official Sandbox making fun of Radiohead thread

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.

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

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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