The title of the book isThom Yorke: "Radiohead" and "Trading Solo."

i'm a fan of radiohead, but i can't imagine this being at all interesting. even the name of the book puts me to sleep.

Wow, subby must not know very much about cleverness, beauty or Pink Floyd.

/not interested in the book either

At least Coldplay know how to write a song. Remember songs?

I Like Bread: At least Coldplay know how to write a song. Remember songs?

Define songs. Radiohead have plenty of songs. Experimentation does not mean they do not write songs.

This is the worst idea ever. Not because the book will be boring drivel, although it probably will. The true tragedy is that as soon as he hears about this, Chris Martin will hire a team of biographers to attempt to capture his "genius" in prose.

FeedTheCollapse: I Like Bread: At least Coldplay know how to write a song. Remember songs?

Define songs. Radiohead have plenty of songs. Experimentation does not mean they do not write songs.

A song has a particular structure and particular elements. A Radiohead album has... other things. The ability to make sounds with instruments does not mean they write songs.

Is this the book?

/hotlinked

I Like Bread: FeedTheCollapse: I Like Bread: At least Coldplay know how to write a song. Remember songs?

Define songs. Radiohead have plenty of songs. Experimentation does not mean they do not write songs.

A song has a particular structure and particular elements. A Radiohead album has... other things. The ability to make sounds with instruments does not mean they write songs.

You don't really listen to Radiohead do you?

the worst thing is that 5 years from now the entire british rock scene will keep rewriting and publishing slightly updated versions of just the middle chapters of yorke's book.

WaltzingMathilda: You don't really listen to Radiohead do you?

This. And in a thread with Pink Floyd in the headline, no less.

FeedTheCollapse: I Like Bread: At least Coldplay know how to write a song. Remember songs?

Define songs. Radiohead have plenty of songs. Experimentation does not mean they do not write songs.

How is copying the entire genre of IDM in any way experimental?

WaltzingMathilda: You don't really listen to Radiohead do you?

Not any more, no. How did you guess?

Glitchwerks: How is copying the entire genre of IDM in any way experimental?

Outside of a few tracks here and there (Idioteque being the most blatant example), I'd say they owe less to IDM and way more to Krautrock and various other post-rock bands from the past 20 years or so.

"Experimental" was probably not the word I was looking for, but to say Radiohead don't write songs just makes you (not you, specifically. That other guy) sound like a closed-minded douche.

I Like Bread: WaltzingMathilda: You don't really listen to Radiohead do you?

Not any more, no. How did you guess?

Because a few expiremental tracks on Kid A, that even I didn't like, doesn't mean they don't write songs. Overall, even that album had a few great songs, and it's not like they tried to release any of the "just making sounds" songs as singles.

If you listen to their latest album, you won't be able to single out one "track" that isn't a "song" even in the traditional definition you want the word "song" to mean. So, I always assume the crowd that tries to say Radiohead just "makes sounds" clearly hasn't listened to them since Kid A, and must not have listened to any of their albums before Kid A either.

/on a side note, there is no similarity b/w this band and Floyd.

FeedTheCollapse: "Experimental" was probably not the word I was looking for, but to say Radiohead don't write songs just makes you (not you, specifically. That other guy) sound like a closed-minded douche.

I'm pretty sure we've had this discussion before so I'll happily agree and drop the issue, mostly because I don't want to dig out my old Neu LP's and compare them with Radiohead. :p

Radiohead threads on Fark always bring out the worst trolls. I expect Valdes to show up any minute now.

Yawn. Headline troll.

Srry bout the bold, trying to work and bs here.

I'm listening to Radiohead now, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

1derful: I guess it became that way around the time that a mailing list became a genre of music.

I was one of the early members of that email list actually. The mailing list didn't become the genre, it just became the label that everyone used. Probably one of the most unfortunate things to ever happen because the whole "intelligent" bit did sort of contrast that there was "stupid" dance music.

The list got a bit snotty and close minded at times though. Too fanatic about labels and such. Oh, and having white dudes rip off black Detroit artists.

Those were the days...clashing with Drukman over Detroit techno, telling Mixmaster Morris to fark right off the jungle scene... :p

aw man, I came here to say "Thom Yorke? Who wants to buy a biography from the lead singer of Coldplay?" but there's already too many references to that pile of suck. Perhaps I need to freshen up my material.

I Like Bread:
A song has a particular structure and particular elements. A Radiohead album has... other things. The ability to make sounds with instruments does not mean they write songs.

Here's Thom and Radiohead performing a SONG live quite well. (new window)

Eat a dick, Subby.

Here's the summary:

"I was a little douchebag who is scared of flying in a big ol' scary plane, but I made an album with my friends and it sucked but one only semi-crappy song got played on the radio, so we had enough money to make another album of only half-sucky songs about life being depressing which everyone really liked so we made ANOTHER album of only half-sucky songs about life being depressing which everyone thought was awesome for some reason even though we knew it really wasn't, so I thought, well, maybe I'll write three albums of COMPLETELY sucky songs that no one would possibly like, but everyone who kind of remembered the second and third album wanted the last albums to be as good even though they were truly sucky, so they pretended they were good even though they really weren't, and I'm still scared of planes and life sucks even though I'm rich and I can get all the tail I want even if I still am a whiny little douchebag.

The End.

Valdes: Here's the summary:

"I was a little douchebag who is scared of flying in a big ol' scary plane, but I made an album with my friends and it sucked but one only semi-crappy song got played on the radio, so we had enough money to make another album of only half-sucky songs about life being depressing which everyone really liked so we made ANOTHER album of only half-sucky songs about life being depressing which everyone thought was awesome for some reason even though we knew it really wasn't, so I thought, well, maybe I'll write three albums of COMPLETELY sucky songs that no one would possibly like, but everyone who kind of remembered the second and third album wanted the last albums to be as good even though they were truly sucky, so they pretended they were good even though they really weren't, and I'm still scared of planes and life sucks even though I'm rich and I can get all the tail I want even if I still am a whiny little douchebag.

The End.

Wow, "Trevor Baker, a London-based freelance writer" has had an interesting life. But shouldn't he be writing about Thom Yorke?

WaltzingMathilda:
/on a side note, there is no similarity b/w this band and Floyd.

Oh, Radiohead captures Floyd's ethereality (is that a word? it is now), but Floyd has a far more diverse sound than Radiohead does.

/likes Radiohead
//loves Floyd

FACT!

22% of the letters in Thom Yorke's name are superfluous.

mpv81: I Like Bread:
A song has a particular structure and particular elements. A Radiohead album has... other things. The ability to make sounds with instruments does not mean they write songs.

Here's Thom and Radiohead performing a SONG live quite well. (new window)

Hasn't he gotten rid of that slur yet? He's like a pubescent Eddie Vedder.

I Like Bread: Remember songs?

Sadly, yes.

The traditional "song" format has been status quo for decades, and it's far beyond tired at this point.

mpv81:

Here's Thom and Radiohead performing a SONG live quite well. (new window)

Glass house - fitting for all of the radiohaters.

It must be difficult for some of you to watch for every post with the word "radiohead" in it, just so you you can run your mouth about how someone else's band sucks.
/Get a life

WaltzingMathilda: I Like Bread: WaltzingMathilda: You don't really listen to Radiohead do you?

Not any more, no. How did you guess?

Because a few expiremental tracks on Kid A, that even I didn't like, doesn't mean they don't write songs. Overall, even that album had a few great songs, and it's not like they tried to release any of the "just making sounds" songs as singles.

If you listen to their latest album, you won't be able to single out one "track" that isn't a "song" even in the traditional definition you want the word "song" to mean. So, I always assume the crowd that tries to say Radiohead just "makes sounds" clearly hasn't listened to them since Kid A, and must not have listened to any of their albums before Kid A either.

/on a side note, there is no similarity b/w this band and Floyd.

Kid A is amazing. And its chock-full of "songs." I don't find it to be noise at all...in my opinion, Amnesiac is much more abstract.

So it will be really good at the beginning, become unreadable, then finish off with a glimpse of genius that is overshadowed by how boring it is?

sugarmagnolia94: WaltzingMathilda: I Like Bread: WaltzingMathilda: You don't really listen to Radiohead do you?

Not any more, no. How did you guess?

Because a few expiremental tracks on Kid A, that even I didn't like, doesn't mean they don't write songs. Overall, even that album had a few great songs, and it's not like they tried to release any of the "just making sounds" songs as singles.

If you listen to their latest album, you won't be able to single out one "track" that isn't a "song" even in the traditional definition you want the word "song" to mean. So, I always assume the crowd that tries to say Radiohead just "makes sounds" clearly hasn't listened to them since Kid A, and must not have listened to any of their albums before Kid A either.

/on a side note, there is no similarity b/w this band and Floyd.

Kid A is amazing. And its chock-full of "songs." I don't find it to be noise at all...in my opinion, Amnesiac is much more abstract.

Don't get me wrong, I like Kid A (amazing, I'll not say ... though I think In Rainbows is amazing). I do think at least half of Kid A is amazing, but there are a few songs on there that I skip over every single time.

I just read that Radiohead are going to perform at the Grammy Awards. That should be very interesting for several reasons. Link (Ateaseweb)

Yorke may have one of the most beautiful male singing voices i've ever heard, and they may be great songwriters, do interesting things in the studio, good production/engineering, have great album covers/booklets, etc.
but damn it if they don't make some of the most depressing / hopeless modern rock [ie. 1990 and up] songs I've ever heard.

There's this one day where I decided to run myself a bath and listen to "O.K. Computer" and "Kid A" back to back.
I thought about drowning myself halfway through.

/ and this is coming from a guy who likes Joy Division and thinks "Closer" is one of the best albums of the 80's.

Third_Uncle_Eno: Yorke may have one of the most beautiful male singing voices i've ever heard,

Thom Yorke has a beautiful singing voice in the same way that a kid who goes to school with a helmet on is "special".

meh...everyone's favorite band sucks. Saying Radiohead is a copycat of Neu is like saying the Grateful Dead copied the Dixie Jugband Swineherd Revival. Subby's favorite band sucks too.

/elitist

All your bands are just aping off of that caveman who was the first guy to bang on rocks with sticks to a discernible rhythm. I believe Og was his name.

//suck it, snobs
/radiohead is great

I play better music than everyone in the whole world

/in my head

I think we should talk about starting a band.

Third_Uncle_Eno Yorke may have one of the most beautiful male singing voices i've ever heard, and they may be great songwriters, do interesting things in the studio, good production/engineering, have great album covers/booklets, etc.
but damn it if they don't make some of the most depressing / hopeless modern rock [ie. 1990 and up] songs I've ever heard.

There's this one day where I decided to run myself a bath and listen to "O.K. Computer" and "Kid A" back to back.
I thought about drowning myself halfway through.

I've always thought that if you're thinking about killing yourself when listening to music, there's something wrong with you as a person. Radiohead make great music - if it makes you depressed that's probably because you're farked up in the head.

Radiohead haters always arouse a fierce anger in me - fair enough if you don't like the music, but you've gotta admire a band trying something new, instead of flogging the same horse over and over again (metallica, oasis, et al). Labelling them depressing is just a buzzword, an easy target for the naysaysers to latch on to.

And as for Valdes - you were a waste of sperm mate.

A-Man: I've always thought that if you're thinking about killing yourself when listening to music, there's something wrong with you as a person. Radiohead make great music - if it makes you depressed that's probably because you're farked up in the head.

Radiohead haters always arouse a fierce anger in me - fair enough if you don't like the music, but you've gotta admire a band trying something new, instead of flogging the same horse over and over again (metallica, oasis, et al). Labelling them depressing is just a buzzword, an easy target for the naysaysers to latch on to.

And as for Valdes - you were a waste of sperm mate.


I agree. I would also add that if your favorite band is Aerosmith, or you prefer heavy metal, you might not like Radiohead's style of music and vice versa. I think everyone knows this. So when you post your nonsense in every Radiohead thread, you just show everyone what an idiot you are.

/-1 points for repetitive bad troll

I love Radiohead. I love Thom Yorke. But I am not really that interested in Thom's life story. For me, its about the music.

A-Man
I've always thought that if you're thinking about killing yourself when listening to music, there's something wrong with you as a person. Radiohead make great music - if it makes you depressed that's probably because you're farked up in the head.


i was mostly joking, mate.
i was young stupid teenager at that time.
lol

Who the fark is Karl Dallas?