Birds in Hell wrote:Radiohead are definitely something of a white whale band for me, they haven't played Adelaide since the OK Computer tour and I was out of town when they were here then. I would've flown interstate to see them when they toured here in 2012, I had friends who did, but it fell right after our daughter was born.
I hope you get to see them someday Spenno - they really are something special in concert. They're intense, they're majestic, they bring the rock, they bring the bleepity-bloop, they are excellent musicians and (unlike some other bands) rarely make a mistake. And when they do - they get pissed at themselves (and each other):
The two times I've seen Radiohead would be in my top 5 shows by anyone ever. I was living in London in 2003 and got to see them at Earls Court (I've been spinning that boot regularly for over a decade now) and the other was Sydney 2012 - a totally different experience but just as amazing
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Tue November 25, 2014 9:08 pm
by Birds in Hell
Thanks Brad, I very much hope I get a chance one day too.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Tue November 25, 2014 9:21 pm
by pnjguy
I saw them at Bonnaroo in the pit. I was standing behind a guy with "this isn't really happening" printed on the back of his hat. It was true.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Tue November 25, 2014 10:14 pm
by Wendy Carlos's Twin
I was at the show where the live version of "Like Spinning Plates" was recorded. The effect of the 110 degree weather giving way to an intense cooling effect when the sun went down made for a hell of a night.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 5:31 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I've been spinning HTTT a lot lately, and I'm just noticing what an amazing song "The Gloaming" is. I love the way Yorke consecutively repeats lyrics so much; it creates this effect of the song slowly transitioning from movement to movement. It's a thick, lumbering, eerie powerhouse of a song.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 5:33 pm
by LoathedVermin72
The guitar solo in "There There" is one of my favorite things in the world.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 5:37 pm
by bodysnatcher
Popped on my 3-song EP last night while I finished cooking dinner...
1. Supercollider
2. The Butcher
3. These Are My Twisted Words
Love these three songs together for a quick 15 minute jaunt
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 5:49 pm
by pnjguy
I have this unhealthy obsession for "A Reminder" at the moment.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 7:20 pm
by CopperTom
LoathedVermin72 wrote:The guitar solo in"There There" is one of my favorite things in the world.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 7:44 pm
by LoathedVermin72
CopperTom wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:The guitar solo in"There There" is one of my favorite things in the world.
That too.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:01 pm
by ridleybradout
Ranking time!
Top 10 Radiohead songs (today anyway, these could interchange with a completely different ten at any time)
Street Spirit
Paranoid Android
Let Down
Lucky
Everything In Its Right Place
How to Disappear Completely
Idioteque
There There
Pyramid Song
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:33 pm
by epilogue
Top 10 ever? Fuck that's damn near impossible... pfffffffffffff.... I guess right now, off the top of my head, I'd go:
1. Big Boots (Man-o-War)
2. Reckoner
3. Let Down
4. Polyethylene (parts 1 & 2)
5. Just
6. Street Spirit
7. Paranoid Android
8. I Might Be Wrong
9. The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
10. Drunken Punchup
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:35 pm
by LoathedVermin72
There's no fucking way I could do that. But I will say that my #1 favorite is probably "Talk Show Host".
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:36 pm
by LetMeSleep
LoathedVermin72 wrote:There's no fucking way I could do that. But I will say that my #1 favorite is probably "Talk Show Host".
Just fucking do it, LV.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:36 pm
by epilogue
Talk Show Host is fucking great. Definitely a top 10 some days.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:36 pm
by epilogue
Also I might like Where I End and You Begin more than Punchup. So that probably shouldn't be in my top 10.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:36 pm
by Kaius
Yeah, this ain't happening.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:37 pm
by epilogue
Fog is also goddamn awesome. That should be in my top ten.
Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Wed November 26, 2014 10:38 pm
by epilogue
Also Nude.
But I might have liked it more when it was Big Ideas. Maybe not. I don't fucking know.
