Win all three Radiohead reissues, with a little artistic speculation
A few weeks ago, Radiohead‘s first three albums —Pablo Honey (1993), The Bends (1995) and OK Computer (1997)— were re-released, each packaged with all kinds of fancy accouterments like bonus discs of rarities, demos and live cuts and DVDs of videos and TV performances. Full tracklists here.
I’ve got a set of all three to give away to one of you guys! As I sat in the haze of work on Friday afternoon thinking about how to best run this contest, I was gchatting with my friend Josh. He is a rather intense Radiohead fan (and in fact just made me a lovely 2-disc collection of HIS favorite rarities and live cuts).
Superfan Josh’s idea for this contest was simple: “Ask ’em what they think the dude says at the end of the ‘Just’ video.”
So there you have it; a fascinating idea. People who can read lips may not enter, and folks that live outside the U.S. can’t win (sorry! sorry!). You have one week, til next Saturday the 18th. GO.
Right?!
A SMALL SAMPLING FROM JOSH’S MIX
True Love Waits (unreleased, live)
Street Spirit (The Johnny Walker Show, 6/8/95)
My Iron Lung (The Forum, London, 3/25/95)
Black Star (The Johnny Walker Show, 6/8/95)
Thinking About You (T In The Park Festival, Glasgow 7/13/96)
Fake Plastic Trees (acoustic, London 1995)
Later this month (April 21), Capitol/EMI will also reissue 12 Radiohead EPs on 180-gram vinyl as part of the “From The Capitol Vaults” vinyl series. I do not get to give those away, but it’s pretty cool.
Name: Heather Browne
In the year 2008, Subway will introduce the five dollar foot-long.
cloudkiller — April 14, 2009 @ 11:31 am
I’ve seen the war
FeelLikeAStranger — April 14, 2009 @ 6:38 pm
I hate to let everybody down, but I’m convinced he’s saying “Hello, my name’s Eric, I’ve been reading Heather’s blog for several years and have never won anything, buy I sure hope my luck will change and she’ll give me that Radiohead package because she’s a fine young lady who appreciates the fact that she has a 49-year-old reader who can devote some of his precious time reading her blog that isn’t spent working, raising his kids or being a loyal and caring husband to his wife of 25 years”. Really; that’s what he’s saying.
Eric — April 14, 2009 @ 8:19 pm
There is no easy way out. No easy way out indeed.
Jessica — April 15, 2009 @ 9:13 am
He’s saying: “If you lay down on this sidewalk you can see Radiohead playing in that loft just up there.”
Although I really really think he’s saying “I’ve seen a way” twice.
Robert — April 15, 2009 @ 9:14 am
“More Lamb. More Lamb. More Lamb.”
Jessica — April 15, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
He was telling the story of Melody Nelson.
Scott — April 15, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
I just heard a song by a band called Nickleback.
Rick — April 16, 2009 @ 10:32 am
I spaced it in my previous guess. What he really said was, “It’s mustache growing season and I just shaved. I am lost without my mustache. The pain is unbearable. I will lie here until my mustache returns.”
matt — April 16, 2009 @ 3:33 pm
He says “This is the way I see the world”
Paul — April 17, 2009 @ 6:00 am
I am feeling quasi-philosophical at the moment. First, let me say that I am a student and check your blog every friday night after I complete my studies for the week – it’s kinda a ritual 🙂
Getting to the contest, at the risk of this response being pedestrian, Radiohead’s Just has always represented to me that we make our own way in the world. Although others may seem to dictate our lives and life-paths, no one ultimately makes those choices except the individual. The people in the video, in my opinion, represent outside forces in our lives that have tendency to have an effect on our perception of what we should or should not do. If that is the case, it doesn’t really matter what he says … it’s the realization of the original man laying down that others have no power over him that causes them to lay down. In my mind, he is not actually saying anything. I analogize it to a person sleeping and mouthing words while thinking something. If you wake the person up and ask them what they said they may not know, but the thought and feeling associated with that thought can be recalled. The words are not as important as the realization. Therefore, the first man fell because he was helpless and the others fell because the man who originally fell realized that he, and only he, had the ultimate power to help himself.
I love your blog! I hope you can keep it going for years to come! If my response is ridiculous, I apologize, but I thank you for the opportunity to win this fantastic prize. I look forward to finding out the winning answer!
Highest regards,
Tom – from Chicago
Tom — April 17, 2009 @ 10:32 am
I believe he says,
“You know I laughed when she (Heather Browne) left, but now I know, I know I only hurt myself…”
Leo — April 17, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
“You want to know? I’ll tell you…this is it…this is all there really is. And there is nothing new, nothing better out there…no point to it all…Just this.”
Really it doesn’t matter what he said…the various answers bouncing round in our heads are likely more devastating than anything the video could’ve revealed.
Pat — April 17, 2009 @ 10:27 pm
“i’m lying down because i’m tired of these reissues”. okay, that was kind of mean.. but i want these anyway 😉
ann — April 18, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
‘if i lay here, if i just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world’
jason — April 18, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
14 years from now, the band that is currently playing 8 stories above us will reissue the album for which this video was created to promote. Our lives and our reality is actually just a creation of someone’s artistic imagination captured in a 4 minute video, and is otherwise meaningless. Oh the postmodernity!!!!
…Now lay with me.
Trent — April 19, 2009 @ 3:26 am
“Why am I here? Why are you here? Why are we all here? I think it was Jean-Paul Sarte who said… How do you spell Sarte?”
[WHACK]
“Why do you keep hitting me, this guy’s going to cut off my finger!”
Jeff — April 19, 2009 @ 6:21 am
Contest closed yesterday! I’ve sent an email off to the winner 🙂
Thanks for playing guys. It was fun.
browneheather — April 19, 2009 @ 8:18 am
“The capitalist financial system of the western world is a house of cards that most certainly will collapse in the year 2008 even just as a rainbow of hope spreads across the land.”
Rich Martin — April 19, 2009 @ 11:31 am