Month: February 2000

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News for February 21, 2000

Everything Back In It’s Right Place

The band return to work today after having last week off. Ed updated his diary recently with some promising news:

“…who knows maybe in the next few weeks we may even finish off the recording of the songs we’ve been working on?”

Boy, wouldn’t that be great!
You can read the rest of his diary at www.radiohead.com/us.html.

Those Aussies Love Their Radiohead
The Australian music magazine, Massive, recently had their “Hottest 100 Albums of All Time”, voted by the lovely people of Australia. Radiohead scored twice in the top ten:
1. OK Computer – Radiohead
2. Nevermind – Nirvana
3. Grace – Jeff Buckley
4. The Beatles – The Beatles
5. Stone Roses – Stone Roses
6. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
7. The Joshua Tree – U2
8. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – Midnight Oil
9. Houses of the Holy – Led Zeppelin
10. The Bends – Radiohead
(thanks to Stanard)

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News for February 18, 2000

Nothing Here

Not much has been going in the Radiohead camp as of late. The band will return next week from their week off to settle back in to getting us a record to listen to!

Webcast Leftovers

The playlist for the February 10 webcast has been posted up by the wonderful Mel. Here’s what Colin, Phil, and Ed spun:

Marlene Shaw- California Soul
Stetsosonic – All that jazz
Captain Beefheart – Sun Zoom Spark
Five Ounces of Soul – Love Got a Piece of Your Mind
Commodores – Machine Gun
PJ Harvey – O Stella
PIL – Flowers of Romance
John Barry – The Danny Scipio Theme
The Beat – Save It For Later
Lou Reed – Vicious
Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
Charles Wright – I’m Aware
The Movie Album – Goin’ Hollywood
Charles Sherell – Yes It’s You
Schooly D – Do it Do it
South Bronx – Hip Hop Till You Drop
Charles Sullivan – Genesis
Betty Davis – f.u.n.k
Ray Charles – Night and Day
Hall and Oates – Had I Known You Better Then
Kraftwerk – Tour de France
? – Felicidade
With These Themes 3 – Avro Car
Neu! – Fur Immer
Bob Marley – Single Dub
Linda Lyndelt – What A Man
The Specials – Ghost Town
Sergio Mendes – After Sunrise
Velvet Underground – Who Loves The Sun
Virna Lindt – Attention Stockholm
Barrett Strong – Money
Tom Waits – Such A Scream
Marvyn Gaye – ?
Gerry Mulligan – Morning Of The Carnival
Joe Quarterman and Free Soul – Live Now Brothers
(thanks to Xavier)

And Now For Your Radiohead Feel-Good Story of the Month:

“There is a radio station in little Spokane, Washington, that never plays Radiohead (other than Creep and High and Dry)……but yesterday something amazing happened. The Peak (105.7, Spokane, WA) interviewed a band called BoxCar Children on their Local Band night where a band is interviewed and played on the radio. Well the Peak had to go out and buy a copy of OK Computer in order to play Karma Police which was requested to be played by BoxCar Children (or else there would be no show). Almost brought me to tears………Radiohead being on the radio and all, it is good to see that someone out there is showing us the true way of the Radiohead.”
(thanks to Tony for that one)

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News for February 11, 2000

What a night! The band put on their second webcast last night and left us all wanting more! At around 6pm Eastern time, Radiohead set up their turntables and video cameras and partied for almost 4 hours!

The evening was full of excitement. Ed, Phil, and Colin took turns playing DJ, while the others danced around (Go Mel!) and sat by the fire outside. The highlight of the evening was definitely the introduction of three new songs. Thom, Jonny, and Phil had a little jam session which was incredible, called “There there”, by Thom. That was followed later by Jonny and his electronic toys.

The band got together at the end and played another new song with Ed on vocals, even though he wasn’t really singing. “Ed was pulling wurds out of the magic top hat which i use,” said Thom.

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News for February 9, 2000

Ed’s online diary has been updated again with all the latest on the recording process. Here’s an excerpt:

“what an amazing day. fantastic string arrangements by jonny and what players. many many thanks are due to john lubbock(who conducted and organised) and the string players from the orchestra of st. john’s, smith square. the whole session was the complete antithesis to the ok computer experience; firstly rather than de-camping to some london studio we used an old abbey near us with the most fantastic acoustics to record in. i think nigel was totally blown away by the whole sound of it. but most importantly john and the players were so enthusiastic about it all…..jonny has certain things that he wants/wanted to try out that aren’t your usual string arrangements. and rather than dismiss his ideas ( which is what happened on the ok computer session) they were open-minded enough to try them.”

Ed also mentions that the master tape of “Innocents Civilian” has come up missing. Nigel had this to say on the official message board:

“Personally I think we have a bit of a tape labelling/catalogueing user interface error, but certain others are somewhat freaking about it. I’m sure it’ll turn up.”

OK, go and read the rest of the diary.
Copyright

Another new and unreleased song has been found copyrighted. The song “I Will” joins “Follow Me Around”, “Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any), and “Living in a Glass House” as possible finished songs that are copyrighted with Warner/Chappell.

Also, two unknown songs were found copyrighted by Jonny Greenwood: “Jet” and “Tinitus”. (click on each song to view the description from Warner/Chappell)
Again, this is no indication on what songs will be on the new album.
(thanks to Xavier)

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News for February 8, 2000

It appears that three new Radiohead songs have been copyrighted and licensed by Warner/Chappell, one of the biggest music publishing companies in the world.

The songs are:
Follow Me Around
Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any)
Living in a Glass House

Hopefully this means that the above songs are finished. This, however, doesn’t necessarily mean that they will appear on the new album. It’s still early.
(thanks to GP special correspondent Xavier) 🙂

Speaking of the New Album…

Thom mentioned on the official message board the other day that they had just finished recording some strings in a church.

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News for February 4, 2000

Alan Greenspan: #1 Radiohead fan

Well, maybe not. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Radiohead were mentioned in the same paragraph (who would have guessed!) in an article from smartmoney.com. Here’s an excerpt of this rather humorous bonding:

“OOH, THAT GREENSPAN is a trickster, isn’t he? In a move that shocked absolutely nobody, the Fed raised rates by a quarter-point and said in its policy statement that risks are weighted toward conditions that may generate heightened inflation pressures (translation: the dreaded old tightening bias). I never would have guessed it, but Greenspan must be a huge fan of the British rock band Radiohead. Their lyric, “No alarms and no surprises please,” could be Greenspan’s motto.”

Hee hee. If you care, you can read the rest of the article, even though Radiohead isn’t mentioned again, here.

Hey, what’s going on with the band? Relax guys. Ed’s diary has been updated and each one of band members has been sent to “time out”. 🙂