Radiohead get the 'downtempo and neo-soul' tribute approach

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Radiohead tribute no. 962: Exit Music: Songs for Radio
Heads. Release Date April 18 via BBE/Rapster

Hear all your favourite pre-Thief Radiohead cuts
getting the downtempo and neo-soul treatment, courtesy
of folks like Matthew Herbert, Rjd2, Bilal, the Bad
Plus, Sia, Sa-Ra, Cinematic Orchestra, ?uestlove and
James Poyser (as The Randy Watson Experience), and
Mark Ronson and the singer from Phantom Planet.

The tourists:

01 Shawn Lee: "No Surprises"
02 The Randy Watson Experience with Donn: "Morning
Bell"
03 Sa-Ra Creative Partners: "In Limbo"
04 Pete Kuzma with Bilal: "High and Dry"
05 Mark Ronson with Alex Greenwald: "Just"
06 Rjd2: "Airbag"
07 Matthew Herbert with Mara Carlyle: "Nice Dream"
08 Lo-Freq: "Blow Out"
09 Meshell Ndegeocello & Chris Dave: "The National
Anthem"
10 The Bad Plus: "Karma Police"
11 Sia: "Paranoid Android"
12 Osunlade with Erro: "Everything In Its Right Place"
13 Wajeed featuring Monica Blaire: "Knives Out"
14 Cinematic Orchestra: "Exit Music (For A Film)"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

03 Sa-Ra Creative Partners: "In Limbo"

Is that like an marketing agency or something?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I think they're like funk/neosoul. JaXon likes them.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like a terrible idea, but I like almost everything BBE puts out.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Cinematic Orchestra: "Exit Music (For A Film)"

Well, that's just a tad too cute now, isn't it?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

12 Osunlade with Erro: "Everything In Its Right Place"

Looks like something Jess or Vahid or I would make up.

Roy Ayers Antiquity - Let Down
The Ghost of Roger Troutman feat T-Pain - Fitter, Happier

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

dkd feat. peven everett - "pyramid song"

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Bilil singing "High And Dry" is butter.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

ned...

any idea if these are remixes, covers or a mix of both?

Bad Plus doing Karma Police and RjD2 doing Airbag have got me interested.

― grady (grady), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

i probably actually have a copy of this lying around somewhere but was too scared to even look at the tracklist

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Mark Ronson + the singer from Phantom Planet = PURE SOUL

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

any idea if these are remixes, covers or a mix of both?

Supposed to all be covers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

THIS SOUNDS SO TERRIBLE!

― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

it is.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck is it with my hip hop friends having the worst taste in contemporary rock?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

not that i'm friends with any of those folks, but i could imagine my friends thinking this was cool

― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

only good tracks are the bilal and herbert cuts

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

07 Matthew Herbert with Mara Carlyle: "Nice Dream"
This one's nice, indeed.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was about to say that Herbert cover seems like a good song from him to pick.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

No, but really: I've never loved Bilal more.

― Richj (Rich), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck is it with my hip hop friends having the worst taste in contemporary rock?

This one sure as hell will be better on the ear than

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005B6HS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Though I'd love to hear Montell Jordan do "Creep".

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

I think I'd rather hear ODB/Phil Collins than *Radiohead :-O

*and I like Radiohead, but not this way.

― worst iPod case scenario (fandango), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I love ODB covers and him doing Phil Collkins would be awesome.

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Haha yeah Phil Collins covers >>> Radiohead covers.

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:24 (twenty years ago)

What's so terrible about this concept?

Radiohead's songs, from Ok computer to present: A lot of minor chord vamps.

The neo-soul artists that are covering radiohead: Lots of minor chord vamps.

Radiohead instrumentation: Fender rhodes, processed drums, lots of delay/phasing

Neo-soul instrumentation: More or less the same.

Is it too obvious, then?

I know lots of people want to say "omg radiohead are so white and english!" but I see a lot of black music influence there.

― ghoser, Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Li'l Kim Featuring Phil Collins?!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

How quickly you all forget the hotness that is Home.

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

The Herbert/Mara Carlyle cover is the only good one here, the rest are pretty much unlistenable.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 25 February 2006 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Gilles played the Mark Ronson version of Just. Pretty faithful AND pretty funky.

Interested to hear the rest...

― lee ward (lee ward), Saturday, 25 February 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

This sounds like a bad idea, but I'm glad there's a Radiohead thread, I'm actually playing them right now, which is very rare for me. I'd taped the ticketstub inside the CD case, June 2001.

― All the robots-UH descend from the bus-UH there's a freakout brewing in my (Bimb, Saturday, 25 February 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

the ronson just remix is on the radiohead vs hiphop album
link here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UV826OQV

― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Saturday, 25 February 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

(xpost to Deej)

OMG! I did forget about that Bone song. The video always made me laugh for some reason.

Looking at the cover, I'd completely forgotten TQ existed too. Now to see if his songs are still good.

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

"Westside" is extremely dated. "Daily" still sounds pretty good. Is TQ still on Cash Money?

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:35 (twenty years ago)

God, I've never heard that Bone thugs-n-Harmony song before, it was great! I love every ballad of theirs I've heard. Mr. Collins' role in that was pretty superficial though; what's with the thin, processed voice? They should've done the chorus themselves.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 26 February 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Hell, why not post again...
Anyhoo, I really dislike Radiohead, and Bilal's cover of "High and Dry" convinced me that I am wrong. Even if the rest of the songs on the record suck, that's worth the price of admission, no?

― cybele (cybele), Sunday, 26 February 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

JUST cover:
http://download.yousendit.com/C170AD1F4CB5DB51

This whole album and concept seems so bizarrely ill-advised and stupid. The above track is really dreadful and "funky" in the way a song with Phantom Planet would be. Studio Distribution, which handles BBE in America, shuts its doors Friday, so maybe the world will be spared this album. But probably not. has Radiohead made any public statements etc about this? I would be curious.

Anyone have the Bilal track to post? I love his album 1st Born Second a lot.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Sunday, 26 February 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Okay, this just got trumped:

On August 15 you'll be faced with one of the biggest
Radiohead fan challenges yet, when Brooklyn's Easy
Star Records releases an all-reggae covers version of
OK Computer, entitled...wait for it...Radiodread.

Easy Star main man Michael G. has already corralled
quite a few big (and not so big) names into the
project. Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals
tackles "Let Down", Citizen Cope does "Karma Police",
Sugar Minott takes on "Exit Music (For a Film)",
Junior Jazz does "Subterranean Homesick Alien", and
Tamar-Kali voices "Climbing up the Walls". Horace
Andy, Morgan Heritage, Frankie Paul, and Kirsty Rock
also contribute.

Michael G. captured Toots' vocal at Inner Circle's
studio in Florida, so it's only a matter of time
before "Karma Police" replaces "Bad Boys" on Cops.

In press materials, the G-Man has said, "We're at the
stage where we can all sense what an incredible album
this will be. We can't wait to get started with the
mix of Radiodread as that is where the true soul of
the album will emerge."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, don't get the knives out just yet. "Dub Side Of The Moon" wasn't half-bad.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of liked Jah Division.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Seconded. Wasn't it some guys from Oneida? Dub Side of The Moon was a fucking travesty - pub reggae which lost the opportunity to do cool dub versions. Should have been way less faithful to the originals.

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

So the Radiodread guys are coming through here in a couple months, and I need to decide pretty soon if I'm going so that I can start saving money and stockpiling the necessary controlled substances. I'm 99% certain that this will be a horrible band playing horrible music to a horrible crowd, but I have this strange self-destructive urge to see it anyway. Thoughts? Anybody seen them live before, or heard the new album?

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

this album is disappointing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

dub side of the moon was awesome.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

About half of it's good (Toots, Citizen Cope, the Meditations) but there's some cheese on this: especially the Junior Jazz version of Subterranean Homesick Alien...

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

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