The Music of 9/11 Clairvoyance (Radiohead at Suffolk Downs)

[Joe Hillshoist]

When I first got ok computer in '97 I spent the night listening to it non stop tripping hard on shrooms.

The following day after coming back/down I listened to it again and still heard stuff I'd missed the night before. And could still enjoy it.

It's a work of genius.

Funnily enough I haven't really listened to radiohead since.

It definitely captured something from that era.

It was 20 years old a couple of years ago. I had a listen to it for the first time in a while around the anniversary. Still stands up. Doesn't really sound dated.

Definitely holds up as a post 9/11 record.

[Joe Hillshoist]

[Bryter]

This thread strikes a bit of a chord with me. I had quite a strange experience involving the albums Kid A and Amnesiac and the movie A Beautiful Mind starring Russel Crowe. It was my first night partaking in mescaline containing cacti. I had both albums queued up in a playlist and I decided to put on the movie as background. I found that the music and the movie synced up in the most uncanny way. There is a popular hippy past time where you watch The Wizard of Oz and listen to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon together and "they totally sync up dude!". This was similar to that. Except i discovered it by accident on a headfull of mescaline. This was back in 2003. It was also the first time I really looked at the artwork. Those of you who own the CD of Kid A know that to see the full artwork you had to take apart the case as it was hidden inside the jewel case. I remember looking at those strange images and thinking that Radiohead must have been plugged in to something larger than themselves. I had the impression that it was a prophetic vision.

I still do think that the similarities are pretty remarkable as the lyrics really seem to relate to what the character is going through. Especially on Kid A... one of the songs is actually called "Motion Picture Soundtrack". I sometimes wonder if there was any collaboration between them but I imagine it was just one of those magical synchronicites that happen on psychedelics.

[thrulookingglass]

[Grizzly]

https://www.metafilter.com/185230/I-cant-remember-where-I-left-my-library-card
Radiohead have updated their infamously obtuse website with the Radiohead Public Library, “an online resource containing everything we have ever done... well, more or less. Videos, music, artwork, websites, merchandise, and assorted ephemera.”
There’s a ton of stuff but here’s some links to get you started

Thought this might be of interest...

[Laodicean]

New PJ single from the upcoming album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJwuP5wPCLQ
Pearl Jam - Dance of the Clairvoyants (from Gigaton - March 2020)

[Grizzly]

I quit listening to PJ after their second album, no reason, just moved on, I like em okay, see em , every tour as they kick it off every tour from here, cause Jeff Ament, the bass player lives here, but just nothing Can out do 'TEN', (their first album). For me...

Anyway, listening to the above they sounded more like David Byrnes, 'the talking heads' to me, not Grunge at all... That's not a bad thing, I dug the Talking Heads, too... Just was taken aback by how much their sound has changed.

[Harvey]

^Really liked that, cheers.

[Laodicean]

Never too late to revisit Pearl Jam, and where their music and message may take you. And me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwa2jK0xglk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAlS378dxHM