August 17, 2009

Organizing Radiohead

As rumored, and to an extent, expected, Radiohead released "These are My Twisted Words" today via w.a.s.t.e. It's a stellar tune, being very Radioheadically-dark and well-paced.

This seems like it will be the first in a long line of Radiohead song-only releases, and what I'm thinking about now has to do with categorization. In the past, you've always had an album to contextualize a song, but now it just kinda floats out there, available for free (will we ever pay for Radiohead music again?) at the click of a button. Will they simply use release dates? Will the artwork that comes with each single be the new method of visual organization? It just seems that once a number of songs are released in this manner, there needs to be some categorical way of accessing them. At least I think there needs to be. How else will I compulsively organize them on my iPod touch?

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