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

"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

I wonder if it's a reference to the really awful Liz Taylor film by the same name

some dude v otm

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.

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Also: red trousers.

I don't really know what's wrong with me that I look at that and think "hot".

There is nothing right with that whole look.

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.

What the hell are Level 42 doing with all of Kraftwerk's gear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVZWt2Z7btA

Up close and personal with Meeting in the Aisle. Prepare yourself, WCC.

When did Radiohead titles start sounding like Stereolab titles?

OMG. I can't... I can't watch him wiggle like that. It makes me feel... funny.

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!

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.

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.)

Yeah, I wonder about that. Maybe he'll take to wearing the arm brace again.

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.)

~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

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.

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.

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.

shhh

It was just the first thing to pop to mind when I saw that.

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))

burning airlines had a song and album called identikit about 10 yrs ago

When's 'Witchdoktors' getting a release

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.

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?"

lol they've become the modern pink floyd not doing too good a job of keeping it a secret

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.

I never said that Thom is good at keeping secrets.

"Where I end and you begin" is basically a U2 hommage.

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.

I don't know about moody teenage boys, but they are still a big hit with moody teenage girls.

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?

Real song titles from the printed set list.

And people are talking about U2 because of unfortunate sartorial and hair decisions.

I'm thinking more Status Quo.

It has been mooted elsewhere that the waistcoat/ponytail combo is more...

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If this means Thom and Jonny will be getting divorced soon, I might cry.

i dont have time to hear new songs now.. are the boyz rocking out with guitars, or do they bleep and bloop?

It's Radiohead. It's bleeps and bloops *and* guitar. That's what they do.

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.

Thanks for that, seems pretty cool!

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.

http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/

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.

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.

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sleeve, not a wizard

please no more atoms for peace. please just stay in the main band Thom

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.

I am mesmerised and I cannot stop watching Thom fondle himself.

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No wonder Flea has a warm place in his balls for Thom. Quite literally, I guess.

Austin City Limits: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/2280479428/

Happy birthday Thom! Let's have some Dad Dancing.

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With the festival announcements this morning, my hope is that news of the album is imminent...

Supposed to be next year, isn't it?

I''m hoping more like tomorrow or next week!

Primavera says "Radiohead are coming back to stage to perform the long awaited follow up to “King Of Limbs”" so it sounds like its on its way

"Radiohead are coming back to stage to perform the long awaited follow up to “King Of Limbs”"

Ooh, touring the new album before it comes out - just like Dream Theater!

Given how the previous couple of Radiohead albums were released, I can't imagine that it will sit "in the can" for long after its finished. Their MO these days seems to be getting their records out quickly not long after they've finished 'em.

Yeah, I'm hoping there might be an announcement tomorrow morning, with the album within weeks, if not less.