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
And people are talking about U2 because of unfortunate sartorial and hair decisions.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm thinking more Status Quo.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
It has been mooted elsewhere that the waistcoat/ponytail combo is more...
If this means Thom and Jonny will be getting divorced soon, I might cry.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's Radiohead. It's bleeps and bloops *and* guitar. That's what they do.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks for that, seems pretty cool!
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/
― djh, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year 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 (10 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 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
― very sexual album (schlump), Saturday, 25 August 2012 19:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
Needs more arse-shaking.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, 26 August 2012 21:20 (9 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 (9 months ago) Permalink
I have said that before, probably on this thread!
― Mark G, Friday, 7 September 2012 20:17 (9 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 (9 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 (9 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 (9 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 (9 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 (8 months ago) Permalink
Austin City Limits: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/2280479428/
― LaMonte, Sunday, 7 October 2012 05:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
Happy birthday Thom! Let's have some Dad Dancing.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 7 October 2012 10:20 (8 months ago) Permalink