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Radiohead

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Im marina :nice: but tnx :nice:

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  • Lol I haven't been here in 5 years but I decided to pop my head back in for some nostalgia. Seems like this was my last post so here's an update... I finally saw Radiohead live in Manchester in 2017 a

Im marina :nice: but tnx :nice:

 

you're welcome! Im Christian :)

happy birthday marina :)

 

i actually had a dream with radiohead in last night,if i recall rightly,well basically i think i was watching parkinson (uk chat show) and radiohead performed on it and for asome reason thom was just jabbering in german (i think)....something like that! :laugh4:

Hallo Christian :) Wilkommen :P

 

and Ella he has a good voice..but it sounds a but like opera :rolleyes:

 

Tnx kelly :nice: Nice dream! :P

happy birthday Marina! ;)

 

here's a little present for 2 birthday girls :P

 

to Kelly: wonderful live version of one of their best b-sides: Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong :nice:

http://download.yousendit.com/7CE0A7A331A834DB

 

to Marina: Paranoid Android (early version) - much better sound quality than on Towering Above The Rest :nice:

http://download.yousendit.com/D2B8CBBE043D35DC

Awww bless, thanks very much Nik! nice thought :) i'm downloading now :nice:

oooh! :kiss: thank you Nik!!

Im downloading it now :nice:

Thanks for that early PA.

 

I think I'm over my Radiohead addiction and then one of their songs come on and there I go to listen to their entire discography. :rolleyes:

Wow, thanks for that... The fifth one is just great actually... It's pretty hard to believe that it was made by kids.

:stunned: oh that second one from the bottom :O

 

I sometimes dance Idioteque with my little bros and the older one of them was looking at the covers of Kid A once.. then he draw a bear holding a gun and I kinda freaked out..

i just realised that there could be a great essay about this theme...

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who don't know what was this experiment about, here's the article once again

 

Radiohead Rorschach

An innocent fifth grader's picture is worth a thousand-word critical analysis.

By Rob Harvilla

Article Published Sep 17, 2003

 

 

It is no longer possible to have an original opinion on Radiohead.

 

You've absorbed the deified albums, quarreled over the rock critic pontifications, frowned at the guarded, combative interviews. Thom Yorke's ugly-stick-beaten mug has peered at you from the pages of every magazine known to man; his every word and every note has ignited its own individual Internet flame war. Mass media has bombarded us with Radiohead critique, rendering us unable to generate an unfiltered opinion of our own.

 

When you listen to Radiohead, you're no longer actually listening to Radiohead -- you're listening to everyone's opinion about Radiohead. It's impossible to separate what you hear from what you've read. You are betrayed by what you know, and you know way too much.

 

Thus, in order to solicit an honest, undiluted opinion about Radiohead, you'd have to find the proverbial People Living Under Rocks. As People Living Under Rocks are unavailable, let's use fifth graders.

 

Specifically, Mitsi Kato's fifth-grade class at Roosevelt Elementary in San Leandro.

 

Mitsi has consented to a simple experiment: We will play a career-spanning selection of Radiohead songs; the kids, equipped with Sharpies and blank sheets of paper, will simply draw whatever the music suggests to them. We don't even give them the name of the band. They don't know anything about Radiohead, the mountain of criticism, the mythology. Their thoughts and interpretations are pure, unsullied, literally unique.

 

They are also extremely bizarre.

 

The kids consent to this experiment, if only because Mitsi tells them to. They do, however, immediately request that we play Sean Paul or 50 Cent instead.

 

"This is not hip-hop," Mitsi says. "I'm not asking if you like it."

 

She doesn't have to ask. They don't.

 

We begin with Hail to the Thief, Radiohead's latest, a critically adored and hopelessly muddled platter of art rock weirdness. The kids shift restlessly as "2+2=5" sputters into guitar-and-drum-machine gear.

 

When Thom Yorke's famously tortured croon first surfaces, the whole room starts giggling.

 

Giggling.

 

For the first few songs, the kids hardly move, scarcely even changing facial expressions. One girl plants her head on her desk face-first. The "hold your head in your hands and look completely confused" look is extremely popular.

 

But slowly, they begin drawing. One kid starts scrawling a guitar; the girl next to him immediately begins copying -- an apt metaphor for music criticism.

 

To dispel the room's chilly vibe, we switch to 2000's slightly less clinical Kid A; the warm keyboards of "Everything in Its Right Place" thaw the kids out a bit. The kid who specifically requested Sean Paul begins drawing what looks like a giant stalk of asparagus.

 

But let's not peek. So as not to lord over the artists, we snoop around Mitsi's classroom a bit, particularly the official rules for Room 14. Thom Yorke would be in blatant violation of several of these, including "Don't fidget," "Be helpful," and particularly "Keep negative ideas to yourself."

 

After the droning, horn-blasted dirge of "The National Anthem," we throw caution to the wind and toss on OK Computer's truly psychotic guitar freakout "Paranoid Android," which leads to The Bends' far sweeter "High and Dry," which the class seems to like the best. We consider playing Radiohead's debut fluke alt-rock smash "Creep," but the kids might recognize it, and it's profane besides. Instead, perhaps "Anyone Can Play Guitar" will inspire them.

 

Unlikely. Returning to Hail to the Thief for the grand finale, Mitsi's announcement that "Sail to the Moon" will be our last song earns a chorus of "Yessss" and several robust fist-pumps. Thom has made few fans.

 

Ah, but the experiment yields about thirty stark, black-and-white Radiohead interpretations that represent the purest, most honest take on the band you'll find anywhere. The kids will now take over; for the rest of you, Radiohead is playing Shoreline Amphitheater Tuesday night. Call ahead before bringing art supplies.

Uh the one with "I hate my life" and 666 in it... This is kinda scary. How can child do that?..

yeah.. I understand the guns somehow.. Kids, especially boys always like guns and war stuff..

Yeah guns, ok, but "I hate my life"?.. What the fuck, I've never thought about such things when I was a kid... This experiment is interesting indeed.

I'm scared.

I've been away from any computer for a while and I was not here to wish happy b-day to bedofroses and Rad-Cold.

Happy birthday to both of you !!

 

However, I think it's very strange that a child can write I hate my life and 666 on a drawing : it's frightening !

 

Yesterday I bought Hail To The Thief and Pablo Honey, which completed at last my Radiohead album discography. I also bought My Iron Lung EP...

thank you Cirrus Minor :nice:

 

I almost have all the albums from radiohead, except HTTT..very weird but we dont have it in stores here.

 

And the drawing from ' I hate my life' is really weird yes.. I wonder how old the kids were.

:stunned: oh that second one from the bottom :O

 

I sometimes dance Idioteque with my little bros and the older one of them was looking at the covers of Kid A once.. then he draw a bear holding a gun and I kinda freaked out..

the little one?

the little one! duhhhh! :P :rolleyes:

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