Radiohead

Certain Songs #1769: Radiohead – “Bones”

March 7, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Bends
Year: 1995

Some songs instantly take me to a place and time, and “Bones” is one of those songs. That place is Organic Online in San Francisco and that time is the late summer of 1996.

Organic — which apparently still exists a quarter-century later (and good for them!) — was only my second web job, but, and it was so long ago that I was still slinging HTML, but it was an incredibly important job for one, a two-year period in the early dot-com era where I built primitive websites for evil multinational corporations like Nike, Sony & McDonalds and met people I’m still in touch with today.

Certain Songs #1768: Radiohead – “The Bends”

March 6, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Bends
Year: 1995

While Pablo Honey was the first Radiohead album, The Bends was the first Radiohead album. It was the first album where they worked with Nigel Godrich — just as engineer, but still — the first album with art by Stanley Donwood, the first album with weird song structures.

The first album where their ambition to do something new with rock started showing.

Certain Songs #1767: Radiohead – “Prove Yourself”

March 5, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Pablo Honey
Year: 1993

. . .

Look, it’s not like I hated “Creep” or anything. But it sure did seem to get popular way out of proportion to how go it was, especially on U.S. alternative radio, where you can still hear it, nearly 30 years later, sometimes even with the phrase “so fucking special” left in. But, honestly, I never need to hear it again.

And given how tepid the reviews for Pablo Honey were I didn’t even bother with it until the summer of 1996, when I got both it and The Bends — where the reviews were somewhat better — thanks to the auspices of the BMG CD club. And it was . . . fine.

Medialoper Bebop Episode 26: Washing Your Mouth Out With SOPA

December 20, 2011 by Jim Connelly

The week, Kirk, Jim & Tim take a look at the Stop Online Piracy Act, and how its destroy-the-net-to-save-it approach towards internet piracy (or “piracy,”) threatens pretty much the entire internet as we know it.

Thank the gods that the United States House of Representatives is on the case!! (05:19 – 13:29)

Meanwhile, Louis CK (whose name I inexplicably mispronounce) shows exactly how stupid the screams of “piracy is killing our business” are by releasing a DRM-free, consumer-friendly concert. (13:31 – 24:22)

Then, it’s my latest Barry Bonds theory: he’s the Gaius Baltar of MLB! (24:23 – 27:06)

Finally, what’s in my mix? Real Estate, Wild Flag and a great single by Yuck. (27:07 – 30:36)

All that, and pot-smoking raccoons!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:43 — 55.9MB)

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Subscribe to us in the iTunes, yo!

18 Musical Moments to Die For

April 20, 2009 by Jim Connelly

The Hold Steady, Wiltern, Los Angeles, Nov. 25, 2008

It’s been a couple of months since I’ve done one of these, but I’m back!! In black. (Which is a terrible choice, because it’s, like, 150 degrees today.)

This time, on Musical Moments to Die For, we have two of the greatest cover versions of two of the greatest songs ever recorded; druggy people writing songs about their drug problems, and casual rockstar sexism.

We also have the usual 80’s indie obscurity, and run the gamut from catchy artsy sophistication to catchy dumb-ass stomping crapola.

This is the eighth in a series: The first one had 25, the second one had 24, the third one had 23, the fourth one had 22, the fifth one had 21, and the sixth had 20, and the seventh had 19.