{"id":4147,"date":"2011-02-19T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/02\/19\/anunreliablewitness-radiohead-lotus-flower\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:37:21","slug":"anunreliablewitness-radiohead-lotus-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/02\/19\/anunreliablewitness-radiohead-lotus-flower\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

anunreliablewitness<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Radiohead<\/a>: Lotus Flower (from the new album, The King of Limbs<\/a><\/em>) – Yes, I know. Desperately unoriginal. Before the day is out, everyone in the world (well, everyone on Tumblr at least) will have reblogged this a million times. But here, at least, is why I\u2019m posting it here: (i) it\u2019s Radiohead, and try as I might to hate them for the very fact that they\u2019re Radiohead and so inspire thousands of words of gushing musical laudation, I can\u2019t; (ii) the music showcased here is eerie, somewhere between their glitchy electronic material and their more traditionally band-oriented sound, and it\u2019s unsettling (which is a good thing, incidentally); (iii) Thom Yorke is dancing, if you can call it that, while wearing a bowler hat – this is a man who is clearly not afraid to prick the bubble of \u2018serious artiste\u2019 mystery that surrounds him by doing a bad impersonation of a busking mime artist in your local shopping centre; (iv) the video seems to be filmed in either a deserted tube station or a bunker; (v) if you close your eyes and listen, that higher register he\u2019s singing in sounds unnervingly like Jimmy Somerville<\/a> on occasion (okay, I admit that may not be such<\/em> a good thing).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

an insult to ian curtis<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0& michael stipe<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

also see\u00a0prostheticknowledge<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Source:<\/span> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

anunreliablewitness: Radiohead: Lotus Flower (from the new album, The King of Limbs) – Yes, I know. Desperately unoriginal. Before the day is out, everyone in the world (well, everyone on Tumblr at least) will have reblogged this a million times. But here, at least, is why I\u2019m posting it here: (i) it\u2019s Radiohead, and try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-14T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2493,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/06\/restmychem-coloursort-radiohead-hail-to-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":4147,"position":0},"title":"restmychem: Coloursort: Radiohead - Hail\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"May 6, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"restmychem: Coloursort: Radiohead - Hail To The Thief by drinkmoretea on Flickr.","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tumblr_m35nrs8EVe1qeec31o1_500.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":738,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/10\/radiohead-just-official-video-by-sam-muir\/","url_meta":{"origin":4147,"position":1},"title":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FgYxVMmpAl8 Radiohead | Just (Official\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"August 10, 2013","format":"video","excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FgYxVMmpAl8 Radiohead | Just (Official Video) (by Sam Muir)(Source: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/)","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/FgYxVMmpAl8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2818,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/21\/hilath-online-i-dont-feel-too-maldivian-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":4147,"position":2},"title":"Hilath Online: I don’t feel too Maldivian now","author":"monochromist","date":"March 21, 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"Hilath Online: I don't feel too Maldivian nowI can\u2019t understand why any human being, who is supposed to be intelligent, would want to torture and kill another fellow being. 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