Author: Jonathan

New York, NY

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Kid A Radiohead

News for August 9, 2000

Kid A mentions

An informative article appeared at Rolling Stone regarding the recording of the new album. “After recording so much material that it can (and will) be released as two separate albums, Radiohead have finally narrowed down the track listing for their upcoming fourth outing — a ten-track album full of sweeping epics, strings, brass and even blues” – This was on July 3.

Another interesting piece has appeared at french news outlet MCM. The article states that the title for album four, Kid A, came from a list which included other potentials such as Pure As Fiction, Giant Cogs Turn and Learning to Smile. The article also mentions that the band will not embark on a world tour until the release of an “Album 5”. This article is dated July 17. Whether these album titles were actually in contention, we don’t know. We do know that Learning to Smile is the name of the new Everclear CD so maybe there was some confusion?

Capitol Record’s Radiohead site updated

Check out the official Radiohead site at Capitol Records. Bears gone crazy!!! Unfortunately it lacks in any new and useful information.

[Many thanks to James M from CUTW for providing today’s news]

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Kid A Radiohead

News for August 8, 2000

Kid A on Napster? No.

Last night on Napster the entire album appeared through a few users. All the correct songs, all the correct track #’s, even the hidden track at the end…. except it was a clever hoax. “Treefingers” was among the most ingenious creations, obviously the hoaxers own inpromptu jam on his mic and bongos that spanned an entire 9 minutes! This clever trick had a good number of us scrambling to download as fast as we possibly could – all to find we’d been had!

[thanks to Aaron]

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Radiohead

News for August 7, 2000

More “Quality” Journalism from our friends at the NME

Always count on the British Mag, NME, to poke fun at Radiohead. Here’s the latest from the July 29th issue:

Radiohead
-New Album, “Small Round Thing Made of Fake Metal Plastic in the Machine“, and tracklisting in full

01. Dismal
02. Hopeless
03. Obey Your Word Processor, O Plastic Sheep
04. Always the Same
05. Dismal (II)
06. All the Dead People in their Plastic Boxes
07. When Does It End?
08. Everyone Is A Plastic Robot In A Fake World of Plastic Machines Where Nothing Is Real Except The Trees And Even They Are Fake And Plastic
09. Jesus Christ, How Much Longer?
10. Dismal and Dismaller
11. If I Were To Bury Myself In A Deep, Intense Hole In The Ground I Bet No-one Would Notice Because They Are So Plastic
12. Worse And Worse
13. Oh, For Fuck’s Sake
14. Somebody Kill Me
15. Wailing, Pointless Dirge
16. It Must End Soon
17. Jesus Christ, How Much Longer (II)
18. All The Way To The Bank (Ha Ha)
19. Plastic Into The Machine (Lots of Money For Me)

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Radiohead tour

News for August 4, 2000

Clinic confirmed as the opening act

Radiohead’s opening act has been confirmed. The band will be bringing along Clinic to almost all of the UK dates, with the exception of the two Newport gigs. For more on Clinic, check this site.

[thanks to followmearound.com]

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Radiohead

News for August 3, 2000

Explanation of this morning’s news

If you came here during the morning, you probably saw a news story about Radiohead playing a secret gig last night in Oxford. It was false. I knew it was false when I put it up.

A group of people in the Radiohead community organized an attempt to fool the NME in publishing a false story about Radiohead. If you paid attention to the NME’s “journalism” skills, you’ll notice that their news is very similar the news that many Radiohead fan sites have. The NME scours the fan sites to get news so they can sell their magazine. Beryl’s Follow Me Around site is a good example of this. This was especially highlighted when Steven Wells, a journalist for the NME, wrote a column about Radiohead and their “pretentious little pricks” of fans.

The plan was to throw up a story that was false but believable on a few Radiohead fans sites, including green plastic, hoping that someone like the NME would pick it up. It could have happened but I decided to take it down before it could spread any further.

The plan failed in that not enough consideration was given to the consequences that people close to the band, like w.a.s.t.e., would have to deal with because of our foolishness.

I hope you haven’t been too disappointed with our attempt. We didn’t want to fool the fans, just the NME. Bad idea.

-jonathan

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Kid A Radiohead

News for August 2, 2000

More Kid A cover rumors

According to someone who has seen the cover for Kid A, the art is composed of white mountains with sharp peaks and blue shadows. The mountains are transparent and there appears to be a city inside the base. Behind the mountains is the sky, which is black with three small red clouds.