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

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!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y61/Mugatu3000/6332_mymymy.jpg

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"

http://www.thelastmiles.com/gfx/miles-gigs/miles-trumpet-between-legs-italy-gig.jpg

^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.

http://www.soundsxp.com/images/pants-large.jpg

so the answer to dave Q's question was Thom Yorke afterall
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cL0Lfibqaog/SUa5xOF0ssI/AAAAAAAACXE/UR4bg7Oec2c/s400/loverboy+copy.jpg

You know who else has a ponytail and red pants (shorts actually)?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/The_Simpsons-Jeff_Albertson.png/222px-The_Simpsons-Jeff_Albertson.png

hahahahahahaha

yeah, but Thom is vegan thin! That's mean.

let's not be sizeist here, mr. yorke's positive attributes and comic book guy's negative ones are not necessarily linked to their weight or sartorial choices

let's face it, thom in a midriff top was already cited, too

Mmm, Thom's belly has magical powers. All you have to do is mention it, and I start instantly smiling.

Me too.

(Hi, btw.)

Wish I could stop being obsessed with Identikit, but I can't.

Found this on atease. The Resemblance is uncanny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uWr-Td5H5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEpQ6iObaM

Jonny IS a Rockstar fan - I remember he posted on Deadairspace once about playing Red Dead Redemption, so he might have played GTAIV as well.

Thom Yorke: I like Grand Theft Auto, though.
Jonny Greenwood: Well that's the one, yeah.
Interviewer: But if you guys get stuck into that, we won't get a record for 6 years, man, seriously!
Thom Yorke: I tell you what, we got a great story about this, it's really boring: We turn up in Miami...
Jonny Greenwood: This so freaked me out. We went to Miami, you walk out the hotel, and it's the game. And I know the city only from the game!
Thom Yorke: He walked out and was all, [in professor voice] "Hmm, down, down there, that's the shopping mall, and over there..."

I don't really hear the similarity though.

LOL, I am just dropping respect points for T Yorke left and right today, I have to stop discovering things about him like this! (OK, I am probably just biased against Rockstar games because the Great Lost Love Of My Life used to/probably still does work there.)

(I do hear the resemblance, it's mostly in the rhythm and the bassline, but it's definitely there.)

The beat, the bassline and the overall mood of the first minute is similar in my head. Then the song turns into another beast completely.

Identikit sounds very trip-hop at the beginning (as does the gta song) and when the guitar loop enters halfway in it reminded me of Studio or A Mountain of One... sort of a balearic jam. I wrote it sounded balearic to me (the guitar at least) and they ateasers told me to go to sleep.