Radiohead starts recording LP8

[TripletDaddy]

Lucky. If I was rich like you I would have flown out for it, too. Are you going again tonight?

This week? I am talking about years and years ago.....you know, back during the Paranoid Android album days!

[MarkGrace]

This week? I am talking about years and years ago.....you know, back during the Paranoid Android album days!

Great album. My favorite, actually. They played SHA last night. Supposedly the first time since '03.

[TripletDaddy]

Great album. My favorite, actually. They played SHA last night. Supposedly the first time since '03.

lol.

knock it off.

[MarkGrace]

Just read this review.

When did rock's artiest band become one of its most rhythmic? Armed for the first time with two - count 'em - two drummers (including guest banger Clive Deamer), the group leaned greedily into complex rhythms that chopped, barreled and roiled. The band's opening number, "Bloom," found them contrasting silvery, African guitar leads with beats that seemed to pull away from them with tribal force. The performance even featured a cameo for a third drum kit, pounded by guitarist Jonny Greenwood.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...#ixzz1ZMUrEG8Z

Based on their output, I would say sometime around 2000? Though TKOL has to be the peak of the rhythm-iness.

[MarkGrace]

lol.

knock it off.

Sorry. I read that last night when I was following the setlist. They also soundchecked it before the show. :condom:

[MarkGrace]

I don't get why everyone reports that Radiohead played a cover when they use another song as the intro EIIRP. They're not really covers.

[Viking]

Paranoid Android is not a radiohead album.

This explains your exuberance for tkol.

Neither was "Just". I'm fairly certain you could have figured out I wasn't referring to albums but rather the songs that defined each album.

[MarkGrace]

1. The guy who traveled 1,376 miles to see Radiohead and didn't have a ticket -- as his sign so helpfully explained outside Roseland before the show -- needs to read the fine print. No one's going to sell you a ticket. It's all Will Call, bro.

2. Well, now we know which band Bradley Cooper and Philip Seymour Hoffman can agree on. Cooper was spotted, um, dancing.

3. Why haven't Radiohead put "The Daily Mail" on a proper album yet? It's one of the best songs they've ever written -- a sinister, gorgeous, piano romp that ends like Sgt. Pepper tussling with Fugazi.

4. We love Thom Yorke's new, greasy long hair -- and guitarist Ed O'Brien's too. When Yorke shook and shimmied his was through "The National Anthem," "15 Step," and "Myxomatosis" -- his mop flying all around -- we felt a serious twinge of alt-rock nostalgia, a reminder that Radiohead was just one of the long-haired masses all those years ago.

5. And speaking of hair, Radiohead somehow found another bald, white, insanely talented British drummer! Phil Selway and new touring stickman Clive Deamer (who has previously worked with Portishead) looked like identical twins with their kits placed at opposite ends of the stage. "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" never sounded as propulsive as it did last night.

6. Radiohead now are more of a dance band than a rock band. At Roseland, new tunes like "Morning Mr. Magpie" and "Lotus Flower" were all sweat and manic rhythm. For every guitar solo Jonny Greenwood used to rip back in the day, there was another clever polyrhythm from Selway or Deamer. And Yorke never, ever stopped moving. Neither did the crowd.

7. Is Yorke a good dancer, a bad dancer, or both? Whatever he is, he's entertaining, even adorable, to watch. He told the crowd that he realized he'd finally become "an embarrassing dad" after seeing the video for "Lotus Flower," which features Yorke in all his jive-stepping glory. So maybe he's just a good dancer for a 42-year-old with kids?

8. Radiohead aren't a studio band. Yes, they spend long, painful months in stuffy rooms crafting meticulous odes to post-millennial angst. But they dispense with all the bullshit live, while remaining breathtakingly inventive. Take "Feral," for example. A cold, claustrophobic instrumental from The King of Limbs became a seething, seemingly improvised fire-breather on stage with Greenwood's vintage guitar heroics.

9. It's actually pretty endearing when a band screws up, particularly one as fussy as Radiohead. Yorke skipped a verse on "Reckoner" and forgot the lyrics to "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" during the second and final encore. But it was all right. The man apologized. We all cheered. The show went on.

10. Radiohead know how to pay respects to their friends. Before diving into "Everything in its Right Place," Yorke -- a long-time confidant of Michael Stipe -- ran through a few verses of R.E.M.'s "The One I Love" at the piano. "This one goes out to the one I love / This one goes out to the one I've left behind," he sang, the crowd hushed. R.E.M. lasted 31 years before they called it quits. Radiohead might have similar staying power.

http://www.spin.com/articles/10-thoughts-radiohead-live-nyc

On point 8 I agree and disgree -- guess it just depends on the album. In Rainbows they absolutely nailed in the studio. There's not a single song on there that I think is better live than the studio take. But on TKOL and HTTT, yeah, whiffed on a handful of the studio versions.

[Commando]

Thom and Jonny on Fallon tonight...

[BoylenOver]

Janice Whaley covers "I Will"

http://janice.bandcamp.com/track/i-will-radiohead-cover

She covered The Smiths' entire catalog using only her own voice (plus a computer to mix together the tracks). I think she's terrific.

[Commando]

wow.. time to get stoked!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/44335-radiohead-reveal-more-tour-details/

[BoylenOver]

Tour dates announced:

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/111107/touring-2012

Broomfield CO is an 8-hour drive from Salt Lake.

[Commando]

Radiohead in AZ, Bizznitches!!! STOKE.

[Moliere]

I'm surprised they are using the Toyota Center especially when the Woodlands has an awesome outdoor pavilion. Maybe they don't think it'll be warm enough in March, but they'll be wrong. Either way I'll likely go.

[MarkGrace]

I'm surprised they are using the Toyota Center especially when the Woodlands has an awesome outdoor pavilion. Maybe they don't think it'll be warm enough in March, but they'll be wrong. Either way I'll likely go.

They want to play indoors on this tour because they think the sound of the new record is more suited to it.