San Diego‘s post-hardcore turbine PIERCE THE VEIL, featuring the Fuentes brothers, play/played Radiohead classic Karma Police live for a while now, so they decided to
record it in the studio and share it with their massive following.
“We are products of the ’80s and ’90s MTV era, so songs like Karma Police live deep within our childhood minds. We dug this one up as an opportunity to indulge in something comforting and familiar. Taking inspiration from the memories and emotions the song evokes in us, we created a version that reflects where we come from as a band.“We were happy to discover that the song remained haunting and beautiful even when fed through distortion pedals and loud guitars.”
It’s already 7 years sinceRADIOHEAD put out an album with A Moon Shaped Pool.
And as Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have lots of fun lately with The Smile (their second album, titled Wall Of Eyes comes out in January, followed by a long tour) I guess new Radiohead music is not planned whatsoever.
So back to old stuff. Like with this awesome performance of PLASTIC FAKE TREES, one
of their best compositions ever (featured on their 1995 breakthrough classic The Bends) at Glastonbury in 2003, 20 years ago.
Capricious superstars RADIOHEAD had their 6th LP, named HAIL TO THE THIEF out 20 years ago, on 9 June 2003.
The album’s lyrics were influenced by what Yorke called “the general
sense of ignorance and intolerance and panic and stupidity” following the
2000 election of US president George W. Bush.”
Pitchfork: “Radiohead have largely succeeded in their efforts to shape pop
music into as boundless and possible a medium as it should be” Score: 9/10.
TUTV: Hail To The Thief isn’t really one of my fav Radiohead albums. But guess what?
As I write these words I’m listening to it, and damn, it sounds much better than I can remember. I guess I gave up on it too soon back then.
Pitchfork said: “The brilliance of Rid of Me is in the vividness and detail with which it captures that Boschian panorama using only blues rhythms, loud-quiet-loud dynamics, Harvey’s voice.”
TUTV Pick: Rid Of Me
Stream the album HERE
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Pitchfork wrote: “This major-label debu is a harrowing song cycle chronicling the death
throes of a relationship. That cycle implies a romantic fatalism, as though every relationship is doomed to end painfully. Gentlemen is both personal and unknowable, cocksure yet deeply troubled.”
TUTV Pick: Debonair
Stream the album HERE
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BBC Music: “Suede’s main sources were Bowie (in Anderson’s wonderfully fey delivery) and
the Smiths. Ironically, Mike Joyce of the Smiths was a member for a short spell, but their bleak chronicles of urban dysfunction, modern love and sexual confusion were never a million miles away from Morrissey’s home ground.”
TUTV Pick: Animal Nitrate
Stream the albumHERE
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AllMusic: “Its best moments — and the Deal sisters’ megawatt charm — end up
outweighing its inconsistencies to make it one of the alternative rock era’s defining
albums.”
TUTV Pick: Cannonball
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Rolling Stone wrote: “Blur‘s second LP is their secret classic. Coming between the pop-psych shimmer of 1991’s Leisure and the cool Britannia of 1994’s Parklife, the brittle jangle and bitter observations on Modern Life Is Rubbish were near-career-killers.”
AllMusic said: “With their cult following growing, Morphine expanded their audience even further with their exceptional 1994 sophomore effort, Cure for Pain. Whereas their debut, Good, was intriguing yet not entirely consistent, Cure for Pain more than delivered. The songwriting was stronger and more succinct. Cure for Pain was unquestionably one of the best and most cutting-edge rock releases of the ’90s.”
TUTV Pick: Buena
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Rolling Stone wrote: “The album is a lot of things – brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it’s a triumph of the will.”
TUTV Pick: All Apologies
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GuitarCom said: “A Northern Soul may have more choruses, Urban Hymns may have shifted 10 million copies and made them Wigan’s only global superstars, but Verve‘s (the ‘The’ came later) celestial debut A Storm In Heaven is the guitarist’s choice. Nick McCabe’s enveloping waves of reverb and tape delay, in turn soothing and savage, moved producer John Leckie to conclude “To some extent, A Storm In Heaven is his record”.
TUTV Pick: Slide Away
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