Podcast: Radiohead live @ The Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, CA (7.12.93)

Before the hotstreak run of records starting with The Bends in 1995 and ending with Amnesiac in 2001 (nope, I don’t count Hail to the Thief or In Rainbows) cemented their position as The Most Important Band in the World Ever and the Only One Matters, world without end, hallelujah, hallelujah, Radiohead was just a solid Brit-pop band from Oxfordshire with a debut record named after a Jerky Boys bit and a preternaturally dour (if immortally catchy) first single. And it’s that latter band, tinged with the elements of greatness they would soon embrace (dig the early, hyper-anthemic version of “The Bends”), that played an ear-rattling set at Hollywood’s Whisky a Go Go in 1993, and is definitely worth listening to, especially if you’re trying to kill time between now and the release of the next opus. It’s an interesting, vivid portrait of a band already in transition from humble (for them) sonic beginnings to something far greater and magisterial. Oh, and it rocks. Podcast and setlist after the jump.

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Radiohead live at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood (7.12.03):

1. You
2. The Benz
3. Vegetable
4. Creep
5. Ripcord
6. Stop Whispering
7. Pop Is Dead
8. Thinking About You
9. Faithless The Wonder Boy
10. Blow Out

June 2, 2009 | Filed Under Featured Media, Podcasts 

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