Thursday, October 24, 2013

5 Amazing versions of radiohead you might have not heard before

So this is a list made by me,i tried to put 5 Amazing versions of radiohead songs that you might have not heard before and maybe you'll thank me later !



1.Fog - Live in Paris 2001

Kid' Rocks on Melody Maker, september 27th 2000


 ONE thing's for sure, you realise as you trek from Mile End Tube towards the eerie, tented structure that will host Radiohead's next three performances: we ain't at V2000 any more, Tonto. Because Thom Yorke and his pals have done everything possible do distance tonight from 2000's other Big! Outdoor! Events! 
It's not just the much-touted, if not strictly true, "no logo" anti-corporate stance (Budweiser and Virgin get right in-yer-face if you're one of the lucky few able to get anywhere near the one and only bar): there's the unglamorous location, the complete lack of other “attractions” (a Samaritans stand is about as "interesting" as it gets) and the strictly no-frills show itself.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Radiohead: "We are making a new album" for NME, october 10th 2009

Forget the rumours, we can confirm there will be another Radiohead album, and that’s according to... the band themselves.
Following online comments from frontman Thom Yorke back in August it looked like they band were giving up the ‘traditional’ release format. However, Ed O’Brien has confirmed that they are not only interested in recording more albums, they are actually making one right now.
The guitarist told NME that with sessions planned this winter the band would “definitely” be releasing a full album physically next year.
“We were misquoted,” claimed O’Brien of Yorke’s comments, loudly adding, “WE WILL BE MAKING AN ALBUM!” Although he said the band hadn’t decided how it would be released, he said the album would come out on vinyl and CD whether it first arrived as a download or not.
“We love the artwork; that’s really important, the physicality,” he explained. “And we all like vinyl. That’s not going to go away. I still like CDs as well. I got the Speech Debelle CD the other day – I nearly downloaded it from iTunes but I thought, ‘No. I want the physical thing.’“


Sunday, October 20, 2013

Interview with Ed on March of 16th 2012

You return to Mexico. How was last time you were here? 

Ed: It was amazing. It was amazing because we hadn't been to Mexico for... Well, the previous time was in '94. We met on that tour, didn't we? And to come back to play el Foro? Is it? [It] is incredible. And what was interesting about it was that we realised, we had such a great experience... cause that was part of our South-American tour. So we went from Mexico down to Brazil then Argentina then Chile. What we realised was that Mexico is nearer to North America. So when we play North America, we should play Mexico, as well. And that was great to go, "OK, when we have our North-American tour, we can play Mexico City as well". Loved the spirit, we had a big party last night, it was amazing. 

Interviewer: Yes. 

Ed: You were at the party? It was a great party, wasn't it? 

Interviewer: Yes. Thom was DJing and he was like "Move over!". And he took over the... 

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Stanley Donwood talks about stories behind his artwork with radiohead

Stanley Donwood has been creating all the artwork for Radiohead since ‘The Bends’ in 1995. As he exhibits 'The Kings Of Limbs' artwork in a gallery in Soho this month, I spoke to him about the extraordinary relationship he has with the band and the process of working together. You can read more in this week's NME but here he is on the stories behind each album sleeve.







Dolphins prefer Radiohead's music

Thought to be one of the most intelligent species on the planet, dolphins have been shown to possess self-awareness and complex communicative abilities, as well as the capacity to use tools, recognize and remember "names," and problem-solve.This week, rumors are swirling that yet another incredible skill could be added to the marine mammal's seemingly bottomless bag of tricks: music appreciation.In an interview with RadarOnline, yoga instructor Willow Withy said the dolphins she interacts with at Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat in Las Vegas seem to have the ability to appreciate certain kinds of music. Specifically, Withers said, they seem to have a particular love for English rock band Radiohead.

Nude -The Meaning

A friend of mine asked me about meaning of Nude from "In Rainbows",besides amazing sounds of this song Radiohead as always saves something mysteriously on their song.
All right,i read on the internet from different pages and fan clubs dedicated to radiohead and i came with a conclusion of this song lyrics.




The Word Magazine about Radiohead On June 2008

 The text and the pictures in between are taken from the online edition of this article, which was posted on may 7th 2008 on the magazine's website.


It's hard to reconcile the torture of recording and writing with the colour and unexpected humour of their worldview. Andrew Harrison spends three months in Radiohead-world to discover the roots of their singular mission...

 January 16, 2008: it is bitingly cold in the streets around London E1's Brick Lane, but the effect of a face-cracking wind are softened by the unfamiliar warmth of shuffling, closely packed bodies. It is Radiohead Secret Gig Day. This morning, the band announced on its website that it would perform at the new Rough Trade East shop that very evening. Bogus sicknotes flew through the electronic ether; people began to queue before noon. Now there's at least a couple of thousand squeezed into the cobbled streets, stamping and huffing into their hands, hoping for admission to a show with a capacity of a couple of hundred tops.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Celebrities About Radiohead

Radiohead as a rock band doesn't have good relationship with media and other celebrities,in particular Thom Yorke.Many of celebrities been upset by Yorke rudeness such as Jack Black who wanted to congratulate on his own solo show but he ingored him just walking by him,in 2001 the lead singer of WELSH Kelly Jones called him a "miserable twat"..  but that doesn't seem to concern the band,below i listed some other famous people who love radiohead and their work, i have to mention that Kanye West is also on this list...


David Bowie:This year, I saw Radiohead at the Beacon Theater. I had a shrewd suspicion that they were the best band around, and that convinced me.

Paul Mccartney:Paul's a big fan of the critically acclaimed band and they were the only group he mentioned off the top of his head when asked who his favorite musical acts were these days.

Ringo Star:The record industry has fallen apart. But we are on to the new age, a digital one, where anyone can download. Radiohead—how great! How much do you want to pay? That’s a huge change. God bless them.

Bono:Such imagination and courage are in short supply right now.They're a sacred talent, and we feel blessed to be around at the same time...They can do whatever they want in my book and it’s alright with me. They’re that good.

Chris Martin:It would be interesting to see how the world would be different if Dick Cheney really listened to Radiohead's OK Computer. I think the world would probably improve. That album is f*** brilliant. It changed my life, so why wouldn't it change his?

Kanye West:I don't listen to rap in my apartment, I listen to Thom Yorke.
Flea (on Thom Yorke):He's an unbelievably great musician and a beautiful man. He's so pure as an artist. It's less that I would try to copy him and more that just being around someone who channels really powerful energy is beneficial.

Damon Albarn:I’m glad that Radiohead exists...they’re interesting and they’re independent in the true sense of the word.

Justin Timberlake:Radiohead has the ability to make you feel you’re cramped up in a closet and then, all of a sudden, you burst out into an open wheat field and everything turns sepia or something.

My opinion on HOUSE OF CARDS.

Okay friends,one of the best studio albums of radiohead remains In Rainbows,released on October 2007,an album which contains songs that makes you shiver but this my opinion of my fav. track.


In general i love in rainbows work what radiohead did,there are a lot of beautiful songs but house of cards is something special i guess! everytime i hear this song it gives me those kind of feelings like im traveling somewhere out,it has those incredible sounds that makes you imagine beautiful things.I remember the very first time i heard the studio version i couldn’t stop listening but when i saw radiohead performing it live then i found the real beauty of this song..i mean those vocals of Thom and that line of guitar gives you chills repeatedly as always Ed giving him a really big help followed by Phil and Colin,but i have to appreaciate that Jonny is one of them who makes this song different playing guitar using just a coin..House of cards music video was directed by James Frost and Aaron Koblin using lidar technology and it was released in June of 2008.

Random FACT* 
"House of Cards" was nominated for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with VocalBest Rock Song and Best Short Form Music Video at the 51st Grammy Awards/wikipedia.
Do you think the same thing or it’s just me obsessed too much from this song?!


Early rare photos of radiohead



5 Random Facts About Radiohead

Here im going to write 5 facts that i really liked about radiohead,read them if you never heard about them...



1.The average amount paid for Radiohead’s most recent album, ‘In Rainbows’, for which fans could choose their own price, was £2.90. Only 38% of downloaders were willing to pay anything, with the majority paying nothing. 1.2 million people visited the ‘In Rainbows’ website in October 2007.

2.While recording Planet Telex Thom Yorke was pissed off,drunk and was lying on the ground until they finished their record.

3.According to Thom the only reason he started a band with Colin was because of their shared weird taste in outfits when they were younger. “We always ended up at the same parties. He’d be wearing a beret and a catsuit, or something pretty f*** weird and I’d be in a frilly blouse and crushed velvet dinner suit and we’d pass round the Joy Division records”.

4.Thom Yorke loves his children and for this he dedicated amnesiac album for his son Noah,and from his own solo album The Eraser song he dedicated to his daughter Agnes.

5.Thom broke his foot during the recording of “The National Anthem.”

What stands behind the lyrics of The National Anthem song

Kid A is conisdered number one of best albums of 00' by rollingstones and contains very weird sounds from weird people who use some unusual music instruments.
First time i heard The national anthem tbh i didn't like much but later i realized how powerful is that song.Below i'll try to explain the mysterious lyrics of this song.



Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
What's going on?
What's going on?


Like most of the lyrics from Kid A, The Nation Anthem is vague and deals with anxiety. Ever since the Bends and OK Computer, Radiohead has gotten much more attention and are now filling up stadiums with new fans, but Yorke is in such disbelieve.

Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's holding on
It's holding on


"Everyone has got the fear" Thom Yorke and the band had a really hard time during 1997-2000s and he expresses himself in this line that people won't like the album they've made,because it was too different with other albums.

"It's holding on" But true fans never won't betray their favorite band,although is something very different they will stay until the show/track is over!

My 3 fav. live performances are that one on SNL,Later with jools holland and the best Live in Paris 2001.Check that out!



FACT* Thom Yorke Wrote that bassline when he was only sixteen.

Is Hail To The Thief underrated?!

Being fan of Radiohead it's such a great thing,to be honest i listen to them since 2005,as a kid i always loved work of radiohead,their songs against government and those people who really call themselves decent "leaders".
If you ever gonna ask me which is your favorite album made by radiohead,although it is a really hard question to answer i'll pick Kid A,it's because of its unique sounds and lyrics behind the songs one more reason makes me love more this studio album is that people were expecting something similar as their last famous album Ok computer but they came with something very different and brought the modern era of rock music.
Hail to the thief cover album by "Stanley Donwood"

All right let's get to the point,Is Hail To The Thief underrated?!Definitely Yes,according to my country people who love and listen to the radiohead are more familiar more with their main albums such as Ok computer,kid A,in rainbows.. but i never heard someone saying that Hail to the thief has beautiful songs on it, which it really does.

If you play the whole album you'll see the first song 2+2=5,a very powerful song against rules of goverments.
Right after that comes "sit down,stand up" also a song about the vietnamese war generals telling people to sit down and kiss their foots then stand up, the lines of lyrics "we can wipe you out anytime" tell that they can do anything with your life.
Another beautiful song from this album "where i end and you begin" i consider this one of my favorite songs,i really love sounds that Jonny Greenwood makes with Ondes Martenot you better watch on youtube some of their live performances.
The Gloaming,,, oh yeah another song that makes you shake your body,especially for them who loves electronic music.
There There the best song radiohead to open a concert.

I'll let you to write comments about the rest of the songs i didn't write for...

Even Paul McCartney wants to work with Thom Yorke

Recently we've heard some rumors that Paul McCartney former of the legendary band The Beatles wants to collaborate with Thom Yorke and Damon Albarn from blur.McCartney for his next album thought about Yorke would be a nice choice but his afraid that he won't accept and turn him down.


   Thom Yorke(radiohead)            Paul McCartney(The Beatles)
"[My daughter] keeps saying to me, 'Ring Thom and just go into the studio and just see what you come out with,'" McCartney told NME in a new interview. "I'm a bit sort of paranoid to just ring him up. 'Hey Thom, it's Paul here. What do you fancy, what are you doing? Do you fancy writing something?' Just in case he says, 'Er, actually I'm busy'."
Although Stella McCartney is "very keen" for her dad to move forward with the Macca/Yorke team-up, McCartney senior seems just as determined to work with an older, less newfangled peer: Bob Dylan. The idea has been in the air for ages: McCartney complained in 2009 that Dylan seemed reluctant to "[get] in touch". Now, four years later, McCartney admitted that the notion is "still … at the back of my mind". "I would like to do it," he said.
As a fan of both two bands i would love to hear something from these two men.What they have done so far is amazing and if they would work together for sure would be something perfect.

Thom facing an incident with the soundman!

So this is my first post on this blog and im going to write something about an incident between frontman of radiohead Thom Yorke and the soundman..It was Kid A/Amnesiac era when this incident happened and it really made me laugh like a psycho.Below is what Ed o'Brien for an interview said.

Thom Yorke kid A/Amnesiac


  • Ed: There was a great one about a couple years ago when we were in some gig up in the north of England, and one of the P.A. guys accused us of nicking a D.I. [direct audio signal injection] box. This guy's huge, he's taller than me, about six foot seven, and twice as wide.
  • Thom: Like a f***ing psycho.
  • Ed: And basically, Thom says no. [The soundman]'s still giving us hassles, so Thom tells him to f*** off, and looks up at him with a mean stare. So this guy gets Thom by the neck...
  • Thom: He pinned me against the wall.
  • Ed: ... and Phil and I had to take one arm each of this guy and try to wrench them off.
  • Thom: I didn't tell him to f***off.
  • Ed: Yeah, you did. I think that was the problem, really.
  • Jonny: It was.
  • Thom: Well, alright.
  • Ed: [laughs] Considering he was upset anyway.