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:

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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)

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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:

http://twitpic.com/7vtkkc

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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