The Onion AV Club has put out its list of the most essential albums of the year at http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3745/bonusfeature1_3745.html.
{thanks to Lynn}
Category: Amnesiac
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}
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.
In a recent interview, Valerie Trebeljahr from Lali Puna brought up Radiohead:
Radiohead and Andrew Weatherall are two of your supporters… Do you like their music?
VT {Valerie Trebeljahr} : as radiohead have an indie-background too I know and like them for quite a while. and of course we admire kid a and amnesiac a lot! for me especially kid a is the perfect pop-definition: songs and melodies that go into your head, but are equally so complex that you can hear them a thousand times. yes and the most important: they strike emotionally. i know andrew weatherall just though the two lone swordsmen, i don’t know the earlier stuff i have to admit. but i like the swordsmen-music a lot and the sideproject radioactive man too.
Read the rest of the interview here.
{thanks to dmitri}
Jazz musician Courtney Pine recently brought up Radiohead a couple of times during an interview with the Guardian:
Radiohead is a name that Pine keeps coming back to. “The last two albums have been outstanding. I would call it jazz – jazz as a true reflection of social change and the climate at the time. I worked with Art Blakey, and he said that jazz travels from the creator to the artist to the audience, and that’s all you need to remember. We have this thing at the moment called smooth jazz, which is very successful, but to me it sounds like porn-film music. What Radiohead are doing is far more exciting.”
Read the full interview…
{thanks to Kate}