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crossed legs

Posted by sll on July 13, 2008 at 7:00pm

forage through swampsand get the shine out of your eyessliced in half apple skins and milkfull in every corner, lingeringcrossed legs.

I

Posted by Ben Z. on July 13, 2008 at 10:09am

justwanttopasoutt

Prince

Posted by £ø£ø on July 13, 2008 at 7:23am

I've been hearing about this whole Prince covering Creep issue and I have to say I am so mad that I can't watch it. I love Prince too and I know he put his thang down! That mess is crazy. That's why I did have to stop fukin w/him. He is very somtimey.I still wanna see it though. So I'll be following ang posting anything I find. If I don't lose interest....

HA!HA! I FOUND IT!!!!

My Top 50 (er... 52) Favorite Radiohead Songs (Part 4)

Posted by NoSurprises11 on July 13, 2008 at 6:53am

20/ Bodysnatchers - In Rainbows - 2007This is one of their most solid rock songs to date and one of my most favorite songs to play on guitar. And that's all that needs to be said about this amazing song.19/ Motion Picture Soundtrack - Kid A - 2000The perfect end to their perfect album. From the harps, to the pump organ, to Thom's voice, this song is such an incredibly heartfelt and emotionally strong song. Everything is written so beautifully. The song ends with Thom singing "I will see you in the next life." There's a peaceful death at the end. The harps are plucked so that it sounds as if you're slowly falling asleep... then... silence. One minute of silence before a single note penetrates. And then that single note turns into a short crescendo of beautiful sound. I describe it as the sound that you hear when you see Heaven.18/ Let Down - OK Computer - 1997This song was written about the feeling you get looking out of a fast-moving car or train and everything just whizzes by. And it definitely feels like that. One of the greatest things about Radiohead is their knack for new things to come up with. New sounds to make. New rhythms. And "Let Down" has a brilliant guitar riff that starts off the song. It's a simple and pretty series of notes and they're played in 5/4 time. For those that aren't music-term-literate, 5/4 means instead of the beat going 1-2-3-4, the beat goes 1-2-3-4-5. The twist on this is that the entire song is in 4/4 (typical popular music signature 1-2-3-4) time. So when the riff is played in the beginning, it's repeated twice. On the third repeat, the riff gets to the 3rd beat before the drums come in. So when the song bursts into motion after the intro, the riff starts at the 4th beat while everything else starts at the 1st. But each fourth series of 4 beats, the guitar riff starts one beat later. So it becomes guitar riff = 5th beat, everything else = 1st beat. Another four times through and the guitar's riff then starts with everything else, on the 1st beat. Then the 2nd and so on and so on. I could go on and on and get more and more confusing but that has always been something I've admired about this song. The molding of two time signatures so seemlessly. Everything else is golden too, don't get me wrong. It's got some of my favorite lines in the song. "One day I am going to grow wings. A chemical reaction. Hysterical and useless. Hysterical and let down and hangin around. Crushed like a bug in the ground. Let down and hangin around."17/ Big Boots - Live in Salamanca - 2002In a very recent interview with Ed O'Brien, Radiohead's rhythm guitarrist, the guy basically said that "Big Boots" is, without a better way of putting it, dead. Unless they decide to play it live again, this song is probably never going to get a proper recording in the studio. Very, very unfortunate news. This is an INCREDIBLE song. Imagine this scenario:You go to a movie theatre to see the newest 007 flick (this is a fictional situation. don't start thinking about Quantam of Solace here). It stars (English guy) and is titled Man-O-War.Radiohead's "Big Boots" would be the song played in the opening credits, right after he shoots the camera. This would be the perfect Bond song. And yet it's so Radiohead sounding. My favorite part of this song is Jonny Greenwood's signature riff for this song after the chorus.16/ Everything In Its Right Place - Kid A - 2000The first 5 notes of this song (a descending arpeggio in C) are the first 5 notes I heard of any Radiohead song ever (I'm not counting "Creep," sorry). I had just purchased Kid A and was listening to the CD. It's the first song on the CD, obviously. Those descending notes are some of the most memorable notes of all time for me. They essentially started my love for music. I have Radiohead to thank for my undying passion for it. They're so warm and inviting. And then Thom's voice comes in... but sampled. It's all over the song. Split-second clips of him in the middle of singing being repeated back and forth. Then Thom comes in, with all of his glitchy vocal samples, and sings "Everything. Everything. Everything. Everything in its right place. In its right place. In its right place. In its right place." It certainly is, Thom. Next comes my favorite Radiohead lyric of all time: "Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon." I still, to this day, have no idea what it means but I absolutely love the ideas this one lyric gives you. I just... love this song. So much. The way the keyboard gets colder and colder by the end of the song... The way the sampled Thoms try and sing along with the real one.Interestingly enough, on May 8th of this year, probably my most beloved musical moment of all time happened at my first-time Radiohead concert. During the performance of this song, while I was singing along, I looked up at Thom (who was facing my side of the stage on keyboard) and he looked at me and, while bobbing our heads together in rhythm to the song, we sang "yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon" together.15/ <--not intentional-->15 Step - In Rainbows - 2007So while we're on the subject of Radiohead firsts...This is the first song on their newest album. Everyone already knows about their pay-what-you-want scheme. Well. I paid $80 to have my awesome discbox on October 1st. On October 10th they released the album online. Having a ticket for the download from the discbox, I received the email. I opened the attachment and downloaded the album. I checked and doublechecked everything. I saw the folder titled "In Rainbows" appear on my desktop. I threw that bitch in my iTunes. I got my best headphones and plugged them into my computer and pressed play. "BOOM clack clack clack clack - clack clack clack - How come I end up where I started?"I about pissed.I heard the birth of this song live in 2006 and now I was hearing its final studio version. And it was perfect. I had to keep from yelling outloud and waking up my parents. From the combination of drums and drum machine to the spacey guitar to Thom's vocals to the little kids yelling "YEAAAAAH!!!!" after he sings "Fads for whatever!" I adore this song. I have never danced as hard as when they played this song live in Atlanta. Insane.14/ Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box - Amnesiac - 2001I love the beginning. It's like someone is just playing a pair of metal bowls for the hell of it and they just managed to capture it and put it in a song. And then that bass line comes in. One of my favorite bass lines from Colin. And I can't help but love the lyrics: "After years of waiting, nothing came. As your love flashed before your eyes, you realize I'm a reasonable man. Get off my case." !!!!! Haha! I love it! Unfortunately, I think they murder the luster of this song live. The fuzzbass needs to go, Coz.13/ The National Anthem - Kid A - 2000I don't know what genre to place this song in. I just don't. It's Radiohead genre. With the funkiest bassline ever, the song paints the picture of a few seconds of black and white footage of a man in a suit from the 20s dancing, repeating endlessly. It has an eery quality to it. And then Thom starts singing and it sounds like he's trapped in a metal box and singing into a long pipe that extends out from the box. And then... SAXOPHONE?! Yep. And then more brass. And more. Until finally it's just one big ball of brass that comes crashing to an end. But Thom sings it all back to life and it gets going again. But the furosity with which these musicians play their instruments causes the song to come crashing down once more. This time it's irreparable. This is the most remarkable example of fusing different styles of music I know of.12/ Planet Telex - The Bends - 1995The sheer intensity of the electric guitars playing the first chord of the chorus just makes me sweat. I love every single thing about this song. "EVERYTHING IS BROKEN. EVERYONE IS BROKEN." A perfect rock song. I don't think that Radiohead need to go back to pure rock. They've already made the perfect rock album. The Bends has been out for 13 years. Let it be. They won't be able to outdo themselves.11/ All I Need - In Rainbows - 2007This is an example of how to make a song in a major key sound kinda creepy. But it's not TOO creepy. It does have a stalkerish feel to it but it isn't overwhelming. When Thom sings the verses, it has a very aggressive feel to it. But then he sings the chorus and it takes on more of a delicate feel. "You are all I need. You're all I need. I'm in the middle of your picture lying in the reeds." And at the end of the second chorus the song takes a turn for an explosion of emotion. Strings, piano, and glockenspiel back Thom basically crying out "It's all right! It's all wrong! It's all right! It's all wrong!" This was one of my favorites when they premiered it live in 06 and I feel that they did the song justice. I love the hip-hop drums in the song combined with the dark-yet-inviting bass synth. And then the chords that sound like they're played by ghosts in the background. It's an atmosphere that they perfected in the studio. And that's why it's my 11th favorite Radiohead song.PART 5 SOON

Me being just as catty as the person I'm accusing of being catty

Posted by Ben Z. on July 13, 2008 at 12:30am

There's a girl from my high school who keeps a regularly updated livejournal. I didn't become privy to the whole livejournaling scene until the end of high school, but from what I can gather it's not something that you keep around past a certain age, that age being maybe 16 years old.But this girl updates her journal several times a week. Every entry is like something from a diary - the things she did that day, the people she talked to on the phone, the movies and TV shows she's seen. She includes her current "mood" at the end of every entry in the form of Hamtaro icons. I think this girl is 20 years old. Her posts are infused, also, with a cliquish, 8th-grade cattiness that at times seems to border on self-parody. Her concern with friends being "bitches" and mapping out the intricate web of infighting and alliances, especially as they pertain to finding an apartment, smack of juvenility. She had a dream once that her boyfriend was cheating on her, and that became a big issue for a while, according to her LiveJournal.What fascinates me about her livejournal, then, is how un-bloglike it is. She treats this website like, holy shit, a journal. I don't think that if she kept an actual journal the content would be any different. But for most bloggers, myself included, the content placed online and the content that one would traditionally expect to find in a journal are very different. Blogs are hipper, less detail-oriented, and less personal as a whole. They typically chronicle, usually in a concise format, something that interests the writer at the moment. The online act of journal keeping seems to die out as kids leave high school, for a couple of reasons: they are incriminating as fuck, and no one else reads them. They're also extremely superficial, in that an honest journal-keeper isn't writing to the world, but to himself. An oft-updated Live Journal demands an undue amount of self-absorption and narrow-mindedness.From May 20th:"Oh and I asked my Tarot cards about M___a and how i should deal with that situation and I did a one card draw: shuffled cut, shuffled cut and took the top one. And I got "Death" in the upright position, signifying change for the better, so id like some thought on that."no one commented.

Hello

Posted by £ø£ø on July 12, 2008 at 5:30pm

Today is the first day I even looked at my profile. It's my day off so I'm sure I'll be workin on it all day.

hello?

Posted by Alice on July 12, 2008 at 4:30pm

the day before yesterday(i can't believe that it was so long time ago) i got up at 7 am; caught some zzz at a half past one and woke up again two hours later. phew. i've mixed up while i write it!early morning we've driven to the railway station and i think it was pretty good because of dawn and music and so on.there was no one in the streets. well, maybe some cars.what am i talking about? i can't rememberbtw, there's my first post on w.a.s.t.e:) hurrayand sorry for my bad english:\today i've tuned last.fm profile and now it's scrobbling again. eventually!

Let's start it... Robot Reckoner Celeste 2...

Posted by Thanelien on July 12, 2008 at 4:30am

Well... This is a particular blog! Well it's a bit related to Radiohead, so it's normal it's a bit particular. I'm from Belgium and speak French, so, that's strange to do a blog in English, and there might be mistakes on sentences but I don't care. All I want is to be understood.

Right now, I'm listening to robot reckoner celeste 2... I found it on Thom Yorke's page. I'm confused cause I can't listen to it in repeat. I have to press the button. But it sounds so great, so nostalgic... It remind me moments I had with my ex girlfriend I still love. It hurts me a bit... That's strange cause I like it. It's a bit like fairy tales songs. A beautiful woman in a beautiful white long robe... She's walking in the dark. But there are lights all around, like floating in the air.

Well. So, I'm crazy. Never mind. We all are. Welcome.

BWM

Posted by Ben Z. on July 12, 2008 at 2:01am

Well, God is in HeavenAnd we all want what's HisBut power and greed and corruptible seedSeem to be all that there is

Memories...

Posted by erin on July 12, 2008 at 12:23am

Let's see...I'm *gasp* almost 30 years old, and have been a Radiohead fan for 13 years...I can even pin-point the exact moment I went from someone familiar with them (you really would've had to work hard in 1993 America if you had MTV or a radio to not hear Creep. I lived in West Virginia of all places at the time and often heard it on the radio, in an area with no so-called "modern rock" stations...It was practically on a loop on MTV back then. Those were the days when they actually played videos...but I digress.)I remember distinctly when the Bends was popular (I was living in Houston, TX by then). The first time I drove by myself after getting my license in spring 1995, Fake Plastic Trees came on the radio. I still associate that song with the freedom of being 16 and driving for the first time. It is forever a "driving song" for me. Windows down (no A/C), radio blasting (my car at the time didn't even have a cassette player--I was all radio!), the feeling of flying/"Oh Shit!" when I'd hit the train tracks going 50 mph (don't try that at home, kids!), singing along at the top of my lungs to the radio. The ridiculous things that make 16 yr old girls have fits of giggles, like when I accidentally referred to it as "Flake Pastic Trees" and my best friend and I laughed about it for literally an hour. (It was one of those things where we'd both giggle, then just as we'd start to calm down, one of us would say it again starting another round.)Hearing that REM was coming to Houston in Sept 1995 and that Radiohead was opening was exciting. I didn't even ask my parents if I could go...I just went to the grocery store (they had a Ticketmaster outlet inside back then) and bought a ticket for myself and my friend to go to my first concert without a parent/sibling with me. To be honest, I was totally going for REM (who I've loved since my best friend back in WV, Abi, gave me a tape with Reckoning on one side and Life's Rich Pageant on the other)--I was familiar with Radiohead, and I liked Creep, Fake Plastic Trees and Just (the 3 songs with the most tv/radio play up to that point) but I didn't have anything of theirs. I'd heard Pablo Honey (on a 10 hour road trip to Myrtle Beach, SC from WV with my church youth group--the minister was driving, and those of us in the back would strategically cough over the "fucking specials" in Creep--like he couldn't hear the song through the speakers..)Finally, the day of the show arrived...I got home from school, my parents agreed to drive my friend and I up to the Woodlands (it was a 90 min drive across Houston from where I lived at the time and since I was still a fairly new driver, they didn't quite want me on the highway that late at night.) They dropped us off and said they'd be back to pick us up after the show. My friend and I walked in, scoped a spot on the lawn and waited. We hopped up as soon as Radiohead took the stage and I heard the opening notes of their first song. I was completely in Awe. Honestly, I can still remember that feeling, and thinking "I have no idea what this is...but it is my new favorite thing!" (I was 16, after all.) What it was, turned out to be My Iron Lung, which for me is forever "the song that made me a Radiohead fan." Who would've guessed that those 9 songs they played that night would change my life so completely?I saw then the second time in 1998 at the Aerial Theater (it's now the Verizon Wireless in Houston). That was the show that sold out in 5 minutes...I only got a ticket because my friend Jason worked for Ticketmaster at the time, and he hit print the second they went on sale. The show was 2 weeks after my 19th birthday, and I took a bus home to Houston from college to attend. The most vivid memory from that show (besides the annoying biker dude standing beside me who kept yelling out "Creeeeeeep" when ever it got quiet, that is) was when they started to play No Surprises. They got through the intro part, and Thom was just joining in...he strummed his guitar, frowned down at it then over at Johnny, then said "stop, stop". He then looked over at someone standing off stage, and proceeded to re-tune his guitar to the correct key. They started the song over, and this time, Thom grinned right before he started to sing, and all of us in the crowd cheered (even the Creep guy)...I heard Pearly* and Banana co. live for the first time at that show...When Kid A came out, I was in the store at midnight to buy one of the first copies (same with Amnesiac). Then, rushed home to listen to the cd over and over, even though I had classes the next day and really should've been sleeping or studying. I sat on the floor with my head between the speakers of my stereo listening to Kid A on repeat until 3 a.m. with amazement about how well the sounds from the 2 sides blended in the middle. Somehow, the way the 2 halves combined created something indescribably cool. I remember driving from Austin to Houston with Eric and Erik, breaking my cardinal concert rule ("don't listen to the band's album before the show") by blaring Amnesiac b/c Erik hadn't heard it yet, as we rushed to get to the concert (that was the 3rd time I saw them). And, the amazing feeling of finally getting to the Woodlands (damn Houston traffic!) finding a spot on the lawn, the lights going down seconds later, and instead of the opening band taking the stage, hearing Colin's bass and cheering like mad as Radiohead opened the show with the National Anthem. (the Beta Band's vehicle broke down on the road to Houston, we later learned.)...and Thom's intro for Packt Like Sardines, when he declared how lucky we were in Houston b/c we couldn't possibly have traffic as bad as the UK, and when we all yelled "No!" (in a you're crazy/must be joking way) he was stunned and said "Really?!? You've got so much space, I'd think you'd all just off-road it, or something." ...then, seeing them again at the Woodlands 2 years later, again with Eric along with Marisol and Rachel for the opening date of the U.S. leg of the Hail to the Thief tour...They played lurgee ("this is a very old song") which was incredible! My friends and I danced like crazy most of the show--especially during the Gloaming and Idioteque...I can hear it all just like it was yesterday...I've seen them several times this year as well, making them the band I've seen the most times by far. (followed by REM with 4 shows) The last time I saw REM was when I "camped" all day at the front of the stage at ACL fest when they headlined it, so that I could be in the very front...which is also my game plan for Radiohead at this year's Lolla...and, thus the journey continues.

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Posted by mela... on July 11, 2008 at 11:10pm

the sale box in the mall next to the office has a certain appeal. maybe it is compulsive music shopping whilst trying to not think about work. well or. whatever.ideally there is a reason for buying jethro tull, jimmy smith, ray charles and a west coast blues compilation at once. then there is reality. at least there is the whole universe of cross references. uhm. yeah. i plea guilty of contribuiting to the cultural studies bullshit-a-verse. since there is nothing better around to play with why not do that? the cross refrence between 'middle' jethro tull and 'fleet foxes' was a bit striking tho.. since i am musically almost illiterate it took me up to now to get it. a certain touch of ignorance is helpfull during dj sets tho. really. no lie.

Dee dum

Posted by Angelo Muredda on July 11, 2008 at 10:00pm

Today I am to think and write about involuntary euthanasia and disability.I have chosen instead to watch Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.It's a good one!

Photos for London & Berlin

Posted by Jeff Galasso on July 11, 2008 at 9:59pm

A handful of fan photos from London night 1 & Berlin, as well as Berlin's setlist can be found by clicking the photo below:

Save Coney Island

Posted by MEEfO on July 11, 2008 at 8:00pm

Remember New Yorkers, Americans, Sympathizers worldwide:Today is the last day to voice your dissent in the fight to save Coney Island from re-development.I have sent the following missive. It seems fitting. I hope you follow. Email this address before 5pm ET 7/11/08: rbelsky@nycedc.comDear Mrs. Belsky,Sirs & Mdms,I am a Brooklyn resident, a New Yorker, an American. I am a student of our past and an admirer of our present. However, I see clearly the mistakes of our fathers in the name of development, of forward momentum, of manifest destiny.Progress and history are not mutually exclusive. An entity that exists in the collective conscious of so many souls, past and present--passed ever toward future souls--has cascading energy, like so much inertia, capable of blowing you over. A shockwave felt for generations.You and your monies will one day be gone. Coney Island will remain. For all of your efforts, it may change, but the fugitive sensation of its past will be the dread image that haunts our future sons and daughters: our living historians.One day we will clamor to rebuild, like Penn Station before it. And on this day your legacy will join the fate (prematurely ushered in by your kind) of our beloved park, our beloved boardwalk, our beloved Brooklyn--damned; the casualties of a gluttonous fold.In the end, Coney Island is lost; you, forgotten. Who does it serve?America needs its past; New York needs Coney Island; Brooklyn, its soul.Leave our park, our pastime, our land alone.Ever yours,Matthew S King[[contact info omitted]]

Song Added: ICA Lappis by Action Biker

Posted by Harri (zonn) on July 11, 2008 at 7:10pm

kinda one of those songs that if you're having a summer time funtime and you wanna make it jumpy and happy at the same time get a download in this and ring yer ears a bit with it. rock'em sock'em look in my song folder to the right, under ACTION BIKER, cuz the name of the band is ACTION BIKER which is a great name for this group.Tree Wave + Broadcast + Crystal Castles + Beach House = Action BikerI like Action Biker.

Fair Pay

Posted by Helen D on July 11, 2008 at 6:00pm

Thanks for your support

I've recently....

Posted by hpgirl_rg88 on July 11, 2008 at 2:51pm

gotten really into The Books...."There is no There".....is sort of an amazing song....yeah, u should listen to them if u haven't already...mmmkkk???!!!alright.

Is there life after radiohead?

Posted by in rainbow shoes on July 11, 2008 at 1:30pm

I used to be all right...What happened?Now I see the world through rainbows...My consciousness refuses to perceive the reality...Was the show real?? I'm not sure...
Rain...It was the most fucking perfectly beautiful rain in my life...I raised my hands to it, I laughed, I drank it! Rain down!!!! Come on rain down on me!!!! Clothes were entirely wet...The rain was beating our happy faces, and my wet hair lashed the people's faces ...I thought I would lose my mind because of this total univesal sound-visual beauty everywhere around me....In Rainbows-songs were perfomed so filigree, the sound was crystal-clear....
It's too strong, too wonderful to be real...
Thanks to Radiohead for every single thing they do. We need it...

Dear You:

Posted by Noelia on July 11, 2008 at 6:30am

Dark clouds may cover ur mind and hide the good moments life can give you. If I've learned something is to jump one stone at the time while crossing the river of "life" . Don't question ur self on "why this" "why that"... just take it the way it is, other wise u can get drown in your own memories. You can ask me beloved virginia about it...And yes... it's not an event that in this glamourus dinner where we're all invited is full of sh_t *yummy*, but is up to us how much of sh_t will be eaten.Cold nights. foggy streets. moments of lonelyness and those voices... can't blaim on you, been there several times, but think... there is always someone worst than us. Be thankful.xNP.D Hats don't define an age... I bet they look good on you...

Bercy beaucoup Radiohead

Posted by don from Paris on July 10, 2008 at 9:32pm

Puisque c'était écrit, on ne peut pas être à Nîmes le samedi soir puis à San Francisco le lendemain matin...Pour cause d'obligation professionnelle, j'ai donc été forcé de choper des places sur Ebay pour Bercy le 9 juin (bah oui, sinon j'aurai mourru): Pas le meilleur concert des fab' 5, mais même en chantant sous la douche je trouverais Thom planant-en toute objectivité bien sûr-alors les voir enfin après autant d'attente depuis httt était bien chouette. SETLIST:1) All I Need2) There There3) Lucky4) Bangers’n Mash5) 15 Step6) Nude7) Pyramid Song8) Arpeggi9) The Gloaming10) My Iron Lung11) Faust Arp12) Videotape13) Morning Bell14) Where I End And You Begin15) Reckoner16) Everything In Its Right Place17) BodysnatchersRappel 118) Exit Music (For A Film)19) Jigsaw Falling Into Place20) House Of Cards21) Paranoid Android22) Street SpiritRappel 223) Like Spinning plates24) You and whose Army ?25) IdiotequeOn passe sur la sono qui sature parce qu'elle n'est pas en plein air.On a beau dire, ca vous file la banane, tout ça !

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