9 posts tagged “thom yorke”
My sister and I used to watch this movie. It's definitely cheap and 80s, but it's pretty good, especially if you love all the post-apocalyptic themed movies like I do (think "Resident Evil", "Dawn of the Dead", and "28 Days Later").
The version of this song, "Rich Girl", is followed by a reggae rap song that is not part of it. I think the two songs have been fused together and were maybe part of a reggae continuous mix that I accidentally downloaded a long, long time ago. I like the last part of the song, and I recently realized that Cutty Ranks has a song that the sound must have come from called "Limb by Limb". Here is that song ...
M.I.A. and Diplo's "Piracy Funds Terrorism, vol. 1" have a song called "M.I.A./Cutty Ranks" that samples the lyrics from the above song. Here it is ...
I have made a YouTube playlist for Piracy Funds Terrorism, vol. 1, but it is not complete, yet. Here is what I have so far ...
In other news, I hope the debates tonight between Biden and Palin will be interesting. I would think that she would stumble because there's only so much prep work you can do to try to fake knowledge. I know Biden is very knowledgeable and will be able to back up his ideas with specific details. I think Palin will be flustered. I think Tina Fey should do the debate for her, but that would give the Republicans an unfair advantage. ;)
I have been listening to Radiohead a lot lately. I do this from time to time. I really need to start listening to new music just so I know what is out there. However, I don't discover any new music that I like that often. I do want the new Ladyhawke album as soon as it is available to download for the U.S.
Here is a Radiohead song that I have sort of rediscovered from "Hail to the Thief" ...
It is way too hot in Austin so I thought I would post some songs that either mention "rain" in their lyrics or sound like water/rain. I may have posted some of these before. Here is the current forecast for Austin, TX ...
Here is a song that I could play over and over again if I had to. It has a sort of submarine sound to it ...
This next song actually mentions "rain" ...
"It's raining all over the world" (yeah, right) ...
This song has always sounded kind of underwater to me ...
This last song takes place when a storm is coming in Bram Stoker's Dracula ...
Also, here is a video from last summer in Austin, when it rained so much that they had to open up the floodgates at Mansfield Dam.
These are not new songs, but they are new versions of songs.
Here is a better quality version of "Sound of Kuduro" by Buraka Som Sistema ...
Here is a remix of Bucky Done Gun that is new to me ...
Here is a song that pops into my head (just to be random) ...
Also, I wanted to post this song since it was in my head yesterday I think ...
OK, that's all I got for now. This is what happens when you can't sleep.
This is pretty cool. They used some sort of laser technology to do it. You can read more about it at their website or watch the behind the scenes video on YouTube ...
The above video is from Radiohead's blog.
Here is the original song by Portishead.
I love it when an artist I really like is a fan of another artist I really like (or something like that).
This song has been swimming around my head today. I love how melancholy it sounds. I think "melancholy" would be the right word to use.
Radiohead - All I Need (from the album, In Rainbows)
I have had the "In Rainbows" album for a while now, but I haven't really paid attention to this song until I saw this YouTube video of it ...
The footage is from a 1996 French movie, called Microcosmos. I have already placed it in my Netflix Queue.
I heard about this YouTube video here.
I really like the first song on Radiohead's "In Rainbows" album. It's called "15 Steps", and I repeated it a couple of times on the way home from work. I think it is cool how Radiohead sort of shook up the whole way of purchasing an album. I have read that they made a lot of money off of it, too, which shows people are not complete criminals when they respect the artist and music they are downloading.
Radiohead - 15 Steps
(edit ... here is a link to the website for the album)
I think Radiohead is brave and awesome for selling their new album, "In Rainbows", directly to their fans all by themselves. I signed up to receive the album about a week or more ago. The site asked me how much I wanted to pay for it, and I think I paid about $10 just to be supportive because I love the idea of an artist ignoring the big record companies who allow the RIAA to sue people who download music (read about that atrocity here).
I think the decision to fine that woman in Minnesota hundreds of thousands of dollars is insane. Let the fine be something like $1000. That would be more sensible. I guess they made the fine so large to deter other people from downloading music without paying for it. However, bands like Radiohead (and there are many other bands who have let their fans download their albums for free) are saying you can exist without charging for your music, or you can at least sell DRM-free music to fans at a low, low price.
Bands like Radiohead know that they are going to make most of their money touring. Tori Amos and M.I.A. know that, too. There is a good article about this in TIME magazine. You can read it here ...
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1668161,00.html
Here is the email I got from Radiohead's website today ...
THANK YOU FOR ORDERING IN RAINBOWS. THIS IS AN UPDATE.
YOUR UNIQUE ACTIVATION CODE(S) WILL BE SENT OUT TOMORROW MORNING (UK TIME). THIS WILL TAKE YOU STRAIGHT TO THE DOWNLOAD AREA.
HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD:
THE ALBUM WILL COME AS A 48.4MB ZIP FILE CONTAINING 10 X 160KBPS DRM FREE MP3s.
MOST COMPUTERS NOW HAVE ZIP SOFTWARE AS PART OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM; IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT, YOU NEED TO GET WINZIP OR ZIPIT INSTALLED PRIOR.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THEM HERE:
PC: http://www.winzip.com/
MAC: http://www.maczipit.com/
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS DOWNLOADING YOUR FILE, PLEASE CONTACT OUR DOWNLOAD CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM AT
downloadinrainbows@waste.uk.com
When I listen to "After All" by Electric Light Orchestra ...
it makes me think of Radiohead's "Exit Music (For A Film)" ...
Speaking of Radiohead, I found this cool video of a person painting a picture of Thom Yorke using Photoshop, I think ...
There is also a cool image of Thom Yorke from Q or SPIN that shows what he would look like if he had a lot of cosmetic surgery to appear more "Hollywood" ...
The picture is tool small. If anyone out there has a larger scan of it, please let me know. Thanks!
The ELO song, "After All", reminds me of Tori Amos' wonderful cover of David Bowie's "After All" that she did as a B-side for the album, "Strange Little Girls" ...
The above photo of Tori was used for the "Strange Little Girls" album's artwork, but the message on the shirt was changed from "Adam kiss my eve" to "Satin Worship"(a play on the words, "satan worship", of course). You can compare the two images below ...
The reason it had to be changed for the album and marketing purposes was due to some sort of copyright violation. I still like the original "Adam kiss my eve" picture, and I had printed it out a long time ago. Lucky for me that I did that because now it is really hard to find the original image online(so I just scanned it and uploaded it here).
