Radiohead LP9 Anticipation, Fangirling and random Cheesecake Thread (Do not read if you hate Radiohead or us)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Or rather inspired by Giger, but good grief that is nuts.

That Alvernia website is truly amazing as fuck. O_O thankin' you for alerting me to this.

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.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0mf2ms59P1r89qoso1_500.gif

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.

(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.)

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.)

(to clarify, own it on vinyl, and thus can't tell if the cds look the same.)

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.)

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.

lol :D

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.

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.

Perspective.

(no mystery)

"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.

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 while
Oh fuck it, I'm going by albums now
2002/3 Hail To The Thief era:
-the Art Mullet
-the Hitler Hairdo fringe to cover bald patch
In Rainbows era:
-the Hedgehog
-the longer Hedgehog
-the "Is he going to cut that thing?"
-Full hobo beard in effect
Solo 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, Thom
The 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.)

!!! that was !!!

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::

"Freak monkeys with mediocre tunes."

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/8919071/Radiohead+nice+thom+haircut.jpg

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/westboro_baptist_church_protest_radiohead_show.html

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MUCH BETTER.

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/8/2/lookinmeeyes128621592594368902.jpg

^^^^short dude with boner-pants complex.

Are those 501s?

I have a pair.

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?

I'm assuming you mean Porcupine Tree lol

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. :)

haircut rundown justifies the thread

I totally missed a really key and important stage!

Kid A - brushed-forward Caesar crop

(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.)

You should listen to 48 Responses to Polymorphia, I think you'd be surprised.

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.

"Luckily I quite enjoy feeling guilty"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdjc2Ipt-0M

(Are you sure about that not-being-Catholic thing, Jonny?)

48 Responses to Polymorphia honestly sounds almost nothing like Polymorphia. Just listen!

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.

You shouldn't though! It's a genuinely great piece.

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.

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.

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.