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

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

By posting in the ~fangirl~ thread, Sleeve has clearly just declared his deep undying wish to be a Radiohead fangirl.

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_238/1203092243YyxwY4.jpg

AND SO YOU SHALL BE!

Why do you hate America, sleeve?

I kinda can't wait until Radiohead get to the point of irrelevance of, say, Pink Floyd, where they've been carrying along on their own momentum for so long that people just kind of ignore them. And we can carry on listening to them and enjoying them without anyone feeling the need to protest "OMG another thread about Pink Floyd!" and point out how much they hate them because they have so completely passed the cultural tipping point as to become invisible.

But I'd also miss the sense of persecution, because, let's face it, that free-floating sense of persecution is an integral part of ~being a Radiohead fan~

Are they not at that point now?

I can't even remember if there's been an album between "In Rainbows" and "King of Limbs"...

(fixed typo of "In Rainboys", fyi)

There was not.

People still feel compelled to listen to and share their opinion on new Radiohead albums even when they've never liked them and even if their opinion is basically a single sentence affirmation of having listened to it and coming to the thrilling conclusion that Radiohead still suck. Whereas with something like Biophilia, I don't know anyone who's not a Björk fan of many years who gave it a listen or felt required to have an opinion.

I'm sorry, can we just...

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^^^^^THOM YORKE SERIAL ABDOMEN EXPOSER WS OF SHAME!!!!!

I hated that haircut/colour even more than most people hate the ponytail but GAH that treasure trail, I feel like I'm mmmmeeeellllllting.

His hair was black when I first got into them all those years ago, and I didn't realize it was dyed at the time. So the black hair just looks natural to me to the point where I still find his natural hair color a bit jarringly light.

I HATED the black hair so much. It just doesn't work with his colouring. He had yellow pipecleaner hair when I first got into them, I *loved* the ginger hair that followed, and then the black was like ... eurgh! I was quite relieved that his natural hair colour was quite close to the blond and the ginger.

I think I'm just starting to get a bit down on ILM probably through reading it too much, out of sheer boredom. And it's not just RH threads, it's lots of things I like at the moment, where I open up the thread, and it's a bunch of people going "I don't get it, why is everyone liking this, it's ~terrible~?!" whether it's Grimes or St Vincent or whatever.

I don't know. I suppose I do it myself, but... I'm more likely to do it in a thread where I see a whole bunch of people I normally agree with going bonkers for, e.g. John Talabot and I do ask "what are you hearing, that I'm missing?" in the hopes that they can turn me onto some aspect that I've missed. But people who just seem to go into threads with the express purpose of telling people that this album or artist is terrible, and they shouldn't be listening to this, they should be listening to something else, and I just want to say... why did you waste ten minutes of your life doing that?

Eh, I'm just going to think about TY's treasure trail and not sprain myself. It's ILM after all, what did I expect?

Also, what is this from? I'm drawing a complete blank, though I know it looks familiar (7 TV ads?)

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/viognniere/rh/thom433.jpg

sometimes I boost the contrast on recent photos of him to make him look ginger again

I am a bad, bad human being.

I get the impulse, I do, but I don't understand why the idea of a thread just for people who are actually fans and not people interested in debating the relative merits of Radiohead/whoever at length at that particular moment is so offensive. There's no need to treat every single thread here as a classic or dud thread. Sometimes I want to just talk to other fans here without feeling like I have to constantly be on the defensive. It was really pleasant in here before sleeve decided his opinion about how Radiohead should die was really important for us to know even though there are a million other threads where his opinion would have actually been relevant to anything (well, actually, death wishes are never fucking relevant, but I digress). I'm fine with people wanting to have some sort of debate or needing to let us know exactly what shape of special snowflake they are, but not in a thread that is mostly about mindless fangirling and having a little fun. I wouldn't go into a Happy Happy Bon Iver Fangirl Thread to let people know how much I hate Justin Vernon and his wonky nipple and shitty songwriting. x-posts

I just take the attitude of, anyone posting in a thread that is blatantly and clearly marked as a ~fangirl~ thread is pretty much admitting flat out that they *are* a fangirl, even if they're in deep "I haaaaate them" denial. It makes ~lyfe~ so much more pleasant.

Anyway, lookit Thom when he still had a hairline!

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His wonky teeth! Don't you just want to insert your tongue into the gap?

Or Jonny's.... organ?

*punches self in face*

This thread is really a public service. This could be bleeding out onto all the other threads. So you're welcome, ILX.

Let's go and post Thom's nipples on the Goon thread! That would be awesome!!!!!!111eleventyone

Well, that's the end of that. I'm going to be thrown out of Thom York obsessive fandom for not liking Flea.

Why does Flea even exist? Fucking thumb popping bass players, ruining EVERYTHING.

::cries::

I seem to remember being more put off by the lineup of Yorke's live band, but on reevaluation Flea's the only one I have mixed opinions of

Does loving an artist mean that you have to accept all of their aesthetic choices?

Especially with someone like RHCP where I have over 20 years of loathing attached, it would be completely dishonest for me to reevaluate my extreme dislike of a musician, just because some musician I admire happens to rate them?

You kind of want to stand there with hands on hips going "Seriously, Thom? Seriously? I thought we had an agreement here."

I'm willing to overlook it. Still kind of woozy about Radiohead's path of "no official remixers/remixes" in the Kid A era to "remix everything!"

I kind of shake my head and sigh at Thom doing these little dj gigs thing where he does a little dj booth dance, but I feel like I may be in the minority on this thread

Thom and I have had many, many differences of opinion over the years! I mean, come on. The complete works of REM? I don't go past Reckoning! We work it out; we come to an agreement. But Flea... that was like, divorce territory. Makes you completely reevaluate your love for someone. Ultimately, I was like, OK, your choice, you do what you like, so long as you keep it in your not-a-solo project and I don't have to cope with it anywhere else.

But aawww, I tend to think that Thom's little midlife crisis DJ gigs are quite sweet, actually. We share a wider area of agreement in the electronic stuff than we do in the RAWK arena, so I'd rather that then ::shudders:: Flea.

Haha, yeah, I was going to say I like the DJ stuff because Thom has much better taste in contemporary electronic music than he does in rock music.

Yeah, given a choice between, like, Moderat and Fleet Foxes, I'm going to go for his electronic tastes every damn time.

otm

You're not going to get kicked out of the fandom, WCC. I think people are just really defensive because those AFP shows really were amazing and people have great memories of them.

does flea actually slap & pop all over the songs, or is that just his '80s-based stereotype?

Flea joined Nirvana one time on stage to play trumpet on "Smells like Teen Spirit"

It was bad.

how does slap trumpet even work

It doesn't.

google image search for "slap trumpet"

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^miles

is he... playing the butt trumpet

Flea joined Nirvana one time on stage to play trumpet on "Smells like Teen Spirit"
It was bad.

says who?

says me, I heard a tape

Naw it's awesome! He only plays the solo anyway. It does sound like he's constantly dodging stage divers or something

Flea is a really good musician, I'm sure he can play non-popping stuff if he wants to. He was (is?) bassist for reformed Faces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnC8MXYUzN0

And now, because I was stating how much I disliked Flea, this is now a thread all about Flea. :-(

I've been reading too many show reports from the front rail, and it's totally infectious, the enthusiasm.

Like, I am over 40 now. I can't do that kind of shit any more. (the last time I was down the front of a general admission gig, I nearly killed my back, I can't physically handle it.) I don't even particularly enjoy live performances any more, except in very limited conditions - if it's seated, if the sound is perfect - which means I pretty much only go to gigs at, like, the South Bank Centre and the Barbican any more.

I can't stand stadium gigs. Even though they haven't announced any UK dates, yet, I know that anywhere RH are going to play are going to be Stadia. I'm not paying £50 to see 5 ants on a stage. This will make me miserable.

AND YET. AND YET. I read these show reports and I just get caught up in a wave of hysteria and I want to go, even though it would be the worst idea ever.

It's the manufacturing of excitement, the shared experience, the fan community, the hysteria. The desire to be part of something, for a connection. It's fandom as religion, and the desire to have, well, a religious experience, even if I know it will be unfulfilling.

You know what, I'm not going to anticipate overpriced oversold stadium gigs I will probably hate. I'm going to go to Rough Trade tomorrow and buy several actual physical CDs as fetish objects that I will enjoy over and again, instead.

This is ridiculous and I need to disengage the mania.

is he... playing the butt trumpet

Either that or it's a serious case of prolapse.

I'd be really grateful if ILX could just hold off its usual "LOL @ mental illness popcorn.gif" shenanigans for a moment.

I do have to wonder if obsessive fandom (and engaging in obsessive fandoms / fan communities) is actually good for my mental health. If these places really encourage and feed a kind of mania which triggers thing that I know can lead to illness, due to my propensities and weaknesses. Or if, as I've said before, "obsessive RH fandom" is just the place that I go when my brain is already overloaded and not doing well. (Because their art is so good at capturing that certain OCD rat-run that I call "thoughtworms.")

I know this is a constant process of maintaining a balance between "sanity" and "happiness" and I'm going to choose happiness over sanity every time. But I do wonder if this is encouraging something which I know isn't very healthy for me, and I should withdraw. (even though it is compulsively yummy and fun and there's something really ~amazing~ and endorphin rush about that kind of fandom, even if you end up staying up until 2am unable to sleep because your thoughts are whirring like little planets in orbit.)

I'm gonna go draw for a while until I stop thinking about this.

what are you going to draw though? If it's thom then it wont make any difference.

wish i could draw

thom playing butt trumpet iirc

Thom's more into keyboard cunnilingus these days, it seems.

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