Author: Jonathan

New York, NY

Spin’s 50 Greatest Bands of All Time

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 4, 2002

Radiohead made it to # 15 in Spin magazine’s 50 Greatest Bands of All Time. Here’s the excerpt from the article:

On 1995’s The Bends, Radiohead were a compelling young Brit-pop band, but with follow-up OK Computer, they spooked rock fans into a new level of obsession. The album’s brooding minor chords and white-noise buzz grew more claustrophobic with each track, even as Thom Yorke’s personal-yet-impersonal lyrics made songs about car crashes and crushed insects somehow moving. Newer bands began to cop Radiohead’s paranoid but confessional, slurry but catchy approach. In response, they sighed deeply and recorded Kid A, somehow transforming glitchy prog rock into classic pop.

INFLUENCED: Travis, Sigur Ros, Coldplay, Clinic, JJ72, Doves, Elbow, Wes Borland
CLASSIC ALBUM: OK Computer

Chris Martin of Coldplay had the following to say about Radiohead: “When I saw Radiohead, I thought ‘Wow, maybe you really can do what you want and get away with it. They did exactly what they wanted and people responded…not everyone wants to listen to nonsense rock.”

{thanks to Lou}

Tags Chris Martin, Coldplay, Kid A, OK Computer, The Bends

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Grammy nominations

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 4, 2002

Radiohead’s Amnesiac has been nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package.

Nigel Godrich was nominated for Producer of the Year for the second year in a row for his work on Amnesiac and The Invisible Band by Travis.

The 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place on Feb. 27 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast on CBS Television to a worldwide audience.

For the full list of nominees, please go to http://www.grammy.com/.

{thanks to Paul}

Tags Amnesiac, Grammys, Nigel Godrich

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Radiohead: Simply the Best

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 3, 2002

Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song” made it to #1 on Nightshift’s Simply the Best – 20 Songs for ’01:

1. RADIOHEAD: “PYRAMID SONG” – Even by their incredible standards, this was an astonishing song. The first single from “Amnesiac”, “Pyramid Song” answered all of Radiohead’s critics in majestic style, taking a desolate trek across frozen tundra, into pop’s heart of darkness. A song dense enough to suck the light out of the room, it snakes in a casually malevolent way across what sounds like the film score to an old Roman epic, dissected and assimilated by the Borg and topped off by Thom Yorke’s detached, repressed howl. One of the bleakest songs ever written. Quite magnificent.

See the full list…
{thanks to Lewis}

Tags Pyramid Song

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Paul Oakenfold Idioteque Remix

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 3, 2002

You can download the Paul Oakenfold Idioteque Remix mp3 over at http://www.radiohead.com.hk

Tags Idioteque, Paul Oakenfold, remix

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Elijah Wood

Post author By Jonathan
Post date January 3, 2002

In a recent interview with Premiere magazine, Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood gave some Radiohead life philosophy:

One of the girls thrusts a video camera at him. “Would you mind saying something for the camera?” she asks. Her friends twitter. Wood faces the camera, closes his eyes for a moment, and then says, “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.” The girls stop giggling. They thank him and leave the restaurant while Wood repeats the line, which he picked up off a Radiohead website. “Don’t you think that’s true?” he asks, not noticing the girls now standing outside the window and quickly descending upon another cute boy, who wears a tennis visor and mugs for the camera. “So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.”

Read the full interview…
{thanks to Jennifer}