official Sandbox making fun of Radiohead thread

Actually I don't even hate Radiohead but there is nothing I quite like to popcorn.gif at more than ppl making fun of Radiohead then other ppl trying to defend Radiohead and then Radiohead doing something even more ridiculous and pretentious and stupid and the whole thing happening all over again.

So let us now anticipate "Radiohead: Live At Stonehenge" or whatever it is they are working on at this point.

And also theorise on whether adding a second drummer will turn them into Hawkwind or turn them into the Grateful Dead.

Because this gif will never stop being funny, let it start the thread:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9JMciR1E7dA/TWgTBH_MczI/AAAAAAAABLo/4qOU2_Vd7M8/s1600/tumblr_lh5637fCg51qzcik8o1_500.gif

And also theorise on whether adding a second drummer will turn them into Hawkwind or turn them into the Grateful Dead.

The Glitter Band is too much to hope for.

If Thommie revived his glam hair extensions to go with this, I for one would certainly welcome our new Glitter overlords.

One day they might be able to make album that sounds as good as this, but I doubt it:

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/t/the_glitter_band-rock_n_roll_dudes.jpg

They did try their best, but they could never ~quite~ get the outfits right...

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/25717371/Thom+Yorke+748_1173649494_9950.jpg

Contains the hits:

"Goodbye my Iron Lung", "Fake Plastic Angel Face" and "Don't make promises you can't Creep"

Xpost TIMING!

would like some novelty epaulettes in the form of human hands to put on the shoulders of my jacket tbh

Do You Wanna Touch Me - Where? Where You End And I Begin!

This is pretty C-grade fun-making. Disappointed in u guise.

cdn't care about The Radioheads in 2k11 but pretentiousness isn't really a making fun of thing, it shd be encouraged unless you are actively lumpen idiot group in which case ok ya funny

The Radioheads funniness is more lurching about in search of stuff to do and then still taking years to do it even tho u might as well plop out a freebie experimental bubblegum album every three months why not

Depends what is meant by "pretentiousness" really. I mean, guitar solos on top of megalithic barrows = A++++++ more of this, totally to be encouraged. Making tedious solo albums with Penderecki = just go away, please.

I mean, Penderecki, dude's been useless since the late 60s

Radiohead are really best at their completely over the top, verging into self parody zone. When they're being all WE R SRS MUSICIANZ they're not nearly as good as when they're well aware of their own ridiculousness and doing it anyway.

nah it's probably fun to noodle with Pendercki, the ish is if beetle-browed critics get all beetle-browed over yr steez

like maybe u can help who gives u serious thought but maybe u shdn't care.

k i'm officially at the end of the attention i'm going to give these dudes.

Penderecki can eat a bag of dicks as far as I'm concerned. He managed to make Aphex Twin BORING which is quite an accomplishment.

More experimental bubblegum, pls.

I dunno, this is probably my perversity - that I become interested in bands, especially prog bands - either before they've done their Magnum Opus or after their Imperial Phase, when no one really gives a shit about them any more, and they're left trying to figure it all out and they can go back to hoeing their particular row when they don't really need to coz they're bathing in money or whatevs.

Alright, I confess. Twas when Thom Yorke decided to start styling his clothes and haircuts after minor members of Spacemen 3 and made the slow metamorphasis into a Dirty Dronerock Boy that I decided to give a damn about RH again. I am shallow and predictable and by making fun of bands I'm embarrassed about liking, it's really a way of making fun of myself. So there.

Penderecki can eat a bag of dicks as far as I'm concerned. He managed to make Aphex Twin BORING which is quite an accomplishment.

You watched a shitty Youtube last month, now you're telling Penderecki to eat dicks? You son should listen to some actual Penderecki

U think King of Limbs will make the EoY list round here? Because then I will be officially making fun of ILX

I have tried with Penderecki, I have really tried. I have listened to proper compositions which people reccomend as "OMG this is the best." It is emphatically not for me.

But, y'know, that's why there's chocolate and vanilla in this world.

Coz I really haven't heard any Penderecki that didn't sound almost exactly like that old Spike Jones classic "duet for stradivarius and garbage compactor"

http://open.spotify.com/track/6B5KuMt251nga8eJUgyW1Z

Except, like, Spike Jones is actually hilarious. And people who listen to Penderecki, seriously, WTF, are they being ironic or something? I think they're just ~pretending~ to like it.

And did Penderecki ever inspire Blur to write "Beedtlebum" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFps6r94whk

(I'd been looking for that youtube for ages!)

Spike Jones = totally underrated genius.

they put out an album this year lol

It's actually kinda grown on me. The album they put out this year, that is, not Spike Jones, who remains better than Penderecki and in fact better than Jesus. It seemed so kinda... nothingy at the time. Slight. Slippery. Hard to get a handle on. But it's something that I've come back to again and again and kind of unfolds more layers each time I listen to it. There's something kind of hymnal about it.

Not an AOTY though, not by a longshot. And I still haven't actually opened the plastic bag it came in, which means it's quietly composting itself in the corner by itself. Like the songs were composting in my head.

But I like it more and more, especially on headphones. Mock all you like.

Actually it wasn't even TKOL that brought them back into my consciousness this year, it was that Oxford Indie rockumentary, Anyone Can Play Guitar, which I don't want to give any publicity to since the guy who made it is kind of a twunt. But it reminded me a lot of why I actually liked them in the first place. Back when they were just another cuet Oxford shoegaze band with ridiculous hair and lots of distortion pedals. Awwww. Nostalgia.

I still have a blind spot with that acronym for the album.

It involves The Kings Of Leon...

radiohead are definitely the greatest band that I cannot muster a single drop of enthusiasm for

I have the opposite feeling I think. I can muster so much enthusiasm for them, but I don't think they're the greatest ~anything~.

But I suppose their very ordinaryness and middlebrowness is kind of part of the appeal.

the fact that they could probably rattle off an album of enjoyable rock songs like "Bodysnatchers" but choose to dander off in post-everything land instead is pretty annoying

Spike Jones = totally underrated genius.

His career is much more consistently great than Penderecki, who was only good when he was making an infernal racket

They're the only band that, the more people slag them off or say why they don't them, the more I tend to exactly ~agree~ with them, yes, yes, all of that is very true. All of those complaints are legitimate. You are totally right, they are completely terrible in all those deeply flawed ways!

It's like Thom Yorke functions as a repository for all the flaws and deficiencies of everyone, packed into one tiny backhaired little body with terrible hair. That's kind of the point of him.

Why haven't they put out a song called 'Witchdoktors' by now. I know they want to

I have found the place where RH should record their next live video:

concretehenge

Please make this happen.

COME ON!!!

Let's have a go, defend the indefensible: PABLO HONEY. It was GREBT.

And OKC, it's really not all that, it's patchy as hell and I skip half the annoying Jonny songs anyway.

I like "Pop is Dead", so go me.

I love the Pop Is Dead video more than just about anything in the entire world, to be honest.

you know, I like Little by Little and Morning Mr. Magpie a lot, but it irritates me that TKoL is afforded all these obligatory spots on the EOY lists for like no reason except of the name.

what, "Radiohead" ?

It is just like The Law that if Radiohead release an album in any given year, it MUST be included in the EOY lists.

I want OH NOES to get over here so I can argue about CREPE and Pablo Honey with him.

I think the Mercuries are safe from Radiohead patronage this time.

(or was it last / this year? It was, wasn't it..)

I think the only annoying songs on OKC are "Airbag" (which is not annoying in and of itself, it's just annoying that that there's a song before "Paranoid Android") and "Electioneering" (which, okay, is annoying). I do think the album has an often overlooked second half, just because "Paranoid Android" is such a monster of a song, but really from "Climbing Up The Walls" onward is my favorite part of the album.

I was working in a record shop when Pablo Honey came out and it was really great for driving customers out of the tape department so we could close up early ahead of the rest of the shop.

(It was one of maybe two albums that record companies had paid to put on the heavy rotation list that I could actually stand to listen to, the other being Janet. But it wound up the customers so much they ended up begging me to take it home with me to get it out of the shop. Then Creep was a massive hit and my manager felt really dumb.)

I just remember seeing them on that tour, and for they ended up supporting the Jesus and Mary Chain at this weird sit-down acoustic Christmas gig (I have checked with my then housemate, yes, this really happened) and I just remembered staring at Yorke's hair thinking what a Thing of Wonder it was. Except my housemate really really took against Jonny Greenwood for no apparent reason other than she thought he was an arrogant cat. (Psychedelics may have been involved. It was a JAMC show after all.)

But come ON. Karma Police? Electioneering? Climbing Up The Walls? (the first time Greenwood's bloody Penderecki obsession made an appearance on a RH album)

Actually Climbing Up The Walls isn't that bad. But the only song on that album I'll really stan for is Let Down. Airbag is grebt tho. I love that whole EP. But Electioneering really is the worst thing ever.

[crosspost] I p much completely disagree with you Ohnoes: I actually like Electioneering a lot, along with Climbing Up the Walls (though I have some reservations about that song)...

annoying songs on OKC: Fitter Happier, The Tourist, No Surprises, Let Down. A lot of my objection to that album though is its oppressiveness, Kid A seems a lot more vital

of course that doesn't apply to "Paranoid Android" which does in fact RAWK, and i--along with Lucky--favorite from the album..

Let Down is lying down on the train tracks to watch the UFO hovering above

I nearly wrote "Lucky" before Radiohead did.

So, i have a pretty good idea of the thought process behind it.

I nearly wrote "Lucky" before Radiohead did.

So, i have a pretty good idea of the thought process behind it.

I nearly wrote the previous message before I did as well...

(soz)

haha

I never remember the names of the songs on bloody OKC. Or at least, I know the names and I know the songs, I just don't know which one goes with which.

And considering I've been listening to that album for how many years at this point, I don't think that's a good sign.

"Climbing Up The Walls" is, without reservation, my favorite song on OKC

It's bad goth!

*remembers who I'm talking to*

Wait, ok, yeah.

It does have that "Pornography era Cure B-side" vibe to it.

It's bad goth!

*remembers who I'm talking to*

Wait, ok, yeah.

lol EXACTLY

Lauded by the critics but, as yet, very much a mystery to the UK's music-buying public, Oklahoma band Other Lives have been handpicked by Radiohead to support them on their forthcoming US tour.

I think I just love Thinking About You so much it's so plainly and clearly about masturbation. Not that I would ~ever~ enjoy the mental image of Thom Yorke masturbating, but it does make me giggle like a skoolboy.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9JMciR1E7dA/TWgTBH_MczI/AAAAAAAABLo/4qOU2_Vd7M8/s1600/tumblr_lh5637fCg51qzcik8o1_500.gif
OH NO THE BEEEEEEEEEEEEEES NOT THE BEES AHHHHHHAAAAA NOT THE BEEEEEEEEES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE BEEEEEEES WHY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Weird because the only reference I've really read about Other Lives have been how they out-Fleet Fox Fleet Foxes.

lol i thought Climbing Up the Walls was bad dub

Radiohead themselves have almost universally terrible taste in music, to a man. I would never be the slightest bit interested in anyone they picked as support band.

(The bad dub influence crept into Goth through Bauhaus, as David J was a massive dub fan.)

OK can I just...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuCY7ldETM8&ob=av2e

Because I feel like there is not enough fun-making to be had @ this video and no matter how miserable I am feeling, I cannot watch this and not laugh like a drain. There is not a moment of this that is not utterly classic.

The glass coffin. The terrible hair. The vampire make-up. The guitar solo on a megalithic long barrow. It just never stops giving.

No one finds that video as funny as I do?

;_;

*cries like a sad RH fan*

playing Pablo Honey again for the first time in about 12 years

I'm having the exact same reaction to "You" as I did the first time; interesting decision to do a triplet meter and to drop the last eighth note ever four bars, but I wish the rest of the song was as interesting as its structure.

oh wow I'd completely forgotten about "How Do You?", this sounds like Seahorses slumming it

Ouch.

Always thought that triplet thing was totally down to them being massive fans of Throwing Muses and Belly. They toured with Belly, as well, in that period, didn't they? They kept turning up with bands I really loved. And realising that Yorke ~wasn't any taller~ than Tanya Donnelly was a total headfuck because I have stood next to that woman and she comes up to my kneecap.

Come on, though. Blow Out. If you don't like the last big ramp-up at the end of Blow Out then I will lose my faith in your taste.

basically my main reaction to Pablo Honey up through "Thinking About You" (aside from "Creep") is "I like this song better when Jeff Buckley does it"

okay "Anyone Can Play Guitar" is a good song, I don't know why I didn't notice this before

Never liked Jeff Buckley. Fridge raiding bass thief.

oh now I remember why I had issues with "Anyone Can Play Guitar", I hate the refrain

"And if London burns, I'll be standing on a beach with my guitar" is quite the clunker.

See, I've got up to Lucky and I am just thinking this is ugh overblown megalith guitar solo lighter waving prog lite nonsense on the chorus. Though I love the washes of wah + tremolo chords on the verses the rest of it is sub-Floydian rubbitch.

pix of young thom yorke are the best http://www.thom-yorke.info/include/photos/Thom%20Yorke.jpg.jpe

blimey, "Actual Size"!

He wuz wun sexay beest.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/13834735/Thom+Yorke+pablo+honey+era.png

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3298507/Thom+Yorke+thom1988.jpg

Anyway, no, I'm not getting into a bad Thom Yorke hair fite.

Yeah, I like overblown Floyd prog nonsense so that's not a problem for me.

"Vegetable" has an interesting structure idea but, just like "You", I'm not interested in anything else going on in the song.

I just feel like their songwriting jumped into another gear as of The Bends in terms of quality and consistency and pretty much stayed there through Hail To The Thief; after that point they still put out some great songs but the way they are organized into albums doesn't speak to me.

oh hey, "Prove Yourself" is kind of nice! I don't know that I ever made it this far into the album, lol

haha okay I definitely never made it this far into the album, I'm also enjoying "I Can't"

Hail To The Thief is pretty much my favourite album but admittedly I'm in a minority of one on that opinion. It's the album where I skip the least tracks, that's all I can say. And I think the bloops and guitar prog are best balanced on that album.

See? Pablo Honey is not that bad towards the end of it. It gets steadily better, they just front-loaded it with punky grunge shite because they were the "next Nirvana" on account of Yorke's bleach habit.

HTTT is my fave, too! Also someone else's but now I can't remember who... (it wasn't LJ, although I think he may be in the club as well, maybe Johnny Fever? I had this convo with someone recently, like within the last 6 weeks)

Oh, good!

Anyway I gotta go to class now. You'll probably just tell me Blow Out is shoegaze nonsense but that was the real moment I knew RH were for me.

well fortunately I also love shoegaze nonsense in addition to proggy overblown Floyd so signs point to me liking the song

okay yes, I have never heard the last four songs on this album before because I would have had a much more positive overall impression of it if I had

"Blow Out" is GREAT

Also a huge HTTT fan, tho I don't think we had a conversation about it Noes.

because I like ranking things, here's how I view the Radiohead albums:

HTTT
Kid A
OK Computer
The Bends
Amnesiac
The King of Limbs
In Rainbows (I actually like individual songs on this more than TKOL but the album sequence is like a sleeping pill to me)
Pablo Honey (although, as I discovered today, the end of this album is actually pretty great)

How Do You? is the one I remember soubding like A Little Respect played by Adorable

Pop Is Dead remains their only worthwhile moment

Not finding fuck-all that i can comment...but obligated to offer my inexhaustible gratitude for the Spike Jones 'Beetlebum'.

Where has that been all my wasted life?

Young Thom Yorke kind of looks like David McCallum (especially as Ilia Kuryakin), but later Yorke looks like John Simms after someone's hit him with a plank.

Also someone who lived in my neighbourhood while growing up looked like young Yorke, while his brother looked like Robbie Williams.

Don't think he looks like either of those people (though I had to google McCallum) - but I definitely thought young Yorke looked like Tilda Swinton when she was playing men/gender neutral archangels.

And yeah, glad you agree, NOES, the second half of Pablo Honey completely picks up - and Blow Out (especially the end, when Greenwood Minor goes into carpal tunnel territory on the guitar) is just pure shoegaze bliss. In retrospect, it seems obvious from Blow Out that they were going to turn into what they turned into, but at the time it could have been the "big closing anthem" on any Thames Valley shoegaze band.

Yes, I definitely bet Penderecki WISHES he could write music as ~sophisticated~ and engaging as a Satie-plagiarizing, lifeless album that came out over a decade ago and that he then he wishes with all of his heart to release a string of anonymous failed acid revival EPs no one cares about.

The whole Aphex in Poland thing was just a huge embarrassment squick. Way to miss the point of Penderecki's music by turning into shitty, formless noise.

"He managed to make Aphex Twin BORING"

Also, it was the other way around. Penderecki didn't remix AT. AT remixed him and failed spectacularly at it.

Radiohead themselves have almost universally terrible taste in music, to a man. I would never be the slightest bit interested in anyone they picked as support band.

When I saw them, I had Deerhoof and Beck at his most fun, least dick-Beck-y. So yay for picking the right time, I guess.

HTTT is also my favourite. Change a couple tracks w/ Let Down and Lucky and Knives Out and My Iron Lung and its basically all I need from teh 'HEAD.

One day, Penderecki hopes to have the privilege of being considered a worthy peer to indubitable musical luminary Richard D. James.

Richard D. James invented glissandi.

hahaha go wank over your Jonny Greenwood solo albums. Penderecki sucks big hairy moose cock as any fule kno.

Yes, and like I said, he hopes to be as sophisticated and unique as Richard D James.

ONE DAY HE WILL ACHIEVE THAT LEVEL OF COMPOSITIONAL PROWESS

who the fuck is fothering thomas and when will sb return?

not reading this thread but my roommate was blasting radiohead the other day and i realized that i truly do hate them. i just can't stand thom yorke's singing, idk how ppl can listen to that for like, hundreds of hours, over the course of their lifetimes. just so... annoying.

I decided to turn the word “pretentious” into a compliment. The common assumption is that there are “real” people and there are others who are pretending to be something they’re not. There is also an assumption that there’s something morally wrong with pretending. My assumptions about culture as a place where you can take psychological risks without incurring physical penalties make me think that pretending is the most important thing we do. It’s the way we make our thought experiments, find out what it would be like to be otherwise.

Anyway, T. Yorke totally rates the Emika, so his taste still has merit.

One day I hope to reach the jaded level of cynicism of a long term ILX0r on a Radiohead thread.

Yeah, dropping Emika in the midst of all that studious IDM was a pleasant surprise on the 6mix so Yorke does still occasionally display good taste.

Is that quote on pretention Thommy because is so, fair play, <3 to him for it. Though I reserve the right to laugh at his haircuts.

If so, that is.

Actually, that's Eno from Year with Swollen Appendices.

Hahaha that's somehow even better because there was me thinking hmmm might go into wkiw territory with Yorke and much rather wkiw Eno.

That said I would totally rather wkiw In Rainbows/TKOL Yorke that sings about wife swapping and skinny dipping than OKC era singing bout the IMF and "the head of state has called for me by name" silliness.

Fotherington Thomas is someone who wants to add his strength to ours

i rarely pay much attention to lyrics - which song does he sing about wife swapping? "House of Cards"? (i don't want to be your friend, i just want to be your lover)

"throw your keys in the bowl, kiss your husband goodnight, forget about your house of cards and I'll deal mine"

Keys in the bowl is totally the code for suburban wife-swapping parties. (why do i kno this?)

"hullo TREES hullo clear LAKE!"

Yeah FT I liked the Ice Storm too

Never seen it?

Can you imagine going to a key party with Radiohead and pulling out Thom's? DAMMIT I wanted the tall one with the floppy hair that looks like Hugh Grant!

It was a clear blue morning when a J Spaceman fan felt the sudden moral authority to call something "pretentious"

Dunno where you get the J. Spaceman thing but I am not and have never been a Jason fan so point yr zing somewhere else.

My problem with RH isn't really so much that they're pretentious (pompous, yes, po-faced sometimes) but that, according to Eno's lovely little descriprion, theyre not really pretentious *enough*. (except for when it comes to things like pretending they're not worth £30 million a piece when visiting OWS but whatevs)

quite the paradox that In Rainbows seems to get lots of glowing reviews as their best album, and yet to me it marks the shift from them being 'the most fascinating and exciting band of the moment' to 'boring old status quo Radiohead. Nothing exemplary here!!!"

Did they really *get* a lot of glowing critical ink over In Rainbows? really? because I saw a lot of critical ink spilled over "OMG innovative new way of (already massive bands) cashing in on their fanbase without pirating" but I didn't see anyone getting overexcited about the career peak of the tracks. Seems like most critics are split between OKC or Kid A as a career peek.

I am perfectly willing to admit that RH have now hit their holding pattern, and if they bung out another 8 tracks like TKOL every 18 to 24 months for the rest of time, they can be this generation's Cure or REM, I'm fine with that. I've long ago accepted my Thomosexuality and so long as he keeps Flea away from the recording process of his solo albums (I fear that I may be too late on that one because if there's anything I hate more than Penderecki it's Flea, cut his thumbs off, cut cut, WORST bassist ever) he could sing the phone directory down the phone and I'd be happy.

There is another message board and it is called ateaseweb

I am terrified senseless of RH fans. They are all fucken weirdoes and I don't get on with them. I far prefer RH haterz. TBH.

If ILX can have long running rolling threads on, say, Pink Floyd, I don't really see why we can't have one on RH but, uh, fine, point taken, I'll go and boil my head. :-(

JOKES

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3457354/Thom+Yorke+cortado.jpg

Richard D. James invented glissandi.

Well Penderecki certainly didn't!

Penderecki invented slap bass.

Well he must have got that idea from Xenakis, that's where he got all his other ones

Another word that sounds good in Geordie.

(xpost, actually so does that one. Actually, what doesn't!)

hey who is ft in non-sbox times?

I am Thom Yorke.

Well Penderecki certainly didn't!

O RLY? Teach me moar. I was quite clearly claiming that he did.

No, you were saying Richard D James did.

Yes. Serious business.

Deserves a pat on the back for it, the James boy.

Yes. And for reinventing music altogether by making non-boring music and always remaining so fresh & vital.

Shall we do a Penderecki vs Aphex Twin poll because I think we all know the answer to that is: SPIKE JONES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q

I'll see your Spike, and I'll raise you a Stan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08T8Dt9tnFk&feature=related

that is totally CREPEY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-oed4kxQB4

ha-ISHOOO

bless you.

That J&M got banned like crazy back then. (Possibly the spontorg in the middle, poss not)...

I always thought John and Yoko's "John and Yoko" was a take-off (certainly as far as John was concerned)...

I love how YouTube keeps track of what you watch even when you're not logged in, so it's offering me up a confusing selection of Spike Jones episodes and "Live From The Basement" sessions of Thom Yorke wandering around with Scott Walker hair.

There used to be a fillum for StanFreb's "Day-o" back on the BBC in the sixties/early seventies, they'd use it to fill in time.

Basically, a lot of bendy toys in animation.

Never seen for years, not on Youtube, probably because the bendy Bugs Bunny breached copyright or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1qKy4cMPUI

LOL

I saw this had been bumped and was all "Shit, I should put the PO vid in there!". Nice work, CC.

got it from some ladys facebook page idk

:)

You guys are all mean. (Not really.) Still listing King of Limbs as one of my fave albums of the year, though.

Well in terms of whose HAIR Thom Yorke has decided to emmulate now, Aphex Twin is definitely winning out over Penderecki.

https://twitter.com/#!/bunnyechoes/status/144172947739906048/photo/1

^^^^^you can only imagine the double take I did when that came on the screen. Yes it is a gingerish ponytail.

(No, I don't really want to think about the contradictions inherent in a multi millionaire using the Occupy movement to promote his own cred, I really don't want to go there because it annoys me too much.)

Radiohed are too dead personality wise to even make fun of.

It seems more fruitful to just make fun of all indie rock; idk it's all equally bland and pretentious eh

Radiohead dress better than most indie bands, though, I guess

It's not that they're too dead personality wise. It's more that their personalities (nicely brought up, public school educated, upper middle class white boys) are so absolutely over-represented in British society that they appear to have ~no personality at all~. (all objectivity is just male subjectivity - Dale Spender)

I have realised that the whole Thom Yorke thing is just an index of mine own self loathing and that's when I close mine eyes and just want it to *stop*. Because my self esteem and my lust for Yorke are completely negatively correlated the more one goes down the other goes up and it's not even a case of "it's been fun, but I'd really like it to stop now" as wanting to erradicate that whole intrusive limerent thing from my BRANE because of what it really means. Just stop typing already you cunt haha

Radiohead dress better than most indie bands, though, I guess

Not all indie bands are millionaires. Some might be sons of millionaires though.

The last time I was involved in talking to a band wit a view to joining them, one of the band's girlfriends worked at EMI, particularly closely to services rendered to Radiohead. Which basically meant the whole band were like "wow Radiohead are sooo great we'll never be as cool as them but hey let's have fun trying oh Hi Gill what did Radiohead do today?"

Right then, I knew I'd been around this scene too long...

services rendered to Radiohead

What did this entail I wonder

Well, she worked in the financial office, so.

Then again, I did work on a cheque printing programme for Island records, which was mainly used for Mxxxxxxx Fxxxxxxx's benefit back in 198%...

Michael Faraday recorded for Island?

Yeah, one of my former bandmates' partners worked for EMI during the same period and there were rumours (they were allegations they were *into* field hockey players) that it was like "OK, EMI are buying Radiohead their own jet now" which is what makes it so hard to take RH seriously as climate change campaigners because, come on, really. Making a lighting rig that uses 30% less electricity than a normal rig, then flying it halfway round the world to Brazil, is that really the way forward? But how do you justify something any way except "but I enjoy it?" but TBH it doesn't often look like they're enjoying it very much.

Like I said, index of self loathing. Like when I leave the heating on all night because I've got the dreaded lurgy. Bah viruses beggone they make me not nice.

But, y'know, this is RH Fan Trolling 101 - I'd much rather talk about Thom Yorke's bald patch.

(Not that I don't want to lick Thom Yorke's bald patch silly coz it just makes him closer to ~Eno~ y'know?)

Is it not silly already?

I dunno, I'm still "Whew, I still don't got a Bald patch!" to ever risk criti someone elses, just in case.

The ponytail is silly. His bald patch was just fine the way it was.

Bald patch. Ponytail. That's not Eno...

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(Brian Wilson not pictured)

Christ, that's 2011 Thom on the left meets 1993 Thom on the right. Not right. So not right.

IT IS! IT REALLY IS!

stop it you are BRAKING my BRANE

It's not that they're too dead personality wise. It's more that their personalities (nicely brought up, public school educated, upper middle class white boys) are so absolutely over-represented in British society that they appear to have ~no personality at all~. (all objectivity is just male subjectivity - Dale Spender)

I have realised that the whole Thom Yorke thing is just an index of mine own self loathing and that's when I close mine eyes and just want it to *stop*. Because my self esteem and my lust for Yorke are completely negatively correlated the more one goes down the other goes up and it's not even a case of "it's been fun, but I'd really like it to stop now" as wanting to erradicate that whole intrusive limerent thing from my BRANE because of what it really means. Just stop typing already you cunt haha

― Fotherington Thomas, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 10:35 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

you ok k8?

You have several names available to call me by. "FT" or "Fotherington" or "Thomas" or even "wet St Custards swot!" but it really is immensely presumptive to use other names and I would appreciate it if you refrained from speculation. Thanks.

my bad.

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:) x-post

I'm not really OK but it's nothing that J-pop and getting better sleep / more light / shaking off this flu / intensive Vitamin D supplements won't fix eventually.

To me, Radiohead will always be the "great band that wanted to be so much more" , and I'm starting to get a handle on why I haven't listened to them like at all the last few years

so much less imo

it's upsetting because I do believe they're great songwriters and that things like "Let Down", "Bodysnatchers", and "Optimistic" should be the meat of the albums, not the diversions

I've become obsessed with Yorke's asymmetry. It's not just the ptosis of his left eye, his whole nose is slightly crooked, and his nostrils are two different sizes and shapes. In studies and tests, it's supposed to be the symmetry of a face that makes it beautiful, but he is so beautiful almost because of all those asymmetrically fucked up bits. Flaws in the midst of otherwise beauty capture and hold one's eye. Like the same way I think his voice is at its most powerful, not when he holds those impossibly high, floating notes, but when it breaks and jars and goes slightly whistley and sibilant around the edges. I hate when my brain gets on a locked groove like this. I know this man is a thoughtworm, not a crush. It gets intrusive and I want it to stop. I hate myself for the cliche of feeling this way. I know he'd loathe and fear me, too, for fixating. But what's one more person that loathes and fears me? There are already so many. Why do I think these things? Why do I say these things?

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Did you guys know that Radiohead is headlining (both Saturday nights at) Coachella? Now you do.

Bonnaroo, too, I believe.

Fuck a festival, tbh.

This thread is way better than self-harm. It's like punching myself repeatedly in the face, but without all the tell-tale bruises.

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Awesome.

Radiohead is the best band ever but Thom York is ugly!

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Can't wait to see them at BOnnaroo!

Tom York was born in Holland, Missouri but grew up in Florence, Alabama. He served in the Navy as an aviation radioman-gunner during World War II. Tom York graduated from the University of North Alabama and spent eight years in radio in North Alabama.

In 1957, he joined WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama as their sports director. He also originated the Tom York Morning Show (maybe America's first and longest running one hour local talk show) which was on the air for 32 years. He retired form WBRC-TV in 1989.

Tom York began working with the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1968. He wrote, produced and emceed the ASHOF induction banquet for 27 years. His book is based on all the scripts he kept from these induction banquetsIn 1996, he was inducted into the ASHOF.

Tom York was awarded an Emmy by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1995.

Christ, I've only got one government name that's perpetually misspelled by people. If I were Thom Yorke I'd be a perpetual ball of penned up spelling fury.

Ha ha I don't think that's the right guy!

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All I want for Christmas this year is for Thom Yorke to stop dancing.
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Tynan otm

only replace "dancing" with "singing"

only replacing 'singing' with 'recording, performing or otherwise producing any audible material whatsoever'

Next you'll be telling us you think Animal Collective are over-rated.

except acoustic covers of 'street spirit' tbf

xp i manage to avoid animal collective tbh

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Thom dancing!
Thom rolling on the floor
Thom moaning "I can't help myself"
You be the cooker
I can't see no difference in me

^^^^^^^^now I have this stuck in my head thx guise

No probs, it was worth climbing a cornish hill to get a decent signal for.

If I were Thom Yorke I'd be a perpetual ball of penned up spelling fury.

Well he chose to spell his name Thom, so serves him right

Bet his parents chose it actually?

It's possible, his real name's Thomas so Thom is a tad pretentious

Is it pronounced Thom, or Tom.

If he was Finnish he'd have probably called himself Thuom.

Thom Yorkie

Thom Yhork

Thom Thumb

Zang Thom Thum

(a joek for the olds there)

thom girlth do

þom ȝork

Radiohead's next album gets medieval on your ass.

Dhoemm in Cornish haha it means hott

Speaking of hot it's actually freezing here but THOT you might like to see where I'm posting from:

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OK Abacus

http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=86901

let's make a thread about yorke's hair

I am waiting for this twunt with a telephoto lens + 2 shrieking children to get his arse along the coast path so I can get a move on argh. Still have reception this side of the rock.

xp let's make a thread out of Thom Yorke's hair.

Big Tham O'Yorke. A terrible man for the haircuts!

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I have to thank dayo for that gif since I used it here.

Here is my Christmas Radiohead joke while I wait for the rain to stop:

What did Thom Yorke say to the tree? This is what YULE get if you xMASS with us!

(oh god I had to explain to an Irish person what a Yule Log was yesterday)

I'm so glad I went out on the pier to post this! Snapped this - literally ending on mine house! (No pots of gold - pls do not stalk me. Thx)

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