This Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread - Radiohead Edition

[hysterical.useless 181]

You know the drill.

I was reading an article on IndieWire this morning about the annual JAPAN CUTS festival in NYC and came across this blurb about the upcoming film Amiko.

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“Amiko” is the kind of movie that JAPAN CUTS is all about — the kind of movie that American audiences would never get to see (or even know about) if not for the work of eagle-eyed programmers who are determined to cut through the gatekeeping of international distribution and bring us an unfiltered look at foreign indie cinema. A scattershot but deeply exciting debut from 20-year-old writer-director Yamanaka Yoko, the micro-budget “Amiko” tells the universal story of a bored schoolgirl who begins to obsesses over a boy in her class after they bond over their shared love of Radiohead (sample dialogue: “I wonder if Thom Yorke wakes up, looks in the mirror, and thinks, ‘Ah, I’m Thom Yorke again today.’”). Unfortunately for the eponymous heroine, her crush absconds to the big city, where he shacks up with Amiko’s arch-rival. Teenage frustration ensues.

Shot with a shaggy, percussive energy that vaguely recalls the rebelliousness of the French New Wave, “Amiko” is a 66-minute tizzy of aimless voiceover, drab digital cinematography, random dance sequences, and adolescent ennui (“Ordinary, poor souls could never understand the two of us,” Amiko sighs). It’s a coming-of-age story that wriggles and screams with the frustration of growing up, as Yamanaka taps into her own recent experience to crystallize that time in your life when you’ve got all the energy in the world and nowhere to put it — all the emotions you can feel but no one to answer them.

 

[Duff 163]

Is there actually any bass guitar in Little by Little or what?

[hysterical.useless 181]

Unfortunately, I think you're the only one still listening to LBL.

(Maybe just go watch the FTB performance and see if Colin is playing?)

[Duff 163]

Little By Little owns.

There's bass all over the live versions. But that don't say shit about the studio version.

[OK_IN_OZ 1]

OK Computer/IN Rainbows playlist fits perfect as another alternate soundtrack to Wizard of OZ. Same deal as Dark Side of the Moon, start playlist precisely the split second after the third lion roar before the credits.  I'm back!  Where is Miles and Zane these days?

Edited July 20, 2018 by OK_IN_OZ

[booger bear 307]

1 hour ago, OK_IN_OZ said:

OK Computer/IN Rainbows playlist fits perfect as another alternate soundtrack to Wizard of OZ. Same deal as Dark Side of the Moon, start playlist precisely the split second after the third lion roar before the credits.  I'm back!  Where is Miles and Zane these days?

Both of their old handles have been taken over by Annex users.  Same with Beachbum but I put an end to that.  

[hysterical.useless 181]

No, Zane is Zane. I talk with him on Twitter.

[booger bear 307]

Well I know for a fact that Beachbum was not Beachbum as an Annex user messaged me the username and password.  I changed the password so that person could never use that account again.  

[Crazy Disco Party 6]

Someone just happened to message you the password to Beachbum's account? 

It was you all along! 

 

[Cmontheplane 19]

Miles isn’t the old board Miles? News to me.

[devilhood 188]

Let the atease username conspiracy unfold. Thrilling. Now, take a look out of the window. Beautiful outside isn't it? ?

[absay 13]

Petition to change the title of this thread to "This Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread - AtEase MB Edition"

[musickiks 1]

On 7/21/2018 at 1:24 AM, devilhood said:

Let the atease username conspiracy unfold.

Huh.

[section 917 167]

Fucking hell.

[booger bear 307]

On 7/20/2018 at 6:31 PM, Crazy Disco Party said:

Someone just happened to message you the password to Beachbum's account? 

It was you all along! 

 

I think it was Ira.  She's also Miles Davis.  You know she's psycho.  

[booger bear 307]

2 hours ago, musickiks said:

Huh.

So childish.  Why are you guys taking usernames away from old members?  

[hysterical.useless 181]

Out of curiosity I went wandering through the unreleased tracks on Citizen Insane for the first time in a long time.

I'm willing to bet the "Fela Kuti Thing" mentioned on the blackboard during the IR sessions turned into "Feral". Fela Kuti pioneered afrobeat, and "Feral" definitely sounds like it could have been influenced by that genre. You can check out Fela Kuti's most popular song, "Zombie," for comparison.

[Duff 163]

I've wondered the same thing.

The argument against it, I suppose, is that Feral doesn't sound like a song that was "written" so much as assembled. TKOL, as we know, was essentially a giant experiment in looping and editing, and Feral sounds like the most obvious product of that way of working. In fact it sounds like the kind of thing that could only have come from that way of working. So it would surprise me if it had existed in any form before that.

I wonder if Fela Kuti Thing ended up becoming something on Amok instead - perhaps Before Your Very Eyes, for example, which has a very Afrobeat-like guitar riff.

Edited July 25, 2018 by Duff

[Duff 163]

I fucking love Feral.

I love the snatch of bassline at 0:56. It sounds like it just wandered in through the wrong door and left quickly, embarrassed.

[booger bear 307]

I bet a lot of you have seen this but it is just so heartbreaking.  We like Radiohead for many reasons but the primary one is that they just hurt us but make us feel good at the same time.  

 

 

[hysterical.useless 181]

15 hours ago, Duff said:

I've wondered the same thing.

The argument against it, I suppose, is that Feral doesn't sound like a song that was "written" so much as assembled. TKOL, as we know, was essentially a giant experiment in looping and editing, and Feral sounds like the most obvious product of that way of working. In fact it sounds like the kind of thing that could only have come from that way of working. So it would surprise me if it had existed in any form before that.

I wonder if Fela Kuti Thing ended up becoming something on Amok instead - perhaps Before Your Very Eyes, for example, which has a very Afrobeat-like guitar riff.

Good points. Do we know if they had tried to arrange any of the TKOL material as a full band prior to the FTB sessions? I mean, we know stuff like "Lotus Flower," "Give Up the Ghost," "Daily Mail," and "Separator" were debuted live by Thom during solo shows, but do we know if there was any attempt to arrange these songs as a band prior to cutting things up in the studio? The answer to that question would indicate whether "Feral" was birthed entirely through studio experimentation, or whether attempts had been made to do a full-band arrangement early on. It's a chicken/egg question.

I can hear the afrobeat influence in "Before Your Very Eyes" - hadn't thought of that.

[Duff 163]

7 hours ago, hysterical.useless said:

Do we know if they had tried to arrange any of the TKOL material as a full band prior to the FTB sessions? I mean, we know stuff like "Lotus Flower," "Give Up the Ghost," "Daily Mail," and "Separator" were debuted live by Thom during solo shows, but do we know if there was any attempt to arrange these songs as a band prior to cutting things up in the studio? The answer to that question would indicate whether "Feral" was birthed entirely through studio experimentation, or whether attempts had been made to do a full-band arrangement early on. It's a chicken/egg question.

Lotus Flower, Give Up the Ghost, Daily Mail and Separator all have fairly conventional song structures, though. Even if we hadn't heard their earlier incarnations, it wouldn't have been difficult to imagine Thom writing them on acoustic guitar or piano first. I find that difficult to imagine with Feral. All speculation, of course.

Regarding Daily Mail, the band had worked on it for years (at least since 2006) and according to Ed the arrangement never came together until they did From the Basement. It's not like the other songs you mention there, because it was recorded as a traditional full-band performance, with little or possibly no editing.

As an aside: listening to Thom's old performance of Mouse Dog Bird (the early version of Separator), it's quite similar to The Numbers and Desert Island Disk - that acoustic guitar strumming and hammering, droning open strings. On AMSP they seemed to take a more literal approach of taking Thom's guitar parts and just adding stuff to it like drums and bass and strings - whereas on TKOL they used that as the basis to turn it into something else entirely. This is why TKOL remains so much more interesting than AMSP to me.

Edited July 26, 2018 by Duff

[hysterical.useless 181]

Well, this is awkward.

Can't believe this is real, but if it is how shitty of a friend do you have to be to exploit a famous friend for some money?

"Thom is a family friend, but I'm inviting anyone who will pay me $60 to this private performance - just make sure you bring some kid with you so it doesn't look conspicuous."

[booger bear 307]

1. This is a hilarious joke

2. The guy is a dick and idiot because $60 is nothing.  

I'm guessing someone is being cheeky.   

Edited July 27, 2018 by booger bear

[Grunthos The Flatulent 52]

 

46 minutes ago, hysterical.useless said:

Well, this is awkward.

Can't believe this is real, but if it is how shitty of a friend do you have to be to exploit a famous friend for some money?

"Thom is a family friend, but I'm inviting anyone who will pay me $60 to this private performance - just make sure you bring some kid with you so it doesn't look conspicuous."

Kids: "Do Three Men Went to Mow"!!!

Me (from the back) "DO TELEX"

Edited July 27, 2018 by Grunthos The Flatulent