLOWDIVE. This is not the way to make me stop liking you, guise.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
No, it's only Thom Yorke's red trousers that are a thing, among fangirls. Of the worst sort. (like me)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, where the synths kick in around 1:42, this is making me unreasonably happy.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
Yesssss. I wonder what else they have up their sleeves. I'm really hoping for a full band premiere of The Present Tense and maybe a live version of The Butcher. Apparently Skirting on the Surface was originally on the set list as well.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
I've never heard a version of The Present Tense that I like. It sounded like it had one of those mopey Daily Mail ballad voibe to it? This may be wrong-headed, you're welcome to try to change my mind on that.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
Noooooo, The Present Tense is the most lovely melody Thom has written in years. This is probably the best version because it preserves all the chord progressions that I love so dearly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmbg3Z0x6jQ
And you can hear a faint version of the frankly very Slowdive-y full band version being soundchecked here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAucGV-yOQY
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
I've learned not to judge Thom's sketches until the rest of the band gets their hands on them. Things that sound great live can get mangled on record, and things that I'm unimpressed with end up being my favourite songs once they've had Jonny-dust sprinkled over them.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
Even Jonny-dustless, that song really just does it for me. It just has this completely perfect structure to it.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:50 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, I just fell into to the fluff-hole.
I may be gone some time...
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
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― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
ugh I always forget to bbcode
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m03fj8wOro1qiz5nio1_500.jpg
He looks like he's about to bite Jonny's head off. ROWR. Thomonster.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
I love the new rather De Stijl lighting scheme.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
a little weird enclave of ILM ten years ago
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
which is apt i suppose
Neither of us ever left?
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
Well, actually I left for quite some time. There have been stretches of up to a year or so that I've not been on here.
I think it might be more the revival of the "do not read if you hate me" meme. Which, frankly, was always a good meme. Like, if you know in advance that a thread is going to be full of a subject or a poster that one objects to, isn't it better to just provide a warning and say "if you don't like this, choose not to read it" rather than have a fight over it?
I love the melody on Cut A Hole, it's really classic Thom meandering, but I need to hear a properly recorded version to really catch the vibe, I think.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
I think there have maybe been long periods where I only posted like once a month, so maybe it looked like I left. But no, I am just a constant lurker.
I like Cut a Hole a lot so far but listening to it is just cutting into my Identikit listening time.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
I have a feeling it's going to be like Butcher / Supercollider.
That several months later, I realised that Butcher was actually a pretty damn good song in its own right, but jeeez, why would I want to listen to that again when I had another 7 minutes of Supercollider I could be putting in mine ears?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I didn't like Supercollider at all. But I could listen to the "as it courses up my arms..." bit of The Butcher till the end of time and not get tired of it.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
It's a seven minute krautrock jam about a particle accelerator where he hallucinates angels on his balcony! How does this not have my name written all over it?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
It has this weird Eurodance Coldplay quality to it to me?
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
Also this weird high-pitched pulse in the background that makes me feel like my tinnitus is flooding my skull.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
Wait is Cut A Hole about the popcorn trick?
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
you're not still using that one are you Sam?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
woo.
I've been mostly lurking lately, due to work and general life-insanity, plus I'm at least four years past my peak Radiohedz-obsessiveness, but I just wanted to chime in to say that I approve of this thread. :D
― Roz, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
is this thread for fanboys too? y/n
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
yay Roz! Always happy to see you on any thread!
Fanboys are welcome if and only IF they are amenable to general abject fangirling and can handle the occasional outburst of squeeing glee about, like, Thom Yorke's haircut.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
"Identikit" is so 'song titles very much in character' that i can't believe that they didn't write a song called that years and years ago
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if it's a reference to the really awful Liz Taylor film by the same name
― tanuki, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
some dude v otm
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
And sorry, Melissa, this is LOL hueg but this is from the other side and it very definitely shows that the bald patch is definitely spreading slowly like desertification.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6791482848_96c6bc9eca_o.jpg
Also: red trousers.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really know what's wrong with me that I look at that and think "hot".
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
There is nothing right with that whole look.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know, but it totally is. So RONG yet so right.
Like no one else could get away with that. If anyone else turned up dressed like that, I'd be like, you utter freak. But because it's ~Thom~ it somehow just seems like a sartorial experiment that just... *works*.
The only thing I don't like about it is the white t-shirt. He could have come up with a better shirt to go with that. But the red trousers, the waistcoat, the ponytail everything about it is just such Yorkeian *rightness* that it is so utterly him that it somehow pulls together. Despite being an appalling mess on anyone else.
it's not hott because it's a hott look. It's hott because Thom Yorke is just intrinsically hott.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
What the hell are Level 42 doing with all of Kraftwerk's gear?
― Turrican, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVZWt2Z7btA
Up close and personal with Meeting in the Aisle. Prepare yourself, WCC.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
When did Radiohead titles start sounding like Stereolab titles?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
OMG. I can't... I can't watch him wiggle like that. It makes me feel... funny.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
Though come on. At 0:37 THE LIGHTS CATCH THE BALD PATCH. THE GLINT OFF THE BALD PATCH, IT IS BLINDING.
Still stupidly hott though.
p.s. dear girls in the front row: if you are recording, please do not WOOOOO and OMG in my eardrums? This is like bootlegging 101, come on!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
It's only a matter of time before I see moody teenage boys wandering around town sporting ponytails and red trousers, because it's okay now that Thom Yorke does it. Some things should have been left dead in the '80s.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa, Jonny's bit is played that superfast strumming (oh I have forgotten the name of the style, it's been so long since I played guitar) and not eBow? How does he still have wrists? That's like carpal tunnel in a box (that's what did my wrists in.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I wonder about that. Maybe he'll take to wearing the arm brace again.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to be upset if they don't play Meeting in the Aisle at any of the shows I'm going to.
I also did not notice that Jonny is wearing a shoegaze stripe shirt. Oh my goodness.
(Those are jeans and not jeggings, right? They're just a tad too... stretchy in the arse department. I can't cope.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
~Apparently~ (you would have read this in the same place I did) they've rehearsed 70 different songs. So the set list may not be the same twice?
I think they're jeans. Unless he got a new pair. This thread is now 20% trouser minutiae. x-post
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
It may not be the same twice, but I'm hoping it's the old stand-by stuff that will change more frequently and that they'll try to keep the new songs and more obscure tracks featured more consistently.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
I know they're jeans, I've seen them before, but they're clearly stretch jeans that have been worn that bit too often and now they're all ~stretchy~ and I can't cope.
Trousers are important, come on! 20% trouser content is about right. I could start a whole derail in Judith Butlerian prose about his hairdo's signifiers, but I've got the other place for that now. tee hee hee.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Actually the screen cap for the "Meeting in the Aisle" video makes it look like Thom has chosen a very unfortunate Rattle and Hum era Bono look with the ponytail and vest.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
shhh
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
It was just the first thing to pop to mind when I saw that.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
How did they get 'Meeting in the Aisle' to sound so good with guitars when the original features synthetizers heavily? I didn't see any synths on that video.
(Fun fact: it was programmed entirely on synths by Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker (Zero 7))
― Moka, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
burning airlines had a song and album called identikit about 10 yrs ago
― the wild eyed boy from soundcloud (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
When's 'Witchdoktors' getting a release
― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
The thing that I keep trying to forger, though he keeps ~reminding~ me, is that Mr Yorke was a MASSIVE U2/Bono stan and, well, has never really stopped. The waistcoat is probably a deliberate allusion.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
But he likes to keep that a secret, so shhhhhhhhh. It's like Jonny and Pink Floyd. Ask directly and they will be like "U2/Pink Floyd who?"
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
lol they've become the modern pink floyd not doing too good a job of keeping it a secret
― the wild eyed boy from soundcloud (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Secret? Secret? Thom has talked about getting down the front row of stadium U2 concerts (and getting kicked out of the way for his trouble) so it's hardly secret!
Granted, I think this might have been in the 80s but he's been p forthcoming about his attachment.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
I never said that Thom is good at keeping secrets.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Where I end and you begin" is basically a U2 hommage.
― Moka, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
It's only a matter of time before I see moody teenage boys wandering around town sporting ponytails and red trousers, because it's okay now that Thom Yorke does it.
Do moody teenage boys still listen to Radiohead? I thought their fanbase was all thirty-something message board types.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know about moody teenage boys, but they are still a big hit with moody teenage girls.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Why are you people mentioning U2? They're horrible and not Radiohead and I like Radiohead.
So are these real song titles that the band said, or is it what fans are calling them?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Real song titles from the printed set list.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
And people are talking about U2 because of unfortunate sartorial and hair decisions.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
I'm thinking more Status Quo.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
It has been mooted elsewhere that the waistcoat/ponytail combo is more...
http://www.rollogrady.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/fleetwood-mac-rumours.jpg
If this means Thom and Jonny will be getting divorced soon, I might cry.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
i dont have time to hear new songs now.. are the boyz rocking out with guitars, or do they bleep and bloop?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
It's Radiohead. It's bleeps and bloops *and* guitar. That's what they do.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone interested on their tour this year should check out this site:
http://followthemaround.com/
Great presentation, tracklist updates almost instantly and you can check the youtubes of every live song.
― Moka, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for that, seems pretty cool!
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
I think they're sounding amazing live this time. The TKOL songs are definite highlights with Clive drumming with them. I'm starting to regret not giving more attention to the album last year, it makes more sense when played live. Also Idioteque, Reckoner and There There sound really powerful with yet another percussionist.
― Moka, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/
― djh, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
I will be so glad when everybody in this band is dead, sadly I may not live to see it. Enjoy your washed-up has-been rock music, y'all.
Also, this is ILM. We are free to post about our dislike of bands in any thread we choose to, regardless of what thread-starters arbitrarily dictate.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
I hope that gave you the sad little thrill you were looking for. It was so important that we know your opinion on this, otherwise we might not have known that anyone hates Radiohead.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.freeclipartnow.com/d/25742-1/flag-waving-right.jpghttp://sliderulemuseum.com/Logos/Post_logo_red.jpg
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
sleeve, not a wizard
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
By posting in the ~fangirl~ thread, Sleeve has clearly just declared his deep undying wish to be a Radiohead fangirl.
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_238/1203092243YyxwY4.jpg
AND SO YOU SHALL BE!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
Why do you hate America, sleeve?
― Moka, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda can't wait until Radiohead get to the point of irrelevance of, say, Pink Floyd, where they've been carrying along on their own momentum for so long that people just kind of ignore them. And we can carry on listening to them and enjoying them without anyone feeling the need to protest "OMG another thread about Pink Floyd!" and point out how much they hate them because they have so completely passed the cultural tipping point as to become invisible.
But I'd also miss the sense of persecution, because, let's face it, that free-floating sense of persecution is an integral part of ~being a Radiohead fan~
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
Are they not at that point now?
I can't even remember if there's been an album between "In Rainbows" and "King of Limbs"...
(fixed typo of "In Rainboys", fyi)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
There was not.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:02 (twelve years ago) link
People still feel compelled to listen to and share their opinion on new Radiohead albums even when they've never liked them and even if their opinion is basically a single sentence affirmation of having listened to it and coming to the thrilling conclusion that Radiohead still suck. Whereas with something like Biophilia, I don't know anyone who's not a Björk fan of many years who gave it a listen or felt required to have an opinion.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry, can we just...
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/viognniere/rh/thomstomach-1.jpg
^^^^^THOM YORKE SERIAL ABDOMEN EXPOSER WS OF SHAME!!!!!
I hated that haircut/colour even more than most people hate the ponytail but GAH that treasure trail, I feel like I'm mmmmeeeellllllting.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
His hair was black when I first got into them all those years ago, and I didn't realize it was dyed at the time. So the black hair just looks natural to me to the point where I still find his natural hair color a bit jarringly light.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
I HATED the black hair so much. It just doesn't work with his colouring. He had yellow pipecleaner hair when I first got into them, I *loved* the ginger hair that followed, and then the black was like ... eurgh! I was quite relieved that his natural hair colour was quite close to the blond and the ginger.
I think I'm just starting to get a bit down on ILM probably through reading it too much, out of sheer boredom. And it's not just RH threads, it's lots of things I like at the moment, where I open up the thread, and it's a bunch of people going "I don't get it, why is everyone liking this, it's ~terrible~?!" whether it's Grimes or St Vincent or whatever.
I don't know. I suppose I do it myself, but... I'm more likely to do it in a thread where I see a whole bunch of people I normally agree with going bonkers for, e.g. John Talabot and I do ask "what are you hearing, that I'm missing?" in the hopes that they can turn me onto some aspect that I've missed. But people who just seem to go into threads with the express purpose of telling people that this album or artist is terrible, and they shouldn't be listening to this, they should be listening to something else, and I just want to say... why did you waste ten minutes of your life doing that?
Eh, I'm just going to think about TY's treasure trail and not sprain myself. It's ILM after all, what did I expect?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
Also, what is this from? I'm drawing a complete blank, though I know it looks familiar (7 TV ads?)
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/viognniere/rh/thom433.jpg
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes I boost the contrast on recent photos of him to make him look ginger again
I am a bad, bad human being.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
I get the impulse, I do, but I don't understand why the idea of a thread just for people who are actually fans and not people interested in debating the relative merits of Radiohead/whoever at length at that particular moment is so offensive. There's no need to treat every single thread here as a classic or dud thread. Sometimes I want to just talk to other fans here without feeling like I have to constantly be on the defensive. It was really pleasant in here before sleeve decided his opinion about how Radiohead should die was really important for us to know even though there are a million other threads where his opinion would have actually been relevant to anything (well, actually, death wishes are never fucking relevant, but I digress). I'm fine with people wanting to have some sort of debate or needing to let us know exactly what shape of special snowflake they are, but not in a thread that is mostly about mindless fangirling and having a little fun. I wouldn't go into a Happy Happy Bon Iver Fangirl Thread to let people know how much I hate Justin Vernon and his wonky nipple and shitty songwriting. x-posts
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
I just take the attitude of, anyone posting in a thread that is blatantly and clearly marked as a ~fangirl~ thread is pretty much admitting flat out that they *are* a fangirl, even if they're in deep "I haaaaate them" denial. It makes ~lyfe~ so much more pleasant.
Anyway, lookit Thom when he still had a hairline!
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y61/Mugatu3000/6332_mymymy.jpg
His wonky teeth! Don't you just want to insert your tongue into the gap?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
Or Jonny's.... organ?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:56 (twelve years ago) link
*punches self in face*
This thread is really a public service. This could be bleeding out onto all the other threads. So you're welcome, ILX.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
Let's go and post Thom's nipples on the Goon thread! That would be awesome!!!!!!111eleventyone
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
Well, that's the end of that. I'm going to be thrown out of Thom York obsessive fandom for not liking Flea.
Why does Flea even exist? Fucking thumb popping bass players, ruining EVERYTHING.
::cries::
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I seem to remember being more put off by the lineup of Yorke's live band, but on reevaluation Flea's the only one I have mixed opinions of
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Does loving an artist mean that you have to accept all of their aesthetic choices?
Especially with someone like RHCP where I have over 20 years of loathing attached, it would be completely dishonest for me to reevaluate my extreme dislike of a musician, just because some musician I admire happens to rate them?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
You kind of want to stand there with hands on hips going "Seriously, Thom? Seriously? I thought we had an agreement here."
I'm willing to overlook it. Still kind of woozy about Radiohead's path of "no official remixers/remixes" in the Kid A era to "remix everything!"
I kind of shake my head and sigh at Thom doing these little dj gigs thing where he does a little dj booth dance, but I feel like I may be in the minority on this thread
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Thom and I have had many, many differences of opinion over the years! I mean, come on. The complete works of REM? I don't go past Reckoning! We work it out; we come to an agreement. But Flea... that was like, divorce territory. Makes you completely reevaluate your love for someone. Ultimately, I was like, OK, your choice, you do what you like, so long as you keep it in your not-a-solo project and I don't have to cope with it anywhere else.
But aawww, I tend to think that Thom's little midlife crisis DJ gigs are quite sweet, actually. We share a wider area of agreement in the electronic stuff than we do in the RAWK arena, so I'd rather that then ::shudders:: Flea.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, yeah, I was going to say I like the DJ stuff because Thom has much better taste in contemporary electronic music than he does in rock music.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, given a choice between, like, Moderat and Fleet Foxes, I'm going to go for his electronic tastes every damn time.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
You're not going to get kicked out of the fandom, WCC. I think people are just really defensive because those AFP shows really were amazing and people have great memories of them.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
does flea actually slap & pop all over the songs, or is that just his '80s-based stereotype?
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
Flea joined Nirvana one time on stage to play trumpet on "Smells like Teen Spirit"
It was bad.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
how does slap trumpet even work
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
It doesn't.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
google image search for "slap trumpet"
http://www.thelastmiles.com/gfx/miles-gigs/miles-trumpet-between-legs-italy-gig.jpg
^miles
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
is he... playing the butt trumpet
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Flea joined Nirvana one time on stage to play trumpet on "Smells like Teen Spirit"It was bad.
says who?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
says me, I heard a tape
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
Naw it's awesome! He only plays the solo anyway. It does sound like he's constantly dodging stage divers or something
― lost dion/tomita collab (blank), Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
Flea is a really good musician, I'm sure he can play non-popping stuff if he wants to. He was (is?) bassist for reformed Faces
― lost dion/tomita collab (blank), Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnC8MXYUzN0
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
And now, because I was stating how much I disliked Flea, this is now a thread all about Flea. :-(
I've been reading too many show reports from the front rail, and it's totally infectious, the enthusiasm.
Like, I am over 40 now. I can't do that kind of shit any more. (the last time I was down the front of a general admission gig, I nearly killed my back, I can't physically handle it.) I don't even particularly enjoy live performances any more, except in very limited conditions - if it's seated, if the sound is perfect - which means I pretty much only go to gigs at, like, the South Bank Centre and the Barbican any more.
I can't stand stadium gigs. Even though they haven't announced any UK dates, yet, I know that anywhere RH are going to play are going to be Stadia. I'm not paying £50 to see 5 ants on a stage. This will make me miserable.
AND YET. AND YET. I read these show reports and I just get caught up in a wave of hysteria and I want to go, even though it would be the worst idea ever.
It's the manufacturing of excitement, the shared experience, the fan community, the hysteria. The desire to be part of something, for a connection. It's fandom as religion, and the desire to have, well, a religious experience, even if I know it will be unfulfilling.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
You know what, I'm not going to anticipate overpriced oversold stadium gigs I will probably hate. I'm going to go to Rough Trade tomorrow and buy several actual physical CDs as fetish objects that I will enjoy over and again, instead.
This is ridiculous and I need to disengage the mania.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 09:57 (twelve years ago) link
Either that or it's a serious case of prolapse.
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Thursday, 1 March 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'd be really grateful if ILX could just hold off its usual "LOL @ mental illness popcorn.gif" shenanigans for a moment.
I do have to wonder if obsessive fandom (and engaging in obsessive fandoms / fan communities) is actually good for my mental health. If these places really encourage and feed a kind of mania which triggers thing that I know can lead to illness, due to my propensities and weaknesses. Or if, as I've said before, "obsessive RH fandom" is just the place that I go when my brain is already overloaded and not doing well. (Because their art is so good at capturing that certain OCD rat-run that I call "thoughtworms.")
I know this is a constant process of maintaining a balance between "sanity" and "happiness" and I'm going to choose happiness over sanity every time. But I do wonder if this is encouraging something which I know isn't very healthy for me, and I should withdraw. (even though it is compulsively yummy and fun and there's something really ~amazing~ and endorphin rush about that kind of fandom, even if you end up staying up until 2am unable to sleep because your thoughts are whirring like little planets in orbit.)
I'm gonna go draw for a while until I stop thinking about this.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
what are you going to draw though? If it's thom then it wont make any difference.
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 1 March 2012 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
wish i could draw
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 1 March 2012 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
thom playing butt trumpet iirc
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Thom's more into keyboard cunnilingus these days, it seems.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.soundsxp.com/images/pants-large.jpg
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
so the answer to dave Q's question was Thom Yorke afterallhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cL0Lfibqaog/SUa5xOF0ssI/AAAAAAAACXE/UR4bg7Oec2c/s400/loverboy+copy.jpg
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 1 March 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
You know who else has a ponytail and red pants (shorts actually)?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/The_Simpsons-Jeff_Albertson.png/222px-The_Simpsons-Jeff_Albertson.png
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahahaha
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, but Thom is vegan thin! That's mean.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
let's not be sizeist here, mr. yorke's positive attributes and comic book guy's negative ones are not necessarily linked to their weight or sartorial choices
let's face it, thom in a midriff top was already cited, too
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Mmm, Thom's belly has magical powers. All you have to do is mention it, and I start instantly smiling.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Me too.
(Hi, btw.)
Wish I could stop being obsessed with Identikit, but I can't.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
Found this on atease. The Resemblance is uncanny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uWr-Td5H5Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEpQ6iObaM
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Jonny IS a Rockstar fan - I remember he posted on Deadairspace once about playing Red Dead Redemption, so he might have played GTAIV as well.
― my life is starting over again (Z S), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
Thom Yorke: I like Grand Theft Auto, though.Jonny Greenwood: Well that's the one, yeah.Interviewer: But if you guys get stuck into that, we won't get a record for 6 years, man, seriously!Thom Yorke: I tell you what, we got a great story about this, it's really boring: We turn up in Miami...Jonny Greenwood: This so freaked me out. We went to Miami, you walk out the hotel, and it's the game. And I know the city only from the game!Thom Yorke: He walked out and was all, [in professor voice] "Hmm, down, down there, that's the shopping mall, and over there..."
― Melissa W, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really hear the similarity though.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
LOL, I am just dropping respect points for T Yorke left and right today, I have to stop discovering things about him like this! (OK, I am probably just biased against Rockstar games because the Great Lost Love Of My Life used to/probably still does work there.)
(I do hear the resemblance, it's mostly in the rhythm and the bassline, but it's definitely there.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
The beat, the bassline and the overall mood of the first minute is similar in my head. Then the song turns into another beast completely.
Identikit sounds very trip-hop at the beginning (as does the gta song) and when the guitar loop enters halfway in it reminded me of Studio or A Mountain of One... sort of a balearic jam. I wrote it sounded balearic to me (the guitar at least) and they ateasers told me to go to sleep.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
For reference on what I mean by 'Studio Balearic':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8e8nftgqI
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
Hahahahah LOL come on, erm, the ~other~ secret cheesecakers' forum.
We (and by we, I mean, well, I, but someone did ask) made some random theorising on the "Problematising the Indexicality of the Yorkeian Follicural Register" thread about how Thom's Bjorn Borg headband was prefiguring the prog-meets-house Scando-Balearic voibe of the new material.
(Problem is, you cannot say "Matt DC on a boat" as a genre to anyone outside ILX, it just does not work.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
Follicural? Follicular. I don't think even Judith Butler knows what Follicural means.
Hahaha aw I love you! I finally feel like someone gets what I was trying to say. And yes you're right, people on ILX are very open and knowleadgeable on their music styles. At the very least they'll disagree with you but tell you they get where you're coming from.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
Really glad to know I'm not the only one who was getting a scando-balearic vibe from them.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
I vow to never return to that other cheesecakers' godforsaken forum.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, I completely forgot I owned a Studio album.
It's kind of an A Certain Ratio feel, too, the funk bassline and the atmospheric Factory guitars. Except, well, knowing RH, it's probably not, it's RHCP and GTA. *weeps*
GAH, just to upset me further, I just read that TY's wife's ~favourite band~ is RHCP. And that just made me o_0, like... HOW. Just the taste gap, how anyone could consider that band as a favourite. But then I told myself a nice little story that TY doesn't actually like Flea's bass playing, he just has him in the band to impress his missus, and I could get myself back to a reality I could deal with again.
Why, what happened on that other forum?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
(It's weird, though, I don't hear All I Need / ROYGBIV at all, probably because one is Minor and the other Major)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing really happened on the other forum I just get annoyed by the amount of trolls and negative, unfounded opinions some people have in there. They don't really vibe with me most of the time.
Mmm talking about In Rainbows I get where some of the 'all i need/roygbiv" accusations come from but even moreso I find 'La Ritournelle' as the direct basis for 'Reckoner'.
Also Kashmir's "surfing the warm industry" reminds me a lot of 'jigsaw falling into place". Thet have the same acoustic-rock guitar approach to the main melody, the motorik beat, the deadpan vocal delivery on the verses. Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-441uxB7Zw
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
And in case you haven't heard ritournelle yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUPHfn3J6Q
They have the same lush and vibrant vibe, the loose drums (although reckoner’s are way superior to the ones on ritournelle imho) and the similarities on the jazzy chord progression make for enough similarities to pair both songs in familiar territories.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, what? That's so bizarre, I've found it really friendly and sweet and quite accepting. While atease, holy shit, is atease a cesspit of trolls and negative, unfounded opinions. Also, fucking stalkers, which drove me off in the end, but YMMV.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Just reading through the thread. The talk about Thom Yorke getting down to U2 just made me think of this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEj8CZJqlpE
Skip to 0:40
― MarkoP, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking about RHCP, Reckoner definitely has a Frusciante thing going on in the main guitar melody.
So for me: Ritournelle + Frusciante = Reckoner.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
― White Chocolate Cheesecake
Wait what forum are you talking about? I was speaking about atease as the godforsaken forum. I only thought cheesecake was a denomination for stans.
So to clarify I vow to never post again on atease because of all the negativity and trolls in there.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
Also I wouldn't be surprised if Thom or Johnny own A Certain Ratio records. I think they played some ESG and Liquid Liquid on one of their webcasts or radio interviews, so they must definitely be acquainted with them.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh! No, sorry, we were talking at cross purposes! I'm never posting on atease again, no way, fuck that shit. The actual cheesecakers left and went something else.
I hear the arpeggios at the very beginning of the Kashmir song, but the rest of it is nothing like.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I can also hear the similarity in La Ritournelle, but I don't think it's direct, I think it's more like they're both ripping off paying homage to the same source? It's gonna drive me insane what it really is now, but it's like some kind of French soundtrack thing.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
They (well, Thom) always admit that they're shameless magpies and borrowers and outright thieves. I've read him claiming several times admitting that he's not that great a songwriter, he's just a really good sense of what to rip off and how. I think he's fairly open about it.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Jonny always says that they try to copy things and fail.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
As someone who works on Advertising I can tell you that there really isn't anything new under the sun. The most efficient and "creative" people I've met in the industry are all about 'remixing' off other's people work. Yorke has it right, you've got to know what to rip-off and how. If you throw a specific Scando-balearic song and another specific Trip Hop song in a mix it will stop sounding like ay of those and it transforms into something 'new'.
Would really recommend you to watch the 'everything is a remix' series on youtube.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, I've been a songwriter, I've been in a band, I know how it works. Some of the most successful tracks I've ever written, I tried to rip something off, failed completely, and yet came up with something completely different and surprising.
The funniest things, are when you don't even know it, and you realise you must have ripped something off completely subconsciously.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
OH SHIT THEY'RE ON TO US!!!
::waves at cheesecakers::
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
(I really need to get a new screen name, I'm bored of this one already. I wonder if it's safe to go back to KDT again.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
I've no idea what you're talking about Karen.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, really? I'm utterly confused now.
Cheesecake is slang for Radiohead fan fiction, specifically PR0N, y'know, SLASH. That's the whole joke.
Oh god, it's like meeting your own great grandchildren or something. After getting *thrown off* the official Radiohead forum for hosting and defending the slash on Pop Music Fan Fiction back in the mid 90s (that was the reason, IIRC, ignore what Thable Thom said, he's a liar) it's just really heartening to see that it's reached some kind of legitimacy and acceptance in the fan community. To the point where it even has its own name and subculture.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Oh. Oh. Wait... what? radiohead porn fiction? And it's called 'cheesecake'? Whoa TIL.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Now I'm interested to know if any of the Radiohead members are aware of this and what they think of it.
― Moka, Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not signed up for that. Later!
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 March 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
No one's gonna write it in this thread.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I don't know about that! (...sighed Jonny as his delicate fingers reached down inside the waistband of Thom's red trousers.)
Moka, RH (or their ppl, I don't know who banned me) were v v ANTI fanfic, at least back in the late 90s. I don't know if that's changed, I wouldn't bring it up, but they were aware of its existence.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
Were they really? They didn't have an official forum until 1999, and they were extremely lackadaisical about it. To my knowledge no one other than the dude who threatened Thom's baby with rape has ever even been banned. Maybe the forum you were on wasn't actually official.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
This was like 97 or 98! I know because it was before I moved back to the UK and I got here in 98. I'm fairly certain it was official because they used to post on it (their names were in a different colour but it was really easy to fake if you knew HTML - that's how basic it was.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
Thable Thom managed to turn himself blue a couple of times and caused quite some confusion, despite clearly stating he was a "cloan" and an "imajinery frend"
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
What you're talking about sounds like the official forum they have now, which started in September '99. As far as I know (and I've been on the official forum since then), there was no precursor to it and it was the first one they posted on regularly. Before that they just used to troll IRC. And there was slash on the forum from the beginning and no mod structure to speak of other than one tech guy to make sure it wasn't broken.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
And in '99 they were red, not blue!
It was 98 at the latest. I don't remember what the colours were but I was posting on it from my parents house in Upstate NY. I may not remember last week, but I remember posting on that forum.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe it was some sort of EMI or Parlophone official board that wasn't located on Radiohead.com? That's all I can think of.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
It was definitely linked from Radiohead.com because I wouldn't have found it any other way.
There were a couple of other boards - there was, like emusic and there was the White Chocolate Farm - but I am positive it was an official board and they were posting on it. I'm not 100% certain on this, but I seem to recall it was Phil that was grossed out by it, though that could be my memory playing tricks on me.
It was over that Entertain Me site I used to do - there were two artists who objected to it, and one was Graham Coxon and the other was Radiohead. Like, this was something that used to provide me with frequent enough legal worries that I kept track of who was amenable (and whose management would actually work with us) and who was not.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe it was someone in EMI who objected, because as far as I know no one has ever gotten any trouble from Radiohead or any of the people who actually speak for them or their wishes. One of my earliest memories of that board was someone posting her fanfiction for me to read, which is how I discovered there was even such thing as fanfiction.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
When I was getting threatened with legal writs, I wasn't exactly checking if it was a band member's name or an EMI bod on the cease and desist emails.
Actually, I might make sense that it was someone at EMI, since it was both Blur and RH that caused the most hassle (though it's weird because the Dandy Warhols, who were also on the same label, were hugely cool about it all.) But I honestly thought it came from specific members of the band. It was a long time ago, they may have changed their attitudes.
In the end, we just changed all the names and the bands became "Slur" and "Radioshack" and no one could say anything after that.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
This is gonna bug me now, it's like 1 in the morning and I can't sleep, all these old memories stirred up in my head.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'm trying to remember if I even started Entertain Me in 95 or 96, but it was on Geocities (LOL prehistory of the web) before I got mine own server space, it never even had its own domain. It was first! *stamps feet* It was before fanfiction.net, it was before fandomination - we were only beaten to publishing by the lovely blue planet of There by a few months, but they wouldn't host dirty stuff and we would, so I win.
Forever!
So there.
(feeling quite defensive now, can you tell?)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
There are very few accomplishments in my life that I'm really proud of, but founding E-Me and getting it discussed in, like, Rolling Stone, and getting music fan fiction and slash into the discourse like that, that's one of the things that I really want to point my finger to and say "I did that, that was me."
Of all the little tiny scratches in the markings of pop culture history, FFS, let me be proud of just that damn one.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
This is so completely not about Radioshack at all any more. Humph.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
It might be on web.archive.org if you can remember the exact url.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
Radioshack?
Christ, I am lost in the past. I need to sleep, but there's just too much static in my head, I hate this.
Bits of the Escape site are on the Wayback Machine, but the earlier stuff, the Geocities stuff, that's just gone. I'm fucked if I can remember the zip code or however it was divvied up, they had the most confusing addressing system of all time.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe you can find really old fansites that still link to it to get the exact address? I wish google still had their 2001 index up, I used that to find so many old websites. But it takes some commitment and a lot of waybacking.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
It's probably all for the best. Some of the authors went on to become proper published novelists, they'd be embarrassed if their juvenilia came out like that. ;-)
I've obviously still got most of the stuff that I wrote, but obv that was only a fraction of it. Irony being, "Radioshack" weren't even that popular a slash combo. Not like "Slur" and "Sirhan Sirhan" and even Sloan - I can't even remember what Sloan's fake name was any more. LOL 90s.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
Everyone has backed away slowly from this thread but us now, oh the hilarity.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
God my life is pathetic now. ;_;
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
'90s fansite minutiae is pretty boring unless you were there, to be fair. x-post
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, I'm sorry to be so defensive over "but this was a THING! this HAPPENED!" but I've avoided RH official fandom and RH as people for, like, 15 years now or whatever because of that encounter. It's weird how you can work up things in your head to be so much more of a bigger deal than they ever were to the other side.
Are you saying they're OK with fan fiction now? Or, well, forever?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
I do just distinctly remember Phil being like "ew, gross" about it.
But then again even bands were split down the middle, like half of Blur were ok with it and obv Graham being a total freak.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
If I don't sleep soon my head will explode and I'll start hallucinating. :-(
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I don't know. They leave it alon. I do remember a few overly enthusiastic types mentioning the slash to them on the message boards years ago and they just joked about it? I think the internet has changed so much in the past 15 years or so though that most fanfic is left alone as an inevitable side effect of fandom on the internet. I mean, I have to say that neither cheesecake nor slash has ever been my primary focus in fandom at all, just a nice distraction every once in a while, but I do know the people who have run various archives and such and none of them have ever gotten any trouble for it as far as I know.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
alone*
Oh god I should put a breathalyser on my Fucken phone, WTF?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 07:36 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe I'm actually seeing Radiohead on Saturday. I haven't seen them for three years!
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 10:51 (twelve years ago) link
Oh god, I would be in an utter state. I have to live vicariously, I'm fairly certain I'll never see them again.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
If they play some smallish place around where you live again, I will find a way to make it happen.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but "smallish" for them is, like, the O2 Centre. Unless you can persuade them to put on a secret show at, like, the Brixton Windmill, and I don't think even your RH powers are that great. ;-)
(Why didn't I go see them at 93 Feet East? Oh yeah, coz I was working and couldn't get off to go down and queue. I should have quit that job back then.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
They periodically do theatre tours. When we met I was going to see them at Shepherd's Bush Empire! And they were just as capable of selling out O2 then.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
my mate saw them at king tuts supporting um kitchens of convenience? and again on their own
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 2 March 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I remember. x-post But even the Empire is too much for me these days. I want seats. I want them to play the South Bank Centre. So I can get a box and rap my fan along in time.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
Kitchens of Distinction?
Kings of Convenience is a different band, but wrong era.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
Seated shows are great when you actually have good tickets, but you miss out on all the queuing socialization. And seated shows are terrible when you're even 10 rows back. 10 rows is my limit before I feel like I might as well be watching it on TV.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
I should be in bed. Someone tell me to go to bed.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
Are you still up? That's absurd! Go to bed! (I need to get out of bed, but that's another story in this time zone.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
I've been up packing, and it sapped all the tired out of me and replaced it with a headache and restless energy.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
That's been me for the past 3 days, and I'm not even going to any shows.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, I'm going to bed.
― Melissa W, Friday, 2 March 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
Kitchens of Distinction thats it
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 2 March 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
I can officially No Longer Cope.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6798773436_06c8e12f57_b.jpg
This obsession must end.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 2 March 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
RHMB inside joke, but i'd guess the answer is something like
*VLTF*
― my life is starting over again (Z S), Friday, 2 March 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
Melissa is probably on a plane to California, so she probably won't see this, but this is a much much MUCH better version of Cut A Hole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6zOVumLCY&feature=youtu.be
Why is he so sexay? Why? Why, god, why? What is it about that funny little man that turns fangirls' reproductive organs to complete mush?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
Not hating on RH or anything, but to me Yorke looks more and more like the guy behind the counter in a head shop.
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
The female half of RH's fanbase could not disagree more.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, not the entire half. Thom's singing sends occasional shivers down my spine but I just don't find him attractive. The Greenwoods sure, and sometimes Ed, but Yorke? Nope, don't get it. But hey, we all have our thing.
― Roz, Saturday, 3 March 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Day-um.
OK, maybe it's just one of those chemical things, like hating the taste of cilantro or being unable to smell asparagus - that either you *get* the sexual appeal of Yorke or you just don't. Like, he's one of those people that, on paper, it's just... no. But then you see him perform, and it's the way he *moves* and it is this completely animal reaction. Just... I want to put that in my vagina.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 3 March 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
When is Melissa back from Texas or California or wherever she's got to?
We need to discuss how Thom has turned into AN ACTUAL PISKIE
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ds6y0t471qbq8uso1_500.gif
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 5 March 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
Skirting on the Surface and the Amazing sound of Orgy got their live radiohead debuts at Dallas today. Amazing sound of orgy sounded thin but there were some substitute arrangements that made it interesting, would have loved to hear that one. Skirting on the Surface sounds like an outtake from The Bends / OKC. I think it was actually written back then, they keep digging that OKC vault, proves how incredibly fruitful that era was to the group.
― Moka, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:01 (twelve years ago) link
when's LIFT coming out?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 08:41 (twelve years ago) link
Dates in Manchester Evening News Arena and O2 London in October. I've never been to either, which is best?
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
Never been to O2, but the MEN is a dreadful shed and I cannot think that O2 can possibly be worse (given that it's much more modern).
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 09:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm leaning towards London, but they're midweek and Manchester is on a Saturday so..
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
This is when I reconcile myself once again to the fact that I will never see Radiohead live again.
At least when Big Arena Concerts were still at Wembley, even though it was a fucking shed with horrible sound, you could at least get home easily. Going to the O2 means that you'll be 4 hours on a night bus.
I'm not going to bitch and moan too much, I knew this was going to happen, I was reconciled to it, but I do just want to growl. Sod it, I hate going to gigs these days anyways, even when they're little gigs in reasonable sit-down theatres, because I'm old and I've lost all sense of fun and I physically cannot stand for 3 hours.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
There's vids posted in The Other Place so I'm going to watch HD YouTubes of B-sides I never thought would be played live and not get my knickers in a twist and try to go back to not caring.
I'm sorry, can I just...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f69I--5K9oo
OIWEROIAJNJ ADSFAJDFKLAJDSKLFJ AD;LFJ ADFJA ;LSDKFJ ADKFHAILFJ AKLJDFH AJDFAKSDJ AJ JADFH KJAF JKAF AJF JADHF KJA JKDFJLAKDFG JK ADFGKJBAHDKJFH ADJF AKJDNF KAJSHF KJA
can't. cope.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe you could make, like, lots of vid representations of these tracks and post them on thom's wall!
He'd like that..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 10:00 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck off.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
um, I wasn't meaning that meanly..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
I don't care whether you meant it "meanly" or not, it was still a shitty thing to say and you have actually hurt me and made me feel like shit so, thanks for ruining what was actually one of the few meaningful lifts in days.
We just need constant reminders, don't we, that ~behaving like a teenage girl~ is the worst thing in the universe, and that obsessive female fandom, it ruins everything.
That was cruel and uncalled for, on so many levels.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I apologise.
There's nothing wrong with obsessive fandom, female or otherwise.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 10:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― lorem ipsum dolor de estómago (am0n), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
I know it'd be gauche to complain about ticket prices in that Other Place when everyone is maxing out their credit cards flying around the world to go to every single date on a world tour, but... I dunno, pretty much the only places I ever go to gigs any more are the SBC and the Barbican where I get itchy about £20 to £30 tickets because I'm used to paying less than £10 to go to Sonic Cathedral or whatever, but at least I'm guaranteed a good view and a nice place to sit unlike a stadium gig
BUT BUT BUT. I guess, this is what I was talking with Emsk about on the train, about the stratospheric cost of tickets due to legal, band-approved secondary ticket markets and compared to that, RH are doing some kind of ethical thing in terms of not doing that, but still.
I'm going to make a list of things I could be doing with my £65 instead of going to see Radiohead in a fucking arena and buying them each another house and sending their kids to boarding school.
1) Immersive Cornish Language weekend in Newquay2) tickets for me, and a friend, to the entire weekend of the WOW (Women of the World) Festival3) A month of gigs at the Brixton Windmill4) Dinner for 4, plus 2 bottles of wine at the Tooting Thali house of my choice5) Hire a marquee at the Streatham Festival and sell postcards and prints of local landmarks
I know, I know, this is old man shaking his cane at the clouds territory considering it's actually pretty freaking REASONABLE for a stadium gig and all, but still. Just head-shakey at the winner-takes-all set up of costing for concert tickets for the umpteenth millionth time.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 10:50 (twelve years ago) link
Meeting In The Aisle and A.S.O. Orgy are two of my favourite B-Sides, digging the new set-list!
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 11:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the setlists on this tour are absolutely incredible, some real gems in there. But, just... not £65 incredible, when I can get them for free on YouTube (sorry, I know Mr Yorke has been complaining about that, but y'know, I'm sure I'll buy the £65 biodegradable box set filled with Stanley Donwood art, when that comes out.)
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
It's 'lack of corporate sponsorship' isn't it?
The choice is between 'putting a few Barclaycard posters up to save punters a fiver (or more?)' and, um, not.
Or, of course, scrimping on the light show.
Or, all of the above.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
They are their own corporation at this point! I'm not even talking about their personal wealth (£45 million or whatever it was quoted at) but the more I read from srs fans, the more I'm interested about finding out about the structure of wholly owned subsidiaries like W.A.S.T.E. and Sandbag and the like. I mean, not in a "try and catch them out" sort of sense, or even in a "money where your mouths are" sense but, like - trying to see how it all works out.
And in terms of corporate sponsorship - playing the American Airlines Arena and the Hewlett Packard Pavillion (because the sponsorship often goes on the venue itself, as tour support for bands usually comes from labels) is hardly scrimping, y'know?
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think they're being breadheads about this. Bands like U2 take corporate sponsorship (at least in part) to subsidise a batch of cheap tickets but that's not Radiohead's style. And given that concerts are where bands make their money now I can't quibble too much with their pricing. That said, £65 for a lot of Kings of Limb material is not for me. Are there really no cheaper ones?
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
It's not that I think they're being breadheads. It's just that... I'm unemployed; I can't afford a £65 ticket. (And I wouldn't go to an arena show anyway.)
Given the scale of their touring, is or isn't £65 a reasonable price or not? OK, sustainable recycled low-energy lighting rigs don't design and build themselves. Is this what it all costs? When a tour isn't subsidised and given tour supports? (I don't imagine XL has the budget EMI did. Also, RH choose their own support acts, rather than relying on buy-ons, all that kind of thing adds up.)
But this is when I wish Emsk would get on this thread to talk about the whole ticket pricing scandal, because I'm not an expert on this, and she is. But it seems like RH are doing something on this tour to try to address secondary reselling - but at the cost of many fans not being able to trade tickets among themselves to make sure that messageboard type srs fans all got to see as many shows as they could.
I'm not criticising pe se, I just don't know how this part works, and I wish that I did.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
Also, it's not just TKOL era stuff, they are really bringing out some serious fan service in terms of the beloved and rare B-sides and older material they've been playing.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I don't know how it works either. I guess I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. Still cheaper than the demented prices the Cure charged at the Albert Hall recently - that was a shocker.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I just recently spent £55 each (that's four) on tickets (not thickets you rubbish typing person me) for the Hyde Park Blur/Specials/NewOrder/SomeoneElse gig.
Which seemed a lot also, but nowadays we don't do gigs so hey.
Regarding the 'scrimping', I was more about cutting down on the overheads (lights, um, what else, I dunno, support bands? Stop larfing..) rather than 'not playing the arena that has been renamed in favour of some rub lager or summat..'
I guess it's because nowadays a new band would find it impossible to do anything without 'corporation-ness' getting involved somewhere, as you say all the venues are tied in to a greater or lesser extent.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
I went o_0 at the Blur gig prices, but given it's a full day out, which is almost like 1 day of a festival, with 3 headliners I'd be willing to pay £20 a piece for, that's fair enough.
But £65 to see Radiohead and - Caribou? Who I've seen at Sonic Cathedral for a fiver or whatever? - at the O2 Centre? Obviously I am not going, and the cheesecakers probably think I'm a "filler fan" for even complaining.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
That was the thinking, yes.
I can't think who my OMGMUSTGO band would be nowadays (spoiled, perhaps, as my one *was* the Velvet Underground, who promptly reformed and played my 'local' midsized venue (The Forum) for 'notstupidlyexpensive' ).
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
I don't even begrudge the Stone Roses for charging very-silly money, I don't even know why.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
I cannot think of a single band that I would pay £65 to see, just them. Not Aphex Twin, not Radiohead, not Spacemen 3 back from the grave with Jason back on guitar. Obviously I paid a lot more than that to see My Bloody Valentine reform, but that was for a whole festival with a billion other bands I loved!
So I guess that's me out of the running entirely.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
The £65 (and over) list would end up having to be 'historic' in some sense.
VU, The Jam, The Beatles (I know, I know...), and I suppose if someone had offered me 2 Led Zep tickets I might have considered even though I'm totally meh about them.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'm getting ripped a new one for even remarking that £65 might be eye-watering for some, on a ~srs Radiohead fan messageboard~, but, still. I find it excessive.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
It was a point of mild annoyance, knowing "I will never get to see RH live again" because I can't handle stadium shows, at all, even under the best circumstances. But having changed to "I couldn't actually afford to see RH, even if I wanted to" has kicked that over into actual irritation.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
But this is my endless dilemma on the interweb. That on ILX, I'm a crazy lunatic fringe over the edge fan ~of artists I love~ while on the actual forums for ~fans of that artist~ I'm y'know, ~not serious enough~.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
nagl for fans to be judging other fans re: how much money they can spare for gig tickets - I know the vibe is meant to be "beg, steal or borrow" for true believers but if you're in a situation where £65 is too much then it's too much and that's that.
xp The Stone Roses are a special case imo. They all need the money and they never sold that much back in the day relative to their rep so good luck to them. Same goes for most reunion tours - this is their retirement fund.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
Well, yeah. Obviously, I won't be complaining if they get added to the Hyde Park gig, but I would be surprised, obv.
It gets harder for bands to keep rational about how much is "too much", particularly when tickets sell out in seconds anyway. I mean, they invened the 'deluxe LP box' format, and now every act with a certain vanity level is doing them (Badly Drawn Boy? I mean, is that a landfill happening soon?)
Also, when Jagger (he's called that now, yeah?) said about the 'box-set' of "Exile" that "it's not that expensive" I thought to myself "that means £100 is not going to be enough" and yep.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
I hate to say it, but there's definitely a class aspect at work here. That I'm not prepared to begrudge the Stone Roses or any other band that got shafted by their label back in the day, the ability to provide for their families. But I don't get that vibe with RH at all, I get the vibe of still quite well off professionals shovelling loot into their ISAs after they've already paid off the mortgages on the mansions, while still making quite cushy upper middle class salaries from their record sales and merchandising. Which might be unfair, but it is what it is. And that the reason that Radiohead get shit from the NME about ticket prices, while, using the example that was brought up - Peter Gabriel doesn't - is because I don't exactly see Peter Gabriel DJ-ing at Occupy LSX and giving lip service to bringing down the 1% he is a part of while charging those nosebleed ticket prices.
But. It makes me a Bad Fan to say this, I do recognise that.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, Radiohead, I hate myself for loving you, part 3,867.
WCC - I feel you on the disappointment wrt the 02 corporate experience/resistance to having to participate in the gig-as-multimedia-attention-deficit-playground potential nightmare. Like anybody, I hate feeling like an old-fart personally, but damn.
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gonna throw a "WE CAN'T AFFORD TO GO TO RADIOHEAD" party and play all the albums (and singles, including B-sides) in order and eat cheesecake all night long.
― ...I KERNOW BECAUSE YOU DO (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile, the Big Huge NYT Magazine story on Mr. J. Greenwood:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/jonny-greenwood-radioheads-runaway-guitarist.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 March 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
And this Alvernia Studios place he's recording at is tripping me out big time. Designed by H. R. Giger!
http://www.alvernia.com
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/07/entertainment/la-ca-krakow-20110807
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 March 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Or rather inspired by Giger, but good grief that is nuts.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
That Alvernia website is truly amazing as fuck. O_O thankin' you for alerting me to this.
― Roz, Saturday, 10 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
I mean the whole thing is incredible of course. But so is the website - seems like you could spend hours just clicking through the virtual tour.
― Roz, Saturday, 10 March 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0mf2ms59P1r89qoso1_500.gif
― Turangalila, Saturday, 10 March 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
efffffffffffffffffffing stop that.
Jaysus. HE CAN SEE MY SOUL.
I'm trying to cut down on my Thom Yorke obsession because I'm convinced that Radiohead trigger my OCD like all hell but when he looooks liiiikkkee that... EEEEEEEE.
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 10 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
(I'm sorry, Melissa, I really tried this time. But I just don't think there *is* a RH fan community that doesn't make me hate them/them hate me, and me hate myself for trying and failing, and hate the band and mine own fandom in the process.)
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
heyoooo
i got a copy of the in rainbows ltd ed box for a tenner. great, but it is missing the first cd. is it the same as the normal release one if i want to replace it?
(looking to stick it on ebay obv, already own the normal release.)
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 12 March 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
(to clarify, own it on vinyl, and thus can't tell if the cds look the same.)
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 12 March 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Not that kind of Radiohead fan, sorry. I can tell you what haircut Thom Yorke has had every year since 1993, but I'm hopeless with discographies and back catalogue.
(I am *always* the wrong kind of RH fan, for everyone.)
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Contentwise, yes.
Appearancewise, possibly not: They signed to XL for the eventual shop release. Doubtless that logo will be on the normal release version.
Still, you might find it goes reasonably well without it.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
lol :D
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 12 March 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
cheers mark. the xl logo isnt on disc 2, guess i'll have to spy a copy of the normal release to see if it is there.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 12 March 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
It seems I am just too ambivalent about mine own Radiohead fandom, and ~real Radiohead fans~ will always sniff that out, and removing me is for the good of the community.
I am always too divisive, often without even meaning to be, and I never do well on single-topic forums to start with.
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Perspective.
(no mystery)
― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
"I can tell you what haircut Thom Yorke has had every year since 1993"like watching people solve rubik's cubes in 30 seconds, i would very much like a demonstration of this.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 12 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
I will probably forget a couple of head-shaves and other tragic haircuts in here but..
-There was the On A Friday schoolboy fringe in 86-Then the blond chin-length bowl cut through most of art school-1992 he did a headshave-1993 the bleached yellow extensions arrived-1994 the extensions got teased up, then Jonny cut them off for that photoshoot-1995 short, spikey hair, first bleached then red-1996 - red, Johnny Rotten stylee-1997 - dyed black-1998 - shaved, bald patches appear-1999 - that Ed Grimley sticky uppy bit appeared-2000 - natural hair colour returns, the beard appears-2001 - Bernard Sumner sticky uppy hair-Beard comes and goes for a whileOh fuck it, I'm going by albums now2002/3 Hail To The Thief era:-the Art Mullet-the Hitler Hairdo fringe to cover bald patchIn Rainbows era:-the Hedgehog-the longer Hedgehog-the "Is he going to cut that thing?"-Full hobo beard in effectSolo shows:-Oh wait, it's kind of a bowl cut-Meg Ryan Aging Rocker hair-"I wear headbands now, headbands are cool"-Wow, That's Some Mullet, ThomThe King of Limbs era:-Long, shaggy unshaped hair-Hair gets kind of trimmed up to resemble, um, the haircut he had at art school actually-That fucken ponytail-???????
I'm sure I'm missing some, without checking pictures archives online and I may have a couple of dates wrong in the early 00s. The only ones I really hated were the shaved head, obv, and the dyed black hair. The cutest was definitely longer hedgehog to bowl cut. I think the haircut he had at the Latitude festival/Cambridge shows was the cutest he's ever had in his life. (Many people disagree.)
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
!!! that was !!!
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
It's kind of "!!!" to me that I've been lusting after Thom Yorke for nearly 20 years. That's like, half my life.
::deep shame::
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
"Freak monkeys with mediocre tunes."
― LaMonte, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/8919071/Radiohead+nice+thom+haircut.jpg
― _ANML_, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/westboro_baptist_church_protest_radiohead_show.html
― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
WTF is wrong with me. There are two, count em TWO Radiohead related events in London tonight, and I'm not going to either one of them.
I think The Fandom has done in my fandom. I hate that.
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
Arseholes have charged me for two pairs of tickets with the same names on. What do you reckon are my chances of being able to get my friends in if their names aren't on the tickets? Bearing in mind this is the O2.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
I feel that I am completely indifferent about a Radiohead album release now.
"In Rainbows" was a minor step in the right direction, then last year's release was their worst ever. Frankly, I don't care anymore. Not until they finally make a proper followup to "OK Computer", but they seem to have left that up to Pineapple Tree and Elbow.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
I'm assuming you mean Porcupine Tree lol
Actually you're pretty OTM about them, although I think Steven Wilson's two solo albums (which are both excellent) are closer to OK Computer than PT are.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
You two are definitely on the wrong thread. I mean, I have my doubts that DC might be a fangirl, but I think he's got it in him, but Geir has never and will never be a fangirl.
I am boycotting the O2 Centre forever so I have no idea how fascist bastardy the place is, but the tour seems to have had its share of ticketing problems.
Anyway. Tonight. I'm definitely not going to Penderecki, no matter how much the Barbican stalks me about it. (Sorry, I used up this month's budget for contemporary classical on the Nico Muhly/O-Palz thing, which actually I think I probably enjoyed more than I'd enjoy Penderecki in any format.)
I just wish I could stop being a mope about the Stanley Donwood thing tonight. Like, I do actually want that book (won't grumble about him biting my style, honest) but I don't know that I can deal with a ~signing~ and all that and there's all this gossip about ~who will turn up where~ because apparently TY often goes to his shows, but that's a reason that I would NOT go because the idea of running into him in the flesh in a little bookshop in Notting Hell is, well, ARGH so I should just order the book off the website and be done with it. But I feel stupid for feeling that way.
Someone post a picture of the red trousers so I feel better.
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
MUCH BETTER.
http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/8/2/lookinmeeyes128621592594368902.jpg
^^^^short dude with boner-pants complex.
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
Are those 501s?
I have a pair.
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know what they are but I LOVE it every time he wears them.
I mean, there were those 501s they all got on an early Japanese tour that they wore so tight that fangirls have known ever since who packs on which side (except for Ed, oddly, who got cut off by a page crease) but, erm, even those were not as, erm... revealing as those red trousers.
Do you understand now, the excitement when they resurfaced?
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
No, I mean Pineapple Thief.
Porcupine Tree aren't that Radiohead influenced. Pineapple Thief are sort of a cross-inbetween Porcupine Tree and Radiohead, actually. :)
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
haircut rundown justifies the thread
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
I totally missed a really key and important stage!
Kid A - brushed-forward Caesar crop
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
(I am slightly embarrassed to confess, I don't actually hate Popcorn Superhet Receiver. I thought it was going to be awful artwank, but it sounds like the weird tapes that HSA's sound artist friends used to make. I don't like having to re-evaluate my dismissal of artists like this.)
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
You should listen to 48 Responses to Polymorphia, I think you'd be surprised.
― Melissa W, Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
But but but I hate Penderercki so why would I willingly listen to music that was a response to one of his pieces?
I think I'm too attached to the idea of hating that I don't want to have to change my mind any more.
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
"Luckily I quite enjoy feeling guilty"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdjc2Ipt-0M
(Are you sure about that not-being-Catholic thing, Jonny?)
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
48 Responses to Polymorphia honestly sounds almost nothing like Polymorphia. Just listen!
― Melissa W, Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
I am, I am!
And fuckinell... I'm utterly gutted. I ... I ...
::whispers::
((I like this.))
Pacay Tree is absolutely awesome.
I hate that I like this.
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
You shouldn't though! It's a genuinely great piece.
― Melissa W, Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
It's like Jonny Greenwood did to Penderecki what Radiohead did to the fringes of electronic dance music. He cleaned all the rough edges off, gave it a pop sensibility and a good choon, and made it listenable.
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
I think the interesting thing about it is that in the process he created something that's quite unique? I listen to a lot Penderecki & friends and a lot of classical music in general and there really isn't anyone else who's carved out this weird space between Polymorphia and something far more lush and Romantic.
― Melissa W, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
This is where I just don't have enough knowledge of classical music (Romantic era or contemporary) to respond in any kind of meaningful way except "I like the way it sounds." He occasionally touches on that terrifying atonal noize that Penderecki excels at bringing, but he seems to fill in around the edges with these soft, fluttering, harmonious bits. That there are passages of reassuring beauty, as opposed to Penderecki's full on DOOM DOOM EVERYTHING IS TERRIFYING all bold all caps sans serif text. Jonny's music is a serif font.
Oh god this makes no sense at all to anyone but me.
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
Things Radiohead fans say: "Dear Jonny Greenwood, your compositions are in a serif font."
SHOOT ME. NOW.
― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
You should listen to Doghouse. I think it's my favorite piece by him by far.
― Melissa W, Monday, 26 March 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
Is it anything like "In A Doghouse"? Otherwise I'm not having it.
Anyway, stop trying to make me listen to Greenwood. You know I'm a Yorkist. I feel all disloyal. I might have to go and sack St Albans.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 March 2012 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, and I'm going to answer here to that artsdesk review that you posted on The Other Place.
I mean, the reviewer played his cards in the first paragraph of the piece - whenever anyone says "I like my genre X x-ish and my genre Y y-ish and NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET" you know you are in the presence of someone so small minded that they probably also say things like "I don't know much about art but I know what I like" which means it's perfectly OK to just go ahead and not read the rest of the review.
I find theartsdesk often baffling because they have one or two really good critics/writers, and then seem to make up the rest of the team with people who stubbornly fold their arms across their chest and refuse to have their preconceptions challenged - and the editorial team goes for it because they know that nothing brings the pageviews like challops.
We get it! You don't like synthesis, homage or genre-fusion. We got it from the first paragraph. We continued to get it over the pageview-grabbing two-page split to double advertising revenue on what was a really boring and tedious 1-note review. And we continue to get it. Now fuck off back to Covent Garden you Britney-loving rebel you.
Sorry I couldn't have responded in The Other Place. I still feel awkward and unhappy about how things went down over there.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 March 2012 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
smdh at that Arts Desk critic. You're right - the first paragraph makes the rest of the review redundant.
It's also a very common anti-middlebrow pose dressed up as if it were iconoclasm. Like critics who say they only like Iranian arthouse and Transformers 3 and nothing in between.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Monday, 26 March 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
Have to say that I thoroughly agree with both MB and DL here. And also with Owen Pallett on another thread who said that the Worst 200 Songs Project was redolent of the kind of book-burning “THIS IS SHIT” English mentality that made him sick. It really gets my goat too (but then I’m not an Englishman).
You see it all over the place; Ian Martin’s Guardian column today, the Popdose website (don’t waste your time; I look at these things so you don’t have to), too many other places – the underlying message being “Don’t bother with that awful new music that is so difficult to listen to, stick with what you know, let’s all like the same things and that will simplify our demographic reach, make our lives easier.”
Fair enough, Mr Petridis tries to readdress this issue in today’s edition (with the substantial aid of his daughter). The difference being that when young Richard Williams was making his way as a music writer in the late sixties, he already knew about Ligeti and Stockhausen, but I recognise that these are different times.
But when you have someone say, in today’s paper, that “we want to turn our readers into a resource,” then it’s a revolver-reaching-for situation, I’m afraid.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 26 March 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry MB, I didn't notice this was your thread, feel free to delete and I'll go off and have a moan elsewhere
*exits sheepishly, stage left*
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 26 March 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
The only ownership that I assert over this thread is that it is specifically ~for fangirling~ - i.e. one should only post on it if one is actually a fangirl or else if one is prepared to put up with, support, condone or otherwise just not-be-awful-and-negative-about fangirling as a mentality. Anyone who is prepared to do that, is welcome. Anyone who isn't won't be deleted, they'll just be squealed at, loudly, until they go away. ;-)
But yeah, the whole schtick of that article was just so distasteful. In point of fact, what it screamed was I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT ART, BUT I KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!
Like, I understand the appeal of hating. It's very comforting, in a way. I know I do it myself, that there are artists I just *take against* and it becomes almost part of my identity that I hate Artist X. Because it's easier to establish one's identity in opposition to something, rather than by positive qualities. Maybe also lazier, and avoids actually ever putting oneself out there emotionally by committing to something as ~uncool~ as love. Because loving something or someone, really renders one quite vulnerable.
But, for me, Hating An Artist is kind of an active process, it's something I'm often testing. Like, I will, every year or so, go and listen to artists I actively hate, to test myself, to test my preconceptions. Sometimes I listen to something I hate for about 30 seconds, and go "yup, so relieved, still hate that" and sometimes it will blindside me and take me by surprise and I'll have to evaluate, has this artist changed, or have my tastes changed, and it's this process of give and take, defining and redefining boundaries. (Relieved I still don't like Penderecki, but have had to adjust my opinions on Autechre and Neil Young in the past few years after being ambushed by unexpected emotion.)
But to go to a show by an artist you know in advance you hate, you have already decided to hate, and then just spend the whole article just missing the point of what other people actually *like* about said artist. There's just something so... *lazy* about that.
And I think DL is right about that, that it's kneejerk anti-middlebrow. That it's actually been established and accepted that to enjoy only highbrow material is limiting, snobby and perhaps even vaguely classist. But if you add in "oh, but I also like complete trash, look at how much I'm enjoying this lowbrow art (with a side order of condescension and lashings of irony)" then somehow that balances it out? No it doesn't! That's not Poptimism, that's inverse snobbery.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 March 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
hahahah OK, I guess I don't have a choice in this Dogwood matter.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 March 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
I just wanted to say...
http://mercphotos.slideshowpro.com/albums/044/363/album-321248/cache/ecct0413radiohead09.sJPG_900_540_0_95_1_50_50.sJPG?1334233284
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Red trousers. Sigh.
http://mercphotos.slideshowpro.com/albums/044/363/album-321248/cache/ecct0413radiohead06.sJPG_900_540_0_95_1_50_50.sJPG?1334296190
^^^^what's so tantalising is that my father is also a photographer for this paper. If only he could have got the passes instead.
(hey, Thom and my dad could have exchanged ponytail tips.)
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 April 2012 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oUWPa.jpg
― Melissa W, Sunday, 22 April 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I hate it, hate it, hate it, when people do this about women, and I'm well aware of how offensive I'm about to be, and yet, I cannot stop myself from shouting out...
JESUS CHRIST THOM YORKE EAT A SANDWICH.
I miss your belly. Your belly was super cute. Please grow it back for me? I will force feed you Cornish blue cheese until you comply.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 22 April 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
wow, he looks really rough.
― crüt, Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0dij1VUmo1robhpjo1_1280.jpg"><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1scp3ihzY1qa641uo1_1280.jpg">
Just a weird angle on his face in the other one.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0dij1VUmo1robhpjo1_1280.jpghttp://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1scp3ihzY1qa641uo1_1280.jpg
― Melissa W, Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
Am I gonna be thrown out of the Thomosexuals if I admit I'm not crazy about the stuff he does with Modeselektor? (Though I'm not actually sure I like Modeselektor that much without Apparat to pretty them up.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
I love Shipwreck, but This and The White Flash are a bit on the dull side. I like the Burial/Four Tet singles with Thom from last year a lot more.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
Too much creaky voice on Shipwreck.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
Let's just bump this thread every time Thom exposes his abdomen.
http://distilleryimage9.instagram.com/45d94c628d7111e1be6a12313820455d_7.jpg
BELLYBELLYBELLYEBELLYBELLY
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 April 2012 07:16 (eleven years ago) link
(I mean we could talk about Nigel's and Thom's clicky clacky bleepbloopfest, too, but it's still doing my head in.)
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 April 2012 07:24 (eleven years ago) link
Knowing that shot was from the LA DJ MOCA thing they did, this just comes to mind:
And if the world does turnAnd if London burns I'll be standing on the beach with my guitarI wanna be in a band when I get to heavenAnyone can play guitarAnd they won't be a nothing anymoreGrow my hair, grow my hairI am Jim Morrison
Grow my hair, grow my hairI am Jim Morrison
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 April 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
At least his hair now is all his own. Unlike when he wrote those lyrics.
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 April 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if some of those AFP tracks are remixes rather than the eventual album tracks. The first one sounds like proper Thom, but the rest sound a lot like they've been reworked by others.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 29 April 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
I was under the impression that they were live remixing on the fly? (Though that's only based on listening, it's hard to tell if Thom is actually doing something or just dancing and checking twitter in the videos.)
I hope that they're not changed too much from the album versions as I like the clicky bleepbloops.
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 April 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
(All these DJ-ing videos that keep popping up do amuse me, though, to find out that for all Thom's talk of DJing and DJ culture, he can't actually beatmatch to save his life.)
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 April 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
Could be. It just struck me how untouched that first track sounded compared to the others.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 29 April 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Think the first track is just a song-y bone to throw the ateasers howling for "proper songs" and "less bleeps and bloops" before the album jumps off into the pure "electronic dance music" album he keeps telling people he's going to release.
I want the album to be 12 versions of the long version of Twist just to piss people off, but I would.
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 April 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
So this summer, Mr Yorke will be DJ-ing RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD from where I used to live.
Real life is no fair
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 1 June 2012 07:00 (eleven years ago) link
block parties were less anticipated when you lived there.
― Cunga, Friday, 1 June 2012 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
The building had been under construction for so long we thought it was abandoned when I lived there. Now it's a massive posh art gallery.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 1 June 2012 07:49 (eleven years ago) link
that stinks.
― Cunga, Friday, 1 June 2012 07:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyF9MehdOTg
Love this so much.
― Melissa W, Monday, 11 June 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
I'm on a bus and can't watch it, but I assume that's Full Stop? Love the skittering drums on that now.
― Coolyplay G (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 07:44 (eleven years ago) link
How is this song so good.
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know! (There's a better sound quality version of it, though, I swear I've heard one, even though the camera work was sick-makingly drunken)
Also, how is his ponytail so cute?
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xp8gbB7J1qb0bt9o3_500.jpg
― Coolyplay G (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
:3
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Have we had the sun shining out of his behind yet?
http://i.imgur.com/KBsHI.jpg
Jesus Christ you take a man who is already sex incarnate, and then you make him play the sexiest of all instruments and the power of sexiness just increases exponentially.
― Coolyplay G (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
i don't see anyone playing accordion
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know there were bass accordions?
― Coolyplay G (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: 'I'll piss on Radiohead'
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
"pompous"
A minute later, Corgan, still probing, finally finds the key to Thayil’s heart: “I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back.”
Kim Thayil explodes: “What do you mean? You write all the songs, and you do all the interviews. You play the instruments on the album. You control the band to the extent that most people think of Smashing Pumpkins as the Billy Corgan Experience, and all you care about is some photograph?”
“But I hate it,” Corgan says, “it means they don’t think I’m the cute one.”
“Ooh,” Thayil says a little too loudly as Corgan walks away, “I’ll bet he’s going to call his therapist in Chicago, wake her up at four in the morning, and tell her about that big, mean bear who made fun of him.”
The next day at the Big Day Out festival, Thayil is talking to Kim and Kelley Deal in the Breeders’ dressing room when Corgan walks past wearing a long-sleeved Superman T-shirt like the one your four-year-old nephew probably owns.
“You hurt me deeply,” Corgan says, touching the giant S on his chest and pouting. “You hurt me deeply in my heart."
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
How many times do you think I can listen to Full Stop? Or Ful Stop, which I refuse to accept.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
All these new songs are so good. Have they played Skirting on the Surface lately?
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
"Ful Stop" ???
::puts on very best Felicity Kendall in The Good Life voice::
OH, THOM.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
p.s. I haven't cared about what that hideous, arrogant, talentless slaphead thinks since... wait, I have never cared about what that hideous, arrogant, talentless slaphead Corgan thinks. Ever.
Please do not besmirch our good and pure Radiohead thread of love with his idiocy.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
True, I'm sorry. I just thought it was hilarious.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
There's nothing you (or he) can do to make me click on an interview with that attention seeking idiot. He can troll Radiohead fans all he likes, I have no attention to give him.
You may be forgiven if you can find a cuet picture of The Ponytail, though. ;-)
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
ritchie blackmore IS a better guitar player than billy corgan or greenwood i'll give him that
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I don't view guitar playing as a competition and really can't fucking stand the mentality that would treat it as one.
It doesn't matter who's a "better" guitarist. It matters that Jonny Greenwood plays the *right* guitar for Radiohead songs.
I just KMT at that whole kind of thing and want nothing to do with it.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tp7dYK7V1qzu336o1_1280.png
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
You are forgiven everything, Turangalila.
At first I was like...
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m582ntQOvb1qbh7wdo1_1280.jpg
But now I'm like...
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m582ntQOvb1qbh7wdo2_1280.jpg
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
That Corgan quote is completely out of context. He was just saying that Richie Blackmore is better than Johnny or himself and that he pisses on any ranking (they don't specify which one he was talking about) that says otherwise and doesn't give 'the true rock gods' their proper respect.
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
Also Full Stop is amazing. This and Skirting on the Surface are my favorite of the new songs live. Not feeling Identikit and Cut A Hole yet.
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
It's not particular out of context that he said he would piss on Radiohead themselves. And you should listen to Identikit more.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
I piss on the very ~idea~ of 'true rock gods' OK?
Carrying on a conversation from Twitter...
Taking sides: Thom Yorke or Kittens?
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Thom Yorke. Kittens turn into cats.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
The only one I'm not really feeling is Skirting.
Love Identikit (especially the most recent version, which made it less Slowdivey and more Ye Olde Englishe Dubbesteppy) and Cut A Hole is just orgasms.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't feeling Skirting on the Surface at first, but there's something about it that really gets to me now.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
How could you look at this picture, and choose kittens over him? Come ON. Have a sense of perspective.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lomy31btpF1qerwoao1_1280.jpg
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Michael Stipe and Thom might not be what I define as good-looking but they look good you know. They've aged with dignity by the look of that photo.
I mean this is Billy Corgan nowadays:
http://yourlifeisnotyourown.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/2billycorgangoogleplaysxsw2012.jpg
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
I'm supposed to be studying for my Cornish exam and instead I'm looking up RH live bootlegs on YouTube.
Nyns yw hemma ow goedh.This is not my goose.
x-post THOM IS BEAUTIFUL. HE IS A TRULY AMAZING LOOKING AND BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW ANYONE CAN LOOK AT HIM AND NOT THINK THAT HE IS JUST BREATHTAKING.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
It's a mystery.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Corgan does say he would piss on Radiohead but the way I read it, it wasn't a direct jab at them, more like they were in the way of him pissing on these sort of rankings and he needed an example of guitarists who get ranked over Blackmore when they shouldn't. (His opinion, not mine.)
I do like Identikit but I feel they need to wrap it up a little bit more. This isn't the studio version tho so anything could happen before I give a final verdict on that one.
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
(How would you mutate Thom anyway? Would you mutate it like a normal T sound, or would you mutate it like it was a "dh" (which is Cornish for the Th sound)?)
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
((It's Tommas in Cornish so I guess it would mutate Dommas and Dhommas))
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
(((no, wait - Thommas. Tommas Evrek. Easily amused)))
Yeah, anyway, I've learned not to judge the songs you aren't feeling live until they pop up as studio versions with Nigel noises on them. Haven't we had this conversation upthread? ;-)
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Thom has made a nice progression:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpovj7KrlR1qbwwoao1_400.pnghttp://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpovj7KrlR1qbwwoao5_500.pnghttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpovj7KrlR1qbwwoao2_500.pnghttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpovj7KrlR1qbwwoao6_400.png
Find it funny how 'britpop' he looked circa The Bends. Probably my least favorite look of his, maybe because it reminds me of Chris Martin.
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5k4igC7zt1rsvop4o1_500.jpg
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
he has THOSE LINES. he has THOSE LINES THAT HAVE RUINED MANY A GOOD WOMAN.
Oh god kill me now.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
Those lines that lead down from his abdomen to his groin. Oh god.
::dies::
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
In case you were wondering how they're called:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%27s_belt
aka iliac furrow, aka athlete's girdle, aka Adonis belt.
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5fwytT7J91qlmg31o1_500.png
I know you don't understand, WCC.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
He's so damned WEIRD looking.
But in that photo, you can actually see the ring of green around the outside of his eyes, so, um, I approve.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
What can I say, I like men who look like E.T.
― Melissa W, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
Yma dewlagas gwerdh dhe Jowanny.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
Jowanny Koesgwerdh sounds better as a name than Tommas Evrek to be honest.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
Present day Thom is the most WCC-friendly. Haha. Virtually designed for you, tbh.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
The most designed-for-me version since Pablo Honey, at least. When I was really, really into eyeliner-wearing boys with bleached hair. Sigh. LOL, the 90s. The slow metamorphasis into Can-loving DDB took a while, but he got there in the end. Phew.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
i would pay money to see ritchie blackmore rip up some super fast neoclassical metal solo on "there there"
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
i want to make a reality show where the original lineup of deep purple and radiohead are forced to swap some members.
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
i think "the unwritten law" off of house of blue light is the most radiohead sounding deep purple song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2M8NArrWis
and "the spanish archer" off that album would make a good radiohead song title imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB4Dn06cheE
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
If you're not going to post fangirl pictures of Yorkes or Greenwoods, I believe you have the wrong Radiohead thread.
Has anyone else heard the rumour that Thom & Ed said the Atoms for Peace album wasnt happening until next year? It was on twitter but I'm scared to look elsewhere to confirm.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
Ack. That would suck.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
It's all over The Other Place. Thom said Atoms for Peace is coming next year.
How am I going to anticipate for that long?
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
there are going to be a lot of pictures of thom's belly, aren't there?
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
And that's a wonderful thing to remind us of, Z S.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
HURRAH!!!!
Oh god yes!
On the downside: Flea will probably be involved. But on the upside, as much as I hate hate hate Flea's bass-playing he does make Thom wiggle in a way that reveals large amounts of his belly and even go fhirtless on occasion.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
ugh fucking Flea though why
― Turangalila, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Is it cool if at some point I photoshop in someone else's belly in place of Thom's belly?
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
flea is a good bass player and def capable of not doing slap funk workout stuff, you'd never know it was him on the mars volta stuff he's done
i want to make a mash up called "In Rainbow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WukfC-6Gpc
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently Emika has done a cover of Exit Music for some OK Computer tribute album. I love Emika.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
ZS I'm sure you could come up with the most excellent of photoshops regarding Thom's belly.
(I just had a vision of recursive Thom-belly to infinity and it both scared and aroused me.)
I just hate RHCP so much and I hate Flea's bass-playing (perhaps even worse when he's being "tasteful") that it just disappoints me so much that Thom is such a fan. When I found out his girlfriend's favourite band is RHCP I just cried a little, it's just... everything about that band, everything about their fanbase just revolts me and encapsulates everything I hate about music and about American Bro-culture and California and they have been, for my entire life, the music listening of choice for the people who beat me up in high school and assholes who shout out of cars calling me a dyke and just awfulness on every level that goes far beyond their awful tedious horrible music.
I guess I've just accepted long ago that Thom's taste in rock music and mine are never going to overlap, ever and though he seems really quite sensible when it comes to electronic music, I just try to blot that side of his music taste out of my mind.
!!!!!!! OK this is awesome and I wonder if it's related to SVIIB's cover of Subterranean Homesick Alien?
I also love Emika. I also know that Thom really rates Emika. Why oh why can't he just stick to his decent taste in electronic music, and stay away from RHCP and Flea and the awfulness that entails?
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
It is, it's on the same album.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Where did you read about it? This sounds like a thing of awesomeness I need in my life.
(And maybe it will be out sooner than AfP. And also have no Flea on it.)
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Oh! Look what I found by googling!!!
http://soundcloud.com/musikexpress/a-trbute-to-ok-computer-pt-i
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
Emika posted on her tumblr about it and then I did some googling.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
ANIKA IS ON IT TOO!!!!
::twirls::
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
AND AUSTRA AS WELL, WTF DID THEY JUST GO THROUGH THE POST-KNIFE THREAD LOOKING FOR BANDS I REALLY LOVE?!?!?!?!??!?!/
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Austra doing Paranoid Android?
::head explodes::
I'm just waiting for Ikonika's version of Fitter Happier. That would be the clincher.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Austra doing Paranoia Android sounds *exactly* like you would expect Austra doing Paranoid Android to sound like:
http://soundcloud.com/musikexpress/a-tribute-to-ok-computer-pt
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
DOES ANYONE SPEAK GERMAN?
http://www.musikexpress.de/das_heft/aktuelle_ausgabe/article302155/juli-2012.html
HOW THE HELL DO I GET A COPY OF THIS?!?!?/
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Is it one of those things where you can only get the CD with a magazine?
― Melissa W, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
Seems like it ;_;
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
ich spreche ein kleines deutsche.
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5o5z8EW2E1rsvop4o1_r1_500.jpg
― Melissa W, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
Flea can do good basslines eg. 'Soul to squeeze'.
Also iirc he will only be involved in a couple of tracks not the whole album.
― Moka, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, my current sexual orientation is Thomosexual. That tongue is fucking obscene.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit re: that OK Computer tribute album
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
I had this as my cellphone wallpaper for a while. Guess it belongs here:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/25998897/Esos+Weyes+esosweyes.png
― Moka, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
It's also the artwork i have for the nude single in my ipof.
― Moka, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
That is so disturbing because that is just so completely *not* what Thom's chest and forearms actually look like.
I've worryingly started to find his widdle widdle T. Rex arms adorably cute.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
lol is that the Orleans album cover?
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
sigh
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwmqz1ROGT1qf3hwgo1_1280.jpg
― Turangalila, Friday, 15 June 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
Is that a cock on your shirt, or are you just glad to...
No, even I can't do it.
Can't wait til Thom turns up wearing that shirt.
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
Another Calvins wearer, I see.
Actually I wouldn't be at all surprised if they didn't swap underwear like they swap shirts.... or is that just wishful thinking?
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
They totally do it.
― Turangalila, Friday, 15 June 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Just pick them off each others' hotel room floors in the morning, yah, I could see how they could get confused...
― a cake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Melissa: I can't post to The Other Place, but I just wanted to say I'm relieved that you're safe. Can't imagine how traumatic it was. Hope that you're OK, just wanted you to know I was thinking of you. x
― a cheesecake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 17 June 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
I and a few of my friends were being led in early by security when it happened. We watched it collapse. If it had happened 20 minutes later, we'd all be dead. It would have just been us on the front row, and that lighting rig fell right on top of the rail. This has always been a pretty bIg fear of mine. I spent all of last night just frantically hoping that the death wasn't anyone I know. And it wasn't someone I knew particularly well, but obviously I've seen him around and I'm devastated. Pretty much all of their equipment is destroyed as well, and at this point I can't even imagine how they'll recover from that.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Obviously not as crucial as lives lost (or almost lost) but that equipment note is pretty horrible in its own right -- we're talking a Sonic Youth type thing where it was gear they'd pretty much modified and customized, no backups?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, especially Jonny's equipment.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Phew. Presumably it's all been insured to hell and back. (Sorry if this seems callous to focus on in the light of everything else but it is of interest, as I'm guessing there's going to be legal fallout for a LONG time to come.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks so much for checking in. I mean, I knew you were alright, but it's still reassuring to see you typing.
That's the thing that keeps freaking me out - it's obviously devastating that they've lost a member of the crew, like, I know how tight they are, as a team - but how much WORSE it could have been. The moment I saw something about 3 fans being let in, in advance, I was like - fuck, I know who that is. And the sickening feeling, just thinking about how half an hour's difference in timing could have... argh, it doesn't bear thinking about.
As gutting as it is, that Jonny's lost so much of his gear (and I saw that video where they focused in on the stage, and you could see his keyboard crushed) - just thank everything I believe in, that it was only the gear that was lost, and not, y'know.... JONNY. Even customised gear can be built again. Jonny is irreplaceable. But yeah, I know how much of his stuff was customised or even custom built for him, and it's just... fuck fuck fuck. The idea of just starting again from scratch. I just can't get my head around what they must be dealing with.
― a cheesecake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
I had been planning on going to a couple of gigs in Europe next month, but I'm putting making further plans on hold until there is some sort of announcement.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
I would completely understand if RH never wanted to tour again.
I mean, it is doubly sad because it seemed like they had actually got to a point where they enjoyed touring again and wanted to do it loads.
But who even knows if the European leg is going to happen now?
― a cheesecake made of all their eyes (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
I have become what I hate.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 21 June 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
which means?
― Moka, Thursday, 21 June 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
I have become a pedantic RH fan.
I logged onto a thread I was reading but studiously avoided posting to because I had too many dogs in that race in order to correct a Radiohead fact.
But, y'know, if you're going to use the old "supergroup ditch record label to self release album through Internet" meme at least get the right album, because the wrong album means "even supergroup decide self releasing albums is too damn complicated and go back to record companies" is a pretty different message if you get it wrong.
I am pedant, hear me make basic spelling errers.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 22 June 2012 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
I guess it's just interesting how "doing a Radiohead" can mean so many different things.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 22 June 2012 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like to buy every Radiohead fan a Coke
― Call me Ishmael (Ówen P.), Friday, 22 June 2012 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks but can I have a ginger beer instead?
(actually I think it says more about my twisted relationship w ILX than about my RH fandom these days)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 22 June 2012 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
Is it complicated? I dunno, it looks more like a different strand on 'messin aroun on the Internet'
Also, getting control of the means of production is what "they" have been trying to prevent for centuries...
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2012 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
Tell ya, tho. The thing that's been doing the best job of making me feel ashamed of being a RH fan this week is other RH fans. Nothing like a tragedy to bring out the worst in some ppl. :-/
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 22 June 2012 07:26 (eleven years ago) link
(And I'm aware that makes me a sanctimonious douche for saying that, you can't win, can you)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 22 June 2012 07:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hell is other people's kids fans.
You know it.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2012 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
I bet you get this all the timeI bet they just throw themselves at you
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 29 June 2012 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
Earworm.
Oh, Thom, oh Thom, Oh Thom.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dszg9l1E1rsvop4o4_1280.jpg
Don't you know those carrot-top pants are made for people with longer legs than you? Though if your intention is to compress your short widdle legs down to make all your fangirls have perverted schoolboy fantasies about you, it sure is working.
Again I kinda hate myself for looking at pap shots, but whatever keeps me off the suicide thread, right? :-/
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dszg9l1E1rsvop4o5_1280.jpg
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 30 June 2012 07:35 (eleven years ago) link
I was gonna refrain from mentioning that you can see his penis, right through his pants, but you know what, someone just brought up Katy Perry's breast size on another thread, so, you know what? Fuck it.
YOU CAN SEE HIS PENIS RIGHT THROUGH HIS PANTS.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 30 June 2012 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
if you can find that in .gif form it would be a good HATERS GONNA HATE meme
― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 30 June 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
I take back whatever I said about Thom aging with dignity upthread. The carrot top pants are a bad choice and it seems he's joining the ghostbusters now:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMKfppy2Vkc/T_G6oeJw7bI/AAAAAAAAC3k/ebGXwAw05gI/s1600/IMG_0286.JPG
― Moka, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait it was the prometheus premiere on a 'secret cinema' and apparently it's owned by some douche artists and everyone in the audience is required to use boiler suits.
http://www.glowmagazine.me/shhh-its-a-secret-cinema/
― Moka, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
Come on. Thom in a boiler suit is straight up adorable and I want him to come check my meters now!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
That puts me in mind of when I went to see The Matrix Reloaded on its opening night and there were a group of people in full-on Neo/Trinity/etc cosplay in the audience. As the crowd filed silently out after the film they looked completely dejected.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking today that Matthew Herbert as a producer for LP9 instead of Nigel Godrich would be a brilliant fit. He seems to be in an aesthetic place right now akin to that of Radiohead and he could bring a completely new sound for the band while retaining what makes them special. He has a fixation for organic elements in electronic music, is a microhouse pioneer, has a pop penchant and appreciates jazz and classical music (see his big band project and his remixes for Deutsche Grammophon). If you take a peek at any point of his career you'll see he's apt for designing any kind of sound that the band throws at him. Also, he could fulfill Thom's longing wet dream of releasing relevant tracks in the electronic scene.
― Moka, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 07:36 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not saying Nigel is not apt, he's grown with the band and knows how to work with them. He's essential to their sound. Just fantasizing what someone with the skills and inventiveness of Herbert could achieve with the band.
― Moka, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 07:38 (eleven years ago) link
I don't even know that Nigel acts so much as a producer directing their sound these days, as a kind of House Master who forces them to get on with each other, and get on with work.
As interesting as any other producer working with them would be (Kieran Hebden would be my wet dream producer for them) I think it's more a personality thing than a sound thing, per se. Think they should do what the did with TKOL, that worked well - get Nigel to oversee recording and then hand the tapes off to other producers to do remixes, and tapes of live performances for people who want "Ver RAWK Band" experience.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 08:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2qmvhxSZW1qh9os1o1_500.gifrocking his shoes with - wait for it - "secret heels" :3
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
The real reason they never realised "Lift" - he doesn't want his secret getting out.
That is a cute little dance he is doing but GODDAMMIT if only they'd got a gif of him stomping on one of his effects pedals.
Thom Yorke + effects pedals = biggest giant ladyboner in the world.
It's just not fair that he is that beautiful. Even in ridiculous fashionable clothes. His beauty transcends even carrot pants and boiler suits.
― Yes, Virginia, There Is A Higgs Boson (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe we need a little "thomosexuality in dronerock" moment.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6mvg4IqYj1qerwoao1_r2_1280.jpg
^^^^totally doin' it*.
.
*in MY MYNDE anyway
― Yes, Virginia, There Is A Higgs Boson (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
in news inexplicably not related to the attractiveness of thom yorke, it looks like they'll probably be releasing a single on jack white's label, like beck did recently?
http://pitchfork.com/news/46806-radiohead-did-record-at-third-man-jack-white-confirms/
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
rumors are flying that the first 100 7 inches (like thom's boner!) will come with a small baggy full of thom's pubes
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
word on the street is that the single is called "look at my belly (it glistens with our sweat)"
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
Word on the street is you could not make Jack White or his record label interesting to me if you glued Thom Yorke's penis to his forehead.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
i give about -4824 shits about the label, i'm just looking forward to the single, if there is one!
also, penis on the forehead means yawning scrotum!
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
Is the single actually going to be new, recorded music because I read in the usual places that it was just going to be a re-release of the record day single or something like that.
And if it were new recorded music, would the ladyboner of new Radiohead actually make me able to overcome the midas-touch-in-reverse abhorrence of Jack White? Why god why do you make me have to make these decisions, Thomyorke's belly?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Actually I'm sure Thomyorke's belly had nothing to do with the decision and should be left out of it.
I shall blame his ears instead.
Oh, I clicked the link: JWhite says "yeah, Radiohead were in my studio, I wasn't there, thy used it for themselves"
So, any call that there's a Third Man single coming is way prem at best, way off most likely.
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
see, I quite like the whole 'record label' vibe and the secret vault packages and things.
If only.. the records were something I actually cared about!
http://thirdmanrecords.com/vault
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
See, back then I quite liked the WS, but I got off the bus at "Elephant"
Or did I get off the elephant at White bus?
umm..
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
Everything I have read about this supposed thing contradicts every other thing I have read. I believe nothing. I think I believe Pitchfork even less than I believe random crap posted on atease because Pitchfork seem perfectly happy to use rumours posted on atease as a primary source.
Anyway. If anyone wants me, I'll be off in the corner listening to Daedelus records and wibbling.
Revive if you have bellyshots.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
it is all speculation, of course, but at bonnaroo thom did say "This song is for Jack White. We saw him yesterday. A big thank-you to him, but we can't tell you why. You'll find out." i'm not sure why he would say that, combined with recording at his studio (with or without jack white present), unless there's some sort of release coming.
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
He was thanking him for the blow jobs. Clearly.
(It makes as much sense as any other speculation.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
HAY WCC I HEARD U LIKE GRISLED SEA CAPTAINS
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6kaamInaH1qb0bt9o1_1280.jpg
SO I DRESS UP AS ONE 4 U?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
“It’s absolutely brilliant songwriting. I saw a black and white video of them rehearsing “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” and what struck me was not only that it was a beautiful song, but that the band are so committed. There’s no showbiz, just musicians communicating very directly. There’s no fudging that. In both those songs, the chord sequences are very interesting. These are beautiful tunes and I can’t improve on them, so I’ve written my own piece.”— Steve Reich talking about Radiohead’s music.
He's a huge fan and is writing a piece based on some of their songs...
― Turangalila, Friday, 6 July 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
!!!!!jesus
― from the desk of mr. and mrs. eazy and sheila e (m bison), Friday, 6 July 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I read that y'day. Obv I love Steve Reich & he gets a permanent pass but that "no showbiz" comment made me kinda sad. And also has he ever actually seen Thom onstage and not just in their rehearsal room? That man loves the showbiz.
Also I felt v v stupid when I did not know the Orb sample in question and had to go listen/compare (then was all "wow")
I think I came to The Orb early enough that lots of their source material was new to me.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 6 July 2012 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
.. and over the years I'd hear some obscure track someplace and go 'Whoa! That's the Orb sample!!!"
apart from the "woof woof hello, I'm rags" bit as I'd literally seen the film the week before.
― Mark G, Friday, 6 July 2012 06:01 (eleven years ago) link
Like the idea that "showbiz" and deep musical communication are mutually exclusive is the kind of thing an old classical dude might come out with, but not really based in realities I've experienced. But I'm probably too much of a poptimist for his sensibilities.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 6 July 2012 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
seeing a band rehearsing music, you would be 'struck by the lack of showbiz airs' as that's not what they are practicing..
― Mark G, Friday, 6 July 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah we all know Thom practices his moves, in the mirror, with a hairbrush and has done so since he was 12. Ditto Jonny's prehensile hair. But they don't let Reich and Penderecki see that, man!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 6 July 2012 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Old-Thom-Yorke.jpg
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 6 July 2012 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
They haven't really aged the muscles if his left eye in a way consistent with his actual face and ageing process.
Yes it is crepey that I notice this.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 6 July 2012 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
wow at yorke rocking the funky white boy look circa '88
http://img7.hostingpics.net/pics/900985Thom_Yorke_thom1988.jpg
― cock chirea, Friday, 6 July 2012 08:02 (eleven years ago) link
Art students have looked approximately the same since 1888. Or 1588 if Van Dyke's portrait of Yorke is to be believed.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 6 July 2012 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
I just need to look at that photo, and think about Reich doing a rework of Jigsaw Falling Into Place and that actually has the potential to cheer me up quite a lot.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 6 July 2012 08:32 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to put this here to make me laugh and cheer me up on Monday morning at work:
Q: If that sad day comes along when Radiohead splits up, what do you plan to do in your retirement ? - Lincolnbabe, OxfordA: Age badly. Follow random pathways in the forest. Smoke a pipe. Become a hermit. Never shave again. Take ecstasy on weekends. Develop a Valium habit. Read the Bible. Go To Tibet. Become an MP. Change my name. Laugh at economists. Start skanking dancehall style. - Thom
A: Age badly. Follow random pathways in the forest. Smoke a pipe. Become a hermit. Never shave again. Take ecstasy on weekends. Develop a Valium habit. Read the Bible. Go To Tibet. Become an MP. Change my name. Laugh at economists. Start skanking dancehall style. - Thom
So much <3 for that ridiculous man.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 8 July 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
worried about the skankin'
― Mark G, Sunday, 8 July 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7biqqp45l1qzwenho1_400.gif
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7act3oxVr1qcc9t9o1_500.gif
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
Want this...
...on my face forever.
THERE ARE NO WORDS.
HIS WAIST.
HIS HIPS.
HIS FLICKY LITTLE PONYTAIL.
I AM GOING TO DIE NOW.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Thom is doing this on purpose now...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
OK, found the source. What the YouTube captures that the gif doesn't is the shagged-out orgasm expression on his face as he does it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLgBC6-cp4
::dies some more and is dead::
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Just when I'm ready to surrender the last crumbs of my heteronormativity, he goes and does something like this:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7veszkcNl1rsvop4o1_r1_500.jpg
He is just torturing the fangirls at this point. There is no other excuse for this.
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 29 July 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m80a33A3ua1rx2bquo2_250.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m80a33A3ua1rx2bquo3_250.gif
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
wtf is up with thom recently?
― you're all going to hello (Z S), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
inspired by magic mike
― electric point-electric counterpoint (m bison), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, Thomas. What you do to us.
When one night, there is this:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m80a33A3ua1rx2bquo3_250.gif
And then the next night there is that godawful ill-fitting tank-top thing which hurts mine eyes to look at it.
http://instagram.com/p/NqwesdzXdA/
He just seems to have such a strange relationship with his body. Or maybe I'm projecting like crazy. Or maybe it just freaks him out that one day he loses himself in the moment and strips off and then the next day there are 40,000 gifs of his nekkid chest all over tumblr. So he covers up the next day with something really ugly, it feels like he's doing it on purpose, even though he's probably totally oblivious and does not even notice what the fangirls do. But god damn. He is so beautiful and that lithe fucking gymnast's body of his and how he moves it brings joy to so many people. Oh, so many feelings and I hate myself for having all of them.
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
i just don't remember him doing that once from like 1993 up to In Rainbows(melissa can correct me if i'm wrong?). it's just kind of weird, like when some guy you know in middle school is suddenly a goth the next day
― you're all going to hello (Z S), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's correlated with the increase in dancing and thus sweating, at least partially. When I first started seeing them he really only danced during Idioteque, and now he dances through pretty much every song where he's not holding a guitar. And at the shows where he's taken off his shirt it was incredibly hot. So blame global warming and dancing. Or thank global warming and dancing.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
In the early days he used to do this kind of weird wriggling-like-a-puppy-in-a-bag dance thing if he wasn't holding a guitar. But nothing like the dancing he does now.
I think it's generally a good sign, that he's feeling comfortable enough to dance like that, onstage. Like, he used to talk about dancing, in blogs and stuff, but we never got to see him do it. And now we do. Thank you, global warming and dancing!
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
He been hanging with those no-gooders red hot chili peppers.
― Moka, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh you just totally ruined my ladyboner forever. ;_;
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Sweet jesus it gets worse...
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m80f6tLO2s1r4rmb9o1_1280.jpg
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
seriously, he hangs out with flea, they have two stoic bald drummers, and he rips his shirt off all the time - who is he??
― you're all going to hello (Z S), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/480406_10151085069155489_822618422_n.jpg
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Shit, I grabbed the URL from the wrong tumblr window. That is supposed to be Thom with his fingers in his ears, not my other husband.
Sorry this does not involve shirtlessness but some people might like to hear?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO1sX1--trc&feature=player_embedded
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Twisted Words has just pointed out...
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8051uQAAz1qkfb34o2_400.png
... is there something missing?
(I hope it's just a blurry photo. If he's actually had his backfeathers lasered off I will cry.)
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 2 August 2012 08:42 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I'm done feeling guilty about it. When I see something like this, I'm in no doubt that he's doing it on purpose because he knows the effect of his serial abdomen exposure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iih9b3EWPE&feature=channel&list=UL
(Also, liking the "dub reggae Slowdive" section more and more the more I hear this song.)
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 2 August 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/E8toX.gif
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7foediKkC1qikls4o3_400.gif
― very sexual album (schlump), Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Needs more arse-shaking.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9bdlnFuNQ1qa25v9o1_500.gif
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 26 August 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
you know, I don't think it has been adequately noted or discussed that
THOM YORKE'S NEW WEBSITE IS PARTIALLY IN CORNISH.
If I were a scarier RH fan than I am, I would start to think he was doing this on purpose.
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 7 September 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
I have said that before, probably on this thread!
― Mark G, Friday, 7 September 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Feel better now. It's naught to do with me, fucker has a ~second home~ in Cornwall. So now I can hate him for being a bastard second home owner.
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 7 September 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
(Not that I ever in a million years seriously thought that it might. Coincidences just freak me out.)
((Just going to have to avoid because this stuff messes with my head.))
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 7 September 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
please no more atoms for peace. please just stay in the main band Thom
― marginal victory, Friday, 7 September 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I like his solo stuff. I also suspect that it's the freedom to do his solo stuff (and Jonny, as well) that allows him to stay in Radiohead in the first place.
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Saturday, 8 September 2012 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
I am mesmerised and I cannot stop watching Thom fondle himself.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/infinitycluster/ux4er.gif
No wonder Flea has a warm place in his balls for Thom. Quite literally, I guess.
― Sexy Data Scientist (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 1 October 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Austin City Limits: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/2280479428/
― LaMonte, Sunday, 7 October 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
Happy birthday Thom! Let's have some Dad Dancing.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7g1ugQrx51qcc9t9o1_250.gif
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 7 October 2012 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
With the festival announcements this morning, my hope is that news of the album is imminent...
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 21 January 2016 12:54 (eight years ago) link
Supposed to be next year, isn't it?
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 January 2016 13:02 (eight years ago) link
I''m hoping more like tomorrow or next week!
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 21 January 2016 13:17 (eight years ago) link
Primavera says "Radiohead are coming back to stage to perform the long awaited follow up to “King Of Limbs”" so it sounds like its on its way
― ufo, Thursday, 21 January 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
"Radiohead are coming back to stage to perform the long awaited follow up to “King Of Limbs”"
Ooh, touring the new album before it comes out - just like Dream Theater!
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 21 January 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link
Given how the previous couple of Radiohead albums were released, I can't imagine that it will sit "in the can" for long after its finished. Their MO these days seems to be getting their records out quickly not long after they've finished 'em.
― Turrican, Thursday, 21 January 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I'm hoping there might be an announcement tomorrow morning, with the album within weeks, if not less.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link