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
huge LOLs if Radiohead really is titling a release after an XKCD comic
― some dude, Monday, August 17, 2009 8:14 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
― 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
Here's the Neu! song that Bodysnatchers always reminded me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYeVvp8sdmg
― Cunga, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
really? but where is the diabolic addictive groove on bodysnatchers which is extremely pale in comparison?
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
now i can't decide if i like the drums chugging along in 4/4 when the song is in 5/4. it flows more and it's more subtle than being all "this song is in 5, this song is in 5" but it makes the groove pretty disconnected.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Phil gone soft rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0W_npl_RQA
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 21 August 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Good Neu! song. xpost
― billstevejim, Monday, 24 August 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
My not-so-deep-thoughts on the reissues via the Quietus.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Great approach.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Too kind. It seemed like the ONLY thing to say at this point, really.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't really understand why people have so much to say about these reissues to begin with. Oh horror, the label that financed and promoted these albums to begin with wants to release new versions to 'cash in' after the band's left the label! Those evil capitalists, what will they think of next!!
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It's wacky! It's like they're in it for the money!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I was mildly enthused by the reissued '90s albums because I remember spending a lot of money on imports to get those b-sides at the time (pre-filesharing, and pre-internet convenience really). Nice to have them all in one place now. The '00s albums are just less of a concern altogether.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link