Topic: Radiohead

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

really

 

[Sangria]

An attempt at humour, one supposes?

Just sceptical about the worthiness of unreleased recordings from Kid A, given that I didn't like the released album. I thought it was unlistenable crap at the time, so goodness knows what unreleased cuts would be like.

[Black Bull Nova]

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Don't know why everyone says they are depressing?

[ToneLa]

Just sceptical about the worthiness of unreleased recordings from Kid A, given that I didn't like the released album. I thought it was unlistenable crap at the time, so goodness knows what unreleased cuts would be like.

The worthiness... for you? Dunno. If you've never felt the need to revisit it in twenty years that's the sum of it really. I'm not sure you should start with a deluxe reissue. It's for fans, or people interested in the original album, by nature

I think it's easily their most interesting era, and I'm forever grateful they didn't just make a career out of remaking The Bends. Like every other band did

But Kid A (Amnesiac is a bit hobbled to me) is a funny old listen in 2021. Bleeps, synths and crooked autotune, with more guitars than is reputed. I don't think it has aged badly.

Really though just thought your puns bad 

They did they do the OK Computer reissue with out takes. Baffles me how they did a version of Lift for it when those minidiscs leaked that had a better version. They are an odd band sometimes when it comes to opening the vault

[Hedley Lamarr]

Just sceptical about the worthiness of unreleased recordings from Kid A, given that I didn't like the released album. I thought it was unlistenable crap at the time, so goodness knows what unreleased cuts would be like.

Then don’t bother listening/buying, I consider Kid A to be their masterpiece and I cant wait for it.  Bands don’t just cut tracks from albums because they’re not good enough, they might ruin the flow, they just might not fit.  One of the tracks that didn’t make OK Computer was Lift, and thats up there with the best of their stuff.  True Love Waits was floating around looking for a home for over a decade before ending up on A Moon Shaped Pool, plenty adore that song.

[Ray K]

25 years old today.  No, I don't understand that either.

[ToneLa]

https://consequence.net/2022/05/radiohead-ok-computer-anniversary-essay/

If you don't agree you don't have to tell us 

[jackh]

25 years old today.  No, I don't understand that either.

A brilliant album that I've not spent nearly enough time with - The Bends tends to be my go-to when Radiohead spring to mind. I'll be giving it a play this evening, as I'm driving a bit later on.

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Currently watching through the second half of the final season of Ozark, and this thread reminded me of the scene in the third season that they soundtrack with Radiohead's 'The Daily Mail'. Brilliant song, and one of my favourite tv/film scenes.

[Libertine]

25 years old today.  No, I don't understand that either.

That's obscene.

Listened to it last night again for the anniversary. As fresh and relevant (and utterly brilliant) today as it was all those years ago.

[duvva 💅]

1997 was one of the best years for albums I can recall. This was the best of the lot though.

[ToneLa]

1997 was one of the best years for albums I can recall. This was the best of the lot though.

Absolutely, it's crazy how good music was back then. I'M OLD

This is a great read and also includes some OKC stuff, just updated

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5QLkDsbFrRb85KmBnylBvVj/15-albums-that-define-1997



Nigel Gotrich does a track by track breakdown of OK Computer!! This is today's listening as I walk about. Loved Nigel's work on Natalie Imbruglia's cover of Torn and he did alright for the Radio Heads

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0017rhn

[Crosby Nick]

That list is missing Radiator by Super Furry Animals. Still a great list and a ton of great albums.

[Linudden]

Might be an unpopular opinion but anything Radiohead after the lovely The Bends is complete and utter garbage

[ToneLa]

Might be an unpopular opinion but anything Radiohead after the lovely The Bends is complete and utter garbage

You must be looking for the U2 thread pal

With an Edge like that

[duvva 💅]

Might be an unpopular opinion but anything Radiohead after the lovely The Bends is complete and utter garbage

It’s not so much unpopular as complete rubbish. Bet you’re a Coldplay fan with statements like that

[ToneLa]

WARNING
LIVE RUBBISH

A fav 1997 set. // HAIRBAG
It's a play list if you're in the mood though if you want to argue Polyethylene was a crap bside I'm going to have to ask for your top nine albums

Brrrr.. Let's revisit Glastonbury when that's on.

Thom's K Yairi acoustics still exist. Still elite. I nearly bought one but yknow have a Martin.

Love their live sound this era. Boss bass / drums / vocals and words + straight guitar and leccy brilliance and WHAT THE FUCK sort of sounds.

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[Linudden]

It’s not so much unpopular as complete rubbish. Bet you’re a Coldplay fan with statements like that

Nope more like R.E.M.

[duvva 💅]

Nope more like R.E.M.

REM you say, I think you’re looking for the overrated thread, it’s about 15-20 below this one 😉

[ToneLa]

Nope more like R.E.M.

I'm bang into the La's chief I don't see you with an UP avatar, you could be saying UP is the template for Kid A, I'd believe you, it's more authentic with that sad loss but also yknow just had the anniversary for Radiohead's go.

We might just be on the same team

But the world is full of people telling us what is crap. The world is fuckin crap

I'd love you to track by track explain why OK Computer doesn't do it for you. I have my own sort of version. I've done my own mix of the pre-master from the leaked minidiscs and wow.

I can talk REM all day. Nobody else here seems too

Sooo you come across as a villain to be honest shitting on our good miserable times

Bump the thread!

REM you say, I think you’re looking for the overrated thread, it’s about 15-20 below this one 😉

Lol

Pound for pound you're not wrong

[ToneLa]

let down NYC ballroom

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I've been listening to music for four straight hours now (I'm in a chain pub with a gang of lads laughing next to me but I have new ear buds so so what)

This hits a spot. Got it on now. I'm not one of those fakes looking for likes.

Alternate take: I'm a brilliant fake

This song is beautiful.

[Crosby Nick]

Friday Afternoon Fun - current favourite Radiohead song (changes all the time for me).

Let Down for me.

I hear you Tone.

[duvva 💅]

Let Down is a thing of great beauty

It didn’t stand out immediately back when first released, others were more instantly great but this gradually creeps up on you and envelopes you in its beautifully, uplifting epic sound

[Hazell]

Absolutely, it's crazy how good music was back then. I'M OLD

This is a great read and also includes some OKC stuff, just updated

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5QLkDsbFrRb85KmBnylBvVj/15-albums-that-define-1997



Nigel Gotrich does a track by track breakdown of OK Computer!! This is today's listening as I walk about. Loved Nigel's work on Natalie Imbruglia's cover of Torn and he did alright for the Radio Heads

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0017rhn

No Either/Or by Elliott Smith is very disappointing, mainly because it's my favourite album of all time and partly because it doesn't get enough love. Particularly when Missy Elliot is on that list.

REM you say, I think you’re looking for the overrated thread, it’s about 15-20 below this one 😉

Oh duvva, I thought you were sound but it turns out I was wrong. Disappointing.

[ToneLa]

^^ I took that lightly like most Beeb stuff, I'm deep into the albums of the past, it's "some" not "the" to me, plus only British, why?
No:
F♯ A♯ ∞ (pronounced "F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity") is the debut studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor.


This thread is alright

Exit Music had a boss version on the Romeo and Juliet film but not the soundtrack as they was brewing OK Computer
First file on http://citizeninsane.eu/music/okc/exitmusic.html
Works on mobile browsers I am in a pub yknow


I like the live version on, christ I'm actually typing these words

Jools Holland // slow build and fuzz and the album version is gorgeous but I miss that little bit of quiet/loud dynamics

If you do guitar it is good to boom out in your front room just breathe steadily

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[Hazell]

Let Down is a thing of great beauty

It didn’t stand out immediately back when first released, others were more instantly great but this gradually creeps up on you and envelopes you in its beautifully, uplifting epic sound

Weird that, for me, it was one of the most immediate songs on the album, mainly due to the guitar hook right from the off. Lucky was the one for me that didn't immediately stand out but through repeated listens is now one of my favourites.

[ToneLa]

Lucky from the Bends area (ish. Was still fresh in 96®) should mess some people up (judge era by Yorke hair)
Why don't we still have EPs for War Child ¿¿¿

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same gig as lift lmao

the head of state has called for me by name but I dont have time for him
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[duvva 💅]

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Oh duvva, I thought you were sound but it turns out I was wrong. Disappointing.

😢

[ToneLa]

of course there is a gorgeous tourist

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Sometimes I get overcharged
That's when you
See     sparks
They. ask me
         where the hell
I'm going?
At a
     thousand
     feet
 per      second

[b]Hey man, slow down
Slow down
Idiot, slow down
Slow down[/b]

Hey
man, slow down
                             Slow down
Idiot,

slow       down
   Slow.               down
Maybe it don't speak to u maaan

[Libertine]

same gig as lift lmao

Crazy thing is that at that time, they had almost another album's worth of songs arguably even better than those on OKC.

Left them out and still managed to produce the best album ever recorded.

[Linudden]

Pretty sure said that Thom Yorke said that R.E.M. were his greatest influence for the first two albums though

Don't tell me the guitar on this 1988 R.E.M. song doesn't sound like The Bends' title track?

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[ToneLa]

Crazy thing is that at that time, they had almost another album's worth of songs arguably even better than those on OKC.

Left them out and still managed to produce the best album ever recorded.

End of the night fuck it I'll put my Lift mix up

But you're right. They debuted some amazing songs.

OK Computer is almost a left field turn

Radiohead are to release a new single Street Spirit (Fade Out) on January 22. It will be backed by three new songs, including 'Bishop's Robes'. Other new B-sides under consideration are 'Man of War' and 'Subterranean Homesick Alien (Uptight)'.

Thom Yorke told NME: "'Man of War' is very melodramatic. Too melodramatic. When we started out, it was just a homage to Bond themes really. I like it. It's pretty much the opposite to everything we're writing."
NME, November 18th 1995

Lift
Are You Someone?
I Promise
Man O War
Follow Me Around×
True Love Waits
Motion Picture Soundtrack


*
During the sessions for OK Computer, the song was apparently attempted, but is unknown to what extend the band worked on it during that period.
On January 21st 1998, "Follow Me Around" was soundchecked in Fukuoka. Footage of it can be seen in Meeting People Is Easy:
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[ToneLa]

Pretty sure said that Thom Yorke said that R.E.M. were his greatest influence for the first two albums though

Don't tell me the guitar on this 1988 R.E.M. song doesn't sound like The Bends' title track?

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https://citizeninsane.eu/media/uk/q/02/pt_1995-10_q.htm

[Hedley Lamarr]

Those listed songs are absolutely fantastic. Absolutely insane that only two are on albums, they could probably release two other brilliant albums from the 'rest".

[didi shamone]

That list is missing Radiator by Super Furry Animals. Still a great list and a ton of great albums.

Well spotted. Not just a great album from that year, its an all time great.

[ToneLa]

U may be PARANOID but I AM NO android


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please could you stop the noise,
I'm trying to get some rest
from all the unborn chicken voices in my head

 what's that...
 I may be paranoid, but not an android
what's that...
I may be paranoid, but not an android

 [color=purple]when I am king, you will be first against the wall
with your opinion which is of no consequence at all [/color]

what's that...
I may be paranoid, but no android
what's that... I may be paranoid, but no android



ambition makes you look pretty ugly


 kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy



you don't remember
 you don't remember
 why don't you remember my name
off with his head, man off with his head,
now why don't you remember my name I guess he does


[b]rain down, rain down oh come on rain
 down on me from a great height
 from a great height... height... rain down,
rain down oh come on rain down
on me from
 a great height from a great
 height... height... that's it sir, you're
 leaving the crackle of pigskin the dust and the screaming
 the yuppies networking the panic, the vomit the panic, the vomit God loves his children God loves his
 children, yeah! [/b]


 

During the August 1996 tour in support of Alanis Morissette the lyrics were changed, but the long organ outro still remained

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radiohead website


paranoid android. in a bar in hollywood* the centre of the western universe, standing at the bar (social drinking) after doing the talk show bit. do you want to know this? this is what we aspire to is it? it is dark, there is a woman opposite me o is as sociably anorexic as her poodle, she looks desolate in her make up and lost eyes, next to her her husband boyfriend is persuading a younger fleshed half his age stewardess to come back to the hills to their mansion to sample his wine. she looks t him like he's a character in a hammer house horror. one of our friends spills a glass of wine over a vacuum packed gucci outfit complete with matching white hand bag. the witch goes crazy, we think it is fuunny. until we see the evil in her eyes. m friend is asked to leave. the gucci creature is the closest thing i have seen to the devil. the woman is possessed. i cannot sleep that night asking what we've got our selves into. voices talking like fax machines, hissing and spitting like demons, this is the master race. and now im part of it. anyway you didnt want to know that.

The single, released may 26th 1997 in the UK,
marked Radiohead's return after over two years of
 no new material. It shook up the entire industry,
a six-and-a-half minute epic schizophrenically
switching between different styles
 and tunes. According to Thom it's about the
 fall of the Roman Empire (he adapted this interpretation
 for interviews after someone suggested it to him).
 The band refused to make a radio edit of it, yet it still achieved a lot of airplay, and it peaked at number 3 in the UK charts.
It was premiered on the Evening Session on april 30th

 1997. The video was first aired on may 20th on
MTV Europe and on may 25th in the USA.
The following image shows a t-shirt sold by w.a.s.t.e., and
 the description of the item, apprently written by Stanley Donwood,
read like this:

"Ah. Gucci never said anything about this. Nor did the National
 Pig Association, or indeed the Association of Chief Police Officers.
Just a t-shirt, just a t-shirt."

[Libertine]

Lift
Are You Someone?
I Promise
Man O War
Follow Me Around×
True Love Waits
Motion Picture Soundtrack

Not forgetting Nude of course.

Those listed songs are absolutely fantastic. Absolutely insane that only two are on albums, they could probably release two other brilliant albums from the 'rest".

Lift, I Promise, Man O War and Follow Me Around did get "released" in a way in the 20th anniversary releases. But obviously not the same as if they properly produced and included in proper albums. Man O War and Follow me around in particular are two of my all time favourites - seems a waste they could never settle on versions they were happy with.

At least Nude did eventually get recorded though. And exquisitely too - one of their best.

[ToneLa]

Not forgetting Nude of course.

Holy shit I did and all

I didn't like it til 98 and Colin's easy genius octave bassline made all the difference so put it there my in Rainbows brother

They had even more for Kid A crazy band but fuck it on with the OK Computer Night

[Hazell]

Lucky from the Bends area (ish. Was still fresh in 96®) should mess some people up (judge era by Yorke hair)
Why don't we still have EPs for War Child ¿¿¿

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same gig as lift lmao

Wasn't aware of that. Fits into OK Computer perfectly though, or doesn't feel like a Bends song.

[Hazell]

😢

Ha ha I'll let you off. They are great though.

[ToneLa]

THEY'D SHUT ME AWAY BUT I'D BE ALRIGHT

This one is boss. Nyc
Posting from my local
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Underrated I reckon.

'SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK ALIEN'
Sprawling, freeform, spooked-out sounding tale of alien abduction. Title is a homage to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues", apparently.
Thom: "Yeah! Jonny's in the basement mixing up the medicine, I'm on the pavement thinking about the government..."
Colin: "When we were doing The Bends, John Leckie told us about this hollow earth theory that John Power of Cast has. Apparently, there's a sun revolving in the centre of the earth and there are holes in the north and south poles that aliens fly into. We, er, weren't completely sold on it to be honest, John."
Jonny: "Americans believe in alien abduction but that's about it. I'm a fully paid-up subscriber to Sceptical Inquirer magazine. If you go into a newsagent in America you'll find 30 mags about UFOs, aliens, the supernatural, etc and Sceptical Inquirer, which has all these scientists providing logical explanations for everything. Thanks to 'The X-Files' and everything, it's become the lazy option to believe in all this stuff, but science fascinates me far more than aliens."
Colin: "Yeah, apparently there is now neurological evidence to prove the existence of the human soul. They've had big meetings in the Vatican, because obviously the Roman Catholic church are very keen to control it. Er, I sound like John Power now, don't I?"
Key Lyric: "I'm just uptight."
Thom: "What do I think of 'The X-Files'? And which Spice Girl do I like?
Melody Maker, May 31st 1997

LA'S CROSSOVER

Love this one fits my singing voice. Very Mingus / Dylan, as intended
COUNTRY LANES RECOMMEND / i break into a field to get stoned to this one. Barbed wire the lot. Sit behind a pylon


Quite good I need a slash I'm posting all this from a rough pub with a Doors t-shirt on but who wants to be James Morrison?