VIDEO: Radiohead and the USC Marching Band

So we didn't watch the Grammys last night (we were actually too busy watching this), and for the most part, I don't feel like we missed too much. Except for this. This was awesome.



A good day for band geeks. Go Trojans.

Radiohead - 15 Step (Live @ The 2009 Grammys)


Radiohead - 4 Minute Warning
from the album In Rainbows [Disc 2]

SONG: The pearly gates

I have no intentions of dying any time soon, but when that day comes I have one request:

The final song off Radiohead's 2007 release In Rainbows, Videotape, be played as I am mourned. (Assuming I'm being mourned.)

Videotape is an absolutely stunning benediction to a flawless album and, I feel, an appropriate farewell to a well spent life.

It is a song about death, but please don't let that discourage you from listening to it. This is not a morose look at death or even a lamentation about a life being extinguished, but rather the bitter-sweet acceptance of what is inevitable and calmly facing the next step knowing that one has lived a good life.

"No matter what happens now
You shouldn't be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I have ever seen."


Radiohead - Videotape
from the album In Rainbows (Amazon/iTunes)