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

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.

For reference on what I mean by 'Studio Balearic':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8e8nftgqI

Hahahahah LOL come on, erm, the ~other~ secret cheesecakers' forum.

We (and by we, I mean, well, I, but someone did ask) made some random theorising on the "Problematising the Indexicality of the Yorkeian Follicural Register" thread about how Thom's Bjorn Borg headband was prefiguring the prog-meets-house Scando-Balearic voibe of the new material.

(Problem is, you cannot say "Matt DC on a boat" as a genre to anyone outside ILX, it just does not work.)

Follicural? Follicular. I don't think even Judith Butler knows what Follicural means.

Hahaha aw I love you! I finally feel like someone gets what I was trying to say. And yes you're right, people on ILX are very open and knowleadgeable on their music styles. At the very least they'll disagree with you but tell you they get where you're coming from.

Really glad to know I'm not the only one who was getting a scando-balearic vibe from them.

I vow to never return to that other cheesecakers' godforsaken forum.

Wow, I completely forgot I owned a Studio album.

It's kind of an A Certain Ratio feel, too, the funk bassline and the atmospheric Factory guitars. Except, well, knowing RH, it's probably not, it's RHCP and GTA. *weeps*

GAH, just to upset me further, I just read that TY's wife's ~favourite band~ is RHCP. And that just made me o_0, like... HOW. Just the taste gap, how anyone could consider that band as a favourite. But then I told myself a nice little story that TY doesn't actually like Flea's bass playing, he just has him in the band to impress his missus, and I could get myself back to a reality I could deal with again.

Why, what happened on that other forum?

(It's weird, though, I don't hear All I Need / ROYGBIV at all, probably because one is Minor and the other Major)

Nothing really happened on the other forum I just get annoyed by the amount of trolls and negative, unfounded opinions some people have in there. They don't really vibe with me most of the time.

Mmm talking about In Rainbows I get where some of the 'all i need/roygbiv" accusations come from but even moreso I find 'La Ritournelle' as the direct basis for 'Reckoner'.

Also Kashmir's "surfing the warm industry" reminds me a lot of 'jigsaw falling into place". Thet have the same acoustic-rock guitar approach to the main melody, the motorik beat, the deadpan vocal delivery on the verses. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-441uxB7Zw

And in case you haven't heard ritournelle yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUPHfn3J6Q

They have the same lush and vibrant vibe, the loose drums (although reckoner’s are way superior to the ones on ritournelle imho) and the similarities on the jazzy chord progression make for enough similarities to pair both songs in familiar territories.

Eh, what? That's so bizarre, I've found it really friendly and sweet and quite accepting. While atease, holy shit, is atease a cesspit of trolls and negative, unfounded opinions. Also, fucking stalkers, which drove me off in the end, but YMMV.

Just reading through the thread. The talk about Thom Yorke getting down to U2 just made me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEj8CZJqlpE

Skip to 0:40

Speaking about RHCP, Reckoner definitely has a Frusciante thing going on in the main guitar melody.

So for me: Ritournelle + Frusciante = Reckoner.

Eh, what? That's so bizarre, I've found it really friendly and sweet and quite accepting. While atease, holy shit, is atease a cesspit of trolls and negative, unfounded opinions. Also, fucking stalkers, which drove me off in the end, but YMMV.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake

Wait what forum are you talking about? I was speaking about atease as the godforsaken forum. I only thought cheesecake was a denomination for stans.

So to clarify I vow to never post again on atease because of all the negativity and trolls in there.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if Thom or Johnny own A Certain Ratio records. I think they played some ESG and Liquid Liquid on one of their webcasts or radio interviews, so they must definitely be acquainted with them.

Oh! No, sorry, we were talking at cross purposes! I'm never posting on atease again, no way, fuck that shit. The actual cheesecakers left and went something else.

I hear the arpeggios at the very beginning of the Kashmir song, but the rest of it is nothing like.

OK, I can also hear the similarity in La Ritournelle, but I don't think it's direct, I think it's more like they're both ripping off paying homage to the same source? It's gonna drive me insane what it really is now, but it's like some kind of French soundtrack thing.

They (well, Thom) always admit that they're shameless magpies and borrowers and outright thieves. I've read him claiming several times admitting that he's not that great a songwriter, he's just a really good sense of what to rip off and how. I think he's fairly open about it.

Jonny always says that they try to copy things and fail.

As someone who works on Advertising I can tell you that there really isn't anything new under the sun. The most efficient and "creative" people I've met in the industry are all about 'remixing' off other's people work. Yorke has it right, you've got to know what to rip-off and how. If you throw a specific Scando-balearic song and another specific Trip Hop song in a mix it will stop sounding like ay of those and it transforms into something 'new'.

Would really recommend you to watch the 'everything is a remix' series on youtube.

Oh yeah, I've been a songwriter, I've been in a band, I know how it works. Some of the most successful tracks I've ever written, I tried to rip something off, failed completely, and yet came up with something completely different and surprising.

The funniest things, are when you don't even know it, and you realise you must have ripped something off completely subconsciously.

OH SHIT THEY'RE ON TO US!!!

::waves at cheesecakers::

(I really need to get a new screen name, I'm bored of this one already. I wonder if it's safe to go back to KDT again.)

I've no idea what you're talking about Karen.

Wait, really? I'm utterly confused now.

Cheesecake is slang for Radiohead fan fiction, specifically PR0N, y'know, SLASH. That's the whole joke.

Oh god, it's like meeting your own great grandchildren or something. After getting *thrown off* the official Radiohead forum for hosting and defending the slash on Pop Music Fan Fiction back in the mid 90s (that was the reason, IIRC, ignore what Thable Thom said, he's a liar) it's just really heartening to see that it's reached some kind of legitimacy and acceptance in the fan community. To the point where it even has its own name and subculture.

Oh. Oh. Wait... what? radiohead porn fiction? And it's called 'cheesecake'? Whoa TIL.

Now I'm interested to know if any of the Radiohead members are aware of this and what they think of it.

I'm not signed up for that. Later!