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They really do cease to be "Radiohead" the moment they get offstage.

What do you mean by this? Are Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood playing against each other on guitars in alternate tunings? Whacking at their strings with screwdrivers? Or is it something in the singing? It sounds interesting.

It just reminds me a bit of "Disconnection Notice". I mean, the similarity isn't overwhelming... I just could imagine "Go To Sleep" appearing on Murray Street and not being phased at all. (If you're curious, download it here)

um, ;) & :) and stuff...

melissa can i say somefink negative abt radiohead?

For me this is so blatantly obvious, my choice would be the less "radioheady" record, which is?

are you sure abt that?

um, can't remember how it goes exactly anyway. i gave up pretty quickly on the copy i borrowed from my local library.

High and Dry?

still rock it on the irreg

More goth

i'm currently rocking the thom yorke remix album.
surgeon's remix of the clock is pretty sweet.

So the Radiohead/USC marching band rumor is now confirmed.

http://www.ateaseweb.com/wp-content/marchingyorke.jpg

The Los Angeles Times report on Thom Yorke dancing a little jig in the aisles as USC’s Spirit of Troy warmed up with the Fleetwood Mac hit “Tusk.” The crew of the show is hard to impress, but by the third take it was all eyes on the stage as Yorke gave an animated interpretation of the song, one that somehow sounds both cerebral and tribal.

“Can you make my voice sound a little bit less shiny,” Yorke asked the sound team. “Take the top off — I like the idea of belting it out with these guys.” Afterward, Jonny Greenwood said the marching band was an idea that he and Thom Yorke brought with them to L.A. “It’s something we’ve been wanting to do with this song for a long time,” he said.

He also said he was a bit dazed by the Grammys and its big tent, which has room for the band as well as the Jonas Brothers and Lil Wayne. “We never encounter any of these worlds,” Greenwood said. “There’s a surreality to it all.”

Entertainment Weekly report on the Grammy rehearsals as well, with slightly different quotes… At 9 a.m. they did a rough run-through with crew and directors clustered on stage, after which Yorke politely asked, “Can you make my voice sound a little less shiny? I like the idea that I’ve got to belt it out over these guys, you see.” Between takes, he beatboxed a bit into the mic; the band kids sat on the risers and mostly just grinned in disbelief. Yorke wandered down to the lip of the orchestra pit and asked a nearby stage manager, “Is it okay if I stand here?” Sure, said the guy, “but just so you know” — he gestured to the floor beneath Thom’s feet — “this is a wall that comes out of the ground.” Thom took a step back. “All right! Here we go! Standby!” said another stage manager, and the wall did indeed come up. The band members stirred with excitement. A stand-in who was not Gwyneth Paltrow began reading the intro off the teleprompter, and by the time she got to “Nominated tonight for Album of the Year…” the wall had lowered again to reveal Thom making a my-head-is-exploding gesture to Jonny, I assume because even Thom Yorke still gets jazzed about the Grammys. And then a snare drummer in the front row counted things off, the bass players raised their sticks, and the awesomeness began.

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New song played in full on Radio 4's Today programme this morning: "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)". Lyrics taken from an interview transcript with the recently deceased World War One survivor. Orchestral backing, reminiscent of Gorecki. Download profits to Royal British Legion. Listen here, with lyrics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8184000/8184802.stm

How do you add it to the basket to pay for it? I can't figure it out and don't really want to download a hooky version if it's for charity.

As far as I can see, you just click the "add to basket" button at http://download.waste.uk.com/Store/did.html - simple as that.

oh good, i've been rediscovering the noughties albums lately and enjoying kid a/amnesiac a lot more than i've ever done.

Something of an easy time for Jonny, Ed, Colin, and Phil on this one.

Jonny always does the string arrangements.

From a recent Wall Street Journal "current state of hip hop" Q&A panel, featuring Chuck D. and ?uestlove:

9:21: An audience member asks the panelists if they’ve had moments where they questioned their artistic choices and whether they’ve had to make compromises along the way.

?uestlove uses it as opportunity to address identity issues in black music and how, in many respects, the Roots are the odd men out as a live act, made up of eight members. “We’re the last group of black musicians with a major record deal—everyone else is solo.” It’s an outsider status that sometimes masks what the group is doing musically. For instance, the Roots’ “Game Theory” record was channeling Radiohead’s “Kid A,” but because it had come from a group of black musicians rooted in rap, few critics heard the influence. “We’re on the island of ‘Lost,’” he says, with no one there to call the band on its artistic choices.

*bump*

hmmm pretty

I like the string arrangements but Thom's voice doesn't sound very good on this one and it doesn't help that the lyrics borrowed from the Harry Patch interview don't really rhyme at all.

The strings are exactly what disappointed me about this song, sadly. They're too... merely "tasteful"; leaning toward safer, floaty Gorecki territory rather than my preferred Messiaen-inflected askewness.