Re: Radiohead review part two
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And here's one from the other paper of record in Boston:
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Radiohead crackles in tour opener
By Sarah Rodman
Thursday, August 14, 2003
As often as the word alienation is used in association with Radiohead, its unlikely that many people in the sold-out crowd last night at the Tweeter Center felt isolated from the Brit quintet's electrifying opening night set.
For close to two hours the air crackled with electricity in the venue as the Oxford-spawned rockers deftly navigated the textured contours of their eclectic output with impressive vitality.
Especially heartening was Radiohead's ability to take songs from albums like the new ``Hail to the Thief'' that sometime sound chilly or bloodless, or strictly-for-the-headphones, on record and transform them into something more human onstage.
Whether working up a cacophonous lather with all manner of rhythm tracks and synth noises on the explosive opener ``2+2=5'' or gently winding their way through the delicate guitar lines of the hushed encore of ``No Surprises'' the band members were clearly in touch with one another and the celebratory energy of the captivated crowd.
Lead singer Thom Yorke was the embodiment of that energy as he moved from guitar to piano to keyboard throughout the night and wiggled and shimmied his way across the stage. Although he said little beyond giving thanks and dedicating a few songs - ``Lucky'' to R.E.M. and ``Scatterbrain'' to all the lovers out there - he often sported a wide grin on his mug between the shiver-inducing vocal runs that lay at the heart of the band's sound.
Whether droning over the pulsating rhythms of ``Sit Down Stand Up'' or soaring and dipping with his falsetto on the sizzling ``Paranoid Android'' Yorke was spot on. Especially good was his embittered and wounded vocal on an incredibly cathartic version of ``Creep.'' The song was all eruptive guitar riffs and pained howls.
As two distorted side video screens flashed fuzzed out images of the band and a center stage panel twinkled and blasted white and colored lights the band built their wall of sound brick by brick A waterfall of fuzz poured on the squalling ``The National Anthem,'' three sets of tom-tom drums (two played by guitarists Ed O'Brien and Jonny Greenwood) bolstered the fat bottom of ``There, There'' and actual radio static - being tuned by Greenwood - added to the creeping dread of ``Climbing Up the Walls.''
( Radiohead, with Stephen Malkmus, at the Tweeter Center, Mansfield, last night. )
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Radiohead crackles in tour opener
By Sarah Rodman
Thursday, August 14, 2003
As often as the word alienation is used in association with Radiohead, its unlikely that many people in the sold-out crowd last night at the Tweeter Center felt isolated from the Brit quintet's electrifying opening night set.
For close to two hours the air crackled with electricity in the venue as the Oxford-spawned rockers deftly navigated the textured contours of their eclectic output with impressive vitality.
Especially heartening was Radiohead's ability to take songs from albums like the new ``Hail to the Thief'' that sometime sound chilly or bloodless, or strictly-for-the-headphones, on record and transform them into something more human onstage.
Whether working up a cacophonous lather with all manner of rhythm tracks and synth noises on the explosive opener ``2+2=5'' or gently winding their way through the delicate guitar lines of the hushed encore of ``No Surprises'' the band members were clearly in touch with one another and the celebratory energy of the captivated crowd.
Lead singer Thom Yorke was the embodiment of that energy as he moved from guitar to piano to keyboard throughout the night and wiggled and shimmied his way across the stage. Although he said little beyond giving thanks and dedicating a few songs - ``Lucky'' to R.E.M. and ``Scatterbrain'' to all the lovers out there - he often sported a wide grin on his mug between the shiver-inducing vocal runs that lay at the heart of the band's sound.
Whether droning over the pulsating rhythms of ``Sit Down Stand Up'' or soaring and dipping with his falsetto on the sizzling ``Paranoid Android'' Yorke was spot on. Especially good was his embittered and wounded vocal on an incredibly cathartic version of ``Creep.'' The song was all eruptive guitar riffs and pained howls.
As two distorted side video screens flashed fuzzed out images of the band and a center stage panel twinkled and blasted white and colored lights the band built their wall of sound brick by brick A waterfall of fuzz poured on the squalling ``The National Anthem,'' three sets of tom-tom drums (two played by guitarists Ed O'Brien and Jonny Greenwood) bolstered the fat bottom of ``There, There'' and actual radio static - being tuned by Greenwood - added to the creeping dread of ``Climbing Up the Walls.''
( Radiohead, with Stephen Malkmus, at the Tweeter Center, Mansfield, last night. )
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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