Since Radiohead's 40-year anniversary is in like a month or so, I've decided to make a little tribute to my favourite band in the form of a phone wallpaper. I tried my best to recreate the vibe of each album as best I could but I only recently started using Adobe Illustrator to make art. Constrictive feedback welcome :)

Feel free to use it as your wallpaper too!

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Hello, I thought this might be of interest here - I have 3 prints of Stanley Donwood's Fleet Street Apocalypse for sale, which I got from a Q&A event he gave at the St Bride Foundation (where these prints were made, c. 2018). Funnily enough, the Q&A took place on the same night as The Smile were doing their Wall of Eyes preview at the Prince Charles Cinema not too far away.

There's more information on my Ebay listing. Happy to accept £50 GBP and ship worldwide if you can cover the postage!

Oh and there's a little bit of background to how the prints came about here. Needless to say, this was all part of the 'London Views' era of Stan's work, which was originally made for Thom's solo debut, The Eraser.

Has anyone noticed Separator sounds like Lucidity by Tame Impala?

I am new to the sub, and am seeing a lot of positive news about a tour in the next few years. Is this always as much as it is now or is this actually exciting?

what pieces would you consider compositions rather than songs. like all parts fit perfectly and beautifully rather than like a rock song

Hi! I’m from the Philippines, and I really want to watch Thom Yorke’s concert. I asked a friend in Japan to purchase a ticket for me, but the ticket is under his name. Will I be able to use it?

I’m currently in osaka still can’t access the eplus ticket. Getting hopeless, the only reason why i am here is because of the concert. Can anyone help me :(

I just finally got Weird Fishes / Arpeggi this week, and wow, if this isn’t the band’s crowning jewel! Incredibly beautiful, haunting, energetic, driving, meaningful, fun and everything someone could want from a song. Wondering if others also took many listens to really get this song!

Can someone point me to a good recording of the moon shaped pool tour? I've yet to see a good concert recording of that album and I'd love to sit down and watch one. Is there a general consensus about a particular concert/recording being the best?

Hi all. I'm going to Tokyo night 1 and created a Spotify playlist in preparation for the show. It consists of all the songs he's played so far. Thought I'd share:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3IongiBrWsR6M4ea0yhYIM?si=p64HjrQWQ_6HGUCRWz5OdA&pi=u-uTQM3RmZSSGj

This will be my 15th time seeing Thom in some form and first time in Japan! Very excited!!

use this post to share which songs were so memorable to you that, if you had the chance, you’d love to relive the thrill of hearing them for the "first time". my choices are:

• nude: my favorite radiohead song, and probably my favorite song of all time. since the first time i heard it, sounded like one of the most special things k've ever listened to. in the final minutes, with thom just "howling" in a mournful way, it's like a glimpse of paradise.

• the national anthem: that bassline... i would sell my soul to the devil just to hear that chaotic jazz again.

• exit music: my second favorite radiohead song, and also the one that introduced me to the band (through an episode of black mirror). when it reaches the climax of the song, it's just so 😩🤯 — probably the best "explosion" in a song i've ever heard.

Today while listening to Kid A I noticed that Thom repeatedly tries to reassure himself that everything's fine. I noticed that on 3 songs: In Everything is in its right place (as the title suggests, everything's in its right place), in Optimistic (you can try the best you can, the best you can is good enough) and in HTDC (I'm not here, this isn't happening). It seems like a constant attempt to comfort himself and convince us that everything is fine. This seems compatible with the mood he was in when working on Kid A. What do you think, has anyone noticed that as well?

As the title suggests, I met Radiohead at the MTV Beach House in 1993 when I was 15 years old. I was working at a local record store and was already a fan of the band. One day, an MTV producer stopped by the store and asked my coworker and me if we would be interested in coming to the Beach House to see Radiohead. Well, of course, we said yes!

I brought my cover of the "Pablo Honey" CD with me, hoping to get an autograph. As luck would have it, after several takes and the "incident" that occurred during filming, the band was leaving the set and walking past where I was sitting on the balcony overlooking the pool. I nervously asked them if they would sign my "Pablo Honey" cover. They seemed flattered and mentioned that they had so few fans in the U.S. at that time. One of them (I can't remember who) somehow got an index card and wrote down my and my coworker's details for their fan club. Then, they all used a Sharpie to autograph my cover (which I had framed some time ago).

However, Thom went missing—he had ducked back inside the house. Fortunately, one of the other band members (again, I can't recall who) managed to find him inside, and I ended up getting Thom's signature too, even though I never got the chance to meet him.

And, although I never encountered anyone from Radiohead again after that day at the Beach House, I feel incredibly lucky to have met a band I still listen to in 2024, all the way back in 1993, when they were just starting out.

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Does anyone have images or audio from this show. Friends and I were talking about it but it was early smart phone days.

Went to Rough Trade today. Colin was very kind to me and my son, and signed his copy of Amnesiac, as well as his new book.

As I was speaking, I asked if there was any plans for a 30th anniversary type edition of The Bends. He said there were some “rumblings” about it (that was his exact phrasing!). I mentioned that it would be awesome to see the B-sides from that era compiled and pressed on vinyl. He was receptive to this and said he would mention it to the others and that he thinks the Bends and OKC b-sides were really good.

Anyway, hope that is interesting to others and fingers crossed something materialises next year!

Pattern recognition is real

I need some hope from my main man...

So lovely to meet Colin today at Rough Trade East, he signed my copy of OKC ‘love Radiohead’. I said I hope to see Radiohead live one day and he said “me too”!

Was super nice, we spoke a tiny bit about On a Friday

I started going down the Radiohead cover rabbit hole several years ago listening to 100’s (maybe 1000’s) and have been blown away by the quality and variety and was blown away by the quality and variety.

These are my favourite 100 in no particular order. Some I think are almost as good as the originals and a few I think are better. Blasphemy, I know.

Full YouTube playlist is here

1. "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" - Portland Cello Project
2. "There There (Radiohead) - The Israel Jazz Orchestra" - The Israel Jazz Orchestra
3. "Creep" - Prince
4. "There There" - Astrina
5. "Exit Music For a Film" - The Marias
6. "Daydreaming" - Jaron Davis and Lydia
7. "Identikit" - Daniel Ferri Music
8. "15 Step" - The Swingles
9. "Weird Fishes" - Eric Vitoff
10. "Black Star" - Gillian Welch
11. "Weird Fishes" - Lianne La Havas
12. "Let Down" - Toots & The Maytals
13. "Lotus Flower" - Alexa Melo
14. "The Tourist" - Sarah Jarosz
15. "I Will" - Roman Falkenstein
16. "Like Spinning Plates" - Bella Ruse
17. "Karma Police" - Shefita
18. "No Surprises" - Chloe Feoranzo
19. "Burn The Witch" - Leo Moracchioli
20. "Bloom" - Lucas Vallim
21. "4 Minute Warning" - The Arcadian Earth
22. "All I Need" - Zander Howard-Scott
23. "Subterranean Homesick Alien" - Bob Reynolds & David Ryan Harris
24. "Optimistic" - Max Haymer Trio
25. "Go To Sleep" - Sean Daniel & Jaida
26. "Where I End and You Begin" - Night Drive
27. "Morning bell" - Silence Fiction
28. "Paranoid Android" - Eleanor K
29. "Everything In Its Right Place" - Jędrzej Skiba
30. "Present Tense" - 8cho
31. "Burn the witch" - The Hood Internet
32. "Give Up The Ghost" - Hayley Richman
33. "I Might Be Wrong" - Postures
34. "I Will" - Church Choir Tao
35. "Codex" - M. the Heir Apparent
36. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" - Mia Black & Sina
37. "You" - Jason Wadsworth
38. "Blow Out" - Thomas Méreur
39. "High and Dry" - Nerina Pallot
40. "Optimistic" - Hanson
41. "Motion Picture Soundtrack (In Memory of Mackenzie May)" - The Calgary Stampede Showband
42. "Pyramid Song" - Metaphump
43. "Bodysnatchers" - Presssounds
44. "Faust Arp (Radiohead cover) " - Eyal Amir ft. Noa Margalit
45. "House of Cards" - Jeuru
46. "Pyramid Song" - Sybarite5
47. "Go Slowly" - TakeMeWithYer
48. "High & Dry" - Carrie Manolakos
49. "Weird Fishes / The Bed's Too Big Without You" - Elise Trouw
50. "Creep" - Scary Pockets
51. "Karma Police" - Baila Nova
52. "Sail to the Moon" - Christopher O'Riley
53. "Faust Arp" - Dahlen Baerentzen Project
54. "Subterranean Homesick Alien" - Kate Walsh
55. "Radiohead Motion Picture Soundtrack" - Lara Somogyi & Orchid Quartet
56. "Exit Music (For a Film)" - Windsync
57. "Letter From God to Man (Planet Telex)" - Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
58. "Karma Police" - Scott Bradlee
59. "You" - Noordpool Orchestra
60. "Everything In Its Right Place" - Scala and Kolacny Brothers
61. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" - The Darkness
62. "Daydreaming" - Leo Moracchioli
63. "Paranoid Android" - Kirsty Rock
64. "Weird Fishes" - Lucas Vallim
65. "Lift" - Skullcrusher
66. "Man Of War" - Erase the Poems
67. "Creep" - Caitlin Koch
68. "Black Star" - The Choirs YYJ
69. "Lucky" - Molly Sierra
70. "Myxomatosis" - Ryan Irwin feat. Carly Augenstein & Scott Graves
71. "A Punchup At A Wedding" - Tenacity (Feat. Salvador Sin)
72. "Nude" - Ryan Irwin feat. Carly Augenstein
73. "Climbing Up The Walls" - Viscera
74. "Bullet Proof ... I Wish I Was" - Si Clancy
75. "No Surprises" - Savage Singing Sessions
76. "Black Star" - Jade Bird
77. "Myxomatosis" - BLK ODYSSY
78. "Let Down" - The Choirs YYJ
79. "Rodeohead" - Hard 'N Phirm
80. "Paranoid Android " - Imperial Triumphant
81. "Videotape / Ful Stop" - Eagle Eyed Tiger
82. "Blow Out" - LO Freq
83. "Exit Music (For a Film) / Chopin's Prelude Op. 28, No. 4" - Heavypiano
84. "Motion Picture Soundtrack" - Josh Cohen
85. "Everything In Its Right Place" - Wilderun
86. "Dollars and Cents" - The Fridge
87. "Give Up The Ghost" - Fuzzy logic and Nicholson
88. "Planet Telex" - Rosie Carney
89. "Videotape" - Daniel Ferri
90. "No Surprises" - Regina Spektor
91. "Ill Wind" - Carvel
92. "Daydreaming" - Pulse Percussion Trio
93. "True Love Waits" - Chris Thiel
94. "Fake Plastic Trees" - Kelly Clarkson
95. "Kid A" - John Mayer
96. "How to Disappear Completely" - Ane Brun
97. "Motion Picture Soundtrack" - Cigarettes After Sex
98. "15 Step" - Tanya O'Callaghan/Roberto Angelucci/Kudisan Kai
99. "The National Anthem" - Taka, Joe Edelmann, and Lucas Vallim
100. "Talk Show Host" - Haley Richman

If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, it’s worth noting that several artists from the above list have each made many more covers:

• Josh Cohen
• Alexa Melo
• Jaron Davis
• Lucas Vallim
• Haley Richman
• Ryan Irwin / Carly Augenstein
• Heavypiano
• Christopher O'Riley
• Taka
• Joe Edelmann / Burne Holiday
• Noordpool Orchestra

Please let me know of any others you like!

Anyone planning any meetups before either of the Osaka or Hiroshima shows? I'd love to meet some fellow Radiohead fans!

Hello Radiohead sleuths.

I'm in the process of writing a screenplay about Radiohead (specifically a character study based on Thom Yorke’s artistic journey from OK Computer tour burnout/writer’s block to Kid A release).

There is a particular scene that I would like to write (as accurately as possible), which would potentially be the make or break (‘all is lost’) scene - 

Radiohead arguing over the Kid A track listing nearly causing the band to split.

According to Ed O Brien...

Q. What’s the closest the band has ever come to ending?

Ed O'Brien - I don’t know whether there has been a closest time. I think [doing] the tracklisting of Kid A was really fraught. That felt like it could go either way, it could break. Like it would snap and that would be it. But we came in the next day and it was resolved.

(Source - https://theface.com/music/radiohead-guitarist-ed-obrien-album-shangri-la-interview-thom-yorke)

Ed’s diary entry - JUNE 2000 - ...some days are better than others. actually the truth is that at such a crucial time of the album........tracklisting, rehearsals, titles, arguments and full on fist fights.

(Source - https://creephead.tripod.com/Archives/articles/edsdiary/index.html)

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What I would like to know (with backed up source material please) is, (and i appreciate some of this may be impossible to know without directly speaking to those involved):

1. What was the main source of the track listing argument(s)? (Presumably band members preferences for certain songs, order of songs, release formats...). Are there any sources (pics in studio of boards with songs, early tracklists, comments in interviews that would suggest alternative track listings or band members preferences for certain tracks/forms of release etc?)
2. Who was in favour of single, double album or EP releases? (See TY comment on suggestion about originally doing no album but EP releases instead (https://web.archive.org/web/20131212061753/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-07-31/features/0107310006_1_pink-floyd-amnesiac-thom-yorke)? Interviews seem to suggest that generally they're against the idea of double album but that there were initial considerations for a double album? Ultimately though the Amnesiac track listing was decided upon AFTER the KID A release (see reference below). Are there any sources that give us more clues?
3. What was the influence of non-band members on the final track listing and marketing of Kid A and Amnesiac? 1) Nigel Godrich (‘the 6th member’) most of his albums around the 40-60 min mark, don’t believe he’s ever made a double album? Played a massive part in the editing element of Radiohead's work, likely to have encouraged a more concise 40-60 minute album sequence? 2) Stanley Donwood (SD was present at recording sessions producing artwork in separate room with speakers directly linked up from these sessions, creating a feedback loop of art and music so to speak. Could SD have had an impact on the choice to split the material into two separate pieces? (See his quote below and note similarity to TY’s comment of Amnesiac as a form of explanation for Kid A) 3) Radiohead management: Chris, Bryce and Brian mentioned in Ed’s Diary having meeting in NOV 1999. Bare in mind, Kid A was following OKC a massive critical and commercial success, there must of have been pressure from the label to deliver a equally successful follow up. Kid A was a big shock to the public upon release but imagine from the labels perspective being presented the 50 or so recorded songs many without guitars/deviating from the rock formula (and before the marketing strategy of no singles, blips, new logo, new anti-rock ethic etc)! In light of potential commercial/critical suicide, would the management have perhaps suggested a more digestible single album format?

PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ABOUT YOUR OWN PROPOSED DOUBLE ALBUM TRACK LISTS THIS HAS BEEN COVERED ON OTHER POSTS!

ONLY SOURCE MATERIAL BACKED COMMENTS PLEASE.

MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP/SOURCES YOU CAN PROVIDE!

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REFERENCES

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THOM YORKE

Yorke told Select. "At one point, we were working on 50 different things, which used to drive the others crazy – but it made me really happy. Depending on how I felt when I walked in one morning, I had 50 different things to choose from, and it's brilliant!

Read More: Why Radiohead Chose to Avoid 'Arrogance' of Double LP for 'Kid A' | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/radiohead-kid-a-double-album/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

The singer, Thom Yorke, said Radiohead split it into two albums because "they cancel each other out as overall finished things" and came from "two different places". He felt Amnesiac offered a "different take" on Kid A and "a form of explanation" 

Q. Some of your bandmates say you initially wanted to release the material that eventually ended up as "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" as a double album. What persuaded you to change your mind? Do you feel in retrospect this was the correct decision?

A. Do you? Imagine the [criticism] we would have got! They are separate because they cannot run in a straight line with each other. They cancel each other out as overall finished things. Originally we thought about making them EPs, but that would have been a copout. They come from two different places I think. . . . In some weird way I think "Amnesiac" gives another take on "Kid A," a form of explanation.

(https://web.archive.org/web/20131212061753/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-07-31/features/0107310006_1_pink-floyd-amnesiac-thom-yorke )

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JONNY GREENWOOD

Jonny Greenwood: “‘Everything In Its Right Place’ [...] dictated how we sequenced the record, because we knew it had to be the first song, and everything just followed after it. [...] Part of the process of recording this record meant that it took us so long to get our heads together and to get into a position where we were enjoying ourselves that it was quite hard to stop and we seemed to just record song after song, and [...] we certainly had too much for one record.”

Nic Harcourt: “So you didn't want to do a double album, because...”

Jonny: “We thought about it, but there's a sort of... I don't know, there's an arrogance in them. Bands get to a stage where they think their music is worth three hours of your time, and it's not really...”

KCRW, october 12th 2000 (https://citizeninsane.eu/sessions/04/kida\_tracklist.html)

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Q. Many listeners perceived "Kid A" as a "radical new direction for the band," and there were rumors that you put it out because "Amnesiac" would be a more pop-oriented record closer in spirit to "OK Computer." Do you agree?

A. No, I really don't. I think "Amnesiac" explains that it was not necessarily such a radical step. I think it was as simple as disappearing for three years and moving on. . . . There is stuff on both records that, to me, represents no departure at all, but just survived because it was too good to miss, like "Knives Out." . . . There are straight-ahead tracks on both records. I enjoyed having "Amnesiac" to myself for so long. But I don't think it's any more accessible. If we'd released "Amnesiac" first I think the same sort of reactions would have occurred. I don't think "Kid A" is so experimental, I think we're just getting warmed up. . . .

(https://web.archive.org/web/20160306223619/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-07-31/features/0107310006_1_pink-floyd-amnesiac-thom-yorke/2)

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ED O BRIEN

Video see see 0:55-1:05 - “40 minutes is a good slab of music” -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYHw6vLv7o

See - King of limbs - comments comparing album length to Marvin Gaye - O'Brien explained that Radiohead felt the ideal album was around 40 minutes long, and cited Marvin Gaye's What's Going On (1971) as a classic record shorter than The King of Limbs. ^((BBC 5 live interview with Ed O’Brien)- cannot find original recording)) 

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COLIN GREENWOOD

Colin Greenwood: “We’d go in for like a week, like every day from 4 o’clock through to 11 or 12, working on the tracklistings for Kid A and with all the songs that we’d recorded, desperately trying to put in the songs that are on the next album, and we just couldn’t make an order fit.”KCRW, january 25th 2001

(https://citizeninsane.eu/sessions/04/kida\_tracklist.html)

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STANLEY DONWOOD

Ed O’Brien talking about SD - “He said, 'Kid A is like you pick up the phone, you call somebody, and there's an answering machine on the other end.

(https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/radiohead-warm-up-with-amnesiac-195619/)
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RADIOHEAD MANAGEMENT

Paul Anderson: “The first two tracks on the album are, I think, quite brave openers.”

Ed O’Brien: “Chris, Bryce and Brian, our managers, said - Chris particularly said - you know, we were talking about the track openers - he said 'What is the first track that you would like people to hear?' And unanimously we all said 'Everything in Its Right Place'.” [...]

Paul: “From a listener point of view I'd have to say it's a good call. Because it really sounds like the beginning of something.”

Ed: “Yeah, it definitely sets the tone of it. It's the key to this record.”

(https://citizeninsane.eu/sessions/04/kida\_tracklist.html)

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TRACKLISTING

EVERYTHING IN IT'S RIGHT PLACE - ALWAYS CONSIDERED OPENING TRACK

“That still left the sequencing of Kid A to be dealt with. It began easily with the opening track, the sparsely arranged "Everything in Its Right Place,””.

Read More: Why Radiohead Chose to Avoid 'Arrogance' of Double LP for 'Kid A' | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/radiohead-kid-a-double-album/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

AMNESIAC TRACK LISTING HAD STILL NOT BEEN DECIDED UPON AFTER KID A RELEASE
Paul Anderson: “Another album is done, is it, it's finished?”

Ed O’Brien: “Basically, yeah, we've got tracks finished. We had two albums worth of material. Some of the songs that we'd been playing live, a lot of them are the ones that are not on Kid A. Songs like 'Knives Out', and there's one that's tentatively titled 'Egyptian Song'. And, they're amazing tracks, 'I Might Be Wrong'... they just didn't make Kid A, but they've got to be released, 'cause they're some of the best stuff we've ever done.” [...]

Paul: “When is this next album likely to see release?”

Phil Selway: “Well, we haven't actually managed to find a tracklisting for it yet.”

Ed: “We've got to do that...”

Phil: “We've got to do that, yeah. Take a note... [laughter] But we don't want to leave it too long, really. Because all this material came out at the same sessions as well, so if it was like a year down the line after Kid A it would just... you'd just feel as though you're flogging the same horse for quite a while, really.”

Ed: “It would be great if it was... I think the idea is to have it before April of next year.”XFM, september 25th 2000

(https://citizeninsane.eu/sessions/05/amnesiac\_tracklist.html)

TRACK LISTING PROCESS

Colin: “It was over an eighteen month period of recording and we didn’t want to combine all the recordings, because we don’t like double albums, and we didn’t want to tax the listeners attention span... so we started off with one record, and the ones left over we sort of managed to put together. But we are happy with how they work together, both records, I think. ”

Chris Douridas: “So, hearing it like that it sounds like they were almost outtakes or left-overs that... ”

Ed O’Brien: “No, no, it’s not. That is one of the main things that we’re really trying to get across, it’s not outtakes.”

Colin: “We’d go in for like a week, like every day from 4 o’clock through to 11 or 12, working on the track listings for Kid A and with all the songs that we’d recorded, desperately trying to put in the songs that are on the next album, and we just couldn’t make an order fit. So there’s absolutely no sense of these other songs on Amnesiac being left-overs.”KCRW, january 25th 2001

(https://citizeninsane.eu/sessions/05/amnesiac\_tracklist.html)