official Sandbox making fun of Radiohead thread

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.

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