Q magazine wants you to vote for the “Best Album of All Time”. In 1997, Radiohead’s OK Computer was named #1 in the same poll.
(thanks to Jocelyn)
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Category: OK Computer
The two NME articles are now online here and here. Here’s the bit about the new album:
Colin talks of their plans for the new album. “We fly to LA at the end of August. (Long-time producer) Nigel Godrich rents a space there. We‘re going to spend two weeks working. The plan is like with OK Computer – we’ll have loads of songs we know and it’ll just be (mimes dumping a pile of books on the table) there!
He thinks about this: “It means we’ll be in America for September 11. Which will be interesting.
They hope to release the new LP, their sixth studio album, in March next year. There’s a discussion about the new songs. Since Thom didn’t introduce most of them on stage, people are curious about the titles. Have they really called a song “A Punch Up At A Wedding?” They have. Thom finds the fuss over the titles funny. “I should have handed out lyric sheets to the audience,” he says, which seems like such a terribly un-Radiohead thing to do (for a band who, as “artists”, hate the idea of giving anything away for fear it will spirit the “art” itself into nothingness) that we assume it’s a joke.
(thanks to Rania)
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Zero 7
Zero 7 was recently interviewed for Remix Magazine and they talked about their involvment with Radiohead and especially how their remix of “Climbing Up the Walls” came about. Click here to read it.
(thanks to Draftriots)
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OKC light show
There will be a Radiohead OK Computer light show in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the Roger B Chaffee Planetarium in the Van Andel Museum. It will run at 10:30 on Friday and Saturday nights from July 15 to the end of August.
(thanks to Thom)
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Radiohead and ESPN
Radiohead was recently brought up in an interview with Dallas Mavericks point guard Steve Nash and ESPN’s Dan Patrick:
DP: Do you understand Radiohead?
SN: Not really, no. But you know, probably what’s great about it is that you make your own interpretation.
DP: I listened to “OK Computer” a few times, and I came away saying, must be me.
SN: Didn’t you like the music?
DP: It’s OK, but it wasn’t, like, ground-breaking.
SN: If you turn on the radio today, you’re really still hearing the Beatles or Led Zeppelin or whoever else set the standard at some point. But when you hear Radiohead, you very rarely hear that, especially in their evolution. So I think they’re constantly taking risks and breaking new ground. I give them a tremendous amount of respect because of that, because they’re willing to try new things. … A lot of people say, why are they trying this crazy, different stuff? But why not?
DP: That’s a valid point.
SN: The music itself is excellent. And I think he’s a very clever guy, the main singer who writes the lyrics and is kind of the mastermind behind most of it.
(thanks to Jonathan)
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OKC #2 in NZ
“Rip it Up” music magazine from New Zealand is currently celebrating its 25th birthday. They conducted a poll of its reader for the best 25 Albums of the last 25 years and OK Computer came in @ #2 behind “Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness” and ahead of “Nevermind” and “Joshua Tree”. The Bends came in @ #12.
{thanks to Jordan}