i got this song a couple of days ago from motel de moka. and i asked myself is this an old song i don't know or an old unreleased song? in any case it is a great song. it sounds a little bit like radar love in the beginning but then it becomes quite cosmic-spacey in a relaxed way. not so damn depressive and sad as usual. thom yorke's voice which comes in pretty late on the other hand sounds almost more tired than before.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 17 August 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
huge LOLs if Radiohead really is titling a release after an XKCD comic
― some dude, Monday, 17 August 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
from wallofice.com
Don't just publish bullshit only to get hits on your webpage.Don't just create your own stories after reading one post on a message board.
Get your facts straight.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=us&q=wallofice.comhttp://search.twitter.com/search?q=wallofice.com
― djh, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
DON'T LOVE OUR BAND OH WAIT WE ARE FOOLING ALL OF YOU
― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
what's your point, djh? could you elaborate without linking somewhere else? have you got something to say?
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
not making a point, merely posting what appears at wallofice.com
― djh, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
The domain belongs to a fan who has nothing to do with the band.
― Melissa W, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
you'd think they'd be happier about successfully wagging the blog dog
― some dude, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
...the fan also wrote that message, as he still owns the domain and Radiohead haven't recently acquired hacking skills.
― Melissa W, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
that was what i meant -- what was the point of the fan making the site other than to lead people to jump to the conclusion they're now scolding them for?
― some dude, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Quite like it. It reminds me of Dollars & Cents.
― chap, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Jonny didn't even address the leak in his post announcing the release of the new single.
I have a hard time believing that someone on the band's team would waste their time making it so that when wallofice.com tried to redirect to the Waste store there'd be a dumb, pissy message there instead.
― kshighway, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep reading it as 'Wall Office.'
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://remodelingbymm.com/files/office_wall.jpg
― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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― goole, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it really doesn't, alex. we've just forgotten we're conversing in the parallel universe in which tuneless/amusical taylor swift is OMGAMZING and liking RH is unfashionable.
― Turangalila, Monday, August 17, 2009 8:28 PM (19 minutes ago
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad to know you're so obsessed with me, Alfred.
― Turangalila, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
What ILM really needs is more dick-swinging.
― Melissa W, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
And more revelatory gorgeousness from Alfred, "Lord" Sotosyn.
― Turangalila, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Knives out.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm is it just me or does the song sounds slightly similar to Portishead's "We Carry On"?
― Moka, Monday, 17 August 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
In its insistence, definitely. Doesn't have that same HUGE guitar line that defines the Portishead song though.
― Kid S. Highwaygarten (kshighway), Monday, 17 August 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
So apparently the EP is out. At least, I'm already reading reviews of it.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Eh?
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
That's about my reaction too. I'm trying to find out more info.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Where are these reviews? I can only find one (obviously fake) one. The whole thing is an internet storm in a teacup
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is just a couple of people I know trying to fuck with everyone. What fake song titles are you getting?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"Berglund Räikkönen (Afterthoughts On)" a tribute song to the first casualty in the Finnish Civil War at the Battle of Asplund
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean come on
Here's the spoof review: http://www.popsense.com/2009/08/radiohead-wall-of-ice-ep-review-new-mp3.html
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that they give away an mp3 though
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, nice. The random songtitles I'm seeing include "Wasting" and "Already Finished Upwards," which at least sound more appropriate.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Where are you seeing that?
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
And 'fucking with people' confirmation just received. IMM should do an album of these like we all did with the U2 album.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
this twisted words song is a fucking jam
― zero money down on new and pwned vehicles (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
heard it on the radio this morning and i like it a lot. it reminds me of a smeared and smudged Tortoise and a bit of Joy Division, too.
― society for cutting up (tricky), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Reminds me of a Neu! song, but then so did Bodysnatchers.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Or "Silence" by Portishead.
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe they entered their krautrock phase. there are worse styles to go for.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
cunga otm; I thought the same fucking thing
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't Radiohead already have a Krautrock phase?
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm. The only obviously krautrock-y song I can think of by RH is Cuttooth, and it sucks.
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
They've been influenced by krautrock since Kid A / Amnesiac.
― Moka, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
In the same way as a wasp is "influenced" by a light bulb.
― anagram, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
but there is hardly any track on those two that sounds like krautrock. for a start krautrock songs are usually jams, they go on and on without too much happening. on amnesiac there is a lot happening.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
No. Not exactly.
― Moka, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
amnesia is far too diverse for krautrock. each song is a little universe in itself. each song has its own groove. the only krautrock band which managed something a little similar is can.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
amnesiac of course.
National Anthem anyone?
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link