Video: Thom Yorke, “All For the Best”
- story Matthew Schnipper
Thom Yorke doing a song without Radiohead is like Stan or Jan doing a solo Berenstain Bears book: we’re still going to check it out. “All For the Best,” a cover of a Mark Mulcahy song from a recently released tribute album, though, is more like a Yorke solo outing than a Radiohead track (unless that track is someone playing “Idioteque” and “Videotape” at the same time), and is reminiscent of Yorke’s turn as the U.N.K.L.E. frontman with its cut up drums and dreary night shred. Whenever Yorke leaves Radiohead, it seems to be to satisfy his dour side. Check the video at Rollingstone.com, as they have unhelpfully left it unembeddable.
Radiohead, “These Are My Twisted Words” MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
Until halfway through Radiohead’s “These Are My Twisted Words,” when Thom Yorke waddles in from the rain, it sounds a whole lot like Unwound’s “December.” Well, not totally. Or, actually, all that much. But it has the same vibe, same plodding, same stubborn forward spirit Unwound had. Really, this is a simple song—maybe a little Jonny Greenwood modern classical extra tinkering business—but “These Are My Twisted Words” is a straightforward declaration of no weirdness, backed by the horse hoof snare and light cymbals of drummer Phil Selway. There was a time when Radiohead’s music was so strongly weird, and maybe that time is over, the weirdness only in free mp3 schemes and mysterious leakings. You know, Unwound broke up after they put out the album with “December.” They reached the plane of surprising, simple rock nirvana that “Twisted Words” is very much the cousin to, and then it was finished. Just saying.
Download: Radiohead, “These Are My Twisted Words” (song and full art)
Freeload: Salem + Telepathe Remix Radiohead
- story THE FADER
While we love Radiohead, we haven’t felt the need to listen to them for awhile now. It’s not that we don’t appreciate what the band does, it’s just that what they do is the root of a lot of the music we cover, and we’ve kinda moved on to the branches. Two of those branches, Telepathe who we featured in FADER 53, and Salem, who we just talk a lot about, have shown their love to our favorite experimental stadium rockers in the form of remixes of “Reckoner.” Salem’s version is the immediate standout, drenching the original in reverb and flipping Thom Yorke’s paranoid moan into something approximating a distant foghorn. None of these remixes are going to make you feel especially happy, but if you’re reading this then that might not be your steez anyway. (Via Gorilla Vs. Bear.)
Download: Radiohead, “Reckoner” (Salem Remix)
Download: Radiohead, “Reckoner” (Telepathe Remix)
**UPDATE** These remixes were commissioned by Merok (the remixers’ label) and XL (Radiohead) to commemorate the release of the Merok roster’s newest single releases, all of which are available here.
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posted on Dec 2, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, experimental, freeload, Radiohead, rock, Salem, Telepathe
Freeload: Diplo’s Radiohead Remixes
- story THE FADER
Diplo threw up two versions of his remix for the ‘Head this weekend with a fair amount of explanation about unmastered leaks and re-remixes. About Version 2, he wrote:
…eventually i came up up with something else even.. i really like it too, a lil more clubworked in the end.. the originaly idea was to make the biggest drum break of all TIME! but then it got scarey.. so here is the tame kangaroo version
Download: Radiohead, “Reckoner (DIPLO REMIXMIXREMIXv.2)”
Download: Radiohead, “Reckoner (DIPLO REMIXMIXREMIXv.1)”
Video: Radiohead, “House of Cards”
- story THE FADER
First they put their entire album up on the internet for free download and now they’ve made the video for “House of Cards” without cameras and boy are we excited to talk about this at parties for the next couple years. This video has been internetted to death already, but here: It was made by capturing the shapes and relative distances of physical objects by shooting lasers at them from a scanner mounted on something that looks like a steady-cam. Scanner! Lasers! What?! This shit is crazy. We watched the “making of” video too but still really don’t understand how one can “remake geometry” or how this process works at all. And of course Yorke had to get all deep on us, saying some stuff about how the transformation of people into mathematical points is “strangely emotional,” like, the collision of the mechanical and the human reveals the true depth of the soul when not touched by technology, or something. Just don’t watch too closely, you could go as blind as a Russian raver.
Video: Radiohead, Scotch Mist
- story THE FADER
So basically Radiohead are giving us all every chance possible ever to hear In Rainbows for free. Now that we can’t get it for a donation, we can watch this video of them performing all the songs, reminding us that no matter what, Thom Yorke’s wild neck oscilations will always be unnerving.
Video: Radiohead, “Jigsaw Falling Into Place”
- story THE FADER
Is it possible that the Radiohead album is being slept on? No, it isn’t, but people are talking way too much about who paid what (WE PAID NOTHING) and not enough about the songs. This is a good one, and the video makes us laugh because it’s clearly an example of a comedian and one of the Hammer & Tongs being like, “Hey Radiohead, let’s get pissed and put the CCTV on the old noodle,” and Radiohead being like, “Okay!”
