Radiohead Public Library

https://radiohead.com/ 

It's. .  it's everything. Like, literally everything they have ever done, in any medium, organized by album. Kid A blips, from the basement recordings webcasts, concert recordings, boxset artworks, MPIE, music videos, EP's, singles, .. . . Everything. 

nice

hopefully new album soonish?

yeah, one hopes but. . . does doing something like this suggest that, like, they are nearing the end? That this is the "our history is over, here it is" final post? 

(sincerely hope not, would believe they have at least one more great album in them, if not a few more)

wouldnt dare to speculate. would be even happy with a collection of older unreleased works. but hey, even their new albums consist of old stuff. so what do i know.

should have gone full aphex and put music on there. tight cunts. 

....or Iridial even.

Thom plz.

...also the website design is well turn of the millennium. just needs a bad connection and some flash.  

Im mostly meh about it all unless someone can point me at something good that i couldnt be bothered to navigate to.

Well, I suppose the value is proportional to your investment/adoration of Radiohead's stuff throughout the years. Loads here that have been only available in either partial, extremely obscure, or low quality. I think most insane Radiohead fans (i.e., most of us) probably spent many years collecting a lot of this stuff piecemeal, often via archaic methods like buying bootleg CD's, staying up late and recording performances on VHS tapes, and/or trading with other folks. To have it all collected in one place is basically like 20 year old me's wet dream. To have it be provided freely is generous (with exception of major releases which they kindly link to each purchase and/or streaming via spotify or apple music, for which I can barely blame them - some of the more obscure things, like the cassette tape from OKNOOK they are hosting for free...) 

Random good stuffs: 

• The 97 Glastonbury performance in full: https://radiohead.com/library/#okc/1997-06-28-glastonbury - hitherto only available partially.
• The entirety of Meeting People is Easy (https://radiohead.com/library/#okc/meeting-people-is-easy) which is sort of mandatory Radiohead fandom viewing (and a fascinating reflection of the times). 
• Video for Just: https://radiohead.com/library#bends/just - the thing that made me sit up and take notice of Radiohead. Brilliant video. Shot of Thom in video during the pause is laughable. Still brilliant.
• Video for Pyramid Song: https://radiohead.com/library#amnesiac/pyramid-song - remember my and my friends debated whether or not the long arrows on the road was indicative of some alternate reality. Turns out that's just the way arrows look in some European countries. We just had internet wtf do you want from me? 
• Thom and Johnny performing "you" on MTV: https://radiohead.com/library#ph/1994-10-05-mtv-s-most-wanted  AFAIK, this performance used to be available on some early bootlegs, quite shitty quality tho. Captures some of the early, raw energy of the band. Guilty pleasure song. 
• In terms of music  - here's the cassette tape from the OKNOTOK (https://radiohead.com/library#okc/oknotok-white-cassette). Arguably not worth your time if you aren't a hardcore fan.  
• The Kid A blips - https://radiohead.com/library#kida/blips - these were played during, iirc, the extreme late hours of the evening on MTV.... brief, odd, unnerving interjections into the stock MTV opiate programming. 

Plus just a ton of concert and live performance videos. Think that's probably the big "get" here, even to a passing fan, but also a huge boon if you are a fan of the artwork and aesthetics, as they've reproduced all the marketing, booklets, etc.. . .

  On 1/21/2020 at 4:41 PM, T3551ER said:

yeah, one hopes but. . . does doing something like this suggest that, like, they are nearing the end? That this is the "our history is over, here it is" final post? 

(sincerely hope not, would believe they have at least one more great album in them, if not a few more)

Some interview like a year or so ago, they said they felt they had a few more albums in them so yeah. However I don't think there will be many left, maybe 3/4 more if we're lucky.

  On 1/21/2020 at 2:45 PM, goDel said:

nice

hopefully new album soonish?

Time is going by so fast for me now, their last album feels like it came out 1.5 years ago, but no it's been over 3 years. I'm not ready for a new one, lol.

I don't think there is a new album very soon. And they definitely are not done. This is just an awesome site though. A bunch of old merch available again as well.

*looks at website*
"Yeeeah A Moon Shaped Pool yyeeeah!"
*very quickly scrolls through King of Limbs*
"Ohhhh In Rainbows!"

  On 1/21/2020 at 8:04 PM, T3551ER said:

 

• The Kid A blips - https://radiohead.com/library#kida/blips - these were played during, iirc, the extreme late hours of the evening on MTV.... brief, odd, unnerving interjections into the stock MTV opiate programming. 

oh wow I remember these...I think they also had some sort of interactive website map back then before Kid A came out, where some of these were viewable when you would click on certain ares of the map...or I could be confusing it with BoC's old site...damn Kid A was 20 years ago...

I had a crush on that Plakatbau font.

damn i burned a shitty quality rip of that 10 spot show to listen to in my car on my way to high school.  fuck that was so long ago.

That Revolving Doors song uses bits from the True Love tape loop of the OKNOTOK cassette.  I'm sure that's common knowledge, but I just discovered it and was like "neat."

  On 1/21/2020 at 8:20 PM, Brisbot said:

Time is going by so fast for me now, their last album feels like it came out 1.5 years ago, but no it's been over 3 years. I'm not ready for a new one, lol.

Nice I'll check these. Cheers for the effort.

  On 1/21/2020 at 8:04 PM, T3551ER said:

Random good stuffs: 

• The 97 Glastonbury performance in full: https://radiohead.com/library/#okc/1997-06-28-glastonbury - hitherto only available partially.
• The entirety of Meeting People is Easy (https://radiohead.com/library/#okc/meeting-people-is-easy) which is sort of mandatory Radiohead fandom viewing (and a fascinating reflection of the times). 
• Video for Just: https://radiohead.com/library#bends/just - the thing that made me sit up and take notice of Radiohead. Brilliant video. Shot of Thom in video during the pause is laughable. Still brilliant.
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• The Kid A blips - https://radiohead.com/library#kida/blips - these were played during, iirc, the extreme late hours of the evening on MTV.... brief, odd, unnerving interjections into the stock MTV opiate programming. 

Plus just a ton of concert and live performance videos. Think that's probably the big "get" here, even to a passing fan, but also a huge boon if you are a fan of the artwork and aesthetics, as they've reproduced all the marketing, booklets, etc.. . .

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Great post, nailed it. The Just video did indeed melt my teenage brain down into a radioactive puddle. Awesome one, and in 1080p now!

The live stuff from the kid a section is so fucking intense. just a+++ stuff right there 

  On 1/21/2020 at 11:34 PM, donquixote said:

Nice I'll check these. Cheers for the effort.

ive quote the wrong person. this was aimed a @T3551ER ... do genuinely appreciated the effort. ta

https://radiohead.com/library#kida/2000-09-18-nulle-part-ailleurs

amazing

  On 1/22/2020 at 12:34 PM, donquixote said:

ive quote the wrong person. this was aimed a @T3551ER ... do genuinely appreciated the effort. ta

np and glad to do it! 

does anyone know what this track is at 48:00?

https://radiohead.com/library#amnesiac/inside-out-night/48:8

I'm excited for Kid A era rarities hopefully this year, Thom alluded to super plans for 20th anniversary. I'd say there's a lot more interesting stuff in the tank from round then compared to OKC. 

  On 1/23/2020 at 7:43 AM, Richie Sombrero said:

I'm excited for Kid A era rarities hopefully this year, Thom alluded to super plans for 20th anniversary. I'd say there's a lot more interesting stuff in the tank from round then compared to OKC. 

Hope so. I always loved Radiohead, but Kid A did something else to me when it came out. 
 

Damn I’m getting old

I haven't done a deep dive into this yet, just kind of browsed, checked out a few things. But it's pretty nice of them to do this. Good job, Radioheadz. 

I love some B sides from the OK Computer era. I don't know if these are in this archive or not.

Talk Show Host is top tier Radiohead. Just so brilliant.