Thom Yorke

THOM YORKE
 
 
Thom Yorke  (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician best known as the singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead.  A multi-instrumentalist, Yorke mainly plays guitar and piano, but also plays instruments including keyboards, bass, and drums, and works extensively with synthesisers, sequencers and programming.  He is known for his falsetto vocals; in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the 66th greatest singer of all time.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

My favorite PJ Harvey album thus far (and also the first one that I purchased, though I had heard about her for years), Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000) is drawn from a six-month sojourn in New York City in 1999.  I had been thinking that the album was her response to 9/11; it was actually released before that horrific date, but there is a sense of impending doom on many of these songs, particularly on "One Line" and her duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke, "This Mess We're In".  

 

(January 2014)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021