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Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
When the Fiery Furnaces -- the sibling duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger -- recorded 'I'm Going Away,' they adjusted their usual penchant for mad rhythms, inscrutable vocals and dizzily complex arrangements to create an album Matthew calls "more casual than our past records." "The ...
Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
spinnermusic.co.uk — When the Fiery Furnaces -- the sibling duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger -- recorded 'I'm Going Away,' they adjusted their usual penchant for mad rhythms, inscrutable vocals and dizzily complex arrangements to create an album Matthew calls "more ... Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger Continues Radiohead Fight
pitchfork.com — In a Spinner interview that made the rounds yesterday, the Fiery Furnaces ' brotherly half, Matthew Friedberger , had some choice (and vaguely confusing) words for Radiohead . The issue at hand was Radiohead's song "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" , ... Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger Continues Radiohead ...
Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger calls Radiohead 'bogus' | News
nme.com — The Fiery Furnaces ' Matthew Friedberger has blasted Radiohead as "bogus" after they released a tribute song about Harry Patch – but it looks like he's got the wrong guy. Patch , who was the UK's last veteran of World War I, was saluted in the song ... Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger calls Radiohead ...
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Fiery Furnaces Call Radiohead 'Bogus'
Oh No They Didn't! — ... have their brand that they're popular and intelligent. So they have a song about Harry Patch. "How's the song?" Friedberger asks. "Is it 48 notes to the octave? What does it have to do with Harry Patch? Oh, my wife says I am being very rude. She doesn't like me insulting Radiohead. She's afraid they will send their lackeys through the computer to sabotage us. But they needn't worry -- we are a band that sabotages ourselves." 'I'm Going Away' is available now. Source This stupid bitch is probably just jealous of RH's popularity and talent. OR he ...

Echo Chamber: Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger
Pitchfork: Latest News — ... Fuck you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool. That is bogus. That's a put-on. That's a branding technique, and Radiohead have their brand that they're popular and intelligent, so they have a song about Harry Patch." -- The Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger is not a big fan of Radiohead's "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)". (via Spinner)

Fiery Furnaces Matthew Friedberger Disses Thom Yorke, Harry Patch, Harry Partch And/Or Self...
The Daily Swarm — ... Spinner: When told that Radiohead’s Thom Yorke sent out a mass e-mail describing the group’s tribute song to the UK’s last veteran of World War I, ‘Harry Patch (In Memory Of),’ Matthew Friedberger adds the British rock star to his fraud alert list. ”‘Oh, please listen to our new song about Harry Patch,’” Friedberger says mockingly. “Fuck you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool. That is bogus. That’s a put-on. ...

Fiery Furnaces To Radiohead: "Fuck You"
Stereogum — ... • Matthew Friedberger clearly thought Radiohead wrote a song about American composer Harry Partch not UK old guy Harry Patch when he told them to fuck off for "brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool." Bogus . Posted at 9:38 AM in ...

Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger Continues Radiohead Fight
Pitchfork: Latest News — In a Spinner interview that made the rounds yesterday, the Fiery Furnaces' brotherly half, Matthew Friedberger, had some choice (and vaguely confusing) words for Radiohead. The issue at hand was Radiohead's song "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", Radiohead's tribute to Harry Patch, the last surviving British World War I veteran, who died in July. (Patch was often known as "the last Tommy," a "Tommy" being an old term for a British soldier.) But ...

Extra, Extra
Gothamist — ... The woman who killed her abusive father spoke to the Daily News and said she didn't mean to kill him, but worried about her nieces, whom he was taking back to Liberia, "There was no way I could let it continue. I did it because I couldn't let my sister's children go through that." A lawyer was sued for a frivolous countersuit. NYU's attempt to regulate poopy dogs does not pass muster with the local preservationists. Wow, here's yet another reason to hate insufferably pretentious posturing Fiery Furnace guy Matthew ...

The Fiery Furnaces: Fiery Furnaces Try to Explain Radiohead Comment, End Up Not Saying Much at All
Prefix — ... The Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger seriously needs to get reacquainted with the phrase "If you haven't anything nice to say, don't say it at all." After confusing the subject of Radiohead's newest single "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" in an interview with Spinner, (he thought the song was about experimental composer Harry Partch instead of the deceased WW I vet), Friedberger went on to sputter incoherently his many many ruminations concerning Radiohead…which interestingly enough don't aspire to much at ...

Beck’s ‘Harry Partch’ Mocks Some Douchebag I’ve Never Heard of Before for Mocking Radiohead
Brahsome - Care To Get Nice? — ... Patch being, of course, the longest surviving English WWII veteran in the world, and probably someone who has no freaking clue what these strange noises leaking from his phonograph are. But yeah, so F-berger misunderstood what Radiohead was saying with their song and lashed out, saying this: ...

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