Alexis Petridis, theguardian.com: the impossibly sombre Exit Music (For a Film) - interspersed with more abstract latterday At least one member of the vast crowd that as- material: it’s hard to think of another band sembles for Radiohead’s headlining set has come that can fill stadiums playing songs as angular pre-prepared - he’s carrying a giant orange flag and uncommercial as the propulsive clatter emblazoned with a legend demanding to hear of 15 Step and Myxomatosis. But there’s also Glastonbury Festival something from deep within the band’s back the sense that the less committed members of Pyramid Stage catalogue: PLAY THE FUCKING BENDS, it reads. the audience are becoming a bit restive. Not Despite his clearly legible plea, it isn’t to be, and, even a gorgeous version of Pyramid Song or Worthy Farm initially at least, it looks like anyone anticipating Everything In Its Right Place seems to placate anything approaching the greatest hits is out of them: in certain areas at least, the crowd Pilton, UK luck as well. starts to thin out. June 23, 2017 The band’s set starts out in remarkably low-key But the people who leave have made a mis- style, the screens either side of the stage turned take. The set achieves vertical takeoff during off, the band playing a lambent piano ballad. a thrilling version of Idioteque, while the When the screens do come on, they’re showing line in No Surprises about bringing down the a pretty abstract interpretation of what’s actu- government is received with a vast cheer. It’s ally happening on stage - images of Radiohead’s hard not to be struck by the breadth of what members overlaid with each other, static inter- Radiohead can do - from 2+2 = 5’s experimen- ference and computer graphics. tal pulse to the straightforward loveliness of Street Spirit (Face Out)’s melody to the epic It has an oddly alienating effect. If you can’t prog rock of Paranoid Android. Given Radio- see the stage itself, what’s actually going on up head’s famously fractious relationship with there remains something of a mystery, not a their first big hit - and it’s almost complete state of affairs much improved by Thom Yorke’s lack of resemblance to the music they went on unique approach to between-song chat: a Derek to make - the performance of Creep is greeted and Clive-ish rumination on leylines, some with something approaching astonished stylised laughter, a suggestion that Theresa May delight. “shut the door on [her] way out” and a mumble about “useless politicians” that provokes an Finally, they play Karma Police: when the inevitable chorus of “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn” to the song ends, Thom Yorke stays on stage, playing tune of Seven Nation Army from the crowd. another burst of the song’s coda as the audience bellow along: it’s a genuinely lovely Likewise, the music offers what you might call moment, a burst of bonhomie at the end of a the full gamut of the Radiohead experience: set that turned out to be unexpectedly crowd- tracks from OK Computer - Lucky, Let Down, pleasing after all. MP3 Version Radiohead Disc 1 Disc 2 01. Intro/Daydreaming 6:41 01. You and Whose Army? 3:17 Glastonbury 2017 02. Lucky 4:24 02. There There 5:27 Glastonbury 2017 03. Ful Stop 5:39 03. Bodysnatchers 4:44 04. Airbag 4:45 04. Street Spirit (Fade Out) 7:02 05. 15 Step 4:18 Encore 1 06. Myxomatosis 4:01 05. No Surprises 4:09 07. Exit Music (For A Film) 4:39 06. Nude 4:35 08. Pyramid Song 6:34 07. 2 + 2 = 5 3:31 Radiohead 09. Everything In Its Right Place 4:41 08. Paranoid Android 6:54 10. Let Down 5:14 09. Fake Plastic Trees 7:10 11. Bloom 6:41 Encore 2 12. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi 5:30 10. Lotus Flower 5:30 13. Idioteque 5:03 11. Creep 5:01 69 mins 12. Karma Police 8:59 67 mins Naughty Dog Thanks to indykid for sharing the HDTV webcast at Dime. Naughty Dog Trade Freely. Not For Sale..
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