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The songs that sounded most amazing live were their most popular ones...
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I sold it for $140. That covered the price, the booking fee, and the postage to the guy. Well above? Barely. I didn't want to be a douche about it.
Karma Police isn't their best song. There's a reason Radiohead stopped playing Creep in 1998. Pricks going to see them for one song and coming home disappointed because they didn't play it. They have never been a band to parade singles or to be a typical pop band. It's like lamenting the lack of guitars in their newest stuff... like... shouldn't you expect it? Why get annoyed about it when they're not going to change.
It's like someone going to the Atoms for Peace shows and being disappointed that they didn't play a Radiohead song.
Thank you for proving my point you fall under category two. Bands don't have "best songs" they have a variety of songs that some people like more than others. This is what's great about music that pretentious hipster shits such as yourself fail to understand.
The term in bold is a perfect description for Radiohead fans - oh so cool...
I had a really hot Spanish women next to me. I don't know if she was a hipster, and to be honest, I don't really careSo untrue. Radiohead is such a massive group that naturally their fan base incorporates a few hipsters. However, I lined up quite early yesterday, and you would never in a million years use that word to describe the people that were there with me (the first 50 or so). Like, one of the first to arrive was a 50 something American woman wearing a ski vest (she'd been following them their entire career). Hardly a hipster.
The songs that sounded most amazing live were their most popular ones...
That's not what I meant, lol.Love how hipsters aren't considered 'normal'
So, what, goodness is constituted by the amount of people who like it?I was thinking this during the show - the pretentious Radiohead supporters spend their time telling everyone how s**t the hits are, yet as soon as a hit such as Karma Police came on everyone lost their s**t. The vibe/atmosphere in the place was easily the best for the more popular songs
I love how hipster is now this loosely defined term for a kid into art and music. I'm pretty sure I'm not a hipster and I'm pretty sure hipster is a passe term. It's like the stock rebuttal.Love how hipsters aren't considered 'normal'
Last night was awesome. As somebody who rates in Rainbows as their best work, having a large portion of that album played was amazing. I'm in the camp that doesn't really like their TKOL style frenetic electroniccy stuff, but I was blown away by how good it was live. "Give up the ghost" was great live, and "Morning Mr Magpie"was the best song of the night for mine.
One of very few concerts I've been to where I've genuinely enjoyed every song, although I thought Thom sang "Climbing up the walls"a bit flat which meant it wasn't as awesome as I hoped.
Interesting crowd, when they went off for the first encore it was like the crowd was asleep, just politely clapping. When they came back on though they were immense, that first encore was the best encore I've ever seen.
For a 5/6 piece band that plays in bizarre time signatures with intricate multiple parts overlapping eachother, they are incredibly tight. Radiohead has always been about the little things for me; the bass so frequently makes the song, there are often so many little guitar bits or just random noises that happen once in a song that sound amazing, and they just have this amazing ability to make every single song just get continually better the longer you listen to it. They just build up and build up until they explode.
Two drummers sounded great, and visually it was fantastic for a non-showman style band (I saw Coldplay on Tuesday and they were polar opposites in style of performance). The "room"created in 15 step looked amazing.
Am going again tonight, and really hoping I get "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", which is my favourite song ever. However, considering the absolute shitload of quality songs they didn't play, they could have a setlist completely different to last nights and it would still blow me away.
So, what, goodness is constituted by the amount of people who like it?
Read the last 2 pages and people have been out of line in their attack on Silent Alarm
I actually agree with the gist of everything he said. He wasnt being pretentious, he just knows how the band works (long-time ateaseweb forumer).
Amazing show.
Thankful I got tickets on Thursday, seemed not many people knew about the extra tickets that went on sale.
i thought he kinda just barked the lyrics out. i prefer the haunting singing as on the album. also the bass was too loud; i could barely make out the guitar aside from the solo.:O Climbing Up the Walls blew my mate's and I's minds. Probably my favourite song of the night, it was so eery.
that was cool.The "room"created in 15 step looked amazing.
You've missed the point, pretty sure most people agree that SA knows what he's talking about, it's more the way he's gone about telling people. Just because you think you have a greater music knowledge/taste than someone doesn't mean you can talk down to them. The whole point of music is that people have different opinions - SA doesn't respect other people's if they differ from his own. And instead of being quiet about it and letting them do their own thing, he gets his kicks off putting them down.
Read the last 2 pages and people have been out of line in their attack on Silent Alarm
I actually agree with the gist of everything he said. He wasnt being pretentious, he just knows how the band works (long-time ateaseweb forumer). Also, he is still a teenager, and he missed seeing a band live which he obviously loves. Give him a break! Be happy that Radiohead played a show in your nearest city.
Really? Looked like there were tix available for the sat show up until ~12:30, even on Friday arvo there were tix available again for the Sat show. I did use the mobile website this time though, that might've been why. I learned my lesson in Feb trying to get tickets on the main website.I think you might of got lucky, I was on there from midday for about 45 mins and couldn't get anything, read stories of others with the same problem.
So, when he claimed that a poster 'didn't deserve to go' to the concert, he wasn't talking down to them? Interesting way of looking at it....No, I think he was just trying to explain things with his point of view, and created some discussion. He wasnt talking down to anyone.
This, this and so much this.SA, we get it bro, you're a huge Radiohead fan. Doesn't mean that people can't have their own opinions about the band and be a little disappointed that their favourite song wasn't played. It's not as if these people were demanding their money back because one or two songs weren't played, they would just liked to have heard them.
Interesting you say this.I thought they were rather average really. Thom's definitely lost his spark and the band don't quite gel like they used to. Think the band should just split and Thom concentrate on his solo work. Seem to be past their used by date. Almost as bad as Coldplay. Their '98 Festival Hall gig will never be beaten.