Radiohead Archive

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“I don’t think he has any friends.” Small British children review Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android.”

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The week has started!

(Word has it that Radiohead’s been throwing this one into their setlists!)

Update: 2:30!

Hat tip for Grakmac

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Just put on headphones and take a few minutes

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Thom Yorke, and Radiohead, in a Nutshell

On Thom Yorke:

“THIS IS THE NIGGA FROM RADIOHEAD. IDK IF YOU KNOW THIS BUT RADIOHEAD IS IN EVERY WHITE PERSON’S TOP 5 BANDS B. ALWAYS. IT DON’T EVEN MATTER IF THEY INTO PUNK OR DEATH METAL OR SOFT ROCK OR FUCKIN BEETHOVEN MY NIGGA. THEY LOVE THIS NIGGA B. WHITE FEMALES WOULD EAT THIS NIGGAS ASS AFTER HE DID GLASTONBURY WITH NO DRAWZ ON IF HE STEPPED TO THEM LIKE “DUNLEEMEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DUNLEEMEEE DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAHH” THAT’S IMPRESSIVE B SINCE THIS NIGGA LOOKS LIKE A SICK BABY BIRD THAT FELL OUT THE NEST. THIS NIGGA IS SO WHITE HIS VEINS PUMP ORGANIC CARROT JUICE B. MY SON ALSO IS NAMED TOM BUT SPELLS IT “THOM” AND HE’S PROLLY WEARING A PAIR OF TOM’S RIGHT NOW. IF I HAD TO MAKE UP A PRETEND NAME FOR A BRITISH HOMO IT WOULD EITHER BE “ELLIS SHERMANY” OR “THOM YORKE”. YOU ARE AN EXEMPLARY CAUCASIAN MY FRIEND. SALUTE.

In a word, yeah.

(via The Awl)

 

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Here Are Some Goddamn Things To Read

Quick hits, because it’s been a long day and I’ve got better things to do than rage on the Internet:

  • Here you will find a physicist discussing whether or not this shot was real. His conclusion? Inconclusive! (But it was real.)
  • Here you will find Matt Yglesias unconvincingly trying to justify his support for the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. (I’m sure somebody at LG&M will be on the case soon enough, so you can read it there.)
  • I guess Sarah Palin and Donald Trump had lunch somewhere and people on television pretended to actually care, which made people on the Internet care, which means I had to read about them caring, which resulted in the singularity, which we’re currently undergoing here in Massachusetts by listening to the rest of you fucks get swallowed up. Y’all sound like thunder when you get swallowed. (Just so we’re clear, time and space work all weird-like during the singularity. Also, no link for that one. You’ll just have to trust me.)
  • Did the New York Times hack Goldman Sachs’ ‘Fabulous’ Fab Tourre? Oooh! Intrigue at the link!
  • Is it ever okay to double dip? NOT IF YOU’RE A RECESSION, IT ISN’T!
  • Finally, Weezer covered Paranoid Android? Wha? When did that–? Anyhow, it went okay. (On second thought, here’s the video. Sorry, Kottke, you get enough traffic.)

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This Radiohead Video is Harder to Mock than the Last One

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The King of Limbs is the New Album by Radiohead and it is Good

To dispossess you of any illusions about my objectivity in my capacity as a “record reviewer,” I’m going to come right out and say it—I go into every Radiohead album pulling for them. I won’t deny that they’ve made a couple missteps in their day. Hail to the Thief, for example — probably ten, fifteen minutes too long? Perhaps? Could be? House of Cards? Little boring? Little, “Get on with it already, chaps”? Well, granted, but at least the video’s cool. And at any rate, these are quibbles, nits picked from the span of an otherwise excellent two decade career. Only the Pope’s really infallible anyway, and remember: the Pope was in the Hitler Youth! So, you know, I’d call it pretty even, Radiohead v. Pope-wise. And Radiohead didn’t even protect child molesters — nope, that was the Pope, too! I almost forgot about that! So Radiohead might just have the edge. Think about it.

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