Best Hustle of the year was an obvious choice for me. Every Tuesday is Thom Yorke Tuesdays on my blog. Every Tuesday i have had a new track that he's released over the past 3 months. Thats a lot of music. I could not think of any other artist that have had turned out so much work in one year with touring, recording, performing and some leaking. Heres a break down of why Thom Yorke wins biggest Hustle of 09.
This year Mr.Thom Yorke has been a busy man. He and his band Radiohead had done a few shows in Latin America and in the UK. Later Yorke performs a solo set during the Latitude Music Festival last summer where he played songs from the Radiohead catalogue, The Eraser and a new soulful song called Present Tense. In between performing Yorke has pissed off the likes of Kanye West and Miley Cyrus telling them to not have such a huge "sense of entitlement." Next without fail Thom and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead the musical virtuoso/lead guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/resident composer at the BBC orchestra made a tribute song to the late UK war Veteran Harry Patch whom had passed earlier this year. (Patch was the oldest survivor in the UK from WW1). Jonny had composed the song using an all string Orchestra while Thom used the text from Patch during one of his interviews talking about the horror of wars. In true Radioehead fashion they recorded the track in a church. A couple weeks later the blogoshpere is lighting up with a secret leaked track from the band called These Are My Twisted Words. With no explanation where this song came from or what it was for, talks of new albums were all over the message boards. A theory that was quickly debunked by Yorke himself. (Later confirmed by Ed). With the rest of the band on hiatus Thom went on what I would call a "musical killing spree". Announcements that he had contributed a new track to the tween phenomenon New Moon of the Twilight saga had a lot of people questioning his musical integrity including myself. The song titled “Hearing Damage” is easily the best track on the album with a line up of Grizzly Bear, The Killers, Band of Skulls and tons more Indy acts. Thus no one being able to question how refined this mans taste is along with an exceptional vocal and musical talent.
Within the rest of "09" Yorke had released a vinly LP titled “Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses”, sang during climate protest, re-mixing tracks for the hip-hop artists Doom and starting a new band with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nigel Godrich, the drummer from R.E.M. with the multi-instrumentalist from David Byrne.
I like to the think that Yorke is having a mid life crisis and trying to get out as much as possible. Never in my wildest dreams would i ever imagine a track of Twilight would become my favorite song of the year. Thom Yorke made pigs fly out of a cold hell and we thank him for it.
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