Radiohead

[Tale]

It took me some time to get around to burning In Rainbows to disc for the car, but I have been listening to it all the time recently. It's amazing. By the way, I paid £1 above the handling fee, so I'm not all cheapskate.

Tonight I sat and watched the whole of Scotch Mist, which adds to the greatness. I also liked There Will Be Blood better than any of the past season's movies, partly because of Johnny Greenwood's intense soundtrack.

I've been a Radiohead fan since Creep, their iron lung, which they have long since transcended. It's kind of amazing to look at everything they've done. I just went and looked up songs like:

Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Karma Police
Fake Plastic Trees
No Surprises

I was going to post this as a reply to the "hey, Radiohead released their album for download lol" thread from 2007, but there isn't one. So now there's a Radiohead thread to scroll off the bottom of the page.

[Righ]

The Radiohead discussion took place in some other thread. Grunge music? Yeah, here:

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=11480.msg378119#msg378119

[Chenghiz]

Well Radiohead is playing Lollapalooza this year. I am pretty much going to that. The fact that Explosions in the Sky, Nine Inch Nails, Broken Social Scene, etc are playing there too is just icing on the cake!

[lamaros]

I saw BSS earlier this year.

They were pretty Meh.

Radiohead is normally good live, though. 

[Sauced]

The BSS Live heyday was back in 2003-2005 right before/after You Forgot It In People came out, when Haines and Feist toured with the band at the same time.

It's like seeing the New Pron when Neko Case isn't there.  What's the point?

My one Radiohead live experience was at a stadium post-Hail to the Thief.  I would give almost anything to see them play a small venue - all I ever wanted was to see them play and being surrounded by 80k other people, and having to watch the show on the huge screens, almost ruined it.

[Tale]

I would give almost anything to see them play a small venue - all I ever wanted was to see them play and being surrounded by 80k other people, and having to watch the show on the huge screens, almost ruined it.

Watch Scotch Mist if you haven't (channel bittorrent may or may not have a nicer version). It's a series of small, private performances of the In Rainbows songs, with surreal interludes like this:

"One day I found out that my urine was acting like a powerful foaming agent. I don't know why. I thought that I could take advantage of my ability by hosting piss-centered foam parties in the pub toilets. My landlord wasn't keen. He didn't think that people would be interested. In fact, he said that it was a disgusting idea. I said that I would rather go to a piss foam party than watch the fucking football. But he said that I'm in a very small minority, and the big screen stays."

[Sauced]

Yeah, we watched the "world premiere" of that on Current.  Great stuff, but not "in the same room while they play" great. 

[lamaros]

The BSS Live heyday was back in 2003-2005 right before/after You Forgot It In People came out, when Haines and Feist toured with the band at the same time.

It's like seeing the New Pron when Neko Case isn't there.  What's the point?

Indeed. Though I did see New Porn w/ Neko, and it was pretty meh still. Would have been better to catch them just after Mass Romantic came out.

[DeathInABottle]

The BSS Live heyday was back in 2003-2005 right before/after You Forgot It In People came out, when Haines and Feist toured with the band at the same time.

It's like seeing the New Pron when Neko Case isn't there.  What's the point?

Indeed. Though I did see New Porn w/ Neko, and it was pretty meh still. Would have been better to catch them just after Mass Romantic came out.

What, really?  I saw them at the kickoff to their fall tour this year, and it was unbelievable, despite the fact that they had to play at 9:00 in a ridiculous opera house.  Everyone sitting, except for a few fantastic people dancing in their chairs.

I also saw Radiohead after Hail to the Thief, also at a stadium..  Still a great experience.

Anyone going to the Sasquatch festival in Washington, by the way?

[Sauced]

Anyone going to the Sasquatch festival in Washington, by the way?

Did that after I first moved to the NW in '03.  I'm too old for that shit now.

[Phildo]

Apparently they're playing nearby on Friday.  Can't go, unfortunately.

[Tale]

Big deal being made about their new video for House of Cards, which was "filmed" without cameras, using Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR (lasers): http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

IMHO it's not all that great as a video, but the making-of has some geek interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyQoTGdQywY

[Sky]

Cool song and video, only problem I had was with the constant warping, had to stop watching it.

[photek]

Yeah the song is awesome. I enjoy Radiohead, but I'm really mixed on most of their songs. Some I really don't like, others I love. I actually thing I love the songs most people don't like, the instrumental stuff.

[DeathInABottle]

Going to see them in Vancouver in August.  Can't waaaaaaaaait.

[apocrypha]

I saw them a couple of weeks ago in Manchester (UK) and was horribly underwhelmed :(

Been a big fan for a long time but never seen them live before, and my GF bought us tickets for my birthday. Our current financial situation isn't great so they were a pretty damned big splash out present from her so I feel terrible about not being all WOO AWESOME etc about the gig, but it felt really flat to me :/  I dunno why, maybe it's just that I'm so used to entire albums that it felt like just a bunch of songs strung together randomly. Maybe I'm just turning into a miserable git in my old age, fuck though, shouldn't that make a Radiohead gig better? :p

Thinking about it, one of the problems for me was just that it was such a huge gig that the stage was miles away and the band were tiny dots underneath a bunch of huge lights and stuff, so not really the band's fault at all...

Ah well, I'll stick with the "miserable git" theory 

[Hawkbit]

Nah, they're hands-down one of my favorite groups, but after seeing them in the 90's I told myself never again.  They literally came out on stage, played OK Computer track for track and walked off.  No encore, no lights, no speaking to the audience, nothing.  Just the album. 

I've bought all the albums because I still enjoy them, but I just won't see them.  (I don't see anybody anymore because of cost to go to shows, but that's for a different thread.)

[amiable]

I saw them a month or two a go at the Virginia show that was a complete Monsoon.  They were great, even in a flood.

[apocrypha]

In the last 2 days I've spoken with three other people who were at the exact same gig as me and who all loved it. Difference is they were all stoned out of their heads and I was completely sober.

I think I have discovered my error!