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wish us all a safe journey if you still like us and you're not one of those people i have managed to offend by doing nothing source
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I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.
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My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
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As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
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We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
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Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
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Limits are very important.
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I think the third album will be celebratory and maybe not so inward-looking; that would be great. I think thinking is a good thing but there are times when you just say 'fuck it'. We're allowed to make mistakes.
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I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
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Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.
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People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
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Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
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We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.
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Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.
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When we first recorded Fake Plastic Trees it was terrible! It sounded like Guns 'n' Roses. It was awful! It was like loud guitars... you could envisage one of these dreadful hilltop, Grand Canyon-esque videos. It was long hair flowing.
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It would've made more sense had we brought another record out between this one and the last one. If you paid close attention, the b-sides, like "Lucky" and "Talk Show Host" have documented that passage.
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Thom comes in with lots of lyrics, a melody and chords, and usually he strums it on acoustic guitar. we then take it from there and beat it up and arrange it. sometimes they need a lot of arrangement. sometimes they need absolutely nothing. sometimes thom will present a song and it's so obvious how it should be done. those are actually the hardest to do - the ones where we have free scope and it can go in any direction are the easiest ones to do.
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When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.
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You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
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When someone in the band behaved like an asshole, one of the others always said: "The Karma Police is gonna get you". I suppose it's all rubbish that your destiny depends on your deeds in a previous life, but you have to trust on something.
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If we get the music across, then that's the most important thing. If you can still make it intimate.
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Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.
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I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?