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100 Greatest Albums

Radiohead scored three times in the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Albums Poll:

#8 OK Computer
#17 The Bends
#26 Kid A

(thanks to everyone that submitted this link)

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Later… DVD

The UK music show, Later…With Jools Holland, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary by releasing a DVD culling together some of the most memorable performances of the past decade. Radiohead’s performance of “Paranoid Android” will be included on the 30-track DVD, which hits UK shelves on November 18th. Here’s the full tracklisting:

The Verve – “Bitter Sweet Symphony”
Mary J Blige – “No More Drama”
Portishead – “Glory Box”
Ladysmith Black Mambazo – “Star And The Wiseman”
Bjork – “Hunter”
David Gray – “Babylon”
Pulp – “I Spy”
Norma Waterson – “There Ain’t No Sweet Man”
Paul Weller – “Woodcutter’s Son”
The Hives – “I Hate To Say I Told You So”
Jools Holland – “Blood Sucker Blues”
Massive Attack – “Karmacoma”
Blur – “Parklife”
Ibrahim Ferrer & Cachaito – “Wahira”
Oasis – “Whatever”
Nick Cave – “God Is In The House”
PJ Harvey – “Down By The Water”
Robbie Williams – “Angels”
Mariza – “O Gente Da Minha Terra”
Coldplay – “Yellow”
Baaba Maal – “Jamma Jengii”
Orbital – “Satan”
D’Angelo – “Brown Sugar”
Diana Krall – “Peel Me A Grape”
Morrissey – “Suedehead”
Moby – “Porcelain”
Blind Boys Of Alabama – “Run On”
Primal Scream – “Swastika Eyes”
REM – “Country Feedback”
Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
(source: the tripwire)

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Vote for RH

Q magazine wants you to vote for the “Best Album of All Time”. In 1997, Radiohead’s OK Computer was named #1 in the same poll.
(thanks to Jocelyn)

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NME articles

The two NME articles are now online here and here. Here’s the bit about the new album:

Colin talks of their plans for the new album. “We fly to LA at the end of August. (Long-time producer) Nigel Godrich rents a space there. Were going to spend two weeks working. The plan is like with OK Computer – we’ll have loads of songs we know and it’ll just be (mimes dumping a pile of books on the table) there!

He thinks about this: “It means we’ll be in America for September 11. Which will be interesting.

They hope to release the new LP, their sixth studio album, in March next year. There’s a discussion about the new songs. Since Thom didn’t introduce most of them on stage, people are curious about the titles. Have they really called a song “A Punch Up At A Wedding?” They have. Thom finds the fuss over the titles funny. I should have handed out lyric sheets to the audience,” he says, which seems like such a terribly un-Radiohead thing to do (for a band who, as “artists”, hate the idea of giving anything away for fear it will spirit the “art” itself into nothingness) that we assume it’s a joke.

(thanks to Rania)

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OKC light show

There will be a Radiohead OK Computer light show in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the Roger B Chaffee Planetarium in the Van Andel Museum. It will run at 10:30 on Friday and Saturday nights from July 15 to the end of August.

(thanks to Thom)

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Radiohead and ESPN

Radiohead was recently brought up in an interview with Dallas Mavericks point guard Steve Nash and ESPN’s Dan Patrick:

DP: Do you understand Radiohead?
SN: Not really, no. But you know, probably what’s great about it is that you make your own interpretation.
DP: I listened to “OK Computer” a few times, and I came away saying, must be me.
SN: Didn’t you like the music?
DP: It’s OK, but it wasn’t, like, ground-breaking.
SN: If you turn on the radio today, you’re really still hearing the Beatles or Led Zeppelin or whoever else set the standard at some point. But when you hear Radiohead, you very rarely hear that, especially in their evolution. So I think they’re constantly taking risks and breaking new ground. I give them a tremendous amount of respect because of that, because they’re willing to try new things. … A lot of people say, why are they trying this crazy, different stuff? But why not?
DP: That’s a valid point.
SN: The music itself is excellent. And I think he’s a very clever guy, the main singer who writes the lyrics and is kind of the mastermind behind most of it.

(thanks to Jonathan)