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Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book

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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.

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 monthThe nature of being a songwriter, or a painter, or whatever, is to retain a beginner’s mind. The search is the point. The flailing around is the point. The process is the point. I like being given material and maybe finding a narrative that someone else doesn’t see. I like when [Radiohead guitarist] Jonny gives me a piece of material, or Stan gives me a bit of writing, and I say: “This bit, and this bit.” And then likewise that will get done to me. Stan is very good at being able to see something in something I did that I was literally about to bin. That means you’re always working beyond what you expect. Additionally, on theNovember 4theve of “Kid A Mnesia”’s release, Canongate will releasetwo art books byThom Yorke and Stanley Donwoodcatalogingthevisual works created duringthe Kid A / Amnesiac era: publishing alongside a full-colour book of artwork, Kid A Mnesia. A must-have for all Radiohead fans. 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

Another book that probably more rightly deserves a three-and-a-half star rating than four, but we round up here. But we’re also desperate for something real and true that speaks to us. People have been reading more. They’ve been watching films more. I feel that there’s going to be a massive reaction. Kid A and Amnesiac are, if nothing else, a celebration of what is possible when a bunch of people get together and forget about everything except trying to create work that speaks to them at that moment, in a sort of frenzied, last-days-on-Earth kind of way. I don’t know why we thought it was the last days on Earth, but I guess we did; it was the millennium, whatever. But that kind of madness is important. That’s certainly how I’ve seen it, digging through this stuff, going: “Who are these people? They need help,” but at the same time being really proud of that room of people doing it. 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 … 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.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. 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 Yorke 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. TY On and on and on he went. And it really formed part of what was happening. The minotaur cursed to repeat its mistakes in a maze. We had this whole plan worked out for this ziggurat, where people could log on, and build a room in the ziggurat themselves, and leave messages for other people …

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