If you're wondering why you haven't seen the latest Britney meltdowns on your favorite celebrity news reel, it's due to the fact that she's apparently "stabalized". I'm not exactly sure what that entails when referring to an emotionally unstable megastar but she's been granted more custody of her children in recognition of her so-called "progress". That progress may very well be due to her recent infatuation with Radiohead's In Rainbows. Spears has been spinning the album while working out and was photographed leaving Bally Fitness with the disc in hand. Maybe the album is nothing more than an image conscience accessory? Maybe she loves Radiohead? Maybe she'll collaborate with them on her next album? Maybe you just threw up in your mouth? I'll let you decide.
From a pop icon with lots of hits to a band that claims to barely have any hits at all, EMI continues to fuel the fallout-fire with their plans to release a Radiohead "Greatest Hits" album. It appears that EMI is attempting to get the last (fiscal) laugh by shelling out the smash hits that catapulted Radiohead to the top of the charts. Ah ha! I knew something was fishy about a "Greatest Hits" album from a band that has never had a #1 hit and has only breached the top ten a handful of times during their long career. Thom Yorke even remarked, "We haven't really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose? It's a wasted opportunity in that if we'd behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good." He makes a rather compelling point in that I've always wanted an artist/band to release a "Greatest Hits" album of what they personally feel were their best/favorite tracks. I can only imagine what a real Radiohead hits album would include..
Perhaps I am biased in favoring Yorke's opinions on the fallout his group had with EMI, but their conflicts only showcase a tragically backwards system where fine art that emotionally moves so many people in so many ways is nothing but financially moving to its big whig counterparts. Yorke knows he can't do anything about it, "And now it's like when you move house: you don't want to peer through the window and see what they've done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you." At least Yorke & Co. are more than capable of building a bigger, better house with wallpaper that won't peel and can't be ripped off.
[MP3] Radiohead - Fog (Again) (Rare/Live; Thom Solo)
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Happy Mother's Day, Mrs. K Fed. At least your taste in music to listen to (vs. record) is good. Justin Timberlake is looking like a very smart guy these days.
Hey everyone, if you get a chance, check out (and vote!) for my Radiohead remix:
Nude (Minty Fresh Remix)
http://radioheadremix.com/remix/?id=1527
Peace!
How rare is this, really? I mean, I found it on the re-issued ComLag EP for just over $10 in Malmö last year, and they had plenty of copies even for a crappy wannabe-city like Malmö.
it looks like a fourth grader tried and failed to write an essay about his older brother's favorite band. have you realized yet that the reason bands like Radiohead never make the charts is because EMI makes more money off of you fucks when you try to bolster them to the top of the charts with your pithy whining and sad sad hero worship? do you think you're funny? at all? dragging britney spears into this? it's pitiful what you're doing. look in a mirror and see the decline of the music industry. stupid fucks like you two keep watering down taste and expectations until there's nothing left but a sad little pile of shitty records that get remembered for gimmicks, like fucking radiohead or the beatles. I wish you and I could live long enough to see the statute of limitations expire on all their motherfucking catalogs and I could watch you cry and puke over the fact that corporate sponsors tear apart the "songs" you love to sell products as shitty and worthless as the artists themselves. I hope you both get chopped up into a thousand tiny pieces, shit on, set on fire, and then gobbled up by an EMI PR rep.
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