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    Posted: March 13 2012 at 16:36
And call them freak monkeys with mediocre music.  http://www.spin.com/#articles/westboro-baptists-call-radiohead-mediocre-ridiculous-protest?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=031312
 

Radiohead's concert last night in Kansas City drew in more than art-rock fans from throughout the Midwest. It also attracted a bunch of self-proclaimed religious folks known for picketing gay rights events, American troops' funerals, and Foo Fighters concerts. And the protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, even brought their own attempt at music criticism. (They still like The Bends, you just know it.)

As At Ease points out, the protesters described the band as "freak monkey's with mediocre tunes," which is [SIC] on arguably multiple levels, depending on whether you're talking to a diehard Radiohead fan or not. Also: God hates correct punctuation, apparently. Although the British rockers sadly didn't stage their own counter-protest, as Foo Fighters did late last year, longtime Radiohead producer-collaborator Nigel Godrich did tweet a photo of the protesters, quipping, "Highlight of the tour so far." Welcome to the freak-monkey house!

During the set, Radiohead played "Supercollider," a 2011 non-album single, for the first time on their current swing through our occasionally embarrassing continent. Listen to the band's performance of the pulsating electro-rock ballad, a leftover from the King of Limbs sessions and a mainstay of their 2008 tour:

 
 
 
I didn't post the video, but if you want to see it you can click on the above link to the article.


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Points: 166178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2012 at 16:47
Yeah...calling their tunes mediocre might be too much credit. Wink
 
 
Though this seems rather silly. But thats the westboro baptist church for you.
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2012 at 16:50
Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

I dunno what's WBC's problem, but I really couldn't ever get even my best friend who's a baptist into good music.
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Freak Monkeys! ?  Thats a complement surely? 
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WBC is strange folk.
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And they're calling Radiohead freak monkeys? LOL
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Ah Kansas, how I love you.

They really need to get out of my state and go to Oklahoma.
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^Wow, just as we were talking about the Westboro Baptists on the faith based prog thread...this comes out.
 
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You've got to be kidding me. Someone feed WBC excessive doses of Comus, Beefheart, Faust. They need it. Or rather, I need the laugh.
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^Lock them in a room with Toby Driver for 15 mintues, they'd probably go insane. LOL
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I don't understand why this sect protest: do they blame Radiohead for some political/social/philosophical reason or only because they don't like the music?

I know that Black Sabbath or the Sex Pistols had problems when touring, but their adversaries throw some (more or less) focused reasons.
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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

^Lock them in a room with Toby Driver for 15 mintues, they'd probably go insane. LOL

What exactly do you mean by "go"? LOL  The sanity train left the station a long time ago.
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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:



^Lock them in a room with Toby Driver for 15 mintues, they'd probably go insane. LOL


Or John Cage and John Zorn...
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I guess the Westboro Baltists won't be featured anytime soon in the LGBT thread in the prog lounge...
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They're right about the mediocre music part. King Of Limbs is pretty awful.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

They're right about the mediocre music part. King Of Limbs is pretty awful.

I see, they're actually big Radiohead fans upset about their new album. LOL

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I guess the Westboro Baltists won't be featured anytime soon in the LGBT thread in the prog lounge...

Shhh, we don't want them to show up there and protest. Wink


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