Brian_Walalce
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 14, 2011 at 07:42 PM UTC
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walkonby wrote:
if i hear one more person say, "my iron lung" is my favourite . . . i'll sick my cats upon them.
I'm not being ironic or contrarian but…I LOVE "Pop Is Dead." I know I've said this before on this message board but it's like if Guided By Voices grew up in Oxford instead of Ohio.
K8teebug wrote:
Saw them at Merriweather. Loved it. Agreed that's where they should play!
I was there and they did their big MTV hit. "Creep."
Brian
ggw
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 14, 2011 at 07:46 PM UTC
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The Radiohead-Biblical Rainstorm thing is totally played out. I hope next time Radiohead comes to DC there is something really cool - like locust. Or pestilence.
wml7
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 14, 2011 at 08:19 PM UTC
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Anyone preorder the album yet or are we all going to be like Walky and download it when it's available? ;D
Brian_Walalce
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 14, 2011 at 09:24 PM UTC
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I think you could scam a lot of hipsters and make millions doing it.
In a couple years, make some fake website and say Radiohead is going to be releasing their new album in 48 hours. But if you pre-order RIGHT NOW you'll get a super-exclusive, limited edition boxed set with weird details ("The CD is made out of WOOD!"). Slap some quasi-social-alienation graphic design on it and charge $60. You'd be a multi-millionaire before anyone found out.
Because this morning, thousands of people pre-ordered a "newspaper album" without ONCE questioning what the hell that is.
Brian
walkonby
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 12:50 AM UTC
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brian is this online generation's . . . stewie. i did enjoy "the cd made of wood" part.
nkotb
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 02:52 AM UTC
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This is the part I loved, and you're 100% on target. What does that mean exactly? Maybe it was released after the initial press on this, but it certainly didn't stop getting everything all a tizzy, did it?
Brian_Wallace wrote:
Because this morning, thousands of people pre-ordered a "newspaper album" without ONCE questioning what the hell that is.
sweetcell
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 03:48 AM UTC
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nkotb wrote:
This is the part I loved, and you're 100% on target. What does that mean exactly? Maybe it was released after the initial press on this, but it certainly didn't stop getting everything all a tizzy, did it?
Brian_Wallace wrote:
Because this morning, thousands of people pre-ordered a "newspaper album" without ONCE questioning what the hell that is.
they added a stupid descriptor which will probably make sense once you see the damn thing. who the fuck cares? do you think people bought it because it's a "newspaper album", or because it's a radiohead album? duh. let's have the momma's toasters release a "newspaper album" and see how much buzz it generates.
or, alternately, are people supposed to stay away
because it's a "newspaper album"? "i have no idea what it sounds like, but heard the new radiohead album is a "newspaper" album so imma gonna sit this one out."
and is it really such a mystery what "newspaper" refers to? lemme help you: "Many large sheets of artwork…" - some of the paper you get along with the vinyl is big. like a newspaper.
you haters are really grasping. haters gonna hate, fine, but could you at least make it something vaguely meaningful?
kosmo
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 01:46 PM UTC
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by the way, hipsters with no sense of history how about Jethro Tull's "Thick as a brick" as the first "newspaper" album…. Radiohead have become their own worst nightmare a MAJOR LABEL.
lwoxley
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 02:11 PM UTC
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Radiohead = Irrelevanthead
The new album should be titled, "yeah, we're still around"
nkotb
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 02:28 PM UTC
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So a "newspaper album" just means the cover is a newspaper?
From Wikipedia's article on "Thick as a Brick":
The original lp-cover, which opens up as a 12-page newspaper. The original LP cover was a spoof of a twelve by sixteen inch (305 by 406 mm) multipage local newspaper with stories, competitions, adverts, etc., lampooning the parochial and amateurish local journalism that still exists in many places today, as well as certain classical album covers, and even contains a review of the album itself. The "newspaper" also includes the entire lyrics to the song, and references to the lyrics are scattered throughout the articles. The spoof newspaper had to be heavily abridged for conventional CD covers, but the 25th Anniversary Special Edition CD includes a partial facsimile; some content is missing, such as the original connect the dots activity, which featured a cartoon duck salivating at the sight of a semi-nude woman, and part of the "front page;" however, the picture was restored to its full size including the entire image of "Gerald's chum", Julia.
kosmo wrote:
by the way, hipsters with no sense of history how about Jethro Tull's "Thick as a brick" as the first "newspaper" album…. Radiohead have become their own worst nightmare a MAJOR LABEL.
wml7
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 02:40 PM UTC
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;D
vansmack
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 05:33 PM UTC
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kosmo wrote:
by the way, hipsters with no sense of history how about Jethro Tull's "Thick as a brick" as the first "newspaper" album…. Radiohead have become their own worst nightmare a MAJOR LABEL.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think.
vansmack
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 05:34 PM UTC
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wml7 wrote:
;D
Poor.
ggw
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 15, 2011 at 05:41 PM UTC
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vansmack wrote:
wml7 wrote:
;D
Poor.
beetsnotbeats
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 16, 2011 at 06:14 PM UTC
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A FB friend posted this:
Sure, Radiohead, I find the concept of buying a box containing a parka, three 4.75" vinyl discs, an Edison cylinder, Etch-A-Sketched credits, and a dozen free-range emu eggs compelling, but will there be music? That's all I want to know: Will there be music?
runwhiteyrun06
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 18, 2011 at 03:30 PM UTC
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Out a day early. The website keeps crashing though so it's hard to get an order through.
betao
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 18, 2011 at 03:41 PM UTC
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I'm about halfway through my first listen. It's very different, more electronic influence. Sounds like Thom has been listening to alot of Burial, Lamb, maybe even some Bjork lately.
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 18, 2011 at 03:46 PM UTC
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Gah, where is a torrent for this already.
chaz
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 18, 2011 at 03:56 PM UTC
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I liked Radiohead better when they played guitars.
wml7
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Re: New Radiohead album this week
February 18, 2011 at 03:59 PM UTC
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DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
Gah, where is a torrent for this already.
demonoid has it on their site ;D