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

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'm thinking more Status Quo.

It has been mooted elsewhere that the waistcoat/ponytail combo is more...

http://www.rollogrady.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/fleetwood-mac-rumours.jpg

If this means Thom and Jonny will be getting divorced soon, I might cry.

i dont have time to hear new songs now.. are the boyz rocking out with guitars, or do they bleep and bloop?

It's Radiohead. It's bleeps and bloops *and* guitar. That's what they do.

Anyone interested on their tour this year should check out this site:

http://followthemaround.com/

Great presentation, tracklist updates almost instantly and you can check the youtubes of every live song.

Thanks for that, seems pretty cool!

I think they're sounding amazing live this time. The TKOL songs are definite highlights with Clive drumming with them. I'm starting to regret not giving more attention to the album last year, it makes more sense when played live. Also Idioteque, Reckoner and There There sound really powerful with yet another percussionist.

http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/

I will be so glad when everybody in this band is dead, sadly I may not live to see it. Enjoy your washed-up has-been rock music, y'all.

Also, this is ILM. We are free to post about our dislike of bands in any thread we choose to, regardless of what thread-starters arbitrarily dictate.

I hope that gave you the sad little thrill you were looking for. It was so important that we know your opinion on this, otherwise we might not have known that anyone hates Radiohead.

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sleeve, not a wizard

By posting in the ~fangirl~ thread, Sleeve has clearly just declared his deep undying wish to be a Radiohead fangirl.

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_238/1203092243YyxwY4.jpg

AND SO YOU SHALL BE!

Why do you hate America, sleeve?

I kinda can't wait until Radiohead get to the point of irrelevance of, say, Pink Floyd, where they've been carrying along on their own momentum for so long that people just kind of ignore them. And we can carry on listening to them and enjoying them without anyone feeling the need to protest "OMG another thread about Pink Floyd!" and point out how much they hate them because they have so completely passed the cultural tipping point as to become invisible.

But I'd also miss the sense of persecution, because, let's face it, that free-floating sense of persecution is an integral part of ~being a Radiohead fan~

Are they not at that point now?

I can't even remember if there's been an album between "In Rainbows" and "King of Limbs"...

(fixed typo of "In Rainboys", fyi)

There was not.

People still feel compelled to listen to and share their opinion on new Radiohead albums even when they've never liked them and even if their opinion is basically a single sentence affirmation of having listened to it and coming to the thrilling conclusion that Radiohead still suck. Whereas with something like Biophilia, I don't know anyone who's not a Björk fan of many years who gave it a listen or felt required to have an opinion.

I'm sorry, can we just...

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^^^^^THOM YORKE SERIAL ABDOMEN EXPOSER WS OF SHAME!!!!!

I hated that haircut/colour even more than most people hate the ponytail but GAH that treasure trail, I feel like I'm mmmmeeeellllllting.

His hair was black when I first got into them all those years ago, and I didn't realize it was dyed at the time. So the black hair just looks natural to me to the point where I still find his natural hair color a bit jarringly light.

I HATED the black hair so much. It just doesn't work with his colouring. He had yellow pipecleaner hair when I first got into them, I *loved* the ginger hair that followed, and then the black was like ... eurgh! I was quite relieved that his natural hair colour was quite close to the blond and the ginger.

I think I'm just starting to get a bit down on ILM probably through reading it too much, out of sheer boredom. And it's not just RH threads, it's lots of things I like at the moment, where I open up the thread, and it's a bunch of people going "I don't get it, why is everyone liking this, it's ~terrible~?!" whether it's Grimes or St Vincent or whatever.

I don't know. I suppose I do it myself, but... I'm more likely to do it in a thread where I see a whole bunch of people I normally agree with going bonkers for, e.g. John Talabot and I do ask "what are you hearing, that I'm missing?" in the hopes that they can turn me onto some aspect that I've missed. But people who just seem to go into threads with the express purpose of telling people that this album or artist is terrible, and they shouldn't be listening to this, they should be listening to something else, and I just want to say... why did you waste ten minutes of your life doing that?

Eh, I'm just going to think about TY's treasure trail and not sprain myself. It's ILM after all, what did I expect?

Also, what is this from? I'm drawing a complete blank, though I know it looks familiar (7 TV ads?)

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/viognniere/rh/thom433.jpg

sometimes I boost the contrast on recent photos of him to make him look ginger again

I am a bad, bad human being.

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