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April 17, 2006

Thom Yorke Loves Liars

From that Radiohead tribute album we were getting all excited about.

rjd2 - "Airbag" (MP3 Link Expired)
Shawn Lee - "No Surprises" (MP3 Link Expired)

Still digging that Rhymefest contribuation more. You can stream the entire Exit Music tribute at AOL.

Meanwhile, checkin' in on Thom's cryptic blog, he has a new message for us. And it doesn't sound like he was crying at the keyboard when he wrote it!

Sun, 16 April
happy easter

liars >drums not dead

berlin must be a good place to work

<>

      Thom

Liars, eh? Get back to those "terrifying lyrics" we were promised.

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Shawn Lee's take is shite, but do like the rjd2 instrumental of "Airbag". Good stuff.

Posted by: Chris at 04/17/06 11:30 AM | Reply
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the new liars is good and their dvd is even better, hypnotic, and full of snails

check it out

Posted by: andrea at 04/17/06 12:25 PM | Reply
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the Liars album is just a bunch of droning & thumping. a bunch of moods and tones without any melodies. not my thing.

Posted by: mrmom at 04/17/06 2:01 PM | Reply
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oh man, that Shawn Lee version is ghastly.

Liars album is great, i think it sounds a lot like kid a.

Posted by: andrew at 04/17/06 3:17 PM | Reply
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wow. they are both terrible.

Posted by: Isaac at 04/17/06 7:00 PM | Reply
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TV on the Radio mentioned the Liars album on their blog today too! weird.

youngliars.blogspot.com

Posted by: qwertyism at 04/17/06 7:18 PM | Reply
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that Liars album seems a little bland for Thom. Oh well.

Posted by: Dave at 04/17/06 7:20 PM | Reply
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Liars are greater than Drums Not Dead?

Posted by: mike at 04/18/06 12:33 AM | Reply
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Pitchfork gave the radiohead tribute album a 0.6 rating today. With a typically cryptic "review".

Posted by: Phil at 04/18/06 9:21 AM | Reply
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I've heard the whole album and while I think a 0.6 is uncalled for, it's really not that good an album.

It's actually pretty craptastic, unless you've been dying to hear artists you respect turn in snoozetastic muzak versions of Radiohead tunes.

Posted by: tankboy at 04/18/06 2:54 PM | Reply
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that liars album is dreck and puts me to sleep - more annoying "experimental" drone shite, lay off your loods boys - as boring as black dice has become, knob twiddlin that any ol' self indulgent art grad can do - please no more -if you want the real shit there's loads of krautrock from the 70s which is much much better -I know Thom loves Neu so yeah derivative krautrock like Liars is better than no krautrock these days - I suppose, really suppose

Posted by: gimme at 04/18/06 3:22 PM | Reply
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That Pitchfork douchebag would have bitched about John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things."

"What is this crazy doped-up black guy doing squawking all over that nice 'Sound of Music' show tune with his noisy saxophone. 20 minutes for one song?? Fuck!"

Pussy.

Posted by: Mark at 04/19/06 12:13 AM | Reply
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OK, OK. Paragraph 3 is un-called-for. The rest stands. :D

Posted by: Mark at 04/19/06 4:15 AM | Reply
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