Radiohead LP9 Anticipation, Fangirling and random Cheesecake Thread (Do not read if you hate Radiohead or us)

To stop Melissa W and I from gumming up other threads with our enthusiasm.

For speculation and discussion of new material (?!?!?) that will be popping up on the current tour.

This is not a classic or dud thread, this is not an OMG RH FANDOM IS SRS BZNZ thread, we may be silly and irreverent and overly personal so DealWithIt.gif

Anyway. I think I have recovered from the reappearance of the red trousers, and the ponytail. So. Now, shall we begin?

New songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEpQ6iObaM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZhZdlkEEQE

(Do you think this would be a better fit for ILE? I know it's music, but it's also just fangirling...)

I think that fangirls have as much a right to ILM as anyone else, and I'll FITE anyone who disagrees! This may just be me, but I often find ILM easier and more conducive to discussion than ILE is.

Anyway, it's going to take me hours to load those new songs,but I'll give them a listen. And try not to be distracted by the trousers.

Luckily they're far enough away and bathed in enough pink lights that the red trousers aren't especially visible.

I STILL KNOW HE'S WEARING THEM.

Also, that panoply of screens reflecting back an angel choir or infinite Radioheads. I love it, but I'm not sure I can take it.

Both of the songs have this 80s or maybe early 90s vibe that I'm really liking. x-post

OMG the plainsong chant harmonies! The will never stop being choirboys, ever, will they?

Identikit is maybe reminding me of Spanish Air by Slowdive a bit? With a slinky r&b groove to it. x-post again

Oh, are red trousers a 'thing' ?

I had a pair of red 501s, they're in the loft someplace now.

Not sure about the bit where the band kicks in but that might just be my instinctive reaction to Thom's "Hitler invades Poland" dance, which always makes me cringe.

x-post HA HA OH GOD RADIOHEAD DO SLOWDIVE. This is not the way to make me stop liking you, guise.

No, it's only Thom Yorke's red trousers that are a thing, among fangirls. Of the worst sort. (like me)

Yeah, where the synths kick in around 1:42, this is making me unreasonably happy.

Yesssss. I wonder what else they have up their sleeves. I'm really hoping for a full band premiere of The Present Tense and maybe a live version of The Butcher. Apparently Skirting on the Surface was originally on the set list as well.

I've never heard a version of The Present Tense that I like. It sounded like it had one of those mopey Daily Mail ballad voibe to it? This may be wrong-headed, you're welcome to try to change my mind on that.

Noooooo, The Present Tense is the most lovely melody Thom has written in years. This is probably the best version because it preserves all the chord progressions that I love so dearly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmbg3Z0x6jQ

And you can hear a faint version of the frankly very Slowdive-y full band version being soundchecked here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAucGV-yOQY

I've learned not to judge Thom's sketches until the rest of the band gets their hands on them. Things that sound great live can get mangled on record, and things that I'm unimpressed with end up being my favourite songs once they've had Jonny-dust sprinkled over them.

Even Jonny-dustless, that song really just does it for me. It just has this completely perfect structure to it.

Sorry, I just fell into to the fluff-hole.

I may be gone some time...

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ugh I always forget to bbcode

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He looks like he's about to bite Jonny's head off. ROWR. Thomonster.

I love the new rather De Stijl lighting scheme.

a little weird enclave of ILM ten years ago

which is apt i suppose

Neither of us ever left?

Well, actually I left for quite some time. There have been stretches of up to a year or so that I've not been on here.

I think it might be more the revival of the "do not read if you hate me" meme. Which, frankly, was always a good meme. Like, if you know in advance that a thread is going to be full of a subject or a poster that one objects to, isn't it better to just provide a warning and say "if you don't like this, choose not to read it" rather than have a fight over it?

I love the melody on Cut A Hole, it's really classic Thom meandering, but I need to hear a properly recorded version to really catch the vibe, I think.

I think there have maybe been long periods where I only posted like once a month, so maybe it looked like I left. But no, I am just a constant lurker.

I like Cut a Hole a lot so far but listening to it is just cutting into my Identikit listening time.

I have a feeling it's going to be like Butcher / Supercollider.

That several months later, I realised that Butcher was actually a pretty damn good song in its own right, but jeeez, why would I want to listen to that again when I had another 7 minutes of Supercollider I could be putting in mine ears?

Oh, I didn't like Supercollider at all. But I could listen to the "as it courses up my arms..." bit of The Butcher till the end of time and not get tired of it.

It's a seven minute krautrock jam about a particle accelerator where he hallucinates angels on his balcony! How does this not have my name written all over it?

It has this weird Eurodance Coldplay quality to it to me?

Also this weird high-pitched pulse in the background that makes me feel like my tinnitus is flooding my skull.

Wait is Cut A Hole about the popcorn trick?

you're not still using that one are you Sam?

woo.

I've been mostly lurking lately, due to work and general life-insanity, plus I'm at least four years past my peak Radiohedz-obsessiveness, but I just wanted to chime in to say that I approve of this thread. :D

is this thread for fanboys too? y/n

yay Roz! Always happy to see you on any thread!

Fanboys are welcome if and only IF they are amenable to general abject fangirling and can handle the occasional outburst of squeeing glee about, like, Thom Yorke's haircut.

"Identikit" is so 'song titles very much in character' that i can't believe that they didn't write a song called that years and years ago

I wonder if it's a reference to the really awful Liz Taylor film by the same name

some dude v otm

And sorry, Melissa, this is LOL hueg but this is from the other side and it very definitely shows that the bald patch is definitely spreading slowly like desertification.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6791482848_96c6bc9eca_o.jpg

Also: red trousers.

I don't really know what's wrong with me that I look at that and think "hot".

There is nothing right with that whole look.

I don't know, but it totally is. So RONG yet so right.

Like no one else could get away with that. If anyone else turned up dressed like that, I'd be like, you utter freak. But because it's ~Thom~ it somehow just seems like a sartorial experiment that just... *works*.

The only thing I don't like about it is the white t-shirt. He could have come up with a better shirt to go with that. But the red trousers, the waistcoat, the ponytail everything about it is just such Yorkeian *rightness* that it is so utterly him that it somehow pulls together. Despite being an appalling mess on anyone else.

it's not hott because it's a hott look. It's hott because Thom Yorke is just intrinsically hott.

What the hell are Level 42 doing with all of Kraftwerk's gear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVZWt2Z7btA

Up close and personal with Meeting in the Aisle. Prepare yourself, WCC.

When did Radiohead titles start sounding like Stereolab titles?

OMG. I can't... I can't watch him wiggle like that. It makes me feel... funny.

Though come on. At 0:37 THE LIGHTS CATCH THE BALD PATCH. THE GLINT OFF THE BALD PATCH, IT IS BLINDING.

Still stupidly hott though.

p.s. dear girls in the front row: if you are recording, please do not WOOOOO and OMG in my eardrums? This is like bootlegging 101, come on!

Yeah we all know Thom practices his moves, in the mirror, with a hairbrush and has done so since he was 12. Ditto Jonny's prehensile hair. But they don't let Reich and Penderecki see that, man!

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Old-Thom-Yorke.jpg

They haven't really aged the muscles if his left eye in a way consistent with his actual face and ageing process.

Yes it is crepey that I notice this.

wow at yorke rocking the funky white boy look circa '88

http://img7.hostingpics.net/pics/900985Thom_Yorke_thom1988.jpg

Art students have looked approximately the same since 1888. Or 1588 if Van Dyke's portrait of Yorke is to be believed.

I just need to look at that photo, and think about Reich doing a rework of Jigsaw Falling Into Place and that actually has the potential to cheer me up quite a lot.

I'm going to put this here to make me laugh and cheer me up on Monday morning at work:

Q: If that sad day comes along when Radiohead splits up, what do you plan to do in your retirement ? - Lincolnbabe, Oxford

A: Age badly. Follow random pathways in the forest. Smoke a pipe. Become a hermit. Never shave again. Take ecstasy on weekends. Develop a Valium habit. Read the Bible. Go To Tibet. Become an MP. Change my name. Laugh at economists. Start skanking dancehall style. - Thom

So much <3 for that ridiculous man.

worried about the skankin'

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7biqqp45l1qzwenho1_400.gif

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7act3oxVr1qcc9t9o1_500.gif

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Want this...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7biqqp45l1qzwenho1_400.gif

...on my face forever.

THERE ARE NO WORDS.

HIS WAIST.

HIS HIPS.

HIS FLICKY LITTLE PONYTAIL.

I AM GOING TO DIE NOW.

Thom is doing this on purpose now...

OK, found the source. What the YouTube captures that the gif doesn't is the shagged-out orgasm expression on his face as he does it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLgBC6-cp4

::dies some more and is dead::

Just when I'm ready to surrender the last crumbs of my heteronormativity, he goes and does something like this:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7veszkcNl1rsvop4o1_r1_500.jpg

He is just torturing the fangirls at this point. There is no other excuse for this.

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wtf is up with thom recently?

inspired by magic mike

Oh, Thomas. What you do to us.

When one night, there is this:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m80a33A3ua1rx2bquo3_250.gif

And then the next night there is that godawful ill-fitting tank-top thing which hurts mine eyes to look at it.

http://instagram.com/p/NqwesdzXdA/

He just seems to have such a strange relationship with his body. Or maybe I'm projecting like crazy. Or maybe it just freaks him out that one day he loses himself in the moment and strips off and then the next day there are 40,000 gifs of his nekkid chest all over tumblr. So he covers up the next day with something really ugly, it feels like he's doing it on purpose, even though he's probably totally oblivious and does not even notice what the fangirls do. But god damn. He is so beautiful and that lithe fucking gymnast's body of his and how he moves it brings joy to so many people. Oh, so many feelings and I hate myself for having all of them.

i just don't remember him doing that once from like 1993 up to In Rainbows(melissa can correct me if i'm wrong?). it's just kind of weird, like when some guy you know in middle school is suddenly a goth the next day

I think it's correlated with the increase in dancing and thus sweating, at least partially. When I first started seeing them he really only danced during Idioteque, and now he dances through pretty much every song where he's not holding a guitar. And at the shows where he's taken off his shirt it was incredibly hot. So blame global warming and dancing. Or thank global warming and dancing.

In the early days he used to do this kind of weird wriggling-like-a-puppy-in-a-bag dance thing if he wasn't holding a guitar. But nothing like the dancing he does now.

I think it's generally a good sign, that he's feeling comfortable enough to dance like that, onstage. Like, he used to talk about dancing, in blogs and stuff, but we never got to see him do it. And now we do. Thank you, global warming and dancing!

He been hanging with those no-gooders red hot chili peppers.

Ugh you just totally ruined my ladyboner forever. ;_;

Sweet jesus it gets worse...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m80f6tLO2s1r4rmb9o1_1280.jpg

seriously, he hangs out with flea, they have two stoic bald drummers, and he rips his shirt off all the time - who is he??

I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/480406_10151085069155489_822618422_n.jpg

Shit, I grabbed the URL from the wrong tumblr window. That is supposed to be Thom with his fingers in his ears, not my other husband.

Sorry this does not involve shirtlessness but some people might like to hear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO1sX1--trc&feature=player_embedded

Twisted Words has just pointed out...

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... is there something missing?

(I hope it's just a blurry photo. If he's actually had his backfeathers lasered off I will cry.)

OK, I'm done feeling guilty about it. When I see something like this, I'm in no doubt that he's doing it on purpose because he knows the effect of his serial abdomen exposure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iih9b3EWPE&feature=channel&list=UL

(Also, liking the "dub reggae Slowdive" section more and more the more I hear this song.)

http://i.imgur.com/E8toX.gif

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Needs more arse-shaking.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9bdlnFuNQ1qa25v9o1_500.gif

you know, I don't think it has been adequately noted or discussed that

THOM YORKE'S NEW WEBSITE IS PARTIALLY IN CORNISH.

If I were a scarier RH fan than I am, I would start to think he was doing this on purpose.

I have said that before, probably on this thread!

Feel better now. It's naught to do with me, fucker has a ~second home~ in Cornwall. So now I can hate him for being a bastard second home owner.

(Not that I ever in a million years seriously thought that it might. Coincidences just freak me out.)

((Just going to have to avoid because this stuff messes with my head.))

please no more atoms for peace. please just stay in the main band Thom

I like his solo stuff. I also suspect that it's the freedom to do his solo stuff (and Jonny, as well) that allows him to stay in Radiohead in the first place.

I am mesmerised and I cannot stop watching Thom fondle himself.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/infinitycluster/ux4er.gif

No wonder Flea has a warm place in his balls for Thom. Quite literally, I guess.

Austin City Limits: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/2280479428/

Happy birthday Thom! Let's have some Dad Dancing.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7g1ugQrx51qcc9t9o1_250.gif

With the festival announcements this morning, my hope is that news of the album is imminent...

Supposed to be next year, isn't it?

I''m hoping more like tomorrow or next week!

Primavera says "Radiohead are coming back to stage to perform the long awaited follow up to “King Of Limbs”" so it sounds like its on its way

"Radiohead are coming back to stage to perform the long awaited follow up to “King Of Limbs”"

Ooh, touring the new album before it comes out - just like Dream Theater!

Given how the previous couple of Radiohead albums were released, I can't imagine that it will sit "in the can" for long after its finished. Their MO these days seems to be getting their records out quickly not long after they've finished 'em.

Yeah, I'm hoping there might be an announcement tomorrow morning, with the album within weeks, if not less.