Pearly* (Running from Demons) – How Am I Driving – Radiohead. Just for a moment, there, after OK Computer’s unbelievable awesomeness, but before the even more mindblowing transformation that was to come, it looked like, just maybe, Radiohead had shot their wad and there wasn’t any more to come.
Oh, how wrong can you be? How Am I Driving and Com Lag, two EPs of many, proved that even Radiohead’s B sides could do no wrong. Indeed, could they even be said to have B sides? Alright, alright. This isn’t a Pyramid Song or even a Myxomatosis but it’s easily better than anything on Pablo Honey. And I loved that album. Find yourself a quiet asylum and stick How Am I Driving on. I promise you’ll love it. Jonny’s crooning, wailing guitar is underpinned by a static, solid, dependable beat, and of course Thom’s amazing falsetto works. She runs from the third world again. Love it.
Okay, let’s try this again:
URGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!! Couldn’t get any of these songs to come up on ITunes!! ARGH!
ITunes is shit. I’ll have to drag my lazy ass to the local B&N, I suppose.
A programmer buddy of mine will go off for hours on Mac products (in a ranting sort of way) if I bring up the subject. He’s a dedicated IBM user. Unfortunately, my nano only digests ITunes–will not take any other format. GRR!!