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JAM! has compiled a “best of 2001” voting list, and you can vote for Radiohead in the “best album”, “best live act”, and “downloaded album” categories. Go here to vote!
Spin has named Radiohead as the “Best Live Act” of 2001 and has Amnesiac #2 in the “Album of the Year” top ten list.
Rolling Stone has Amnesiac at #10 and the NME has it at #25.
{thanks to Shane, Rhonda, & Mark}
In case you missed it last year, the online cartoon Absolute Zero is again featuring the episode they did with a cartoon Thom. Check it out!
{thanks to Nick}
Here’s a message sent from Thom to members of w.a.s.t.e.:
violence breeds violence
we need a world court
not a republican with his hands covered in oil and military hardware
lecturing us on world security
we need love and understanding and tolerance and good laws that apply to
everyone, upheld by those who are in a position to judge
praying for world peace is not such an embarrassing thing to do anymore
i
think
especially not this christmas.
thank you everybody on w.a.s.t.e. for still listening and sticking with
us
and
understanding the records we make,
i hope your christmas is peaceful and loving and spiritual.
does that sound silly?
don’t care.
thom
As you may know, Tom Cruise has spoken a lot about Radiohead and the role their music has played on the filming of his new move Vanilla Sky. Here’s an excerpt from a recent interview:
Is it true that Cameron Crowe played music while taping a scene?
He always did. It started on Jerry Macguire with me; that was the first picture. Cameron is a musician also. He’s a writer, a musician, a filmmaker and we just started playing around one day and he just had music. As an actor you just let it wash over you and see what color it’s going to bring to the scene. He also does stuff where we’re going along and he’ll throw out lines at me, it feels like a workshop when we’re working. Everybody is very comfortable and relaxed and there was a lot of focus on the scene and everyone kind of contributes. It helps the actors and sometimes you get different ideas and colors. For this movie we listened to Kid A a lot and to the U2 album. The Icelandic group (Sigur Ros) too. Of course, the Stones and Bruce Springsteen but a lot of Kid A. Walking through New York I think of U2 and I think of Radiohead.
Read the rest of the interview here.
{thanks to Edison}
The following article is from MTV.com:
What Went Right With I Might Be Wrong?
Before I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings slinks off the Billboard 200 charts entirely (it slides to #166 next week), we’d like to take a moment and ponder what could have been (and maybe should have been) for Radiohead’s much-ballyhooed concert record.
Coming on the heels of the band’s potent 1-2 combination punch of Kid A and Amnesiac, as well as Radiohead’s acclaimed tours of Europe, North America and Japan this summer, I Might Be Wrong was obviously meant as a way to tide fans over until Thom Yorke and company’s next proper release. Nothing new there, as Radiohead had previously done something similar by issuing its Airbag/How Am I Driving? EP in spring 1998, almost nine months after releasing OK Computer and featuring several B-sides and unreleased tracks from the OK sessions.
Radiohead have given two tracks from Amnesiac the once-over for a specially commissioned video used as the highlight of the Projectors Animation Festival held at the Centre For Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. The combined version of “Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors” and “Like Spinning Plates”, which took four months to complete, was directed by Johnny Hardstaff for Black Dog, of Bjork and Aphex Twin fame. No announcement has been made whether the film, which makes the video for “Pyramid Song” seem as fun and happy as a little kid flying a kite on a sunny day, will be available to the general public.