The Man Who Would Be Thom Yorke

Just listen to this:

What's that you ask? Let it fill your ears. This is what some kid with way to much free time happened to find one day; an unreleased "Bends" era Radiohead track. So far, no part of this story is confusing. Radiohead seem like the kind of band that for all their innovation, sure seem to have an awful lot of stuff that they don't release but then totaly do. The only hiccups really are the fact that this sounds disticvely like a "Bends" era track (which is better rare in the day and age of Radiohead recording impossibly boring innovated music). And the fact that NME decided to publish a story that had nothing to do with Noel Gallagher. Oh snap!

But here's the twist. It's not really Thom Yorke. And in fact, it's not even Radiohead. This awesome, beautiful, tune is actually the work of this guy.

Either a werewolf or Canadian. Could go either way really.

Yes, it would seem that we would have to thank Canada for this one. Christopher Stopa, like so many before, had the idea that he wanted to be a musician and hammered out this track sometime after either the best sex or the best high of his life. Quickly realizing it was all downhill from here and having a crippling fear of success, he quietly canned his music carer before it started, embracing his true love; baking

Leaving us all to wonder if only other artist could be so generous.

I've had a love hate relationship with Radiohead for years. And I'll be the first to admit that I really haven't liked anything they've done since OK Computer. That album was a nice sign of things to come. Becoming more and more "intellectual" while slowly killing any emotion there earlier music had. That's a discussion for another time. The point I'm trying to make is, this hoax did something no amount of pretentiousness, ambitous album relases or boring inspires live shows could do; made me remember how much I use to love Radiohead. And to think, it only took a Canadian to remind me of that.

You've still got a long way to go till we're even close to being even Canada.

And I leave you with this. I figure with all this talk of Radiohead, it would be a bit ass-backward to not feature any real Radiohead. Track 1 off The Bends