Comments on: Radiohead Are Naked!

By: julian berg

julian berg — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:58:44 +0000

hi all…
i invite you to hear my synthpop remix:
http://www.julianberg.com/nude.php
and if you like it please vote for it as well.

hope you enjoy listening

By: Mattia

Mattia — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:05:38 +0000

shit. Too late

By: iain

iain — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:19:09 +0000

skierpage: “It’s Radiohead’s creative work, not yours”…except its not. If I create a remix, then its both of our creative works. Radiohead’s T&C are taking what I’ve worked on and claiming it belongs to them. And then to make matters worse, I’m paying them to do this.

The way a remix generally works is that Radiohead approach people and give them money to make a remix. This is the reverse of that.

If they were doing this “for the music” then they would give it away, it is a brilliant marketing gimic to let your fans remix your song, but instead they’ve stuck a price on it. It is their music to do with as they wish, but when they become such blatent sell outs like this, then they lose me as a customer.

By: skierpage

skierpage — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:59:14 +0000

It’s Radiohead’s creative work, not yours. It’s so hypocritical to cheer them when they release direct to fans and then jeer them when they decide how to package and sell it. You shouldn’t draw a box around artists marked “This part is artistic freedom” and everything else has to be done the exact way some whining fan wants.

By: iain

iain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:48:36 +0000

Rui: Yeah, its gone. Oh well, it had 54 votes the last time I checked before it was deleted. Pretty good run really

Chris: Well, the albums have been getting more self-indulgent since Kid A, self-indulgent in a “well, look what we can get away with” way. I think they’re very good at getting the PR required to make everyone think they’re the first, they’re not the first band to release an album online, this isn’t the first time they’ve given people the opportunity to remix stuff (at least I remember downloading a huge collection of wav files from their site before, don’t remember what it was for, think I still have them somewhere) and they’re certainly not the first to have this idea (first I saw was Mogwai in 2003(?) where they put a copy of Cubase and Hunted By a Freak’s individual tracks on the album).

they may be the first to add money into the equation. So Radiohead have gone from being the band who toured the UK in a big tent so that they could play without corporate sponsorship to the band who team up with apple and itunes to get more money out of their fans.

By: Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:27:44 +0000

I never quite figured out why people thought Radiohead were pushing the envelope with this shit. (I never really figured out why they continued to release material after the 90s either, mind.)

– Chris

By: Rui

Rui — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:05:46 +0000

Ups, quoting from the link:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘AND ip = ‘*.*.*.*” at line 2

Other remixes seem to work ok, so I guess you’ve been busted

(the *s there are to protect my IP number)