official Sandbox making fun of Radiohead thread

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.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwf865NXFO1r3wutvo1_250.gif

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/thom_yorke_gif.gif

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!

http://i.imgur.com/JMl7A.gif

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)

http://twitpic.com/7xmznu