Hooray for birthday money, I just purchased two Radiohead EP's and the new Foo Fighters live acoustic album. First, this is a sign that I am getting old. I didn't purchase any real new music, just old stuff, which is at the most redone. Nothing not safe and comfortable here people. Second, the US Version of Stop Whispering that appears as track one off Itch by Radiohead is the greatest thing ever. It sneaks in under your skin and destroys your mind in the most exciting way imaginable. My work rate has dropped phenomenally because I can no longer do anything but listen to it very loudly. Gosh it's good.
Which brings me to a point which1 is probably as good as any point to finish upon. Radiohead should release a cover album of all their old songs. How good would Radiohead post-Kid A versions of Radiohead pre-OK Computer sound2? FANTASTIC, that's how good.
1 An aside, but do you have to use commas to deliminate no essential clauses that start with which? I know you can't if you use that, but I like the idea of not using them with which because I use commas more for indicating breathes than deliminating ideas.
2 You can actually hear this in action if you download a later bootleg of Karma Police. The guitars have changed and it's now so much better it makes you want to collapse in a giddy heap.
I shall drop it to you like it's hot. It's not as good as the live minidisc version I bootlegged off Radio 1 one fine day (the crowd is louder and more intrusive in my version), but it is on MP3 format, joy!
WITH AN AXE.
I love Stop Whispering... best track on Pablo Honey.
RUBBISH!
Blow Out or Thinking About You are the best tracks. I haven't listened to Radiohead in a while, though remember my delight at picking up Itch for £5 as well as Running From Demons and How Am I Driving? in a bumper EP purchase.
I seem to recall Stop Whispering having almost no difference whilst Thinking About You is all college rock and string scrapes.
Well, those two tracks are great as well (particulary Blow Out). Pablo Honey in general is underrated in my opinion.
Blow Out = The Worst Radiohead Song Ever Recorded. No Really. Sounds like a bad rock version of an ever worse jazz record. It's horrible.
Well apparently it's Radiohead's favourite song from Pablo Honey.
Blow Out is the saving grace on an otherwise sordid piece of college rock tripe! It's the only thing that's moderately different about the album.
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Please could you email me the Karma Police track as I am hopeless at finding bootlegs online. Also if you're around over Christmas can I borrow Itch for half an hour? It's the only Radiohead EP I haven't listened to.
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