Myxomatosis

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Steve

The biggest challenge in linking to these mp3 files found online is coming up with descriptions for the music. Chuck Klosterman inspired me this morning by describing Radiohead's music as "transcendent, fragile, pre-apocalyptic math rock" in an article for Spin magazine (found in his book).

Hours later, I was listening to "Myxomatosis," which Klosterman allowed is "perhaps the most interesting entry on Hail to the Thief." By chance it was in the wget queue at just the right time. The story from the interview is that a young Thom Yorke's parents showed him dead rabbits all over the English countryside, killed by the virus with a mellifluous name.

Meanwhile, Spin is covering the latest developments in the murder of Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G. One of his tracks also found its way to my hard drive.
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Posted by Tony | September 27, 2007 | 09:30:46

This is EXACTLY why I cannot stand Spin and its ilk. Or the vast majority of rock and pop journalism, for that matter. "transcendent, fragile, pre-apocalyptic math rock" -- what the @#$% does that mean?! Look -- everything truly original that could be done in music has already been done. Now, it's just mixing existing ingredients in slightly different proprtions. This is true of all music, not just rock. Radiohead is Pink Floyd with some noise mixed in. End of story. Clearly this Klosterman fellow thinks he is oh-so-creative. Why doesn't he go do something productive then, instead of this textual masturbation? Go build a web site or something.
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Posted by Eric Phillips | October 15, 2007 | 14:09:31

Pre-Apocalyptic? Wow. Is that a prophecy?
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