Videotape
I saw Radiohead play (in) Edinburgh on Tuesday and was...impressed? OK I was blown away...at certain points I felt like Baloo from Disney's Jungle Book: "I'm gone man....solid gone". It's hard to describe the feeling that good music can give you - and music doesn't get any gooder than Radiohead (or Radio....Head if you want to annoy their fans ;-) I was solid gone for Where I End And You Begin and The National Anthem - but I was really really (really really) really impressed by a new song that had until then passed me by - first performed in London in May, and here is that first performance:
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Videotape (London premiere) [Youtube]
When I'm at the pearly gates
This'll be on my videotape
When Mephistopheles is just beneath
And he's reaching up to grab me
This is one for the good days
I have it all here in red blue green
In red blue green
You are my centre when I spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape
On videotape
This is my way of saying 'goodbye'
'Coz I can't do it face to face
I'm talking to you
No matter what happens now
I won't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I have ever seen
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This is so beautiful, the best of all the new songs the band have tried out live over the past months, which you can also hear/grab below (all served from my home PC - you can see my online status - whether my PC is switched on and able to dish this stuff out! - by checking my Skype icon, in the contact section on the right). I've included two more versions of Videotape too (*edit* as of 19/12/2006 there's another one - a beautiful rendition by Thom on Godrich's From The Basement), and where possible a link to at least one Youtube (video) performance (there are more on there in most cases) - these are not necessarily the same as the performances on the audio links. You can click on the play symbols to listen to the songs here, or click (or right click/save target) on the songs to grab them for yourself - you can even bookmark them into your del.icio.us account if you have one. I'll add more as/when available:
4 Minute Warning [Youtube]
15 Step [Youtube]
All I Need [Youtube]
Arpeggi [Youtube] Orchestral Version [Youtube]
Bangers'n' Mash [Youtube]
Bodysnatchers [Youtube]
Down Is The New Up [Youtube]
Go Slowly [Youtube]
House of Cards [Youtube]
Nude [Youtube]
Open Pick [Youtube]
Spooks [Youtube]
Videotape [LA] [Youtube]
Videotape [Montreal] [Youtube]
Videotape [Edinburgh] [Youtube]
Videotape [From The Basement]
The whole Edinburgh gig can now be downloaded too from here.
I'm not finished with these guys yet! Well, with Thom Yorke anyway. All - honestly all - I'm listening to at the moment is The Eraser album by him. I'm not going to breach any copyright laws by putting up the album, but here are live versions of some tracks from that album, and again Youtube vids (different performances) where possible (I'll add more as/when available):
Analyse [Youtube]
Cymbal Rush [Youtube]
Skip Divided
The Clock [Youtube]
I think I'll let the music speak for itself (particularly Analyze). The official video for Harrowdown Hill is up on Youtube too if you still haven't had enough.
_______________________________
Videotape (London premiere) [Youtube]
When I'm at the pearly gates
This'll be on my videotape
When Mephistopheles is just beneath
And he's reaching up to grab me
This is one for the good days
I have it all here in red blue green
In red blue green
You are my centre when I spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape
On videotape
This is my way of saying 'goodbye'
'Coz I can't do it face to face
I'm talking to you
No matter what happens now
I won't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I have ever seen
____________________________
This is so beautiful, the best of all the new songs the band have tried out live over the past months, which you can also hear/grab below (all served from my home PC - you can see my online status - whether my PC is switched on and able to dish this stuff out! - by checking my Skype icon, in the contact section on the right). I've included two more versions of Videotape too (*edit* as of 19/12/2006 there's another one - a beautiful rendition by Thom on Godrich's From The Basement), and where possible a link to at least one Youtube (video) performance (there are more on there in most cases) - these are not necessarily the same as the performances on the audio links. You can click on the play symbols to listen to the songs here, or click (or right click/save target) on the songs to grab them for yourself - you can even bookmark them into your del.icio.us account if you have one. I'll add more as/when available:
4 Minute Warning [Youtube]
15 Step [Youtube]
All I Need [Youtube]
Arpeggi [Youtube] Orchestral Version [Youtube]
Bangers'n' Mash [Youtube]
Bodysnatchers [Youtube]
Down Is The New Up [Youtube]
Go Slowly [Youtube]
House of Cards [Youtube]
Nude [Youtube]
Open Pick [Youtube]
Spooks [Youtube]
Videotape [LA] [Youtube]
Videotape [Montreal] [Youtube]
Videotape [Edinburgh] [Youtube]
Videotape [From The Basement]
The whole Edinburgh gig can now be downloaded too from here.
I'm not finished with these guys yet! Well, with Thom Yorke anyway. All - honestly all - I'm listening to at the moment is The Eraser album by him. I'm not going to breach any copyright laws by putting up the album, but here are live versions of some tracks from that album, and again Youtube vids (different performances) where possible (I'll add more as/when available):
Analyse [Youtube]
Cymbal Rush [Youtube]
Skip Divided
The Clock [Youtube]
I think I'll let the music speak for itself (particularly Analyze). The official video for Harrowdown Hill is up on Youtube too if you still haven't had enough.
posted by John Doran-Armstrong at 6:05 PM
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John continues:
First: the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority may possibly be true. Those who desire to suppress it, of course deny its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgment, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility, or admit the supposition that any opinion of which they feel very certain, may be one of the examples of the error to which they acknowledge themselves to be liable. Absolute princes, or others who are accustomed to unlimited deference, usually feel this complete confidence in their own opinions on nearly all subjects. People more happily situated, who sometimes hear their opinions disputed, and are not wholly unused to be set right when they are wrong, place the same unbounded reliance only on such of their opinions as are shared by all who surround them, or to whom they habitually defer: for in proportion to a man's want of confidence in his own solitary judgment, does he usually repose, with implicit trust, on the infallibility of "the world" in general. And the world, to each individual, means the part of it with which he comes in contact; his party, his sect, his church, his class of society: the man may be called, by comparison, almost liberal and largeminded to whom it means anything so comprehensive as his own country or his own age. Nor is his faith in this collective authority at all shaken by his being aware that other ages, countries, sects, churches, classes, and parties have thought, and even now think, the exact reverse. He devolves upon his own world the responsibility of being in the right against the dissentient worlds of other people; and it never troubles him that mere accident has decided which of these numerous worlds is the object of his reliance, and that the same causes which make him a Churchman in London, would have made him a Buddhist or a Confucian in Pekin. Yet it is as evident in itself as any amount of argument can make it, that ages are no more infallible than individuals; every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd; and it is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
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