Radiohead weekend: Best of the dancing Thom Yorke mash-ups -- so far [Video] [Updated]
Since Friday, when Radiohead's new album, "The King of Limbs," was unleashed worldwide with an accompanying video of lead singer Thom Yorke dancing to the song "Lotus Flower," a few things have become apparent: First, the band has cemented itself as one of the most visionary and inspired music-business entities on the planet. Second, the band continues to explore and expand on all the nooks and crannies of its music to create new sounds and structures.
And finally: The man can dance and has, over the course of a single weekend, managed to single-handedly make bowler hats hip again (there were, no doubt, many Yorke moves on dance floors all over the world last night). Want evidence that Yorke can dance to anything? See below the video mash-ups concocted to show the versatility and all-around joyousness of a music and a moment.
Thom Yorke dances to Beyonce, and the single ladies go wild.
The Radiohead singer knows his Atlanta crunk, as evidenced by his enthusiasm for Unk's 2006 hit, "Walk It Out."
Yorke isn't a one-trick pony, though. In slow motion, you can see the nuance and the grace of his moves to the Brazilian Tropicália legend Caetano Veloso's beautiful "Araçá Azul" -- which gets a shot of adrenalin when Katrina & the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine" races in, sending the singer into a tizzy.
Yorke grooves to "You Make My Dreams Come True" by Hall & Oates.
The dancing king takes on Abba's "Dancing Queen."
And finally: Few other dancers on the planet could successfully take Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" and make it funky and hot. But you know who can? Take one guess.
-- Randall Roberts (with apologies for that last one)
[Update: The original version of this post indentified Radiohead's new release by the wrong title. It has been corrected above.]
This is the state of music today when one of the few truly innovative and cutting edge musical groups of the last twenty years gets ridiculed by the auto-tune totally scripted generation that worships at the alter of Disney and if you put someone like BB King in front of them they would ridicule him as some crazy old man who should not have control of the TV remote.
Posted by: John | February 20, 2011 at 07:12 PM
HaHa my Thom is Frikin awesome. <3
Posted by: Diane Scaramella | February 20, 2011 at 07:20 PM
yeah real funny making a mockery of thom yorke, one of the greatest and most intelligent musicians of our time. Silly people.
Posted by: meagan | February 20, 2011 at 07:39 PM
really, really funny... dancing queen is my favorite...
Posted by: tooarab | February 20, 2011 at 08:56 PM
Benny Hill gets my vote, I nearly cried with laughing!
Poor Thom he may never dance again which would be such a shame. I just hope his sense of humor is as great as his moves on the dancefloor!
Posted by: Annette | February 20, 2011 at 09:59 PM
HAH! walk it out is the best remix! Too funny whoever thought of that idea.
Posted by: Jr | February 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM
Amazing!
Posted by: Kat G | February 21, 2011 at 01:01 AM
The first and third comments prove that
a) Radiohead fans take their favorite band way too seriously
b) They have no sense of humor
c) They have a belief that the band is beyond criticism.
Posted by: Chuck U | February 21, 2011 at 03:35 PM
@ Meagan - Oh, P'shaw...we all love Radiohead (And Thom) but this is just good fun. You can laugh at this and still love him / take him seriously...(Not that you need my approval for that, but just a reminder. )
I think he would get a kick of out of these. Of course, it's possible he wouldn't - but I think he would...and for the record - only the first few are really funny...the others, eh...
Posted by: NG | February 21, 2011 at 07:30 PM
Thom dancing to Single Ladies is HI.LARIOUS.
Posted by: Gillian | February 21, 2011 at 08:21 PM
and because of sony i´m no more allowed to watch these funny vids. nice!
Posted by: adel | February 25, 2011 at 01:14 AM
note to self: file under "re-definitions of asinine"
Posted by: enlightenednow | May 05, 2011 at 08:10 AM