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ReverieFilm (12:53 AM): I don't think anyone on IL* is capable of that, Ethan
ReverieFilm (12:54 AM): They'll all be like, "Thom's a twat! Interesting! Hahaha!"

― ethan, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thom's eye

― chaki, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am interesting in having sexual intercourse with select members.

― matthew m., Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thom Yorke's 'eclectic' DJ'ing played a significant part in me pulling my life partner at Exeter University in 1990.

Jesus Jones - EnglandNewOrder - Charlatans

"Bloody Hell, this is shit! Why don't we go outside for a bit?" etc.

― Zanny G, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw them in 95 supporting JAMES at Glasgow Barrowlands and somebody flicked a fag Thom and he said "fuck you" and "I'm going to kick your head in if anyone does that again" Oh how we laughed.

― JB, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'I am interesting in having sexual intercourse with select members'

which ones i wonder

I'm going to see them in Portugal in July

― Leigh, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm guessing one (or both) of Greenwoods.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Having seen them all at close quarters - i'd go for the big lovely Ed O'Brien - a whole lotta man

― Leigh, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Having not seen them in close quarters (geez, ILM gets saucy today). . . my opinion is based solely on pics and Ed reminds a little too much of one of my former university teachers. Still if he's as strapping as you say. . .

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They are REALLY ripping off Talk Talk, step by step by step by step by step. Not so much their sound, but their career trajectory.

Please note that I don't mind this one damn bit. And that this really isn't true (though it is).

― Daver, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They have gotten better with each album. Kid A and Amnesiac are two of the most listenable prog-ish electronic albums I've ever heard. They do well, what my teenage hero Trent has also done well albeit he's rather sporadic about it as of late, which is taking a more difficult, less structured genre and pushed it into a rock/pop context. I consider them the best rock band going.

― bnw, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hm, I think I made them sound even more boring. But you are a graphics art guy, right? Well they are pretty indulgent & playful in their album covers, website, and videos.

― bnw, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't like their design sense at all.

― ethan, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

something INTERESTING, ethan.

― Dare, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thumb Yorke and my brother JR (it stands for Jesus Rises) share the same birthday - October 7th, 1969 - and used to vaguelly know each other when Thumb was at Exeter University in the late '80's / early '90's. My brother was at the time in a band called The Love Children (which is, incidentally, a great name for a band - top song = There's A Banana In The Woods Over There) and Thumb used to DJ occasionally at a University venue called The Lemongrove where The Love Children used to play. JR tells me that the nascent Squint-Rock Messiah's DJ sets contained not, as you would expect, experimental ambient compositions by a certain Richard D James and Thelonius Monk jazz work-outs, but rather a blend of particularly bland and teary- eyed indie-bollocks. Anyway, to cut a long story short... Thumb Yorke fancied some bird. Said bird refused to go out with Thumb Yorke because a; he was a squinty little twerp with shocking taste in music and also b; she was vaguelly seeing my brother the Local Pop Star. Said girl called Thumb Yorke a "creep". Thumb pens song detailing the soul-rending existential horror of being called a "creep" by a girl that you fancy. Thumb gets in some indie band. Indie band release said song. Song goes massive. Thumb gets very very rich and very very pretentious. JR becomes big fan of Thumb Yorke's band. Bizarre, eh? And all completely true too. According to JR.

― Nick Southall, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like stories like this. And since Zanney has confirmed the DJ proclivities he had at the time up above, the grounds for the likelihood of all this grows stronger.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Pyramid Song" is the happiest song ever.

― Keiko, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Radiohead has managed to turn themselves into a prog-rock version of The Cure.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seriously, it's all true. By the way, Ned, your top 136 or so albums of the nineties are very god. Too much shoegazing, mind.

God, I'm pissed.

― Nick Southall, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm disappointed that I was so right about ILM's capabilities.

― Melissa W, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's Radiohead's fault, not ours!

― Andrew L, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

for what it's worth I think their music is interesting.

― Ron, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Too much shoegazing, mind.

There is no such thing, surely. Anyway, thanks for the kind words. :-)

I'm disappointed that I was so right about ILM's capabilities.

Hmf. Fine then -- consider the fact that I think that the worst critical misjudgement given to them is that they're a 'cold' band or make 'cold' records. But I find both Kid A and Amnesiac to both be very, very warm listens, striving for some sense of connection -- the same way another allegedly cold band, Joy Division, did.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about Mel or ethan says something interesting...

― bnw, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Warm" and "cold" are red herrings both as both make "connections." Radiohead's great strength is their ability to delineate shadings of contact: close but undesireable contact, distant but deeply-yearned-for-contact, contact that feels imaginary/dissosciative, memories of contact which are actually confabulative. "Connection," as icky a word as it is, really is the pivot, though: Rhead are the anti-U2, pointing out that the notion of contact is complex, not reducible to slogans. Like Joy Division before them, yes, only with more time to flesh out their ideas.

― John Darnielle, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sounds like a good take to me, I say. And I was wondering where ya was, John -- busy with creating that there next album?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jonny Greenwood,Radiohead's resident multi-instrumentalist,is colourblind.

― Damian, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw some cool concert footage on MTV2. I'm not positive about the instrument, but my guess is that they had 3 Mellotrons on stage for doing the string arrangements for Pyramid Song and others... it was fun to watch. Again I'm not positive that they were Mellotrons, but they were keyboard based instruments, with an additional kind of slide-pad thingy used for dynamics, played with one index finger.

― Ron, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ron - they are ondes martenots,and they are holy indeed.Wooooooo.

― Damian, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cool... my french skills suck. can someone help me with pronunciation please??

― Ron, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ed O'Brien had trials for Oxford United (as a goalkeeper) but gave up to concentrate on his drumming.

Thom Yorke got his google eye after being hit by a golf ball when he was 7 years old.

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what i want to know is what mel thinks is "interesting"? i mean, i even like radiohead well enough to own almost all the albums, but i'll be damned if i can think of anything interesting to say about them. they're a band. they interest me but do not (with few exceptions) move me. i can't see them as a band to devote oneself to.

― jess, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, thats what I was hoping to hear too. A little provacation of discussion. Personally, I don't think I'd listen to their music as often as I do if I wasn't "moved." Sometimes I think the difference between being moved and being interested is more blurry then people give it credit. Assuming we're talking intellect vs. emotion. Frontal lobe vs. limbic system. Etc.

― bnw, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thom Yorke got his google eye after being hit by a golf ball when he was 7 years old.

Uh, no.

― Melissa W, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: "interesting"
I wanted to hear a personal observation or a unique view on them or maybe an experience with them. Something that I can't read in the NME, and I wanted it to be spared the usual insults. But hey, even the insults could have been interesting if they offered a unique view. Stories about the band can be nice, but they grow a bit dull. Also, it'd be interesting to read someone put Radiohead in a larger context besides that of "best band in the world" or "dreadfully overrated, uh uh". I'm not asking for an epic Last Plane to Jakarta-style piece (though if you have one up your sleeve, I'd love to read it), just something that differs from the party-line.

― Melissa W, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

REVIVE.

― jess, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dubplatestyle (2:44 AM): i wish nitsuh was here so we could embarass him with sex chat.
ethANP2 3 (2:44 AM): nitush embarrasses himself
ethANP2 3 (2:44 AM): he posted a dicking list!
Dubplatestyle (2:44 AM): hah!
Dubplatestyle (2:44 AM): i forgot about that.
Dubplatestyle (2:44 AM): was i on it?
ethANP2 3 (2:44 AM): the day i post a list of who i want to cream will be the day
ethANP2 3 (2:44 AM): well it'll just be the day
Dubplatestyle (2:44 AM): you did
Dubplatestyle (2:45 AM): emma and ramosi
ethANP2 3 (2:45 AM): fisting is blatantly not creaming
iron0012 (2:45 AM): !
ethANP2 3 (2:45 AM): but you're pretty much right
Dubplatestyle (2:45 AM): i bet dan's upset he missed that chat
ethANP2 3 (2:45 AM): that was a good one
iron0012 (2:45 AM): yes.
Dubplatestyle (2:45 AM): that was the night nancy was drunk and kept reading snippets over my shoulder and laughing like a donkey
ethANP2 3 (2:46 AM): silly girl
iron0012 (2:46 AM): I get the feeling this is good drunk.
Dubplatestyle (2:46 AM): no one is taking my elp bait
Dubplatestyle (2:46 AM): i'm upset.
ethANP2 3 (2:46 AM): is it the good one or the co flow one?
Dubplatestyle (2:46 AM): my first ilm thread in, well, a day actually.
Dubplatestyle (2:46 AM): ELP
ethANP2 3 (2:46 AM): oh your thread
Dubplatestyle (2:46 AM): not el-p
ethANP2 3 (2:46 AM): i was hoping 'laughing like a donkey' was a horrible el-p line
ethANP2 3 (2:46 AM): laughing like a donkey
Dubplatestyle (2:46 AM): it probably is
ethANP2 3 (2:46 AM): i'm the hydrochloric hiphop monkey
Dubplatestyle (2:47 AM): no, thats a good line
ethANP2 3 (2:47 AM): thom yorkes eye is wonky
ReverieFilm (2:47 AM): psh

― ethan, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

okay, here's something. when i was visiting washington in october, i had to spend the night in philly intn'l to catch my plane. i couldnt sleep, of course, and like a masochist i put on "amnesiac". you know, nice and light. so i spent the hour going back and forth on the moving walkway watching out the windows. during "morning bell" i swear to christ i had a non-drug induced hallucination of a mother and child on fire, walking their bags down the aisle.

― jess, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and we're obviously obsessed with fisting.

― jess, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Everybody worth their salt is obsessed with fisting. What are you lot doing up at 2:46 AM talking about it, rather than experimenting with it?

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: Nick's Exeter-related post on 21 March.

Blimey! I think I knew some of these characters too. I'd always assumed that 'Creep' was written about Thom's destructive relationship with a girl with the initials S.E. (she's in TV now, I believe).

I also wrote a song about her with a friend of mine who had been in a band with the lady in question. Ours was better too...

― Zanny Gognet, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Say something interesting about Radiohead? They suck. Big time. The only decent "Radio Head" there is, is the Talking Heads song of that title, on TRUE STORIES, which I love.

― Anna Rose, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

b-but radiohead= the nu pink floyd anna??!!

― mark s, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Were they influenced by Pink Floyd, Mark????

― Alex influenced SF, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh no! Influence FITE! OH NO!

It doesn't surprise me that a total Floyd fanatic (or a Talking Heads one!) wouldn't like Radiohead, actually. I never understood the connection between the two bands, not least because Thom Yorke is about a million times a better singer than Roger Waters from where I sit...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well don't sit there then ned

― mark s, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But it's a COMFY CHAIR.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

My brother JR now claims to have written No Surprises about 12 years ago, and that Thom Thumb ripped it off some weird Exeter msuic scene compilation tape which feautured my brothers band of the time (The Love Children) doing said tune. Only, of course, it wasn't called No Surprises.

Between myself and my brothers we have met or have some connection to every famous person EVAH.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

They're named after the Talking Heads song "Radio Head", which, in the movie, was performed by a mariachi band. I'm sure I horribly mispelled "mariachi".

Their Kid A and Amnesiac albums were produced by Nigel Godrich, who also produced Beck's Mutations and Sea Change. They're recording parts of their next album in the studios where Beck cut Midnight Vultures, 'cause apparently there's gonna be some dirty-shag-rock vibe on this one.

They are on my top-5-artists-with-"head"-in-their-name...
Talking Heads, Buckethead, Radiohead, Propellerheads, Screaming Headless Torsos

Their drummer's a bad mofo, and NEVER gets any respect.

When they played on SNL awhile back (jesus, that performance gave me some goosepimples!), when the show closed, Thom Yorke held a sign that said "Let Ralph Debate", and dropped it in a twitchy anger. Horatio Sanz picked it back up. Ralph and Thom both have goofy eyes on the same side.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

fourteen years pass...

The world seems like a very different place to when this thread was active.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 11:10 (nine years ago)

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