http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/syn/rss/dna_mbradio1/-/dna/mbradio1/F2675881 Radio 1 - Forum - Rock, Indie & Punk 2009-12-19T12:57:01 http://www.bbc.co.uk/images/logo042.gifhttp://www.bbc.co.uk Both Dev and Moyles played it on the same day but I couldn't find it in the playlist for that day. I didn't catch the title or artist but it had a line something like "concrete and [something] is the only thing that keeps us together" or "holds us together". I'm going batty trying to find this song. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7154379&latest=1#p89964892 2009-12-17T19:09:18 Zane Lowe you are a legend and i'm not just saying that because you made a brilliant RATM remix and played it twice, lol!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7151214&latest=1#p89825720 2009-12-14T19:35:31 They could be old or new:I had a whole weekend listening to music, it was fine so I'm loving:Delta Spirit - Ode to SunshineandThe Decemberists - Hazards of LoveandBrendan Benson - Lapulco http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=6409269&latest=1#p89810597 2009-12-14T15:09:14 (inspired by another persons thread on 1Xtra RnB)Pick a winner from these two songs and then add a song of your own versus the winner and so it goes on.Here goes...The Undertones 'Fallen In Love'vAnti-Flag 'Power To The Peaceful' http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=2207939&latest=1#p89806762 2009-12-14T14:06:42 Can anyone help me find a tune and its artist. It was a record of the week i think last week. It had this high pitched tune in the background, and there was a chap singing ovr parts of it. I think the only lyric i can remember is something like 'me plus you'.I think was mostly played in the evening time. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7144256&latest=1#p89710724 2009-12-12T10:26:57 HiMy name is Ben Snookes, i'm a singer/songwriter from Birmingham, UK. My Debut EP ''All I Need Is Rock And Roll'' was released this week digitally, via Amazon, iTunes (UK) and (US).I was hoping you guys would check out my material, feedback is welcome.Ben Snookeswww.myspace.com/bensnookesmusic http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7104444&latest=1#p88951820 2009-11-25T10:15:01 Can anyone tell me the song that is playing in the programme Where Is Modern Art Now? when Cornelia Parker is being interviewed? It is a brass band and women's voices intermixed. The women aren't singing in English and it sounds just like "da di da di di da da". I half recognise it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nxm6sIt comes and goes between 26:58-32:03.Thanks http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7094418&latest=1#p88859535 2009-11-23T11:46:12 I am seeing The Temper Trap play at the ICA i cant wait!Your turn.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=6750524&latest=1#p88731770 2009-11-20T12:21:53 Hi, We're The Exiles - if you're into your electro-indie music with a little bit of originality why not check out our latest release from our 2009 EP - called 'Your Dying Eye' with a bit of a cheeky vid alongside.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIskboOROkkLet us know what you think. Cheers for your time,The Exiles http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7090190&latest=1#p88693443 2009-11-19T15:04:34 Hi,I am creating a christmas present for my little cousin who is a whizz on the drums. I have put lot's of photo's of quiality drummers in a frame and would like some quotes about drummers or drumming or song lyrics about drumming.Here's what I've got so far: If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drumHe who cannot dance will say, “The drum is bad”The noisiest drum has nothing in it but airThe drummer drives. Everybody else rides!Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuseBeing a drummer isn’t something you do, it’s something you areBasically, I’m pretty short, so I compensate by having a lot of cymbals, a lot of drums and, huh, the more you have, the more it looks like you know what you’re doingDrumming is a tool like a hammer. You can build a shed or you can build the Sistine ChapelTune? I just tighten ‘em!12 drummers drummingAny help is appreciatedSquiz http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7089906&latest=1#p88687735 2009-11-19T13:47:25 Agadoo - Black LaceVsSuperman - Black Lace http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7082372&latest=1#p88678215 2009-11-19T11:49:26 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIskboOROkk http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7085786&latest=1#p88610601 2009-11-17T19:51:37 Did anyone else get caught out by Biffy changing the dates of their gig in Cardiff last night - WE bought tickets on line and had no notification that the date had been changed to two weeks ago. Turned up and very disappointed! Also told no refunds - what is that all about? Apparently there was a message on the Biffy website - that was it. Not good Biffy, Not good Cardiff Students union!!!!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7083270&latest=1#p88564120 2009-11-16T19:19:47 Solid Air as a Winter Warmer in tribute?http://www.nme.com/news/john-martyn/42400 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=6277036&latest=1#p88547698 2009-11-16T14:32:17 This Radiohead album presents me with the most attractive balance of their various styles (providing I am able to consider all 18 songs). In Rainbows brings me back some beauty and simplicity of The Bands and mixes it with the ambient experimental layers of Radiohead, which by now are really becoming of a Brian Eno meets Zoviet France level. However, I have to say honestly that the 10 song album most of us know would feel incomplete to me. I ended up paying $80 for the original package with 2 cds and 2 records at 45 rpm (only 10 songs on vinyl but was it the trick in their test?) when it first came out. I took the 2nd cd first and listened to it about 20 times over and over before I ever listened to the main cd. A few things came out of that experience. First of all, some of my favorite songs of Radiohead were released on that bonus cd. Secondly, those bonus songs are so great that I really feel like it was as much a part of a grand marketing strategy to keep these songs hidden from view as selling 10 main digital files for whatever fans where ready to pay for them. Did that strategy overestimate us? Have we failed the test of the game of hide and seek? You know the rules of that game, right? Most of Radiohead music abides by its rules and songs need to be listened to over and over to be…uncovered. Please, look over all the reviews on Amazon or anywhere else. A few people mention the other bonus cd in a delicate way. Most of us don’t even know it exists. Why? Not only are Go Slowly and Last Flowers both gorgeous, but the addition of some of the other songs, like Down Is The New Up and Up On The Ladder to me adds more continuity of what Radiohead has been developing for such a long time now. I guess we are just so spoiled rotten by them now, that a few awesome songs can be completely omitted and disregarded. If I was to put my own 10 song cd out of the 18 songs I was given, I would use 4 songs from the bonus cd. Well, it is 2 years later now, and if you are waiting for the Radiohead’s new release, it is within your reach…It is possible that no other present rock band gained more respect form their fans that Radiohead. Regardless if we started listening to them back in 1993 or in 2003, most likely we consider them our band and we cherish their success. I did not get to know them until 1997 when they came up with OK Computer and I loved that album right away. To me that album, next to Porcupine Tree’s The Sky Moves Sideways has become an ultimate rock album of the late 1990s. It was ambitious, and the way that great songs where mixed with interesting passages and delivered great rock music to us again, on scale of some of my favorite 1970s music, but updated. Reaching back for their prior releases I didn’t care that much for Pablo Honey (1993) aside from the song which made them famous in the first place. However, I was completely blown away by the beauty and simplicity of The Bends (1995), and by the fact that I missed its existence. Every next album Radiohead released since then has been spectacular and that fact showered them with our respect. Here is a band that has nothing to prove any more besides its greatness. And they are proving it over again and again. The sound of Kid A (2000) became more distorted abstract and ambient. It was music to my ears because I am pretty obsessed by atmospheric landscapes and I could feel them flowing through that music. They also took me back into my childhood with songs like The National Anthem which made me feel like I was listening to some early King Crimson albums with their great saxophone and jazzy feel to the rock music. How To Disappear Completely expressed it all. Kid A became my favorite album of Radiohead until i heard Amnesiac (2001) for the first time. To me that whole album was the recollection of a drowning experience which I also went through in my childhood (in the river as well). The Pyramid Song seems to me like a valid record of a life after life but the music of the entire Amnesiac is slightly...underwater for me. The whirlpool of loops and sounds and echoes is in itself a revolving door to the unconscious. The repeat of a Morning Bell already introduced on Kid A reinforces the album’s title. To me to compare the textures of both Morning Bells is a good way to notice differences between Kid A and Amnesiac. I did not mind the increased strangeness and remoteness of the experience. It was a daring move on the part of this great band, which could alienate some of its followers, but it was moving into this abstract territory many artists end up at. Then came Hail To The Thief (2003). Did George Bush ever thank them for congratulating his presidential win? Never mind. This was Radiohead’s cry for us to wake up. Did we not realize it was our world we where living in? The sound started uniting all their previous grounds and breaking them violently at times by strange guitar riffs and other means. I was listening to that album a while back and someone has interrupted me complaining that the music of Radiohead is dark and depressing. I don’t agree with that assessment. I feel like their music simply covers and connects the entire territory, our waking awareness and that which is hidden from sight but nevertheless here, affecting us in our sleep and throughout our lives…without our knowledge.And the title of this album In Rainbows could stand for it all. This band has turned a full circle around its own greatness. We do start our 10 songs with the 15 Step texture of distortion and experimentation which fooled me and made me believe we would be traveling into the Amnesiac techno-grounds. Bodysnatchers just reinforced that feeling because here again we have that strange climate repeated. If you like these 2 songs than you absolutely have to get the bonus cd with the additional 8 songs. 2 or 3 of those 8 songs you will love completely and as a bonus you will get another 2 songs, floating in the nude/videotape territory. Nude might be the most beautiful ballad of these 10 but definitely not of the 18 songs of In Rainbows. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi could be my favorite song of the album and it probably is but… let’s agree to use it as a tribute to Paul Buchanan. It is absolutely gorgeous but its main part is sort of an echo from Blue Nile’s Hats, a beautiful album you should definitely listen to if you do like Thom’s vocal here. It progresses into its 2nd stage which might be the strongest 2 minutes of In Rainbows to my ears, because I do miss the layered distorted landscape of Amnesiac. Keep in mind that to be able to appreciate fully these textured moments you do need high quality stereo equipment. Listening to Radiohead in my old truck with a scary system is such a waste of time. Just play Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen instead in such situations. All I Need is another flower which needs some time to grow. The progression of this song and a few others of this album and their ending moments are where Radiohead’s new treasures are hidden. Faust Arp would probably survive listening in that old truck of mine. It is almost like a mixture of Radiohead’s own wolf at the door and something else. It has a bit of Nick Drake’s atmosphere to it, which is great. However, the following song, Reckoner is spreading over an amazing sound landscape. Thom’s vocal appears out of some acoustic noise procession which fades when melodic beauty takes over and comes back again. The sound production of this album is superb. Once again, the underlying sombient texture of the House Of Cards relates In Rainbows to their preceding 3 albums and personally I do cherish that connection. If anything, I almost need the bonus cd and the additional 8 tracks to bind it all a little stronger. If I miss anything else In Rainbows it is the national anthems or lives in the glasshouses. I wish to be taken back to that early climate of the early 1970s King Crimson’s heavy saxophone, jazzy feeling rock, because Radiohead does it so well. Jigsaw Falling Into Place could be the most energetic song of this album and it is followed by the very intriguing one. I do hope that Videotape is just a song and not the prophecy. It is one of my 2 favorite songs of these 10 songs here, next to Weird Fishes/Arpeggi. The noises of Videotape are all over Zoviet France again and I really wonder which one of you gentlemen shares on of my favorite background climates? And them we start listening to MK1, which is basically an echo following the Videotape. Following it, Down Is The New Up comes back and revisits some of the Kid A – Amnesiac territory and I am so thankful for that. We do not want to leave behind the superb complexity of their stranger songs just because our army of admirers is growing. Next come my… fake plastic trees here, a pair of them actually. Go Slowly comes and if you have not heard it yet and are willing to listen to it 7 times over and over you will have tears in your eyes, and will love this great band even more. A short Mk2 passage takes you to Last Flowers and I guess it depends more on your personal taste, but to me this again is one of the best songs of this 18 song collection. Following song, Up On The Ladder is extremely powerful although it could be more disturbing to some. To me it is a great Radiohead song with one of the melodies flowing back and forth and introducing the Rapoon, Zoviet France-like character which really becomes alive in Bangers + Mash. Now…this is definitely some of the more experimental Radiohead all over again and then… we are given 4 Minutes Warning at the very end, which is a great idea. So, all of you Radiohead lovers, please reach for your copies of In Rainbows bonus disc #2, because life is too short to live without it… You don’t have to wait to the release of their next album…it is within your reach. Back in 2004 I put together my favorite songs of Radiohead, and obviously I had to revise it later on. So, here is myRadiohead Star:1. Fake Plastic Trees2. How To Disappear Completely3. Go Slowly4. Pyramid Song5. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi6. The Tourist7. Street Spirit8. Everything In Its Right Place9. Last Flowers10. Creep (acoustic)11. Life In A Glasshouse (full length version)12. Bullet Proof…I Wish I Was13. Sail To The Moon14. Dollars & Cents15. Exit Music (For A Film)16. Videotape17. (Nice Dream) To all the people who can’t understand what others find in the music of Radiohead… here is your secret. Most of their music cannot be appreciated upon the first listening, by almost no one. Pick up one song and listen to it at least 7 times over and over. These strange sounds and noises you hear at first become a background to the beautiful melodies which are playing a game of hide and seek with your mind and your soul. Engage in their game and you are…one of us. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7071269&latest=1#p88349539 2009-11-11T17:28:04 So I got so tired of listening to the same 20 bands which are all over the place at the moment that Im looking for new bands, recommendations, new music, whatever you got.My new bets are White Light Parade who just got up a new track called Rebellion Call feat. Itch from The King Blues...the sound is very punky and they got some great riffs...on the more electro-indie side I like This Is Radio Freedom, theyre the new Killers but more rocky and very political, gotta love it...What are your choices...anyone? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=6689574&latest=1#p88497904 2009-11-10T17:22:24 hi zane i hope you are well! i love the show i heard the hot melts ealier today on sarah cox- my boyfriend friend loves them its his birthday and he missed it i just wondered if you could give edith a spin it would make his day !!hes 20 today his name barry so give him a shout out if you can thanks dude keep spinning the tunes x http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=6302302&latest=1#p87979210 2009-11-03T16:07:30 Apparently these guys are teaming up on a track, what does everyone think?I think it could be awesome....http://www.audiotube.com/news/1614-kanye-teams-up-with-flowers-and-leto.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=6488651&latest=1#p87977917 2009-11-03T15:45:40 I would love it if you would play 30 Seconds To Mars new song "Kings and Queens" more. It's a wonderful song that actually has thousands of their fans from all over the world singing on it. It's such a great song and I can't wait to see the video! http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7050786&latest=1#p87977565 2009-11-03T15:39:35 A classic from '97Anyone know where I can download this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7036707&latest=1#p87732521 2009-10-29T13:12:19 I would like to be able to get hold of 3 backstage passes for my godson to meet the band at their gig at the NIA on 11th December (when they support Paramore). He is their number 1 fan to the extent that he is about to have some lyrics from one of their songs tattooed on his arm. Can anyone help please. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7022541&latest=1#p87491891 2009-10-24T09:27:43 Hi all,Anyone know the name of the song/ band used in the new Tesco F & F Autumn collection advert?Wasn't sure if Rock, Indie Punk was the right forum to put it in, but it sounded even less like the other types.Sample below.http://www.visit4info.com/advert/FF-Autumn-Collection-Tesco-Stores/78074 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7021642&latest=1#p87479248 2009-10-23T18:12:43 Check out their new material and see the interview at the beginning of their 2009 UK TOUR:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwr52HjHvoE http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7009923&latest=1#p87261084 2009-10-19T14:49:18 Erik Hassle is amazing and so is he's new single Hurtful what do you think ? Katie x http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=7002855&latest=1#p87244929 2009-10-19T10:55:48 I really love Erik Hassle and would sooo like to hear more from him. His single 'Hurtful' is AMAZING...please play more http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio1/F2675881?thread=6995510&latest=1#p87140011 2009-10-16T15:45:31