― fred solinger, Wednesday, 30 August 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
1 frustrated 15-year-old teen from middle America, 1978, after having read Tolkien and seen Frank Frazetta for the first time
A vague attempt at artistic talent
A desire to create a spooky landscape showing the setting for Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," where the narrator 'comes from the land of ice and snow'
An unhealthy desire to portray either a Wagnerian landscape or the purported view from Hitler's mountaintop retreat
Mix, let set for three days. Include a logo, meaningless title and what look like overlays from a CAD program designing a new airport.
Serves millions, or so they hope.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 August 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
― alex thomson, Thursday, 31 August 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
― Nick Dastoor, Saturday, 2 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Saturday, 2 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
― Josh, Saturday, 2 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
― Sacrificial Bonfire, Sunday, 3 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
Clearly Radiohead have a dim view of packaging and want people to judge them on the sounds they make.
― Giles, Tuesday, 5 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
And while cover art doesn't matter as much as the sounds, it's very important in creating impressions and reinforcing the total aesthetic - just think of the Blue Note sleeves, or indeed Roger Dean or Hipgnosis' rococo landscapes, or the Smiths' icon-galleries, etc. etc. Besides, it's fun to talk about. The cover art and associated marketing for OK Computer and its spin-offs was all strongly themed (in a supremely irritating way if you ask me), and there's no reason to believe Radiohead haven't taken as much care over the packaging of the new one.
― Tom, Tuesday, 5 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
― Josh, Wednesday, 6 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
Like you I was deeply irritated by the uniformity of the promotions for OK Computer and its singles (that mock-sloganeering around the lyrics: so obvious, so arrogant, so horribly "above" the screaming teens on TOTP, so convinced that it will remain so for all time). But I also think the aesthetics surrounding a band (its album covers, style of promotion, etc.) do create, for many people, a certain assumption of how it will sound. Radiohead's aesthetics have always influenced me to think of them as arrogant in their sense of intellectual superiority, distancing and isolation (I could write this better), and when I've actually heard them I've usually concluded that they don't have the music to make such tendencies excusable, in my view at least.
― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 7 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 21 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-four years ago) link
Let's revive an old thread to say so.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
It's better than his singing at least.
― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
This is a very acute observation. My brane = broked.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 1 December 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link