Reader Jim tipped us off to this 1993 Pablo Honey ad campaign that aligns Thom York & Co., aka “Oxford, England’s rowdiest new band,” with Beavis And Butt-head (twice!). Also, please note, if you want to become “a RADIOHEAD,” you’ll need to send your fan mail to Capitol Records in c/o “I Wanna Be A Creep.”
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The real reason Radiohead self-released In Rainbows.
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If any thing they were Oxfords most un-smileyest bands….. Wook at dose pouty faces!
Love the band, but I hated them when they first came out. Thom looked like a pretty boy version of Kurt Cobain to me.
It was that guitar-attack noise on Creep that got me hooked though.
The idea that Thom Yorke would be marketed or perceived as the pretty boy version of anything is kind of hilarious.
@300 baud: I hated them too when they first came out. But for me it was songs like “Creep” that just pissed me off. I’d hear someone playing it and literally cringe, like fingers down a chalkboard. (I still hate that song.) So, when “Kid A” came out, it took a day for a friend of mine to actually convince me to listen to them again. Anyway — the rest is history for me. I thought “Kid A” was one of the greatest things I’d ever heard. (BTW — Tom Yorke is looking a bit like Michael McKean in “This Is Spinal Tap.” Sweet.)
This is probably why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6VWk1yT5o — or, how about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4oDkgyzeWY (“Sometimes if I have a boner that won’t go down, I listen to this kind of music.”)
The real horror here is Thom’s hair back then.
Thom’s hair was the real marketing travesty.
saw them in 93 opening for tears for fears and some other mid 90s band- belly?- in vegas. they were halfway through their set and i remember some guy yelling out “PLAY ‘CREEP’ AGAIN BECAUSE YOU SUCK!!!”
The only good song on that album was a blatant ripoff of the Hollies (The Air that I Breathe). So blatant that the Hollies sued and RH had to settle.
That said, The Bends is one of my top 10 favorites albums. The rest of their catalog is among the strongest of any band I can think of.
lol @ phil selway’s backwards baseball cap
I’ve seen them twice, bought physical copies of their albums. I still don’t know all their names. Hell, I don’t even know what they guy behind Thom (in the first picture, with the necklace) does for the band? Tunes the guitars?
I suck as a radiohead fan.
ha yeah that weird necklace guy totally proves that anyone can play guitar.
Ed O’Brien, bass.
Colin Greenwood plays bass. Ed plays guitar.
They should have had “nicknames”. Sounds like a party game to me.
Whatever happened to this band? Did they ever amount to anything?
anybody ever seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkcZDGFm0Yw
Never even heard that song. Is it bad that I actually kind of like this?
if you like same-era blur, then i don’t see why not. i kinda dig the song, too… video, not so much.
yeah, the video’s kinda retarded. :/
It’s things like this that make me glad the record industry is a shell of its former self. And probably why RH started giving away their albums for free over the internet.
Yeah, and RH’s album quality has been slowly sinking ever since OK Computer (controversial). But if it weren’t for Creep, and how the mass-media marketing engine portrayed them, nobody would know who this band is, and it’s likely nobody would have bought The Bends. That’s why bands that exist now, which are just as talented and driven, never make it out of obscurity. That’s why selling 500,000 copies of a record just doesn’t really happen any more. But saying that the demise of major labels is good for the music industry is a lot like saying “the demise of car advertisements is good for selling cars.”
“Yeah, and RH’s album quality has been slowly sinking ever since OK Computer (controversial).”
Not only controversial, but false.
^ Holy shit you’re a tool.
Yeah. No offense, but I don’t agree with one word of this.
poor phil. he hardly had hair 17 years ago. and there thom is. rubbing it in. “hey phil, look at my flamboyant haircut.”
Songwise, their best album. I know, I know. Everyone likes the pretentious mopey misery fest they crap out every couple of years now. The first album and for the most part, “The Bends” had a lot of cool post Stone Roses melodies that they only grasp occasionally now. Forget “Creep”, which is the only song anyone remembers(including the band) and listen to “Vegetable”, “I Can’t” and “Lurgee”. Those songs still hold up.
The songs on Pablo Honey weren’t altogether as bad as people tend to believe.. but do you honestly think that the writing in PH can stand up to OK Computer? If you do I won’t argue with your taste, but I will have to respectfully but strongly disagree.
HAHAHAHAHA
This guy is my hero. Best comeback ever.
“Radiohead. Better than Butt-head” Ha ha ha!!!!!
Radiohead was on the Clueless soundtrack. yup.
Care of “I wanna be a creep!”
Fucking hell.
Dem Cheekbones…
This was actually their dress rehearsal for an off-broadway performance of “Jenny, Eat Something.”
Looks like Riff Raff from Rocky Horror.
Don’t really understand what the problem with this is, with the exception of Thom Yorke’s hair.
Not really sure it FAILED?