Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book

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This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the period 1999 to 2000 during the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac. This is a document of the creative process and a mirror to the fears, portents and fantasies invoked by the world as its citizens faced a brave new millennium. TY Always him. I’ve been digging through this stuff going: ‘These people need help,’ but at the same time being really proud Thom Yorke

TY It was called the Byzantine Ziggurat. But we didn’t want anyone’s data, therefore it was never going to work. The creatures in the Amnesiac artwork felt like the abstracted, semi-comical voices that battled us as we tried to work Thom Yorke Radiohead has announced the forthcoming release of “Kid A Mnesia,” a multiple format triple-album release marking the 21st anniversary of the group’s influential “Kid A” and “Amnesiac” albums, due November 5 via XL Recordings. If, however, you fit neither of those categories and are rather someone who likes to observe the artistic/songwriting process, this may also be worth your time.

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SD We would start on two canvases next to each other, and after a certain amount of time, swap over and start working on the other one. And basically keep doing that until someone had … “won” the painting. SD It felt like if a method was developing, that was a bad thing. If you’re doing things by a method you just end up with the same result in different iterations. We were trying to destroy methods, to destroy habit. Basically, really perversely trying to make things as difficult as we could all the time. Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace BookPromotional eBooks Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book Out of the first world war, and out of all the positivism of the industrial revolution, there was this disillusionment in the 1920s, right? You had this terrible Spanish flu, millions of people dying … and at some point it lifts. It all lifts, and then you get the roaring 20s. You get this explosion in music and art and film. What’s really interesting is that we’re witnessing on one side a determination by certain states, like Britain, to engage us in some horrific kind of doublethink. Being told how wonderful everything is when literally thousands of people are dying every day. Being told by the government how well they’re doing. That’s what we’re ingesting.

Me in the 90s: ooo, I do enjoy a bit of clever boy indie music - yes please Pablo Honey… oh, The Bends is just so fragile and beautiful, they totally get me… ahhh, but OK Computer is very clever, with levels that a lot of us probably don’t fully understand… *moans along to Paranoid Android for the 105th time that month Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry; in 2002, Q Magazine named Yorke the 6th most powerful figure in music, and Radiohead were ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2005. Yorke has also been cited among the greatest singers in popular music; in 2005, a poll organised by Blender and MTV2 saw Yorke voted the 18th greatest singer of all time, and in 2008, he was ranked 66th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" list. SD There was a lot of jingoistic triumphalism in popular culture. We felt there was a shift in awareness – maybe that was the fairly rapid disillusionment with Tony Blair Thom YorkeIt's a coming of age for Kid A & Amnesiac and it's joined by a new album, Kid Amnesiae, a memory palace of half-remembered, half-forgotten sessions & unreleased material. the poems revolves around the usual subjects which we have been exposed to for decades, by both radiohead and thom yorke the man himself. despite so, it takes another form because without the music, the lyricism in yorke's somehow misfit, and non-conforming, action-calling, insane but lucid free verses roaming freely in the land which fear stalks. the paranoia is thoroughly displayed in the poems, perhaps it is what has been the standard any radiohead fan would expect, the penetrating and perplexing resignation to the obvious grim fate one has to live with in today's world, and with yorke's very one-of-a-kind pessimistic outlook of how things would be, it wouldn't be anywhere near being out of the line to say that this is somehow predictable for what is the standard quality of thom yorke, and thus making the sheer content of these creative works of arts slightly less remarkable. TY We wanted to build a studio, and it wasn’t ready, so we went on this very strange trip to Paris, and we went to this exhibition … TY Yep. Always. The simple fact that we never even thought it was a problem to paint on each other’s paintings, and write on each other’s writing … Target 80s Landscape, by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood. Additional computer rendering by Nigel Godrich.