Thursday, May 28, 2009

For Your Consideration: Ukulele "Creep"

Radiohead has become a recent obsession for me, which I seem to be pre-primed for; according to the masters at Pandora, you're more apt to be a Radiohead fan if you like Coldplay. But anyway. My modest opinion is this: Radiohead should totally bust out a ukulele on the next CD.

But seriously.

Radiohead is one of the most experimental bands out there. They got the USC Marching Band to back them up at the Grammy's on "15 Step," which very few can get away with and still be awesome. You can hear them in the background of a lot of MTV shows, and in the Pretty Brit music spectrum, they fall to the far left of Coldplay (which gained some ground in the experimenting with the "Viva La Vida" album, which employed Radiohead producer Brian Eno to get there).

So it seems only natural that at some point, Thom Yorke would pick up a ukulele and go to town, and make all of the rest of alternative music wonder why they hadn't thought of doing it themselves. As motivation for Yorke to do this? I give you this dude, in one of the few "Creep" cover attempts.

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Platinum said...
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Platinum said...

I know this isn't radiohead specific but I suggest you check out the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain covering such songs as Nirvana's Smells Like teen Spirit, the Kaiser Chiefs' Ruby, The Clash's Should I Stay or Should I Go
and many others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEq5YyXCmno&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxIg3mO2N_g&feature=related

the collection:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B09708B95BABC944