Sunday, September 24, 2006

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

For a while there I wasn't listening to music, or playing music or going to gigs or anything. But that all changed again this summer. I've been posting a lot about Electric Picnic recently but I also went to Radiohead earlier this summer, and the gig completely revived my interest in them.

I bought Amnesiac when it came out and I hated it. Thought it was crap and threw it aside. Then, months later I dug it out an listened to it and suddenly I realised it was pure genius.

Then for ages I just kind of forgot about Radiohead, until this gig was coming up. Then I went back and listened to everything, and got Thom Yorke's new solo album 'The Eraser'. It's excellent.

I intended to write a big long rambling post about Radiohead and Thom Yorke, but who cares, right? Radiohead gig was excellent, Thom Yorke's album is excellent, and the video for Harrowdown Hill is excellent. Excellent excellent excellent.

As an aside, I wanted to share the aforementioned video with you and I thought I would use Blip.tv to do so since it seems their TOS might be (slightly) better than YouTube's. But I couldn't figure out how to embed the video in my blog. Maybe you have to do that crossposting thing, but that means giving them my login. Why don't they have simple embed code?

So as a result you can head over to blip and watch it, or you can just stay here and watch it via YouTube: