Radiohead - Meeting People Is Easy [8/10]

Director: Grant Gee

Following the British rock band Radiohead on their exhaustive world tour (after the success of their 1997 album "OK COMPUTER"), the film is a collage of video clips, sound bites, and dialogue going behind the scenes with the band as they travel the world. It show us the eventual burn-out of the group as their world tour progresses.

The world tour that is the subject of Meeting People Is Easy has subsequently been admitted as a low point for the band, specifically Thom Yorke, who had a near-breakdown. This would form the background of Radiohead's recording sessions beginning in 1999 for their next albums Kid A and Amnesiac, inspiring a different songwriting and recording style and the band's changed sound after OK Computer.

Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead claims that Meeting People Is Easy is a 94-minute message to any younger bands who might envy Radiohead's high-flying lifestyle. And that message is: "Don't even think about it."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Radiohead
• Meeting
• People
• Is
• Easy
• documentary
• rock
• band
• live
• concert
• Grant
• Gee
• OK
• Computer
• sides
• 1997
• tour

[SChoate11]

I've got to say this: for a while now everything seems dreamlike to me, and watching Meeting People is Easy, it seems to be relating to me Very well. I don't want to feel surreal and dreamlike anymore, so I thought if I posted this it would go away, ps: thankyou Zedetnik for posting this wonderful documentary, I love it a lot! And God bless Thom Yorke, he's great!

[Zedetnik]

You're welcome my friend.



[scatterbrain40]

I am quite amazed at the fact that NONE of you has mentioned the beauty of the film itself! take a close look at the shots, the locations, the camera angles...it just captures the emotions of people in a take, and everything is then cut & pasted on a film like a puzzle...it's a magnificent piece of work, I've been looking to see it for years, thanks Grant Gee. And thanks to Thom, Ed, Phil, Colin and Jonny.

[schadenfreude87]

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Interesting.

[supersamonhalo]

@Unnamed0909 Thanks ! love them !

[Unnamed0909]

@supersamonhalo Pearly. It's an OK Computer B-side

[supersamonhalo]

What is the first song ? there is a song called "Time is running out" from muse sounds like Radiohead's

[E7OO]

there's a person who doesn't understand the meaning of the prefix "dis"

[Lilcledis]

Thanks so much Jonny, Ed, Colin, Philip and Thom. You've changed my life.

[LevelFire]

3:38 sounds as if it is based around the basic chord sequence of Motion Picture Soundtrack...

[jacksonmilas]

love that tune that starts at 3:38

[09livvy09]

"you've got a teletubbies watch on" HA!