"Mitsi has consented to a simple experiment: We will play a career-spanning selection of Radiohead songs; the kids, equipped with Sharpies [pencils?] and blank sheets of paper, will simply draw whatever the music suggests to them. We don't even give them the name of the band. They don't know anything about Radiohead, the mountain of criticism, the mythology. Their thoughts and interpretations are pure, unsullied, literally unique."



http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2003-...ml/1/index.html

OK. So that was just a little bit disturbing- particularly the "Free Suicides" bit..... :(

I didn't think Radiohead were THAT bad. Did I? Oh dear.

So we see that many 10 year olds don't like Radiohead. Well, when I was 10, I thought Big Macs were nice. We all grow up eventually!

But seriously... I like Radiohead. A lot. That was a funny article though. I thought the author's comments on Hail To The Thief weren't exactly fair, but there you go!

"The booth in the center reads "Free Suicides." Someone buy this kid a Coldplay CD. "

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'm a a huge Radiohead fan, I see them in November.

'Hail To The Thief' is sensational, after last LP, 'Kid A' was all experimental & worked.

You can't knock Radiohead they are 'Important'

I probably could knock Radiohead but I'd only be saying the same boring old things, and in a world where Westlife are still releasing singles it'd just be wrong. So I'm gonna leave it as: Radiohead don't really do it for me. Except Paranoid Android. That just rocks. Enjoy that gig! :D

:rolleyes: www.engrish.com

quirky english stuff. funny if you're a bit tired.

from a yo-yo packet. safety instruction 5

"be careful of the mental parts when dismantiling"

from a moble phone pack :

"be careful of bad launguage in this mobile phone, because a partner's feelings is going to be bad"

two dogs (asleep)

"we're dreaming that we eat big bone"

from a glass blowing experience

"it blows, glass experience"

on a hair salon:

"hair saloon"

on a tee-shirt :

"harly dabison...

...the all american machin"

beverages: BJ coffe, human water, wonder coffee.

:rolleyes:

Inetrsteinig


Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig huh?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I'm not sure if I'm convinced or not. I read that post easily, but surely it still depends on order to an extent.


I dnot bivelee taht rorpet wehn it ceoms to lergar wdros or saceennts. Did Cgadirmbe aaclutly do taht raceersh?

Can anybody else understand that easily? I'm deliberately trying to make it difficult, but still keeping the first and last letter the same. I've seen it too many times so I don't know if it's hard or not!

I sutdied a weney bit of sepceh and lngagaue rcgeonioitn and prsceosing at Cmdgbarie, and yes, I'd igimnae tehy cloud stduy taht srot of phnoemoenn pertty arucctaely. I'd lvoe to rsreaech taht srot of tnihg mseylf - it wluod be so cool!

Phloskini

jhodh csnf od eojhjhd ondk.

know what i mean?

this is supposed to read important.

:blink:

Yes, perfect sense, but I don't think that's suitable for a FMIALY board, do you? Wouldn't this all come under psychology? We did a bit on pattern recognition at A level and it was this sort of stuff....

I struggled with "bivelee" and "saceennts" but the rest made sense. A very interesting subject - does it work in other languages?

I'm sure there are variations between languages and writing systems, but I reckon the principle of "you can understand it if it's not perfect" would hold across all written languages. Some Arabic-type languages' writing systems don't include any vowels for example, and shorthand is rarely ambigious. Plus of course, spelling was only standardised for English a few hundred years ago. And then there's the fact that you can read words regardless of whether you're familiar with the font or handwriting - as long as it's not too deviant. Every 'a' that I write is unique, but enough like a prototypical 'a' to be recognisable (well, unless I'm hungover).

Prototypes carry across to speech, meaning, categorisation, everything...

In my opinion, speech is far more interesting than writing - the wealth of stuff you can find out about speech is incredible. Just as a little example, you can chop out bits of words and replace them with a door slamming or a can opening or a car going past, and people genuinely perceive the bit of the word that isn't there. They can't not. (Within limits, obviously.) It's dead exciting.

:lol: Fookin L, this thread has really changed! :D :D

I think Radiohead are one of the best bands around these days. I love 'Hail To The Theif' and they are amazing live. I can't wait to see them again!

Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belong.....

Mate You Know About It!!!!!

Roll On November 27th!!!!!!

:D *is very excited and jumps around to Manic Street Preachers ~ Motown Junk*

I was jumping around to 'The Girl Who Wanted To Be God' earlier today B)

I don't mention the Manics regularly on here, which is odd as they're my favourite band of all time. Slightly worryingly, when they were a specialist subject on Mastermind recently, I got 15 out of 16 questions right - more than the girl who took part! I must have seen them at least 20 times across 11 years. In fact (and this is REALLY sad), I've seen them every year since 1992. This involved catching them supporting The Stone Roses in 1995 - their only gig in the year Richey disappeared, and being at the Millennium gig (technically speaking, their only gig of 2000).

I just hope their new record's good. Nicky's getting help on the lyrics this time, probably a good thing after Know Your Enemy (which is a fantastic record in spite).

(leaving the manics for a sec.) to someone who's not read this tread yet, i'd say you're all dyls....dlsy...dsyel.....got spelling problems.

it took smoe radineg. (that looks scandinavian)

anyhow, radiohead...love em. not my favourite band but i agree with sweet g. they are important, and you gotta respect them for what they do, not just ploughing out the same old same old. saw them on the kid a tour in the big top tent. now that was impressive (should be for the price!)

and the manics, ca you say a against them, its blasphemy. claim to fame: i was eating in a posh restaurant the only time i've been to cardiff, and who was sat on the next table? JDB and his dad. how nice. he had fish and chips. as he was with his dad i did the polite thing and gawped from a distance and not ask him for an autograph or anything. aren't i well raised?!

alex

I did the same once when he was virtually stood next to me. It was watching The Vines and The Libertines at the Bristol Louisiana (capacity: about 100) and he was in the bar downstairs while we were waiting for the gig. He was talking to about four people and I didn't know whether they were fans or if he was just down with his mates. I figured that if it was the latter, he didn't need people interrupting him on a night out. Besides which, I would probably have just jibbered. It struck he how small he is (mind, I am six foot)...

I mean Radiohead's progression with music, vocals & lyrics always gets better apart from 'Amnesiac' which I thought was average to be fair. 'HTTT' is nothing but superb!

Radiohead are not the future of course though nothing but pivitol forver more.

I've always been a huge fan of the Manics, seen them 5 times, most recent in Dec 2002.

I think they lost there way during 1996 - 1998, 'Know Your Enemy' was more back to basics/roots & more of a Manics feel.

The fame has gone to them sure, the thing is the Manics can't 'gain' more fans, they can only loose them if you know what I mean.

I was at Manic Millennium too!!! :D:D:D:D:D
my Manics claim to fame? uh...I met them? I also ran away from JDB when he was walking around Manchester because I knew if I didn't, I'd end up going to talk to him, and I really didn't want to bother him
:D I adore them...I can honestly say there are only about 2 Manics songs that I don't like, which is pretty impressive when you look at all the stuff that they've recorded. I don't understand why people have such a big problem with Know Your Enemy...I think that album is fantastic...Wattsville Blues and Miss Europa Disco Dancer are both great! I must admit though, I do prefer their earlier stuff. Gold Against The Soul is my favourite album. I've seen them live *thinks* 6/7 times? The last time was at Manchester Move Festival...And the Mastermind thing? I got them all right :P I *still* can't believe she fucked up on the question about If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next!!!
haha. I even have a Manics related email address :P
Blah. At school now, can't remember what I wanted to say...this is me rambling now :P Shall reply again later :D Eeeek. I could talk about this for a very long time :ph43r:


:wub:*loves La Wire*:wub:

Yea, say hello to another who was at the 'Manic Millennium' :) :) :)

Though the Manics were critcised at the 'Move Festival' back in July cos they only played 70 mins of an allocated 90 mins set......

I prefer the older stuff, 1st 3 LP's for sure!!

No 4 & 5 were the Brit Pop ones really, & consdering how the Manics feel about the 'Industry' WTF were they doing at the Brit Awards picking up their awards??????? Suspect to say the least.

*hellooooo!!!!!!!* :D

yeah....was pretty pissed off at them not playing the full time, but it's still great to see them live :) no matter how long for!

first 3 LP's are just fucking awesome...I have a soft spot for Everything Must Go but when I start to think about things, it does seem like they went a bit back on everything they said when they first showed up.

The Brit Awards...bwahaha! In some of the pictures where Zoe Ball is presenting them with their award, Sean has the most sour look on his face ever. It's a classic!

I think that they lost some of their original sights when Richey went missing...if you've heard "Judge Yr'Self"...I think it's so obvious that Richey had something to do with that one, because it's so much more back to their roots than most of the other stuff on "Lipstick Traces"

I can sense a long talk with someone about the Manics coming up! :P :D

*does a stupid dance*

yay! I found the Manics' "Forever Delayed' on vinyl today! woohoo!!! :D

Yeap indeed much to talk about with our gathering of fans.

'FD' not easy ti find on Vinyl at all! :)

yeah, I was very impressed when I found it, it was the only time I've ever seen it, so I had to grab it, cause I probably wouldn't have seen it again.

Also got a pile of Radiohead vinyl!! :D

:D I thougt someone nicked all my 'Manics & Radiohead' vinyls! :lol: :lol:

hey! I bought mine fair and square...but if you have any I don't...... ;)

Indeed!

Though whats the going rate on vinyls today, new/used?