3 posts tagged “radiohead”
Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (Happily Everafter), as stolen from writers_reign on imdb.com:
This is the third film from triple-threat (Writer-Director-Actor) Yvan Attal and arguably his best. Once again he has cast his real-life partner (they have just had a child) Charlotte Gainsbourg as his screen wife and cast fellow triple-threat wda Alain Chabat as his best friend. Whilst Vincent (Attal) and Gabrielle (Gainsbourg) have a seemingly ideal marriage Georges (Chabat) and Nathalie (Emmanuelle Seigner) are more tempestuous and Nathalie's nagging is ever present. Both couples have a child hence the title, They Were Married And Had Many Children, which is also the French equivalent of the fairy-tale ending 'and so they lived happily ever after'. The third man, Fred (Alain Cohen) is single and has no shortage of girls. This is the broad outline. The twist, such as it is requires Fred to envy the married state, Vincent to lead a double life that fools even Georges and Fred and Georges, the logical one to cheat on a nagging wife to be faithful.
In this dialog less scene, Gabrielle has a chance encounter with a handsome stranger (Johnny Depp). Its soundtrack is Radiohead's Creep, a perfect choice that packs an emotional wallop.
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me
Every day every hour
I wish that I was bullet proof
Wax me
Mould me
Heat the pins and stab them in
You have turned me into this
Just wish that it was bullet proof
So pay the money and take a shotradiohead
Leadfill the hole in me
I could burst a million bubbles
All surrogate and bullet proof
And bullet proof
And bullet proof
And bullet proof
Stereogum is one of my favorite music blogs, and here's why: they asked a bunch of their music friends to create a song-by-song cover album for the most excellent 1997 Radiohead release OK Computer. Even better, you can get the entire album (individually or conveniently zipped) for FREE.
I *love*love*love* cover songs, especially when they come from the likes of Cold War Kids, Doveman, The Twilight Sad, and Vampire Weekend. Stereogum's tribute CD is professionally produced and there is even a little blurb from each band explaining their love for Radiohead and how they picked their song.
It's a very interesting interpretation of the music of one of the greatest bands in the world, and there isn't a stinker on the list. To convince you, below you'll find cover versions of "Lucky" from My Brightest Diamond and "Subterranean Lovesick Alien" from Mobius Band and their Thom Yorke equivalent. Actually, the Radiohead version "Lucky" is a solo Thradom playing at singer Neil Young's annual benefit concert for Bridge School, which "is an educational program dedicated to ensuring that children with severe speech and physical impairments achieve full participation in their communities." This is a quality cover compilation album, and deserves to be in your music collection. Go get it!
