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http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9890-internet-explorers-the-curious-case-of-radioheads-online-fandom/?mbid=social_twitter Interesting read. The way they've built up a mythology over the years through the weird stuff they've done with their website kinda blows my mind. Are there any other bands that are this good at cultivating their mystique and getting people to obsess over every little detail? Maybe Boards of Canada, but not quite to the same extent.
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Rollersnake posted:This does leave a worrying thought in the back of my mind—with this release, Radiohead have tied up all their loose ends, haven't they? There aren't anymore rarely played, semi-mythical unreleased songs except for, like, their cover of Thief. Isn't it also notable that they've not tested any new songs on this tour? ...kinda feels like they're wrapping up 
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The production is real good, it's just a shame Thom didn't have a better batch of songs up his sleeve at the time.
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Saw a load of new posts and thought something interesting had happened but nope, it’s just another round of ‘x album is better than y’. Never change, blessed Radiothread
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It seems weird to me that there's been no new songs at any post-AMSP gig, not even in soundchecks. Maybe this really is the end 
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Dawn Chorus is just an instant classic, isn't it? Straight into the top tier of tracks in the Radiohead/Thom canon. (Although I must say, with any great solo song I can't help thinking 'this would be even better if it had the full Radiohead treatment. Probably unfair, but still...)
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Sir Lemming posted:This makes me feel so old, but despite how much I'm on board with unconventional / electronic / auteur music, I still can't really figure out how anyone will ever make it just as exciting as live instruments in a concert setting. #changemymind A Flying Lotus gig may change your mind (it did mine)
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Polo-Rican posted:Yeah this version is on the Com Lag EP and sounds really good. I had a friend in college with a ridiculously nice, antique baby grand piano jammed into the living room of their tiny house... it had been in their family forever... Fog was the first song I learned to play beginning-to-end that I actually liked (a song I wanted to play, vs a boring classical song I didn't actually want to play) Why is the original version of Fog so disliked (including, apparently, by Thom)? It's probably my favourite b-side. I guess it's too 'nice'...?
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Puppy Galaxy posted:Saw them twice in 2018 in Boston. They didn’t play it night one so I had to go back for night two. Can’t see Radiohead and not sing “Eeeeeeeeddddddd!” I was also pleasantly surprised that there weren’t many repeats in general between the two nights. That album was such a magical time for me. I got into the band – and music generally I guess – around the time they started the Dead Air Space blog. Following along to the gestation of that album as I explored the back catalogue and all their named influences was so much fun, and then hearing the finished record for the first time was one of the most intense musical experiences I've ever had. I don't think anything comes close emotionally to hearing that initial burst of strings and vocals on Nude after hearing so many different versions of that song.
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SUNKOS posted:Would love to know why 'Cut a Smile' didn't make the album when given the themes it seems perfect, both lyrically and musically, especially when the track listing would have it precede 'Glass Eyes' and 'True Love Waits'. This reminds me: have the band ever been asked how the tracklisting ended up being exactly in alphabetical order, or is that just a really weird coincidence?
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Cool, excited for this. Still seems like such a weird dynamic though. It's one thing for one member to do a solo project, but for the two principal songwriters to tell the other three 'we're making something without you' is a whole other level. I'm so glad the band can do this kind of thing though.
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Down is the New Up feels like it should slot into the Classics tier of Radiohead songs (or maybe just below), but it seems to mostly get overlooked. Big fan of the production choices on Up On the Ladder too. You can tell they'd been having cracks at that for a while, it's got echoes of both Kid Amnesiac and HTTT.
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Barry Foster posted:Weirdest one was when he contributed that song to the Twilight soundtrack It's an incredible song. Would be a god-tier RH track if it'd been given the full-band treatment, imo
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SUNKOS posted:
I'm really interested in this dynamic too. Has much been confirmed about how this came about? It's a very weird situation, with both primary songwriters involved in a side project, it feels a lot more 'Radiohead without some original members' than any other solo record, or any examples I can think of from other bands, for that matter. I wonder how the rest of the band feel about it... I think I may have read somewhere that it's a bit of a Jonny solo project that got out of hand - is that accurate? I can see how that's the case, and how this band could form organically without the rest of Radiohead being marginalised –if you need some vocals for something and have Thom Yorke on speed dial, you're probably gonna make use of it...
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I remember listening to a fan interview(?) once where they basically just sat down with Ed and rattled through those blackboard lists to find out what those songs were, which was kinda fascinating (if a little awkward, as Ed was clearly blindsided by the line of questioning and grew weary of it towards the end, iirc)
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May 24, 2022 16:43
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Any long lost Radiohead demos in that? I’m not as up on my Thom song lore as I used to be
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The post-TKOL period of singles is really underrated. I've probably listened to Staircase more than any other RH track the past few years.
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Agree that National Anthem is lacking without the brass, but I do enjoy the whole transistor radio thing. I think I read Jonny tunes it in during sound check to try and find something useful, but there must be examples of it picking up something unintentionally hilarious
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