goodnightboy

Well, Radiohead aren't a band that require much introduction, but in case you happen to be living under a rock all these years, here is an overview, of sorts:

Radiohead are a British band from Oxfordshire, England, comprised of five musicians. Though often classed as alternative rock, they have been deeply influenced by music from a variety of genres. Radiohead is often praised as one of the most creative bands of their era, known for their multilayered songs and artistic evolution from album to album. They are seen by many to have maintained musical and political independence despite recording for a major label. They first broke into the music scene with the album Pablo Honey, containing the hit single 'Creep', a song about low self-esteem and self-hatred that many listeners could identify with. The song was so huge, in fact, that critics wrote the band off as one-hit wonders - a label that seemed to have weight after subsequent singles such as 'Pop Is Dead' were savaged by critics. However, Radiohead bounced back in the form of their second album, The Bends in 1995 - a much more mature-sounding rock album that spawned Radiohead's highest-ranked single on the British charts, 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'. Two years later came what many people have hailed their best album, OK Computer - an album that has made many "Greatest Albums" lists. Some have also derided their work for its bleakness and lack of instant accessibility - in part due to the double dose of nihilism in the next two albums Kid A and Amnesiac, but it is also proof of the band's willingness to experiment and explore the boundaries of rock. Their most recent album, Hail To The Thief - controvesy still reigns over whether the title alludes to American president George Bush winning the presidency, the band has denied it - is seen to be a link, of sorts, between OK Computer and the next two albums, yet it is an album that has its distinct sound (a feature of all Radiohead albums). Thom has a solo album, The Eraser, however he does not call it a solo album and says he is not splitting up with the band - much to the relief of fans everywhere! They also have a live album, I Might Be Wrong - Live Recordings and are currently working on a new album, set to be released sometime in 2007.

Radiohead are (L-R):



Ed O'Brien (guitar, harmony vocals, special effects, percussion)
Phil Selway (drums and percussion)
Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, electronic programming)
Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, ondes martenot, electronic programming, string arrangements, various)
Colin Greenwood (bass, keyboards)

Several sites:
Radiohead.com
Dead Air Space
Wikipedia page
Green Plastic
At Ease

Radiohead's music videos, in order of release:
'Creep'
Missing 'Anyone Can Play Guitar' video
'Pop Is Dead'
'Stop Whispering'
Missing 'The Bends' video.
'My Iron Lung'. I'm not sure if this is the real video. I think so.
'Street Spirit'
'Just'
'Fake Plastic Trees'
'High and Dry'
'Paranoid Android'
'Karma Police'
'No Surprises'
'Pyramid Song'
'I Might Be Wrong'. No idea if this and 'Pyramid Song' are the correct videos, but I'm assuming so.
'Knives Out'
'There There'
'Go To Sleep'
Missing '2+2=5' video

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Damn, the thread title is too long to have aprostrophes. Grr! And Pauline, I made a mistake earlier - it is a different version. I didn't listen to it closely at first and I like 'Drunkk Machine'. Does it have The in the title? It does sound like it's drunk

infinite sadness

Yay! New thread! *dances*

In honor of the new thread, I am going to repost my MEGA-LIST, but that's not ready yet. And so, for now, I am reposting the summary of my personal Radiohead collection.

I have audio of the following complete live shows:
Glastonbury '97
Glastonbury '03
Parkbuhne Wulheide-- Berlin, Germany. 9/11/2001.
Live at the Gorge. 2001.
Live in Berlin. July 4, 2000.
Live in Newcastle.
Live at L'Reservoir. (just Thom and Jonny).
Koko benefit (just Thom and Jonny).

I have acoustic version of the following songs:
Lucky
My Iron Lung
Creep
Killer Cars
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Banana Co
Bullet Proof
Yes I Am
Airbag
Knives Out
No Surprises
High and Dry
I Might Be Wrong
Go to Sleep
Scatterbrain
House of Cards
Stupid Car
Gagging Order
Fake Plastic Trees
Nice Dream
Nude
Paranoid Android
Street Spirit
Reckoner
There There
How To Disappear Completely
Exit Music
Motion Picture Soundtrack

The following unreleased songs:
No Surprises Please
Last Flowers
True Love Waits
I Promise
Mornin' M' Lord
I Froze Up
Lift
Up on the Ladder
Big Boots (aka Man-o-War)
Follow Me Around

Tour 2006 New Songs:
Videotape
Nude
Arpeggi
Down is the New Up
All I Need
Spooks
Open Pick
15 Step
Bangers 'n' Mash
4 Minute Warning
Bodysnatchers
House of Cards
Go Slowly

Additionally:
"I Want None of This"
Almost all of the b-sides-- I missing a few instrumental ones.
I have at least one live version of every album track, I think. (maybe not most of Pablo Honey)
I have a few songs Radiohead have covered live, and some covers of Radiohead songs by other artists.
I have acoustic performances of "The Clock" and "Cymbal Rush" off The Eraser.
And naturally, all of the full-lenght albums and the I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings EP. Of course, you should buy these...


All of the above tracks are legal to share except the albums and b-sides, so if you want something PM me!

Pauline73

New thread!

Gwen, I know, at first, I wasn't sure if it was a live either. It's hard to guess since we don't hear the audience... They were probably too amazed to make any sound!
And clearly, the drunkk machine (I think there's a the! ) is one of the Radiohead/Thom Yorke's weirdest songs ever, but it's really great... again!

Simone, what an impressing list! I might ask you some more of these songs one day ... But right now, I have discovered so much new bands and singers over the last couple of days (ahhhh the beauty of internet!), it makes me sad there are only 24 hours a day! Vacations are always so busy!

goodnightboy

I changed the pictures because I didn't want to steal bandwidth, I hope you like them!

Simone I'm going to be knocking on your door soon which are your particular favourites?

Pauline What bands are these? Yeah I have tons of other songs I have to listen to, but I keep going back to Radiohead Well it's not that weird - drunk, but not weird. It reminds me of 'Skip Divided' actually. Both are talk-y songs, but that was more, err, whisper-y. Did that make sense?

Pauline73

Gwen, I love the new pictures you put in the first post, the first one is hilarious! (and... scary at the same time... )


uhmmm... ready? I'll just mention the ones in the last 2days, otherwise, it's just never going to end: Fishbone (yes, only now, I'm stupid!) Mika, Tim Curran, AaRON (that's French) Firecrackers (again, French, they live right next to where I live) Mat Kearney... I think that's it... for now. Who knows what will happen in the next days?

I so know how you feel, these days, I guess thanks to all of our talks around here, I'm such in a huge Radiohead mood. For a long time, Hail to the Thief was an album I didn't listen to much, don't know why, I was just not really in the mood. I can now announce that I'm officially reconcilied with it! These days, I'm so into There There, Sail me to the moon, and A wolfe at the door. And I just found out that HTTT is a great album to put me to sleep! (well, yeah, I have a weird definition of "lullaby" ) My only concern is that I never get to hear A wolfe at the door, I'm already gone by then!

goodnightboy

Thanks! I think it's cute, though. And I love that second picture, it's so, well, nice. Although it'd be better if we could see Jonny's face. But then again the hair thing is such a trademark. Speaking of Jonny, I've finally admitted to myself that I have, err, a crush on him. Yes, Jonathan [whatever his middle name is] Greenwood. I don't know how it happened - probably in stages since I saw him be a maniac (a cute one, though!) with the auxillary drums in 'There There'. And I happen to think he's hotter than Ed. The cheekbones! Of course none of Radiohead are truly photogenic and jaw-droppingly hot but they do have their good moments and when they do Jonny is the best, and I cannot believe I just spent a paragraph talking about how Jonny is hot, I am a freak I am.


My only consolation is that when I put this picture as my MSN display picture my cousin and my friend both thought he was hot, too.

Onto more serious things so I can regain my dignity? Yes.

Wow I don't know a single band there Matt Kearny is familiar sounding though. Ah yeah that happens, but then you fall in love with Radiohead even more and your head just wants to explode at how much you love them.

About HTTT, yeah I think that's a very, very underrated album. Someone on Amazon.com said that it's such a shame that it's by Radiohead because if it was by anyone other than Radiohead it'd be called a masterpiece, but compared to the likes of OK Computer it's just not so good. It's because while HTTT has incredible, incredible songs, as a whole it doesn't flow so well. Quite a shame, really. But I love the songs you've mentioned - 'A Wolf At The Door' is a favourite, as is 'Sail To The Moon' (and I love the alternative title as well 'Brush The Cobwebs Out of the Sky', it's so pretty!). And I love 'Where I End And You Begin' and 'Scatterbrain' and the whole album probably, with the exception of 'Myaxomatosis'...

I know what you mean, I've listened to Amnesiac and HTTT before and fallen asleep - I don't think it's the music so much as that you're tired and listening to music in bed is a nice way to go to sleep.

And, LISTEN UP - I've got the entire Spitting Feathers album. Yes. So Pauline leave me your email address and I'll send the songs to the both of you ASAP. It's good. And I change my mind: the weirdest Thom song by far is 'Iluvya'

infinite sadness

Ooh yay! I've been wanting Spitting Feathers...

And Mat Kearney has had several songs on Grey's Anatomy this season. He's pretty catchy. And he comes from the town I'm going to school in!

goodnightboy

Really? That's cool - what kind of music does he sing?

I'll be sending it right along, I'm just waiting for Pauline to give me her email address. I figured it's easier to send it to the both of you at the same time. Will probably flood both of your accounts with emails

Pauline73

Uhmm... Can I be completly stupid and ask what is Spitting Feathers? Well, send it anyway, I'm always up for some more Radiohead songs! I'll send you a PM in a sec..

Gwen, your speech on Johnny made me laugh so much!

Sort of pop, on some songs, there's a little bit of rap (on the songs that I like the less, of course! ) I wouldn't listen to it all the time, but it's nice at times!

I totally agree with you about HTTT, actually this is how I feel for Pablo Honey as well. (but that's more because PH has a different kind of music than the other albums)

goodnightboy

Spitting Feathers is Thom's Japan-only release and it has 'The Drunkk Machine' in it. In fact I've labelled it under Spitting Feathers rather than Harrowdown Hill Incidentally, what is with Radiohead and releasing Japan-only albums? Why Japan? These people like Hello Kitty and other kawaii things, they're the last people I'd expect to love Radiohead. Err, I am being horribly racist but who cares, I'm Chinese (well, Singaporean but my race is Chinese)...err I don't know what my point was there but yeah. Any Japanese person reading this is free to insult me.

I do believe that's the first time I've ever fangirled Radiohead

But Thom rapped on 'A Wolf At The Door' (well, sort of) and it was nice - but I know what you mean

Pauline73

Wow, thank you so much for these songs [g]Gwen[/g], they are just... amazing! I'm listenning to them at the moment, and picture me here: I'm alone in front of my computer, this is getting late, it's dark around, and there's just this music. Wow, so fitting! I love Harrowdown Hill, I love the way Thom sings, his voice goes up and down, and I like that there are computer sounds, but guitars as well. It's better when they mix genres in my opinion.
and errr... Iluvya, weird? don't know what you're talking about!

Gwen, you really make me want to move in Japan, you know?

BTW, does any of you know Team Sleep? it reminds me of Radiohead... a little, cause they don't really use computers much, at least, not as much as Radiohead. But I was listenning to Starring at the Queen, and it reminded me of Radiohead. It's Chino Moreno's side project (the Deftones singer, and I hate the Deftones, so it's just amazing he made me love his new band that much!) do you guys know it? just curious...

goodnightboy

Hee, thanks! I told my friend I wanted the album and then he downloaded it and sent it to me, and when I got it I thought of the two of you first. I dunno, the fact that 'Iluvya' is him singing just that line - and it's very hard to hear it anyway - it's nice but I think it's weirdly nice. I do love the album though. But I think the shorter 'Harrowdown Hill' is better than the longer one? Like the longer one doesn't add much to the song IMO.

Ha, I see the No Surprises/Running Up Hills Japan-only CD and I wanted to get it but it was $40+ and that is insane. But I don't want to live in Japan though and the voice, yes - the way he sings I want you to get out / and make it work in 'Atoms for Peace' is incredible. Go get the album already!

I haven't heard of that band...

Pauline73

Actually Iluvya reminds me of a Björk song, I can't remember the name of it, but I know it's on Homogenic, my favorite album from her () So that's probably one sign of weirdness! Her voice sounds like Thom's on that song...

Well, you know what? Right now, I'm in vacation, but for once, yesterday, I got out of my town and went to the city where I'm going to school, I went shopping. there's no cd store there, but there's a huge supermarket, that has usually all the latest CDs, I knew they had the Eraser, I saw it one day there, except that I had no money back then. And yesterday, I HAD taken money, I thought I'd get it, I went happily to the CDs section... no Thom Yorke! Which means that now, I have to go to a "real" cd store, the closest is an hour away, and now, everyone in my family works like crazy, so we won't have time to get there... and yes, all of this ramble to say... I'm desperate. Ask my mother, she was with me in that store, I must have been really annoying to complain that much!
I want to move out of this town, that's official.

Wow, 40 dollars? it's crazy! and then they complain about everyone downloading music... yeah, sure, that makes perfect sense...

goodnightboy

I have a few Bjork songs, she's alright. 'Bachelor' and 'Human Behaviour' is cute. Not sure about the voice though.

Look, if you want I could send you the songs, it's not a problem then you could take your time to buy the album if you want. And I'm quite glad I live in Singappore where you can travel the length of the country by car in 45 minutes and even the CD shops in 'town' is like 1 hour by train?

Oh! You know the In The Basement CD, which is a collection of different artistes playing songs in some basement? And Thom was performing 'Down is the new Up' and 'Videotape'? Well I have them. I didn't buy the CD but anyway I have those two on .mp4 format (which can be played on iPod Videos and QuickTime), as well as the Jonathan Ross interview/performance of 'There There' and 'Fake Plastic Trees'. So if you want them, say so and I'll send them over!

infinite sadness

Ok, so, not on topic but, time for my slightly revised MEGA-LIST:

PabloHoneyTheBendsOkComputerKidAAmnesiacHailtotheThiefB-sidesOther

1) Exit Music
2) Climbing Up the Walls
3) No Surprises
4) Idioteque
5) Street Spirit
6) Let Down
7) Life in a Glass House
8) How To Disappear Completely
9) Like Spinning Plates
10) Where I End and You Begin
11) True Love Waits
12) I Want None of This
13) Polyethylene
14) I Will
15) Cuttooth
16) Paranoid Android
28) There there
18) Everything In Its Right Place
19) Sit Down Stand Up
20) Motion Picture Soundtrack
21) 2+2=5
22) Lucky
23) The Tourist
24) Fake Plastic Trees
25) How I Made My Millions
26) Airbag
27) Talk Show Host
28) Nice Dream
29) Karma Police
30) You and Whose Army?
31) Morning Bell
32) Kid A
33) A Wolf at the Door
34) My Iron Lung
35) I am a Wicked Child
36) Optimistic
37) Fog (Again)
38) Scatterbrain
39) Pearly*
40) Pyramid Song
41) Subterranean Homesick Alien
42) Electioneering
43) The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
44) We Suck Young Blood
45) The Gloaming
46) Planet Telex
47) Myxomatosis
48) Punchup at a Wedding
49) National Anthem
50) Kinetic
51) Backdrifts
52) Gagging Order
53) Knives Out
54) Pulk
55) Bishop’s Robes
56) Stupid Car
57) Palo Alto
58) The Bends
59) I Might Be Wrong
60) In Limbo
61) Sulk
62) High and Dry
63) The Trickster
64) Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
65) Killer Cars
66) Black Star
67) Sail to the Moon
68) Go to Sleep
69) Fitter Happier
70) Amnesiac/ Morning Bell
71) Lewis (Mistreated)
72) Maquiladora
73) Banana Co.
74) Lull
75) Hunting Bears
76) Bones
77) Thinking About You
78) Creep
79) Paperbag Writer
80) Molasses
81) Bullet Proof
82) Worrywort
83) Packt
84) Blow Out
85) Where Bluebirds Fly
86) Dollars and Cents
87) Stop Whispering
88) You
89) Trans-Atlantic Drawl
90) India Rubber
91) You Never Wash Up After Yourself
92) Lozenge of Love
93) Permanent Daylight
94) Inside My Head
95) Melatonin
96) Million Dollar Question
97) How Can You Be Sure?
98) Anyone Can Play Guitar
99) Just
100) Yes I Am
101) Treefingers
102) Vegetable
103) Lurgee
104) Ripcord
105) I Can't
106) How Do You?
107) Faithless, the Wonder Boy
108) Prove Yourself
109) Coke Babies
110) A Reminder
111) Pop is Dead