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Back in the day I started pre-writing posts to save time, but these days I have the feeling that pre-writing posts is actually holding me back from posting. So, this post is coming to you live, as it were - I type in the box and press post and we'll get what we get.
I drove down to the shark tank in San Jose on Wednesday evening to see Radiohead live. I've loved them since Kid A came out and I walked down the street and bought it in Borders with my very first paycheck on the strength of a review that said it was amazing. On my first listen-through I hated that album, but I kept listening and then I loved it and in a lot of ways that was my springboard into liking music and having actual taste in music. I have never managed to see them live until now, and this time I jumped at the chance to go with my friend P and her roommate T from Norway, since last year there were all those rumors that they'd broken up and I didn't want to miss out.
Well, it was awesome. Thom Yorke dances very awkwardly and the band are phenomenal and nothing sounds like it does on the albums, since they dial up the bass and scramble the beats and throw in a pretty amazing light show - for example, I am listening to the album cut of "Planet Telex" right now, which they played for the first time since 2009, and it is totally different, and it was just a great experience, even with the arena being full of Silicon Valley hipster millionaires smoking up and dancing awkwardly. Also, when Thom Yorke plays up his accent I can only half understand him.
Radiohead's music was so relevant to me; when Hail to the Thief came out it felt like the only possible soundtrack for the Bush years. I appreciated seeing them live because they made the songs sound more au courant, in some ways, though it was also interesting to listen to the reworked tracks and hearing within them the ghosts of the past. Yeah. So that was an interesting aspect to it. I'm so glad I got the chance to see them, it was pretty thoroughly wonderful. (And they played nearly two hours of music! That is real value for money in today's concert world.)
I drove down to the shark tank in San Jose on Wednesday evening to see Radiohead live. I've loved them since Kid A came out and I walked down the street and bought it in Borders with my very first paycheck on the strength of a review that said it was amazing. On my first listen-through I hated that album, but I kept listening and then I loved it and in a lot of ways that was my springboard into liking music and having actual taste in music. I have never managed to see them live until now, and this time I jumped at the chance to go with my friend P and her roommate T from Norway, since last year there were all those rumors that they'd broken up and I didn't want to miss out.
Well, it was awesome. Thom Yorke dances very awkwardly and the band are phenomenal and nothing sounds like it does on the albums, since they dial up the bass and scramble the beats and throw in a pretty amazing light show - for example, I am listening to the album cut of "Planet Telex" right now, which they played for the first time since 2009, and it is totally different, and it was just a great experience, even with the arena being full of Silicon Valley hipster millionaires smoking up and dancing awkwardly. Also, when Thom Yorke plays up his accent I can only half understand him.
Radiohead's music was so relevant to me; when Hail to the Thief came out it felt like the only possible soundtrack for the Bush years. I appreciated seeing them live because they made the songs sound more au courant, in some ways, though it was also interesting to listen to the reworked tracks and hearing within them the ghosts of the past. Yeah. So that was an interesting aspect to it. I'm so glad I got the chance to see them, it was pretty thoroughly wonderful. (And they played nearly two hours of music! That is real value for money in today's concert world.)