Neither of us ever left?
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
It has this weird Eurodance Coldplay quality to it to me?
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wait is Cut A Hole about the popcorn trick?
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
you're not still using that one are you Sam?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
is this thread for fanboys too? y/n
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
"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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
some dude v otm
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
There is nothing right with that whole look.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
What the hell are Level 42 doing with all of Kraftwerk's gear?
― Turrican, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Up close and personal with Meeting in the Aisle. Prepare yourself, WCC.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
When did Radiohead titles start sounding like Stereolab titles?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I wonder about that. Maybe he'll take to wearing the arm brace again.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
~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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
shhh
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
When's 'Witchdoktors' getting a release
― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
I never said that Thom is good at keeping secrets.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Where I end and you begin" is basically a U2 hommage.
― Moka, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Real song titles from the printed set list.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, Thomas. What you do to us.
When one night, there is this:
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
He been hanging with those no-gooders red hot chili peppers.
― Moka, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sweet jesus it gets worse...
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
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 (9 months ago) Permalink
I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
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?
― I want to smother him in electronic butter. (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
Twisted Words has just pointed out...
... 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 (9 months ago) Permalink
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.
(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 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
― very sexual album (schlump), Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
Needs more arse-shaking.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 26 August 2012 21:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
I have said that before, probably on this thread!
― Mark G, Friday, 7 September 2012 20:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
(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 (8 months ago) Permalink
please no more atoms for peace. please just stay in the main band Thom
― marginal victory, Friday, 7 September 2012 22:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
I am mesmerised and I cannot stop watching Thom fondle himself.
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Austin City Limits: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/2280479428/
― LaMonte, Sunday, 7 October 2012 05:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
Happy birthday Thom! Let's have some Dad Dancing.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 7 October 2012 10:20 (7 months ago) Permalink