Tag: Radiohead
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All Hail the Emperor’s New Limbs
Finally listened to the new Radiohead album ‘The King of Limbs’ and can hear what Radiohead fans have been kvetching about recently. I understand that each era of fans tend to change every few albums when a band experiments; the age old problem of locking an artist into their most successful era. But I think…
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What the Radiohead album *should* have sounded like…
…Well I only heard a few bits from passing cars going onto the tops of car parks, but the last few Radiohead albums have been More Of The Same to my ears…whereas this new collab between Burial and Fourtet (check out their last, especially Moth) and Thom Yorke really takes his work into new areas,…
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Not another John – John Lydon on 6Music
You need to hear this – John Lydon on 6Music’s ‘The First Time’ on the state of music and the UK today, PiL reform, his eclectic and very mashup approach to music, Malcolm McLaren (interestingly echoing my take on McLaren’s death and the deification, he’s right about concentrating on the good but there was sadly…
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“analogue business model in a digital era”
I love this quote from Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, about to speak at MIDEM about Filesharing: “I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’. I don’t actually believe it is … (Pirates) might not buy an album, but they’re spending their money…
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Who will be big in 2010? BBC’s Sound of 2010 hits the meh barrier (again)
Heard a bunch of the BBC’s Sound of 2010 on Music Week and on the wesbite, apparently ‘165 UK-based tastemakers’ worryingly, and my instant responses: The only ones I liked were The Drums who have been getting airplay already, Two Door Cinema Club cos of the Vamps influence (ditto Stornaway cos I’m a big fan…
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Why Radiohead weren’t revolutionary
A lot has been written about Radiohead’s ‘radical’ policy with ‘In Rainbows’ last year, letting the fans pay what they like. It seemed like a bold move at the time , if not original. Trent Reznor and others had done it first – but it was interesting because Radiohead were at the time such a…