the wasted onion reports the news before it happens
Radiohead’s most recent album, A Moon Shaped Pool, turns 10 years old today.
It’s a really sombre record, which says a lot for a band like Radiohead. It was made not long after frontman Thom Yorke’s divorce, with his ex-wife dying of cancer months after the albums release. Long-time producer Nigel Godrich’s father died on the day that he and the band recorded strings for the albums opening track, Burn the Witch.
The album sways between common Radiohead themes like alienation and depression, but also takes aim at topics like climate change and politics on certain tracks. Its also steeped in a lot of heartbreak, like on one of the singles, Daydreaming.
A good amount of the tracks also predate the album by a lot. Burn the Witch was worked on during sessions for Kid A in 2000, and appeared on artwork for 2003’s Hail To The Thief. Present Tense was first played in 2009. True Love Waits was been around since 1995, having been worked on and performed live in various arrangements.
Over the years I’ve found this record slowly grow on me. Its more subtle than some of their other records, but its masterfully crafted and feels like a fitting maturing for them as a band. It brings a lot of their oldest demos finally home and consolidates a lot of the sounds from previous records into this one. It’s just plain beautiful. Also, the artwork is amazing and just fits the brings the title of the album to life visually.
Happy 10 years, A Moon Shaped Pool.
hey everyone! awesome to see wasteof finally back. some of you may already know, but the wasted onion now has its own website where you can read every article i’ve written, every magazine, newspaper, etc. find it here: https://wastedonion.seanjw.com/
something i want to ask you guys now is how you want me to post new articles i’ve written (aka the “by the wasted onion“ ones)? would you prefer that i just provide a short snippet of the article and link to the full thing on the website? this’ll allow for posts to be shorter and not take up as much of your feed as you scroll. or would you prefer that i go back to posting the full article onto wasteof like i did before?
i do put effort into writing every article i post to the wasted onion. i know the headline is still the most important bit, but i do make sure the articles themselves are funny (at least i think they’re funny lol) and i do appreciate those who take time to read them. an fyi that the website has no ads and i haven’t added any trackers either, so don’t worry about that.
would love to hear your thoughts. i hope you still find the wasted onion a funny and valuable part of wasteof now that we’re back.
here is an example post below so you can see what the “snippet“ format looks like.
By The Wasted Onion: Wasteof Returns As Paid Subscription Service
THE INTERNET—After several months of being completely offline from the internet due to technical issues, Swiss social media site wasteof.money has returned as a paid subscription service.
Full article: https://wastedonion.seanjw.com/posts/news/wasteof-returns-as-paid-subscription-service/
sorry guys i accidently threw out the wasteof server thinking it was not being used. had to dig through like 50 different scrapyards to find it. felt like wall-e ngl.
i designed it a while ago as a mockup and finally got around to making it due to wasteof going down
idk how many folks here remember, but the onion tried to buy Alex Jones' InfoWars a while back, it got blocked at the time. However, they have now got a new deal and are about to buy it! https://theonion.info/
its a more "full" article if that makes sense, is about ~900 words long and is 10 paragraphs, lemme know what you think
more headlines:
- How To Watch The Oscars, As If You Give A Fuck
- Those Born Too Early To Be Deployed To Middle East Born Just In Time To Be Deployed To Middle East
- U.S. Announces Monthly Release Schedule For New Wars
- International Law About As Meaningful As Laws In ‘Grand Theft Auto V’
- Geneva Conventions Renamed To Geneva Suggestions
more headlines because its like the only thing i feel i can do to keep myself sane lol:
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Talk Page For Wikipedia Article On Iran War More Thorough Than Israel-U.S. War Plans
Wikipedia Article For Iran War Changing Faster Than You Change Underwear
‘Peace Through Strength’ Just Marketing Gimmick
Pentagon Typo Accidentally Refers To ‘Operation Epic Fury’ As ‘Operation Epic Furry’
ChatGPT Reassures Trump That ‘Operation Epic Fury’ Is Cool Name For Operation
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Trump Mourns His Polling Numbers
Pete Hegseth Drunkenly Sends Planned Airstrikes To Iran On Signal
‘Fuck It We Ball’ Says Congress As It Sends Entire U.S. Budget To Israel