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Radiohead Unveil "Supercollider," Portishead Cover

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Ateaseweb.com's been closely following all that's going with Radiohead, because that is what they do. A few weeks ago the site reported the band's been tinkering with a new tune during soundcheck, and yes now a new song's in the setlist. It's called "Super Collider." Dublin got the first performance of it on Friday night: Thom solo, soulful vocal overtop a central, major-key piano figure (a quick flip to a descending minor thing and a bridge, too). Also, as for the Single Song Eliciting Multiple Instances Of Goosebumps award I just made up, this year's big winner is Portishead's "The Rip," which did it upon premature evaluation and again in the desert and again in pencil-drawn form. Just the prospect of Thom and Jonny covering it backstage in St. Louis was enough for a fourth, Thom's vocal swell where the band would enter a fifth, and so on. Two Heads are better than one. (Shoot me I just did that.) So there's that little video waiting for you, too.

"Super Collider"

"The Rip" (Portishead cover)

Here's a vote for that -- full-band, "Unravel"-style -- at the next internet party. I like how Thom's reading the lyrics off his Macbook. Thom Yorke: He's just like us! Except that he's an alien. From laptop-enabled Radiohead, we bring you dot-matrix enabled Radiohead: On Friday BWE tipped us to "Nude," done by a roomful of old-school computer gadgets. Stick with it through the bleeps .

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He should sing like that on all the Radiohead songs, nice cover.

and that Nude video is the coolest thing I've ever seen

Posted by: Steve at 06/09/08 11:44 AM | Reply
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Ooooh man! We need a Radiohead/Portishead (or Yorke/Gibbons, at least) collaboration!! How cool would that be??

Posted by: tylenolmonkey at 06/09/08 11:51 AM | Reply
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Anyone know of an easy way to convert the Rip youtube clip above into an mp3? Even though it's a raw lofi recording, I would love to have that on my iPod

Posted by: Jesse profile link at 06/09/08 1:45 PM | Reply
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I got this mp3 from atease:
http://www.mediafire.com/?cxjibx5edmm

Posted by: Steve in reply to Jesse's comment at 06/09/08 2:09 PM | Reply
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thanks Steve! You sir are an officer and a gentleman!

Posted by: Jesse profile link at 06/09/08 2:14 PM | Reply
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wasn't 1997 amazing?

Posted by: christian at 06/09/08 2:41 PM | Reply
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The Other Matthew

I enjoyed "Super Collider." The "Nude" cover is incredible.

Posted by: The Other Matthew profile link at 06/09/08 6:15 PM | Reply
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Am I an asshole if that main descending piano line keeps reminding me of the guitar in "Where the Streets Have No Name"?

Posted by: historyman68 at 06/09/08 8:25 PM | Reply
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Tom Yorke demonstrates what is he made of. Nice cover...I recomend to all the portishead´s fans the new band in wich Adrian Utley colaborated. "The Blessing" for the ones who don´y know:

http://acidconga.com/all-is-yes-the-blessing/langswitch_lang/en/

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