Radiohead: Difference between revisions

Band members:

* Thom Yorke - vocals, guitar, keyboards, [[Everything Is an Instrument|"laptop"]]

* Colin Greenwood - bass

* Ed O'Brien - guitar, backing vocals

{{quote| '''Thom:''' They're all...<br />

'''Audience:''' Uptight! Uptight! }}

** Mass lie-downs, mimicking the "Just" video, have apparently been planned among fans for performances of the song

* [[Audio Erotica]] - "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy" uses this to sound like an [[Intercourse With You]] song, when it's actually about ignoring imminent economic disaster.

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbWBRnDK_AE&ob=av2e The video] asserts this approach. It's a rather unsexy performance-as-masturbation allegory, complete with feather ejaculate. Yes, really.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]] - The videos for "Street Spirit (Fade Out)", "Jigsaw Falling Into Place", and "Lotus Flower".

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-dMc5Ero-s Any] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmTke9gAR7o of] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYvE8wtuIOo the] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRHj6vdfwc Kid A] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKoMqTeCLfc blips] could qualify for this. They're either downright horrifying/disturbing or simply weird.

* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]] - Counterexample. Their 2000 album, ''Kid A'' was available for streaming from their website before its official release, and their 2007 album ''In Rainbows'' was released for sale on a "pay-what-you-want" system, but they've since indicated that they will not pursue it further.

** An unmastered version of Hail to the Thief was leaked onto the internet... Nigel Godrich was a bit disappointed because the release was far from finished... but Jonny Greenwood:

{{quote| ""Shame it's not a package with the artwork and all, but there you go. I feel bemused, though, not annoyed. I'm glad people like it, most of all. It's a little earlier than we'd expected, but there it is."}}

** Guitarist Ed O'Brien dislikes the band's stance on it. He's the only member of the band involved in the Featured Artist's Coalition, an anti-piracy group. However, he also notes that he is tolerant of the 'passive' pirates who really only download music to listen to it. He's really mostly against the shadier bunches who try to make money off of artists.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]] - "I Will."

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]] - Thom Yorke. This is ironic, because he doesn't exactly scream sex symbol... but somehow [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|even heterosexual men lust after him]].

** There's a term for it: [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thomosexual Thomosexual].

** Same could be said for Jonny Greenwood... who would probably be considered more of a "sex symbol" than Thom.

* [[Even the Subtitler Is Stumped]] - The lyric booklet for ''Hail to the Thief'' actually gives up on trying to understand what's said in the end section of "2+2=5" and just says:

* [[Fading Into the Next Song]] - "Exit Music" into "Let Down" (sort of), "Idioteque" into "Morning Bell", and "Codex" into "Give Up The Ghost".

* [[Fake Loud]] - An odd example. "Climbing up the Walls" consists of two of Thom's vocal tracks layered over each other. The one that's mixed lower is clipped and distorted in this manner, but it's actually much quieter than the Thom's other vocal track, which is more clean and melodic.

* [[Fan Vid]] - Lots, most notably the ones made for the official Aniboom video contest.

* [[Five-Man Band]] - In a literal sense!

** Really, [[Genre Busting|every album]] is a [[New Sound Album]]. They don't so much depart from the formula as... just not have one.

** The King of Limbs for goodness' sake. It's hard to even categorize what kind of sound it really is.

* [[Non-Appearing Title]] - So many. "Idioteque," "Paranoid Android," (though this ''almost'' drops its title if you listen to the robotic backing vocals) "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box," "Cuttooth," "Talk Show Host," "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy," "Codex," "Worrywort," "Motion Picture Soundtrack," etc.

** Usually, however, the title does have something to do with the lyrics: "Idioteque" is a dance song about pollution and destroying the environment ('idiot' crossed with 'discotheque'), "Paranoid Android" partially parodies the overly mopey and depressing music that the band had been stereotyped as making ([[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Marvin the Paranoid Android]] is a comically depressed robot), "Worrywort" refers to the person who the song is being sung ''to,'' "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" refers to being forced to fit the mold and living a 'normal' life, etc.

** "Lock the kids up safe tonight, shut the eyes in the cupboard..."

* [[Scenery Gorn]] - Parts of the ''Kid A'' artwork incorporate this to varying degrees, the blips especially. Stick figures bleed to death in the snow, their corpses are tossed into pools of blood, distant fires rage across frigid mountainous landscapes, and there is a strong general implication that [[Just Before the End|the world is falling to pieces]].

** [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Marvin the Paranoid Android.]]

** The entirety of "Banana Co." to [[One Hundred Years of Solitude]].

* [[Siamese Twin Songs]] - "The Tourist" and "Airbag" from ''OK Computer''. They tell a coherent story together, but are placed in reverse order, [[Book Ends|with "The Tourist" at the end of the album and "Airbag" at the beginning.]]

* [[Signature Song]] - It's hard to say for sure here- "Creep", [[Your Mileage May Vary|for better or for worse]], is Radiohead's most well-known song to the general public, but "Karma Police," "Idioteque," and "Paranoid Android" are much more popular among fans and frequently top 'best Radiohead songs' lists.

* [[Something Completely Different]] - ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac''. (See note on [[New Sound Album]] above.)

* [[Spoken Word in Music]] - "Fitter Happier" has a computer doing the vocals.