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

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!

It's only a matter of time before I see moody teenage boys wandering around town sporting ponytails and red trousers, because it's okay now that Thom Yorke does it. Some things should have been left dead in the '80s.

Whoa, Jonny's bit is played that superfast strumming (oh I have forgotten the name of the style, it's been so long since I played guitar) and not eBow? How does he still have wrists? That's like carpal tunnel in a box (that's what did my wrists in.)

Yeah, I wonder about that. Maybe he'll take to wearing the arm brace again.

I'm going to be upset if they don't play Meeting in the Aisle at any of the shows I'm going to.

I also did not notice that Jonny is wearing a shoegaze stripe shirt. Oh my goodness.

(Those are jeans and not jeggings, right? They're just a tad too... stretchy in the arse department. I can't cope.)

~Apparently~ (you would have read this in the same place I did) they've rehearsed 70 different songs. So the set list may not be the same twice?

I think they're jeans. Unless he got a new pair. This thread is now 20% trouser minutiae. x-post

It may not be the same twice, but I'm hoping it's the old stand-by stuff that will change more frequently and that they'll try to keep the new songs and more obscure tracks featured more consistently.

I know they're jeans, I've seen them before, but they're clearly stretch jeans that have been worn that bit too often and now they're all ~stretchy~ and I can't cope.

Trousers are important, come on! 20% trouser content is about right. I could start a whole derail in Judith Butlerian prose about his hairdo's signifiers, but I've got the other place for that now. tee hee hee.

Actually the screen cap for the "Meeting in the Aisle" video makes it look like Thom has chosen a very unfortunate Rattle and Hum era Bono look with the ponytail and vest.

shhh

It was just the first thing to pop to mind when I saw that.

How did they get 'Meeting in the Aisle' to sound so good with guitars when the original features synthetizers heavily? I didn't see any synths on that video.

(Fun fact: it was programmed entirely on synths by Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker (Zero 7))

burning airlines had a song and album called identikit about 10 yrs ago

When's 'Witchdoktors' getting a release

The thing that I keep trying to forger, though he keeps ~reminding~ me, is that Mr Yorke was a MASSIVE U2/Bono stan and, well, has never really stopped. The waistcoat is probably a deliberate allusion.

But he likes to keep that a secret, so shhhhhhhhh. It's like Jonny and Pink Floyd. Ask directly and they will be like "U2/Pink Floyd who?"

lol they've become the modern pink floyd not doing too good a job of keeping it a secret

Secret? Secret? Thom has talked about getting down the front row of stadium U2 concerts (and getting kicked out of the way for his trouble) so it's hardly secret!

Granted, I think this might have been in the 80s but he's been p forthcoming about his attachment.

I never said that Thom is good at keeping secrets.

"Where I end and you begin" is basically a U2 hommage.

It's only a matter of time before I see moody teenage boys wandering around town sporting ponytails and red trousers, because it's okay now that Thom Yorke does it.

Do moody teenage boys still listen to Radiohead? I thought their fanbase was all thirty-something message board types.

I don't know about moody teenage boys, but they are still a big hit with moody teenage girls.

Why are you people mentioning U2? They're horrible and not Radiohead and I like Radiohead.

So are these real song titles that the band said, or is it what fans are calling them?

Real song titles from the printed set list.

And people are talking about U2 because of unfortunate sartorial and hair decisions.

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...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8051uQAAz1qkfb34o2_400.png

... 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

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7foediKkC1qikls4o3_400.gif

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.