Radiohead Headlining 2017

[jparx]

2 hours ago, LeeGalvin said:

As a big fan of Identikit, I really hope they play that one! Not many people seem to be including it in their dream setlists.

Identikit and Ful Stop are absolutely necessities as far as I'm concerned!

[CaledonianGonzo]

26 minutes ago, russycarps said:

anyone else think buckley is the most dreadfully overrated ratbag of the last 25 years?

 

I'm not really a fan, but the young Thom Yorke clearly was.

[Quark]

45 minutes ago, russycarps said:

anyone else think buckley is the most dreadfully overrated ratbag of the last 25 years?

 

Ratbag seems a tad harsh! Unless there's things I didn't know about the Buckmeister that put him on your c*ntlist Russy?

Overrated however - quite possibly.  Never quite got how he ended up being so highly regarded.

[russycarps]

17 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I'm not really a fan, but the young Thom Yorke clearly was.

Aye no doubt. I dont get it at all. I remember some wag calling him the christina aguilera of alt-rock. That is spot on (might have been someone on here actually)

[russycarps]

3 minutes ago, Quark said:

 Never quite got how he ended up being so highly regarded.

because he died young

 

[Quark]

4 minutes ago, russycarps said:

because he died young

 

Maybe that's where Daphne & Celeste went wrong.

[Mr.Tease]

1 hour ago, russycarps said:

anyone else think buckley is the most dreadfully overrated ratbag of the last 25 years?

 

Yes! I don't get what the fuss is about him at all and never have. I found him annoying in interviews, annoying on stage and his music cack. He owes his career to being one of those people that mtv marketed to market themselves. 

I am always open to the fact I may have just somehow missed some superb music he actually made (in which case feel free to direct me to it), but I just don't get it. 

[jparx]

Can't say I'm president of the Jeff Buckley fan club by any means. I don't really have a strong enough opinion to label him the most overrated act of the past 25 years though. In fact I forgot he was even a thing until he was brought up in this thread 

[russycarps]

4 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

Yes! I don't get what the fuss is about him at all and never have. I found him annoying in interviews, annoying on stage and his music cack. He owes his career to being one of those people that mtv marketed to market themselves. 

I am always open to the fact I may have just somehow missed some superb music he actually made (in which case feel free to direct me to it), but I just don't get it. 

Spot on. He was a marketing mans dream. If he'd been ugly he'd never have released a single note.

His arrangement of hallelujah was ripped off from someone else too

 

[The Nal]

1 hour ago, russycarps said:

anyone else think buckley is the most dreadfully overrated ratbag of the last 25 years?

 

No that would be Radiohead. Buckley only had one album really. But he shouldn't be remembered for Hallelujah alone. 

Edited October 24, 2016 by The Nal

[stuartbert two hats]

3 minutes ago, russycarps said:

Spot on. He was a marketing mans dream. If he'd been ugly he'd never have released a single note.

His arrangement of hallelujah was ripped off from someone else too

 

Was it?  Who did it that style first?  I'd always thought of the way most people do the song these days as Buckley style.  

[russycarps]

16 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Was it?  Who did it that style first?  I'd always thought of the way most people do the song these days as Buckley style.  

John cale, on the "i'm your fan" covers album

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Your_Fan

BTW, that album is horrific

 

Edited October 24, 2016 by russycarps

[stuartbert two hats]

4 minutes ago, russycarps said:

John cale, on the "i'm your fan" covers album

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Your_Fan

BTW, that album is horrific

 

You learn something every day.  Everyone is doing it John Cale style now.  Thanks for that

[CaledonianGonzo]

Buckley uses Cale's edit of the lyrics, but to say he copies the arrangement is a stretch.

[Woffy]

I thought Simon Cowell wrote Halleujah?

[stuartbert two hats]

58 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Buckley uses Cale's edit of the lyrics, but to say he copies the arrangement is a stretch.

There's a massive similarity in the phrasing.  He sings it more like Cale than Cohen.

[Mr.Tease]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

You learn something every day.  Everyone is doing it John Cale style now.  Thanks for that

John cale is fantastic live- saw him at the park in 2008 I think,  no one talked about it but I thought it was great

[jparx]

Just now, Scruffylovemonster said:

Yeah foos were scheduled to have two and half hours but I dont remember anyone else getting that. Normal is 1.75 with the odd exception getting two I think. 

That's a good point actually. Maybe Radiohead will get 2 1/2 hours after all. 28 or so songs would be too good for mere humans to experience.

[CaledonianGonzo]

45 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

There's a massive similarity in the phrasing.  He sings it more like Cale than Cohen.

It's an evolution rather than a 'rip off'.

[Gucci Piggy]

40 minutes ago, jparx said:

That's a good point actually. Maybe Radiohead will get 2 1/2 hours after all. 28 or so songs would be too good for mere humans to experience.

They had 2h20 in Berlin and played their usual length 24 song setlist.

[russycarps]

50 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Grace is a brilliant album and you naysayers can go bollox. 

Wow. Just wow.

All the criticism you've given to radiohead over the years, and now this revelation. Amazing!

He's the most insincere, cynical singer of all time.

AND YOU FELL FOR IT!

 

[scatteredscreens]

Anyone else hoping for them 2017 tour dates this week? 

[glastobuds]

7 minutes ago, James96 said:

Anyone else hoping for them 2017 tour dates this week? 

Yep. Feeling pretty crap so an announcement like that would certainly go a long way to help. Plus I could then start planning other stuff. Mad or what. 

[brettredmayne]

11 minutes ago, James96 said:

Anyone else hoping for them 2017 tour dates this week? 

Got a good feeling but no solid evidence to back it up 

[jparx]

58 minutes ago, Will-2609 said:

They had 2h20 in Berlin and played their usual length 24 song setlist.

That's weird. They played for 2h05 in Lisbon and it was the same length. Maybe they did some longer songs in Berlin, or took longer in between songs?