If anything can make fat-assed professional young media liberals maybe get up and go see the revolution brewing in New York (where most professional young media liberals live) instead of just twittering insults at people who are taking some action, it will be the famous liberal rock-star English group “Radiohead” performing for the protesters. Right? (No, not really. The professional young media liberals are just twittering ironically to each other; we are watching this right now with something approaching nausea.) Anyway, Radiohead! They are great! 4 p.m. today, which is … very soon! UPDATE: Ohhhh, we are supposed to use Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal as a source for saying that now this will supposedly not happen. We’re sure Radiohead always cooperates fully with Rupert Murdoch’s news operations. UPDATE: More denials. LATE UPDATE? And 45 minutes before alleged showtime, Radiohead’s Twitter says “Sorry.”
Even Viacom/MTV Networks might feel compelled to send a camera crew from Viacom/MTV Networks, which is literally 4 miles away from the Occupy Wall Street encampment, so that 42-year-old Thom Yorke can sing to the kidz via the cable teevee, about revolution. Here are more videos!
These live video recordings of Radiohead playing in New York the other night, you should watch them, to get you in the mood to go downtown and get busy with the cops:
The National Anthem!
Subterranean Homesick Alien!
Love this song so much … anyway, go, have fun, smash the system, etc.
{ 113 comments }
Go Now? Wasn't that the first hit for the early (Denny Laine not Justin Hayward) Moody Blues? That's pretty obscure.
Wow, you're good. Would love to sometime get your thoughts on Laine's contributions to Wings, or Justin Hayward's work on The War of the Worlds abum
Oh. I thought it was from "John Pinette and the Chinese Buffets".
Nay nay, I say.
Ha! I was just rooting through my album box a couple weeks ago and came across that old Jeff Wayne's WotW album, complete with booklet.
I was a useless-information-about-music prodigy up until about 1988 or so. Journey's first drummer? Aynsley Dunbar!! I've got a million of them. I lost interest when Rolling Stone etc started covering sample music (ie hip-hop and rap) as if it were real music.
Izzat the one where Hayward sings about the people boarding the spaceships and all? Or is that Neil Young? Science fiction rock and roll always creeped me out, it made me embarrassed for whoever tried it.
That was Neil, "After the Gold Rush," from the album of the same name. For some reason I love rockers' forays into complete goofiness. I've even given them ratings — Donovans, after the author of "I Love My Shirt," — to indicate a songwriters' inability to filter out the completely ridiculous from the profound. Someone with higher Donovans can be a good writer, but just has a propensity to get genre-bustingly loopy fairly often.
I thought that was the Aussie guy Billy Thorpe, Children of the Sun? (Actually saw him perform that at "The Last Concert of the Last Weekend of the Last Summer of the Seventies" in August 1979 at the Cotton Bowl)
Or Styx Come Sail Away?
Hayward was far overshadowed by Sir Richard Burton's narration on 'War of the Worlds,' but 'Forever Autumn' was not a bad little tune.
You can try the best you can, anyway
From "Creep," a little dedication to the Wall Street thieves:
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
Ken, you are showing your age, as MTV hasn't shown music on any of their networks for over 15 years. Now, if a bunch of drunk, stupid people from New Jersey wearing bad clothes or a bunch of pregnant teenagers showed up and started a fight, you would have MTV all over it.
Yeah, it's a little late in the year for Spring Break.
All I'm saying is that Riley and KenLayneisAlive need to start drinking and impregnating teenagers if they really want to get some coverage.
And showing their tits.
Everyone should show their tits! I'll even go first.
Midnight Oil did this in front of Exxon Headquarters in Manhattan when the Exxon Valdez crashed into Alaska. Never got anymore airplay in America and their career here was over. But that was pre-internet, so maybe it won't happen to these guys.
Radiohead dropped their record company about five years ago, and were never big on American "classic rock" radio anyways. I think they're pretty safe from Corporate Backlash. (Midnight Oil was also … awful?)
Sometimes The Man doesn't have to keep you down.
Yeah, but the singer was in the Australian parliament and I beleive he was in the cabinet, too.
*gets all aggravated*
Midnight Oil rocked!!! The most pissed off band on the planet!
*storms off in a huff*
More pissed off than Rage Against Sony?
Yeah, but most of their protest songs were about outrages against the Aborigines, the Timorese, what dicks the US were, and ecological rape of the Down Under, which really didn't translate well here in the states.
And the reaction from Clear Channel will be "Radio Who?". On some of their somewhat alt flavored stations they might be familiar with the band, but I doubt that Tom and the folks in Radiohead have a thing to worry about, and for that matter, even if they did, they wouldn't give a flying fuck what corporate murka thought about it.
Karma Police.
Hopefully pepper spray isn't used by the karma police.
And, won't Radiohead playing just prove that Glenn Beck was right, and this is all a Socialist conspiracy to destroy the United States. They are from Europe, you know.
Don't ever tell an Englishman he's a Euro, unless you're ready to go to Fist City.
True, but this is Glenn Beck we're talking about, who probably thinks that New Zealand and Saskatchewan are in Europe.
Please. "Zealand" sounds African, probably Kenyan. And I'm sure you just punched your keyboard to get "Saskatchewan." You are going to have to be clever than that to catch me and Beck out with your Socialist Lies.
Fuck da Karma Police
For the champagne drinking swine:
"Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy"
Full disclosure: I love champagne.
Good on them. God willing all our brave protesters will get laid tonight also too.
They ain't murrikans. I ain't goin' to see no furrain' commie lymies. Fuck y'all libruls!
Opening with "Bodysnatchers" seems appropriate.
Love that song. Mr. Yorke was certainly channeling the late, great Jeff Buckley on that little ditty.
Occupy Wall St. sez it's happening; Wall St. Journal says it's not. Now isn't that interesting…
Hahaha I just saw that on the Google News. Hmm, what might Radiohead tell Rupert Murdoch's newspaper? The absolute truth, I'm sure!
But what does the Occupy Wall Street Journal say? They're the people to liste no, yaknow.
Well, as a Murdoch enterprise, I'd expect that the WSJ is probably more in the know, since they're probably hacked into the phone of the band's manager.
I guess I am an old; anytime someone mentions Radiohead, all I ever think of is that old Talking Heads song.
At the request of EMI, the band changed their name to Radiohead, inspired by the title of a song on Talking Heads' True Stories album.[10] The song in turn was inspired by a story the actor, writer and director Stephen Tobolowsky told David Byrne about psychic experiences he had as a teenager.
The circle is complete.
Couldn't be too hard to get Fugazi to play the OccupyDC thing this Saturday could it?
Are the Bad Brains still around?
Holy shit. I just turned 18 again. Fucking love the Bad Brains.
I heard Ian MacKaye's gone folkie…actually that fits in perfect with this, acoustic Minor Threat!
they're still on an "indefinite hiatus".
Where have you gone, Zack de la Rocha?
A nation turns its rage-filled eyes to you.
KNOW YOUR ENEMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Forget about your house of cards…
This would be a great opportunity for a Rage Against the Machine reunion.
Are they going to play their big hit "Fuck the Janitors, and those Cafeteria Ladies too"?
The Koch Bros are going to hire Coldplay to also play the demonstration, to induce hipster meltdown and mass fleeing of the scene.
Kenny G still around?
Radioplay? Coldhead? And Saint Gwynneth of Paltrow could show up and heal the sick and feed the hungry!
Dave Matthews.
Wouldn't The Nuge be more appropriate, if irrelevant?
Whoa, singing ?!! with electric guitars !??!!!? and, and drums ?!!!!!?!!
I am truly humbled by the awesome innovative vision of the musical geniuses of today.
Needs moar autotune.
Or this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7qOVsbpANw
Gee, we merely had Phil Ochs, and maybe Judy Collins, on good days.
And then you had the Stones, and then somebody gave the Hell's Angels bad acid, and put them "in charge of security" …. so, yeah, maybe better off with folksingers?
Well, the Dead did play on top of a trailer on St. Marx Place in what, 1968? And the Diggers were throwing yogurts up in the air and you either caught them or they caught you, etc. blablabla. The War is Over.
We are the folk song army,
Every one of us cares
We all hate poverty, war, and injustice,
Unlike the rest of you squares …
The banks will send Slayer to kill the buzz…
They're in negotiation with Danny Elfman to re-form Oingo Boingo and get them to come out and play "Capitalism."
yay! Danny "i've only done one actual film score but i keep reusing it and no one seems to notice" Elfman. needs more Mystic Knights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh629kOutR4
The banks would send Great White, complete with pyrotechnics.
I was just thinking this last night, get some bands to come in there and play.
Ticketmaster could make a fortune
Does this mean that hipsters will finally get off their asses and do something?
Protesting isn't ironic enough.
If they want hipsters to show up they're going to have to get a band no one has ever heard of.
Radiohead is one of the few "mainstream" exceptions, though. Besides, it's a FREE concert, which they'll probably attend and leave shortly after it's finished.
No.
The cops could bring in Nickleback. The protestors would start pepper spraying themselves.
Or, alternatively, they could bring nickel bags and everybody would get stoned,
Needs more Night Watchman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC20oFu-blk
How to make every Radiohead/cool music person/person in general hate me all at once?
Well, the only Radiohead song I know/have on my ipod is the one from the end of Twilight.
There you go.
there may be a low level of interest about what's on your ipod.
That's one more than me.
Well I for one can't stand Radiohead; though that's mostly for personal reasons, stemming from an ex who was really into them, and not their music itself.
I totally get that – I have made a few guys hate a few bands in my day, and I know I like "thrash" (it probably isn't really called that, is it? like Sacred Reich or whatever?) because of a guy – and he now likes Bob Dylan because of me. (even though we do not like each other any more – he hated Tipper Gore for the PMRC but now calls himself a Conservative Christian on fb. OKAY dude.)
Whats "Twilight?" And which Radiohead song is it?
15 Step runs during the end/credits of the sparkly vampire movie. It's not on the actual soundtrack, but I really like the song.
Hipster Jesus forgives you.
Your move, Peter Paul & Mary.
Where's da Chilean models at?
I mean, I like whiny, pasty white europeans as much as the next guy, but why can't we LISTEN to them while we LOOK AT Chilean models? Win/win!
I'm not going to be able to get there till Sunday, I wonder who will be playing then?
Seth McFarlane
What, Creed wasn't available?
They gonna close the NY State Thruway?
And some New York Air National Guard F-16s are going to turn into butterflies, above our nation.
They were on Colbert the other night – really fantastic, energetic performance. Colbert had no idea what to do with those guys though.
He hasn't really been the same since he had Rush (the band) on his show.
Supposedly their spokesperson is saying there is no show:
http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/59536?recache http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/09/30/no-rad...
Radiohead PR flack sez Radiohead is not confirmed to play the rally, but Gawker and CNN say they are.
We report, you decide.
There's no permit from Czar Bloomberg, so it can't "officially" happen.
Gotcha. [wink]
"Electioneering" yo!
"Wall-a-Palooza"
I'll be there around 7pm. I need to keep my status as one of the fortunate few who still has a job.
It could only Peter & Paul now.
Totally missed that one. I must have been watching Idol.
Any Riley updates? How long does it take to charge a damn battery? Or is he shacked up somewhere getting laid?
Radiohead is a pretty good Dad.
Please. They'd have to go with "No Surprises."
I've heard Radiohead and admire their politics, but would run, not walk in the other direction to avoid a performance. Sorry.
Needz moar Pyramid Song and then Mumford & Sons.
All in a dream, all in a dream, the loading had begun . . . .
Yes, thats the one, children of the sun!
So did they have those huge stadium mega-concerts all over the South in the 70s? There was a series of them in the Citrus (then Tangerine) bowl in Orlando, Rock Superbowl (Insert Roman Numerals), they'd have 5 or 6 bands that were on the charts, all day long, drugs sold openly, good times, got to see things I would not have gone to see if they were alone.
PIX or GTFO
They had the Texxas Jam every summer in Dallas from the late 70s till the mid 80s (that link I posted lists them all). It was just like you describe. I bought and did 5 hits of blotter from some stranger, on strips of paper, and the hits were marked off with a fucking pencil (dude had an honest face). But I got off like a Saturn booster, about 20 feet from the stage just as Pat Travers was hitting the stage, and stayed in the ionosphere until the wee hours. Good times…
The drug dealers had a special area, to the side of the stage on the field, they would all be there in a row, just yelling out what they were selling, "ludes," "acid," joints, uppers, downers (placydil), oh, I do miss the Carter years, malaise, my ass. And Pat Travers, exactly the kind of tired guitar screamers that made up the lineups, "I can't sing I ain't skinny and my legs are thin, don't ask me what I think of you. . . ." I saw, in such events, Bob Seeger, Poco, 38 Special, AC DC, Van Halen, and 50 more that I have forgotten, oh, the Eagles, various interchangeable southern rock bands, all a haze.
Comments on this entry are closed.