See more live performances from the “From the Basement” series here. I hope they can get out of the basement someday.” It’s funny because it seems like that’s exactly where they’d rather be.

Under the former video, on their YouTube page, one commenter jokes, “what a great band. In later episodes, however, from 20, respectively, further up, the band played the full albums In Rainbows and The King of Limbs to perfection. As mentioned in another recent post, the series featured intimate live music performances of bands, without a host or audience. That creative freedom unleashed in the next two decades a handful of albums solidifying their status as “Knights Templar of rock and roll” because of their willingness to change and adapt, while always playing to their strengths: their single-mindedness when playing together and the refined songwriting of Thom Yorke, showcased solo in the first episode of their producer Nigel Godrich’s “From the Basement” series. The world fame of Radiohead is a case in point.” Do we still see a dichotomy between “dancers, models, actors” and “creative musicians” like Radiohead in pop music? Perhaps it was a false one to begin with.Īfter detonating expectations that they’d continue on as a typical arena rock band, they were free to make music that met no one’s expectations but their own. On the one hand, the Top Forty chart is overrun with dancers, models, actors, and the like on the other hand, there are signs that pop music is once again becoming a safe place for creative musicians. Twenty years ago, New Yorker music writer Alex Ross described pop music as “in a state of suspense.

Over the past twenty years Radiohead managed to achieve something no other rock band ever has: enduring outsider art rock credibility that shielded them from the media machinery they came to loathe at the end of the millennium, and enduring popularity that meant they could drop their last, 2016 LP, A Moon Shaped Pool “without doing a single interview and it still topped the charts all over the world,” Rolling Stonewrites,” even if Drake and Beyonce kept them stuck at Number Three in America.” How did they do it?

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