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

that stinks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyF9MehdOTg

Love this so much.

I'm on a bus and can't watch it, but I assume that's Full Stop? Love the skittering drums on that now.

How is this song so good.

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

:3

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.

i don't see anyone playing accordion

I didn't know there were bass accordions?

Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: 'I'll piss on Radiohead'

"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."

How many times do you think I can listen to Full Stop? Or Ful Stop, which I refuse to accept.

All these new songs are so good. Have they played Skirting on the Surface lately?

"Ful Stop" ???

::puts on very best Felicity Kendall in The Good Life voice::

OH, THOM.

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.

True, I'm sorry. I just thought it was hilarious.

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. ;-)

ritchie blackmore IS a better guitar player than billy corgan or greenwood i'll give him that

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.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tp7dYK7V1qzu336o1_1280.png

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

:3

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.

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.

It's not particular out of context that he said he would piss on Radiohead themselves. And you should listen to Identikit more.

I piss on the very ~idea~ of 'true rock gods' OK?

Carrying on a conversation from Twitter...

Taking sides: Thom Yorke or Kittens?

Thom Yorke. Kittens turn into cats.

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.

I wasn't feeling Skirting on the Surface at first, but there's something about it that really gets to me now.

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

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

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.

It's a mystery.

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.

(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)?)

((It's Tommas in Cornish so I guess it would mutate Dommas and Dhommas))

(((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? ;-)

Thom has made a nice progression:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpovj7KrlR1qbwwoao1_400.png
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpovj7KrlR1qbwwoao5_500.png
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpovj7KrlR1qbwwoao2_500.png
http://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.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5k4igC7zt1rsvop4o1_500.jpg

he has THOSE LINES. he has THOSE LINES THAT HAVE RUINED MANY A GOOD WOMAN.

Oh god kill me now.

Those lines that lead down from his abdomen to his groin. Oh god.

::dies::

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.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5fwytT7J91qlmg31o1_500.png

I know you don't understand, WCC.

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.

What can I say, I like men who look like E.T.

Yma dewlagas gwerdh dhe Jowanny.

Jowanny Koesgwerdh sounds better as a name than Tommas Evrek to be honest.

Present day Thom is the most WCC-friendly. Haha. Virtually designed for you, tbh.

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.

i would pay money to see ritchie blackmore rip up some super fast neoclassical metal solo on "there there"