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

AND AUSTRA AS WELL, WTF DID THEY JUST GO THROUGH THE POST-KNIFE THREAD LOOKING FOR BANDS I REALLY LOVE?!?!?!?!??!?!/

Austra doing Paranoid Android?

::head explodes::

I'm just waiting for Ikonika's version of Fitter Happier. That would be the clincher.

Austra doing Paranoia Android sounds *exactly* like you would expect Austra doing Paranoid Android to sound like:

http://soundcloud.com/musikexpress/a-tribute-to-ok-computer-pt

DOES ANYONE SPEAK GERMAN?

http://www.musikexpress.de/das_heft/aktuelle_ausgabe/article302155/juli-2012.html

HOW THE HELL DO I GET A COPY OF THIS?!?!?/

Is it one of those things where you can only get the CD with a magazine?

Seems like it ;_;

ich spreche ein kleines deutsche.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5o5z8EW2E1rsvop4o1_r1_500.jpg

Flea can do good basslines eg. 'Soul to squeeze'.

Also iirc he will only be involved in a couple of tracks not the whole album.

Yes, my current sexual orientation is Thomosexual. That tongue is fucking obscene.

holy shit re: that OK Computer tribute album

I had this as my cellphone wallpaper for a while. Guess it belongs here:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/25998897/Esos+Weyes+esosweyes.png

It's also the artwork i have for the nude single in my ipof.

That is so disturbing because that is just so completely *not* what Thom's chest and forearms actually look like.

I've worryingly started to find his widdle widdle T. Rex arms adorably cute.

lol is that the Orleans album cover?

sigh

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwmqz1ROGT1qf3hwgo1_1280.jpg

Is that a cock on your shirt, or are you just glad to...

No, even I can't do it.

Can't wait til Thom turns up wearing that shirt.

Another Calvins wearer, I see.

Actually I wouldn't be at all surprised if they didn't swap underwear like they swap shirts.... or is that just wishful thinking?

They totally do it.

Just pick them off each others' hotel room floors in the morning, yah, I could see how they could get confused...

Dear Melissa: I can't post to The Other Place, but I just wanted to say I'm relieved that you're safe. Can't imagine how traumatic it was. Hope that you're OK, just wanted you to know I was thinking of you. x

I and a few of my friends were being led in early by security when it happened. We watched it collapse. If it had happened 20 minutes later, we'd all be dead. It would have just been us on the front row, and that lighting rig fell right on top of the rail. This has always been a pretty bIg fear of mine. I spent all of last night just frantically hoping that the death wasn't anyone I know. And it wasn't someone I knew particularly well, but obviously I've seen him around and I'm devastated. Pretty much all of their equipment is destroyed as well, and at this point I can't even imagine how they'll recover from that.

Obviously not as crucial as lives lost (or almost lost) but that equipment note is pretty horrible in its own right -- we're talking a Sonic Youth type thing where it was gear they'd pretty much modified and customized, no backups?

Yes, especially Jonny's equipment.

Phew. Presumably it's all been insured to hell and back. (Sorry if this seems callous to focus on in the light of everything else but it is of interest, as I'm guessing there's going to be legal fallout for a LONG time to come.)

Thanks so much for checking in. I mean, I knew you were alright, but it's still reassuring to see you typing.

That's the thing that keeps freaking me out - it's obviously devastating that they've lost a member of the crew, like, I know how tight they are, as a team - but how much WORSE it could have been. The moment I saw something about 3 fans being let in, in advance, I was like - fuck, I know who that is. And the sickening feeling, just thinking about how half an hour's difference in timing could have... argh, it doesn't bear thinking about.

As gutting as it is, that Jonny's lost so much of his gear (and I saw that video where they focused in on the stage, and you could see his keyboard crushed) - just thank everything I believe in, that it was only the gear that was lost, and not, y'know.... JONNY. Even customised gear can be built again. Jonny is irreplaceable. But yeah, I know how much of his stuff was customised or even custom built for him, and it's just... fuck fuck fuck. The idea of just starting again from scratch. I just can't get my head around what they must be dealing with.

I had been planning on going to a couple of gigs in Europe next month, but I'm putting making further plans on hold until there is some sort of announcement.

I would completely understand if RH never wanted to tour again.

I mean, it is doubly sad because it seemed like they had actually got to a point where they enjoyed touring again and wanted to do it loads.

But who even knows if the European leg is going to happen now?

I have become what I hate.

which means?

I have become a pedantic RH fan.

I logged onto a thread I was reading but studiously avoided posting to because I had too many dogs in that race in order to correct a Radiohead fact.

But, y'know, if you're going to use the old "supergroup ditch record label to self release album through Internet" meme at least get the right album, because the wrong album means "even supergroup decide self releasing albums is too damn complicated and go back to record companies" is a pretty different message if you get it wrong.

I am pedant, hear me make basic spelling errers.

I guess it's just interesting how "doing a Radiohead" can mean so many different things.

I'd like to buy every Radiohead fan a Coke

Thanks but can I have a ginger beer instead?

(actually I think it says more about my twisted relationship w ILX than about my RH fandom these days)

Is it complicated? I dunno, it looks more like a different strand on 'messin aroun on the Internet'

Also, getting control of the means of production is what "they" have been trying to prevent for centuries...

Tell ya, tho. The thing that's been doing the best job of making me feel ashamed of being a RH fan this week is other RH fans. Nothing like a tragedy to bring out the worst in some ppl. :-/

(And I'm aware that makes me a sanctimonious douche for saying that, you can't win, can you)

Hell is other people's kids fans.

You know it.

I bet you get this all the time
I bet they just throw themselves at you

Earworm.

Oh, Thom, oh Thom, Oh Thom.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dszg9l1E1rsvop4o4_1280.jpg

Don't you know those carrot-top pants are made for people with longer legs than you? Though if your intention is to compress your short widdle legs down to make all your fangirls have perverted schoolboy fantasies about you, it sure is working.

Again I kinda hate myself for looking at pap shots, but whatever keeps me off the suicide thread, right? :-/

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dszg9l1E1rsvop4o5_1280.jpg

I was gonna refrain from mentioning that you can see his penis, right through his pants, but you know what, someone just brought up Katy Perry's breast size on another thread, so, you know what? Fuck it.

YOU CAN SEE HIS PENIS RIGHT THROUGH HIS PANTS.

if you can find that in .gif form it would be a good HATERS GONNA HATE meme

I take back whatever I said about Thom aging with dignity upthread. The carrot top pants are a bad choice and it seems he's joining the ghostbusters now:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMKfppy2Vkc/T_G6oeJw7bI/AAAAAAAAC3k/ebGXwAw05gI/s1600/IMG_0286.JPG

Oh wait it was the prometheus premiere on a 'secret cinema' and apparently it's owned by some douche artists and everyone in the audience is required to use boiler suits.

http://www.glowmagazine.me/shhh-its-a-secret-cinema/

Come on. Thom in a boiler suit is straight up adorable and I want him to come check my meters now!

That puts me in mind of when I went to see The Matrix Reloaded on its opening night and there were a group of people in full-on Neo/Trinity/etc cosplay in the audience. As the crowd filed silently out after the film they looked completely dejected.

I was thinking today that Matthew Herbert as a producer for LP9 instead of Nigel Godrich would be a brilliant fit. He seems to be in an aesthetic place right now akin to that of Radiohead and he could bring a completely new sound for the band while retaining what makes them special. He has a fixation for organic elements in electronic music, is a microhouse pioneer, has a pop penchant and appreciates jazz and classical music (see his big band project and his remixes for Deutsche Grammophon). If you take a peek at any point of his career you'll see he's apt for designing any kind of sound that the band throws at him. Also, he could fulfill Thom's longing wet dream of releasing relevant tracks in the electronic scene.

I'm not saying Nigel is not apt, he's grown with the band and knows how to work with them. He's essential to their sound. Just fantasizing what someone with the skills and inventiveness of Herbert could achieve with the band.