50 words on Hail to the Thief

Michael Daddino (epicharmus.com)

Anthony Miccio (anthonyisright.blogspot.com)

Like Dizzee Rascal? *flees*

The only album I've heard multiple times this year that I honestly like. This alas probably says more about my state of mind than anything about the record.

Outdated website at http://kuci.org/~nraggett/

Ned - you're my ilm crush, so if you could throw together exactly fifty words, I think i'd swoon.

I don’t really care about it being a concept album or whatever the hell it is. It doesn’t hang together as such and I don’t really mind that, actually. I just want to think about the way “The Gloaming” sounds like a slow fade into a nightmare. And I will.

Outdated website etc, just e-mail me at ned@kuci.org

Jack Cole
Pataphysics Research Laboratory

Bob Dylan in "Talking New York Blues" said "People goin' down to the ground, / Buildings goin' up to the sky." Then those buildings came down to the ground with the people in them, and everyone was sad. Some got mad. They found some scapegoats. Then Thom Yorke got sad (sad is mad without the energy).

David Antrobus
(No website.)
merdacon@uniserve.com

So do I.

Re: overdiscussed

Something in me is shying away from discussing it, for this very reason. The review I wrote of it is one of my most lifeless all year. It's hard to get all writerly about even a good album when you despair of having anything original to say about it. ESPECIALLY when there's not many new sounds on the album, and any discussion is going to be a lot of the same old Radiohead ponderousness without any new info. I mean, come on guys. It was fun to intellectualize Radiohead for almost five years. It's not fun anymore. Don't you people ever get BORED?

Like good tea HTTT is a perfect blend of many different varieties: Melding ambient, progrock, goth, dronerock and electronics. Add to this Yorke's pure sad asexual though sexy voice and his vague lyrics which have been mainly picked up from everyday conversations reflecting the currently prevailing gloomy and grim atmosphere.

Like good tea HTTT is a perfect blend of many different varieties: Ambient, progrock, goth, dronerock and electronics. Add to this Yorke's pure sad asexual though sexy voice. His vague lyrics picked up from everyday conversations reflect the currently prevailing gloomy and grim atmosphere. A glacier-volcano erupting frozen lava.

Therein lies your problem, and this is why you are bored. Radiohead are not a band to be intellectualised, they are a band to be felt and emotionally interpreted.

I don't have time to write anything proper, but this is part of an email that I sent yesterday:

Radiohead helps. They don’t dispel the black mood, but at least they tell me I'm not the only person in the world feels so helpless and angry. The demanding machines throb insistently, they control my life, but there’s a voice in the wilderness as well as a wolf at the door. It’s good not to feel alone, even if you’re only feeling alone together.

Nick Southall (http://www.stylusmagazine.com and http://auspiciousfish.blogspot.com)

www.freakytrigger.co.uk

Instead of "A glacier-volcano erupting frozen lava.":

"A glacier-volcano spitting out frozen lava."

The title of their next album? A triple CD genre-straddling opus about Hopi Indians?

"Of Nick" would be "Nickistä", with the umlaut.

Armageddon - David Sneddon.

If I'm nothing without you then why stick it out - you can pass me over.

Stop refusing to explain. Give up explaining.

Ware -> Perec -> Benjamin -> Stendhal.

Mail to the teeth.

One gets the feeling that Radiohead, who have provocatively titled their latest effort "Hail to the Thief,” must know that their political ideas are held in higher regard by the world's youthful elite than anything written by true scholars.

I put on the new Radiohead record and listened. Again. Again.

Nothing.

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(If anyone whose piece I used objects to their "about the writer" blurb, much of which was obtained through googling, just let me know.)

Again, my heartfelt thanks!

Anthony Miccio: I imagine you couldn't sing your way out of a wet paper sack, so just shut up. Michael Jackson? Could there be a more irrelevant musician these days?

It would be interesting if the Radiohead fans were as intellectual as the band is perceived as being (at least by the mainstream press). You know - if they deconstructed the negative reviews with Marxist and poststructuralist attacks. Unfortunately, they seem to be just like every other rabid, unwashed fanbase. Hooray!

I really dislike it when people put that sort of phrase in their reviews. I think the GYBE! description of their music being like watching a city burn was the worst of the lot, though metal reviews are full of this sort of rubbish.

Then there's "like [some band] on acid"...

under the post-ass, reality dissolves. your blistered salvation mindset goes on. yorke stab no longer. GOOD repulican eating! tremendous thirties?? prog members change. unique idiotss actually perfect no longer. stained black clouds without apocalyspe. towards hicks, near trash. first, later, end. perfect amerixan/longer will. they shouldn't have. g.

"thom yorke comments without actually commenting. hail to the thief is a stab at the g.w. dumbass. this stab was unique. "

The cover consists of bright colors that have been dulled down, somehow grayed, and the music follows suit. This is the sound of a band operating within a vacuum, having locked themselves into an endlessly repetitive pattern. Hail to the Thief feels like a soulless husk. Perhaps it was intentional.