Its fine for me,adriaan has turned everything off from what ive seen

Haha...Don't you think Nina is glee?

That one's stupid...

bwahaha don't even dare :P so 'tis happiness, then.

 

WHAT'S WRONG WITH ATEASE AGAIN? IT'S TAKING AGES TO LOAD....:(

it took me ages to load a week ago, perhaps even more. now it works fine...

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i mean GLEE

yea its working now. HEY this thread is the busiest thread here! :cool:

of course,how else?

hey marek do you sit in front of Coldplaying.com all day? haha, the responses come in so quickly!

IN RAINBOWS IN RAINBOWS IN RAINBOWS

IN RAINBOWS IN RAINBOWS IN RAINBOWS

IN RAINBOWS IN RAINBOWS IN RAINBOWS

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hey marek do you sit in front of Coldplaying.com all day? haha, the responses come in so quickly!

sometimes

Oh i like it here with all these ateasers :blush:

I like more with you Lina:blush:

Thread to talk about the album when it gets released on Wednesday:

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41103

 

To break the chat up about Ateast being down and the album reviews.

Thank you marek..:nice:

Happy Birthday, Thom!

The paranoid android

 

PROFILE: THOM YORKE

 

MISERY may love company, but it appears to absolutely adore Radiohead. Thirty-nine last week, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke inspires the sort of serious, glassy-eyed obsession usually reserved for obscure sci-fi novels and cult movies. Now he has decided to find out just how much that is worth - or rather, how much fans value his music. The band are selling their new album online for whatever music fans feel like paying.

 

Radiohead, known for their experimental sound, are now experimenting with something else: a new delivery format. "It's up to you,'' was the band's website message on how much the album would cost to download, although they have not abandoned the idea of making money - the new album, almost two years in the making, will also be available as a box-set with extra new material on two CDs from December at the less-than-bargain price of £40.

 

In the past, many artists have offered free downloads of music from their websites - in July, Prince upset his record company by giving away his latest album with a British Sunday newspaper - yet none has offered a whole album for an honesty-box fee. But Yorke has always endeavoured over the past decade to work on his own terms, even if that means sonic plaintiveness spread across air-raid sirens and, perhaps, the despairing whimper of a small boy trapped down a well especially for the purpose.

 

Further reinforcing their attempt to position themselves as custodians of the album-as-artefact, they are one of the few bands who refuse to allow individual songs to be sold on iTunes, preferring to have people download an album.

 

There are some rock stars you'd love to have a beer and a laugh with. Yorke probably isn't one of them. Pop's poet of ennui is like a refusenik Pollyanna: grumpy, volubly disgruntled, and on balance unlikely to participate in the office-party conga. But he knows his audience - a fairly affluent middle-class bunch of zealots who dance vigorously at concerts to songs about mental breakdowns and cheer choruses such as: "And either way you turn, I'll be there/Open up your skull, I'll be there." That's what you have to do when a band's bleak perspective is so relentless.

 

By asking the fans to value the music, Yorke is telling those fans he trusts them, encouraging loyalty. The band makes money and everyone feels good about it. And while this might not work for a new band, Radiohead can get away with this because they're not tied to a major record label and they have a massive fan base.

 

The spur for the band's formation, and the dark modalities of its lyrics and music, can be traced back to Yorke's childhood, a short part of which he spent in Scotland, and a series of painful operations on his lazy left eye that not only failed to correct the condition but also damaged his vision and left his eyelid drooping slightly. At school in Oxford, he was ceaselessly ridiculed by other boys, who nicknamed him Salamander, yet it was also Abingdon School where he met the rest of Radiohead's members - Phil Selway on drums, Colin Greenwood on bass, Ed O'Brien on guitar and Jonny Greenwood on guitars, keyboards and unlikely bleeps. Named after a Talking Heads track, their early songs had the Beatlesque grandeur of Britpop, sabotaged with sentiments, like the one in 'Creep,' in 1993.

 

Pegged as a tormented soul, fans readily accepted the song as confessional when Yorke wrote, "I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo," but, in fact, he wrote the song one night while drunk and feeling sorry for himself, and claims his first intention was satirical. But when he came to record the song, he identified with the underlying issue of low self-esteem and sang with fierce conviction.

 

The song sank without trace in the UK but became their first transatlantic hit when it was picked up by sulky Midwestern youth. Radiohead were suddenly famous, a state of affairs they took to like a cat to water, especially Yorke.

 

He was even less prepared for the raves that greeted the next album, 1995's The Bends. Michael Stipe and U2's Bono became the band's champions, while Brad Pitt described Radiohead as "the Kafka and the Beckett of our generation", which may reveal more about the last time Pitt was able to catch up with his sixth-form reading syllabus.

 

Popularity only made the band's alienation more sweeping. OK Computer, full of dire thoughts about dehumanisation, was followed by a disassembling of its sound, supplanting guitars with keyboards and electronic cross-rhythms on Kid A then Amnesiac. With Hail To The Thief in 2003, Radiohead brought the two strands back together, reintegrating rock guitars into its jagged electronic soundscapes.

 

Throughout, Yorke remained the band's chief songwriter and driving force, or as he has put it: "We operate like the UN. I'm America." His depressions, therefore, also dominated their output. Last August, in his blog, he admitted in his punctuation - and grammar-liberated style - that he was "tearing my hair out, too much at once. furiously writing, working out parts, cracking up. not much time left. unshure about everything. im not supposed to put any of this here. so thats why i am."

 

As well as depression, there are established obsessions and causes. Yorke made headlines when he refused to meet then Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss climate change, on the grounds that Blair had "no environmental credentials". He has also been critical of his own energy use, stating that the music industry's use of air transport is dangerous and unsustainable, and that he would consider not touring if new carbon emissions standards do not force the situation to improve. He has also used his rock-star profile to benefit concerts for Amnesty International and the Tibetan Freedom Movement, and urged fans to read books such as Naomi Klein's anti-corporate tract No Logo.

 

If such Radiohead tunes as 'Paranoid Android', 'Sit Down Stand Up' and 'Sail to the Moon' are anything to go by, Yorke has spent the past decade preparing for a biblical flood - so what makes him feel good?

 

He appears to have a content home base in Oxford with his longtime partner Rachel Owen and two young children Noah and Agnes. The Radiohead family now includes 11 children among the band, and domesticity has much to do with the band's 18-month dormancy before recordings began for the new album.

 

"We made a conscious decision to be good dads," Yorke said. "We didn't see each other much at all, and it was really difficult getting back together, because you get sucked back into home life. But you have to work, you've got to carry on."

 

Dystopian unease is to Radiohead what tumbling surf is to the Beach Boys - yet the problem for Yorke is that he feels damned if he succeeds and damned if he doesn't.

 

You've been Googled

"'Bohemian Rhapsody' was the first song to blow my mind. I heard it at a friend's house, because the only piece of music my parents owned was an album of Scottish dancing that came with the record player." - Thom Yorke

 

• Yorke received his first guitar when he was seven. His first song 'Mushroom Cloud' described a nuclear explosion.

 

• "No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed,' at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play 'Creep'. Get over it." - Noel Gallagher, on being told that Radiohead no longer play their biggest hit at concerts.

 

• Radiohead have won two Grammys, and OK Computer (1997) and Kid A (2000) were nominated for best album.

 

• "Thom Yorke ignored me at a hotel in Los Angeles. I was secretly a bit gutted. I always look at it like we're in a big musical high school and Radiohead is in the year above us and they still haven't come and sat with us at lunch." - Chris Martin, of that other men-on-the-verge-of-tears band, Coldplay.

 

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1601332007

Thanks Ian! That's a very good read!

here cooooooomesss the floooood.....

Where is Kid/Amnesiac?

Where did the original thread go?

 

And thanks for that article, thats a good read!

Original thread? This one is four and a half years old!

That was a great article! Waiting for Wed.

here, here... or there there...

 

Thanks for the article.. very good read for sure...:D

It’s been a week since Radiohead have announced the unconventional release of new album ‘In Rainbows’, which is already available as a download this Wednesday. The press have put out some interesting articles on how Radiohead have shocked the music industry.

 

The Telegraph wrote on how the music industry has changed in these digital times and how fans and the industry are dealing with it: “With even diehard fans paying just a few pence for their album, Radiohead are not expecting a pot of gold at the end of In Rainbows. But the band has generated a fortune’s worth of pre-publicity by making the release national news. And all this without the usual rigmarole of sending promotional copies to music reviewers and radio stations, only to see pirated versions all over the internet before the CD even reaches the shops. […] Artists are increasingly making their fortunes from live events rather than records. In North America alone, figures by industry monitor Pollstar show ticket sales have more than doubled to $3.6bn (£1.8bn) in the past five years. ”

Charlotte, an 18-year-old A-level student from London, became a file-sharing addict: “You can set it up in the morning, come home from school and it’s done. Everybody does it. I don’t think many people know it’s illegal. It’s not like you’re going into a shop and stealing something.”

 

Stereophile: Radiohead doesn’t seem to care if the music is free. Not that they believe it will be. Because believers will give you all their money!”

 

If it were only about the money, Radiohead, as one of the most successful and commercially credible bands in the marketplace, could have signed with a major label and received stupid money—something on the order of Bruce Springsteen’s $114 million contract with SonyBMG. Record labels can’t resist deals like that, even though they seldom recoup their investment. I suspect that Radiohead are leveraging their credibility and popularity into creating a 21st-century business model that will pull musicians out of record-label serfdom.

 

In another article from The Telegraph, it was revealed that EMI executive Guy Hands told staff in a confidential e-mail last week that the industry had been too slow to embrace the digital revolution.

 

Hands’ letter was in response to the decision by Radiohead to release ‘In Rainbows’ throught their website. In the e-mail, sent to staff on Friday, Hands described Radiohead’s action as “a wake-up call which we should all welcome and respond to with creativity and energy”.

 

The Badger Herald wonders if Radiohead have actually made the right decision by letting the fans decide on the price for ‘In Rainbows’: “The big question is, “Will this work?” If you mean, “Will more people listen to Radiohead?” Absolutely. If you’re talking about profitability, the jury is still out.First off, the distribution system is a little rocky. After Radiohead.com was flooded with fans eager to preorder the album and the website briefly crashed, the band assured fans that the process would be up and running shortly. […] Can a band with such immense popularity and no distributor actually ship what may be tens of thousands of copies throughout the world? We may have to wait until December, when the discbox releases, to find out. Shipping issues aside, these could the early signs of a successful business plan. Perhaps. […] Perhaps that’s the right strategy —— offer the basic album for free, give audiences time to evaluate the album, grow to love it and then, once they see that colorful presentation winking at them on the shelves, they’ll have buy it. Right?

 

The Guardian thinks that the best pieces of marketing at the moment are coming from bands not brands: Discussion, judgment, conjecture and passion that will no doubt sell downloads by the bucket-load - this is what all marketeers would special offer their soul to have. The twist is that Radiohead aren’t marketeers. Although Maslow’s Needs, Brand Onion and TGI Run all sound like brilliant Radiohead song titles, I seriously doubt the band has ever heard of the first, looked at the second or come close to commissioning the third. No, Radiohead just do what they do and it works. Maybe brands could do it too if they followed some basic Radiohead rules of unmarketing: [more]

 

The Sunday Times wrote the following in their article entitled ‘The Day The Music Industry Died’: What looks like commercial suicide is, in today’s reality, sound business sense. Records, CDs or downloads now have all become downgraded to the status of promotional tools – useful to sell concert tickets and fan paraphernalia. While there is still good money to be made in music, and particularly on the concert circuit, the record business – blame it on piracy, too many CD giveaways or the advent of the recordable CD – is a busted flush. […] Interestingly the band now tolling the death knell of the record industry, Radiohead, seem currently to have mixed feelings about live work. “They probably will be playing some dates next year,” a spokesman said last week. “But Thom Yorke doesn’t like touring much.”

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MAN YOU POST A LOT HERE!!

 

what the hell!

thats like a 100 times more than your atease postcount