Sunday, November 20th 2011
News: Radiohead
Listen: Two Unreleased 1986 Radiohead Demos Surface
Sounds have surfaced from Radiohead‘s first 1986 demo tape, from back in the days when they were called On A Friday, guitarist Jonny Greenwood had yet to join the band, and they sounded nothing at all like Radiohead.
Everybody Knows sounds far more U2-meets-Smiths than anything Radiohead has put out, and the chorus is hopelessly messy. It’s far from Thom Yorke & the boys’ finest moments as musicians, but thinking back to how most bands sound when first figuring out what the hell to do with their instruments, it’s hardly shocking that the likes of Everything In Its Right Place didn’t materialize with zero effort.
Girl (In The Purple Dress), meanwhile, gives off a Bily Joel and R.E.M. style hybrid. Slap a 70s porn mustache for the sax solo, and you’ve got a band that sounds nothing at all like the blip-glitch Rock-mutating dubstep harbingers we’d come to know them for.
Everybody Knows:
Girl (In The Purple Dress):
Courtesy of LadyNewell and Consequence Of Sound.
DAT SAX
These songs are so bad its inspiring. Even the greats wrote piles of crap on their way up