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Fox News loves Radiohead

Thu 24th Feb, 2011 in International News

The notoriously right-wing Fox News has declared Radiohead’s King of Limbs to be “The best album of 2011… nothing else is going to match the smooth electro of Bloom, the electronic naturalism of Morning Mr Magpie, the jarring serenity of Give Up the Ghost, the harsh beauty of Lotus Flower, and the edgy mellowness of Codex. It’s truly the great post-dubstep ambient trance soul record that the world has been waiting for”.

But before we start to ponder what Fox News’ championing of Radiohead might mean for Glen Beck’s New World Order conspiracy theories or wonder if perhaps John Laws, Andrew Bolt and Tony Abbott are performing their own interpretive dances to Lotus Flower it’s worth nothing that Red Eye exists in a Fox News twilight zone.

The show airs at the insomniac friendly time of at 3:00 a.m and offers a bizarre mix of news commentary and interviews with folks like Stephen Malknus, The Melvins and even our favourite extraterrestrial metal band Gwar.

The show’s host Greg Gutfield has used the show to jokingly propose an invasion of Canada and announce plans to open a gay bar at Ground Zero, but he also has also proven himself to be Fox News’ resident musical expert championing Kylesa, Matthew Dear, Black Angels, Ariel Pinks, Mike Patton, Four Tet and our own Tame Impala.

Gutfield described Tame Impala as “an Australian band, a cross between Cream and Dungen, and that’s their only problem: they sound too much like other great bands. But they write such awesome songs, with incredible choruses and melodies – that you know if they avoid overdoses, they will be big rock stars, and turn into massive jerks.”

So, basically the Radiohead ‘review’ is just a late night joke, but it’s undoubtedly the most sensible thing you’ll hear on Fox News all year.

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lukey26

lukey26 said on the 24th Feb, 2011

Clearly a conspiracy. Thom Yorke has hidden secret zeitgeist messages within Lotus Flower.

mondo22

mondo22 said on the 24th Feb, 2011

which means there's going to be millions of new Christian, American Radiohead fans

ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 24th Feb, 2011

This reminded me of the time Glenn Beck called Muse his favourite band, then got a call within minutes from the band's management that they don't want his approval. There's a video of it somewhere.

andy_chalmers_102

andy_chalmers_102 said on the 24th Feb, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7jyKZ5iP8I

ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 24th Feb, 2011

blank media player? Is this meant to be some sort of symbolic representation of Fox News' content?

grattan

grattan said on the 4th May, 2011

Glenn Beck thinks that My Chemical Romance is propaganda -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR4nc0xbK5s

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way on the band's official website: "I think the word Glenn Beck was looking for was 'subversion' not 'propaganda', because I don't know what it would be considered propaganda for truth?" he wrote. "I can't tell what he's angrier about - the fact that it's how I feel about the persistent sterilization of our culture or the fact that it's on network television for everyone to hear."

Guitarist Frank Iero on his Twitter: "Yay! Fuck that dude's face with Obama's birth certificate"

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 4th May, 2011

This is really interesting. He's trying to make several points and once and ends up just sounding like a babbling old nutjob.

Wonder why.

chico21

chico21 said on the 4th May, 2011



glen beck is nuts!?! he talks absolute rot!

grattan

grattan said on the 12th May, 2011

Common is a controversial rapper according to Sean Hannity?!

Sarah Palin and Fox News have based their latest quarrel with the Obamas on the most absurd of topics—Michelle Obama’s White House “Poetry Night.” The First Lady’s decision to invite rapper Common to the semi-annual event really irritated Sarah Palin and her merry band of conservative followers, who displayed their knack for clever wordplay by calling him a “common thug.” Yesterday Fox News threw out the word “vile,” and last night Sean Hannity chimed in on the blindly narrow-minded debate.
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“This is not the guy that you invite to the White House for a poetry reading. This is not the guy we want our kids to listen to,” Hannity said during the two segments he devoted to the “issue,” adding that President Obama, “goes back to his radical roots again and again and again: Ayers, Wright, Pflager.”

The basis of this attack against the Chicago emcee—a noted poet, humanitarian, and “conscious” rapper, if you will—was falsely interpreting a 2007 rhyme into a literal threat to “burn” President Bush and kill the police. With that happening, why they messing with Saddam?/Burn a Bush cos’ for peace he no push no button/Killing over oil and grease/no weapons of destruction/How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one.”

A quick scan of the line, in context, pretty much sums up the silliness of the attack on Common, who’s easily one of the most peaceful and forward-thinking rappers around. No mention was made of his progressive lyrics on tracks like “The People” or of his recent, successful poetry series for HBO.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 12th May, 2011

Fuck Hannity. Common has more logic in thirty seconds of his worst song than Hannity has ever had.

grattan

grattan said on the 18th May, 2011

Jon Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly on the Common rubbish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im8WhG-8FGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7fIjufCPsg

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 18th May, 2011

Basically the verbal equivalent of Stewart grabbing Bill by his scrawny little chicken neck and chokeslamming him through the desk. Fire.

grattan

grattan said on the 23rd Aug, 2011

Red Eye rules!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpss5BZIBW8