The folk just died a bit
― Greist, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
So this is a stupid time to ask this question, I guess, but what is the DJ's creative role in this, and how does he carry it out? I mean, the songs he's playing sound unchanged from when I hear them on the original discs. Isn't the DJ supposed to enhance or manipulate certain sounds in the song, or add new elements to a song, or mash up a few different songs, to create something new? Again, I realize this is a stupid question, but I've wondered about it, and I'm curious.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 November 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not watching anymore, but I assume you're asking about DJing in general?
The DJ selects the tracks he plays, may or may not beatmix (the good ones usually do), may or may not follow the mood of the crowd (the good ones can play with a crowd and speed up their set slowly or get to big climaxes and then suddenly drop a slower song), they don't necessarily have to scratch or mash up or speed up/slow down/add beats with a drumcomputer/rap over it. Some do, because that's what happens in their niche, but in general: selecting & playing the records and try to get the crowd behind them.
― StanM, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Ideally, you should go see a bad DJ and then a good DJ. The difference can be enormous. They can play the same records, but one will have no reaction from the crowd and the other one will have them raising the roof.
― StanM, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I think this is more along the lines of a video podcast. And, I vote to keep up a running tracklist, ha.
― pinkie, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw Girl Talk earlier this year at the Langerado festival. He was a very good DJ, if that's the right word for what he does. He mashed up snippets of dozens of songs into something new. The (hippie/indie) crowd loved it.
And I guess his set had to be especially good, because that wasn't a DJ crowd (it was a Greatful Dead-type crowd).
So how was this DJ? (Now that his set's over)
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 November 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
There's lots of different kinds of DJ: the one you saw specialized in mashups, others do scratching and other hardly danceable stuff, most do dance stuff though. This one, anyone who was watching? (I gave up because of the disconnects I got, I'm hoping people are ripping the stream to upload it later)
― StanM, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I was, and your explanation helps a lot. Thanks.
Maybe I will go see a DJ, but man -- at nearly 40 these days -- I think I'd feel very, very old.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 9 November 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone catch that Bjork cover? (Unravel) That keyboard at the end....
― Greist, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I've always thought the lyric "the devil collects it / with a grin" was extremely Yorke-ian.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 November 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Unravel was beautiful.
Is it currently silent for everyone?
― pinkie, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 November 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Shame, it looks like they're doing something exciting.
― pinkie, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
it's the sequel to the "just" video
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
P4K has a rip of the Bjork cover up.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/46999-radiohead-entanglement-webcast-including-unravel-bjrk-cover
― three handclaps, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
according to the msg board they're plaing "I might be wrong", but I don't hear anything yet.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 November 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
they've got everything from last night online too:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/47014-radiohead-omg-another-webcast
― StanM, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I missed this, yay for youtube. The covers were excellent - "Unravel" especially, was gorgeous.
Lol @ 15 Step/Se7en.
― Roz, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
behind the scenes: http://adam-buxton.co.uk/ad/2007/11/10/156/
http://adam-buxton.co.uk/ad/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/nigeljonnygarththom.gif
― StanM, Sunday, 11 November 2007 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Still only one accurate review of this GUFF: http://estebanbuttez.blogspot.com/2007/10/buttezview-radiohead-in-rainbows.html
― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 11 November 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1517/11205909jp6.gif
The webcast in MPEG, MP3, etc. http://www.mortigitempo.com/too_bored/showthread.php?t=69492
― caek, Sunday, 11 November 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
regular CD release dates & labels:
Europe: 31st of December, XL Recordings US: 2nd of January, ATO Records Group
( http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003671150 )
― StanM, Monday, 12 November 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
FANTASTIC piece on "Videotape" by Eric Harvey over at his blog Marathonpacks
http://www.marathonpacks.com/2007/11/radiohead-videotape.html
― three handclaps, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
King Boy, that review is just dumb. Does Matt Cale write for that site or something?
I'm all for entertaining reviews, but Mark Prindle owns the market on that--dude could slay an album I love and still have me in stitches.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
new Radiohead is solid as ever.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
The thing I love about this board and its Radiohead worship is that if Thom Yorke has diarrhea, it's on Ilxor before the toilet flushes
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The thing I love about this board and its Radiohead worship is that if Thom Yorke has diarrhea, it's on Ilxor before the toilet flushes.
Stay classy, Bo Jackson Overdrive!
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
At Ease had a few different interesting updates today:
1. Paul McCartney approached Thom Yorke about collaborating on his last album, but Thom turned him down, saying that he preferred to only work on his own material and Radiohead's (and ignoring the collabs he's done with Modeselektor, Bjork, PJ Harvey, UNKLE, and...Drugstore).
2. The official cover art for In Rainbows is confirmed:
http://www.ateaseweb.com/discography/inrainbows/ateaseweb_inrainbowscover.jpg
― Z S, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
poor mccartney
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, I am thrilled with that webcast stuff. Thanks for posting it, folks.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I miss esteban.
isn't thom a beatles fan? Pretty sure I read somewhere he listened to nothing but Beatles records when he was writing HTTT. Maybe he's more of a Lennon guy.
― Roz, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure McCartney asked while they were making In Rainbows or something; there's more to this story than we'll ever hear.
― three handclaps, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
can't blame em, Paul hasn't written anything noteworthy in ages
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.channel4.com/music/musicnews/lily-allen-radiohead-in-rainbows-069.html
― StanM, Thursday, 15 November 2007 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Because she didn't get famous by putting her music up for free listening on myspace or anything. Riiiiiiiiiight.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahahaha, Melissa OTM.
― three handclaps, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh that wacky Thom
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I put this on the "what are you paying" thread 1/2 way down todays...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/11/27/radiohead-fan-accidentally-gets-in-rainbows-discbox-one-week-early-pandemonium-ensues
― StanM, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, I was *wondering* when something would start happening about the second disc's tracks. (I am also wondering if the regular release will include that as well.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i want a mash up of silly love songs and reckoner
― nicko, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
UK tour dates coming soon!
― nate woolls, Thursday, 29 November 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
So the second disc, then.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
After two listens I like it a lot, especially Bangers & Mash and Last Flowers. Some of the songs remind me vaguely of other Radiohead songs - there's a little bit of Karma Police in one song, a little bit of There There in another. Also the acoustic guitar on one or two of the songs sounds brilliant.
And the low bitrate on disc 1 really made a difference - it really shines now, whereas it used to sound like it had a layer of dust on it.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 08:25 (sixteen years ago) link
So, we all gettin' our LP boxes today?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine arrived about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by courier. Keep your mobile handy because they'll phone if need to because it has to be signed for.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh great. I'm nowhere near my home (which is in cleethorpes, you burglars)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine just arrived 15 mins ago (by courier)
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
The box set that will be released by EMI (who don't understand the music business, alledgedly) will contain a bonus live album.
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
(i.e. an online stream of the Eurockéennes show from 2003)
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link