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True Love Waits: O'Riley Plays Radiohead | 
 enlarge | Creators: Radiohead, Unspecified, Christopher O'riley
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 20599
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 87321
UPC: 696998732124
EAN: 0696998732124
ASIN: B00009MGQ4
Publication Date: 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Everything in Its Right Place | | • | Knives Out | | • | Black Star | | • | Karma Police | | • | Let Down | | • | Airbag | | • | Subterranean Homesick Alien | | • | Thinking About You | | • | Exit Music (For a Film) | | • | You | | • | Bulletproof | | • | Fake Plastic Trees | | • | I Can't | | • | True Love Waits | | • | Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Rock bastardizations of classical music are as old as Kim Fowley's--and ELP's--Tchaikovsky tweaking "Nutrocker." But classical interpretations of rock music have generally been something of a high-wire act. While most pop fare has strong melodic foundations for the soloist to build from, Christopher O'Riley has challenged himself here with the catalog of Radiohead, one of modern rock's most acclaimed--and texturally complex--bands. O'Riley's insightful gifts for interpretation (which have previously enlightened everything from Stravinsky to P.D.Q. Bach) produce a hypnotic, emotionally compelling listening experience here; O'Riley is a huge Radiohead fan, and that love courses through everything from the dreamy, bittersweet title track through the brooding loveliness of "Let Down." Radiohead's stock in trade is dense, multi-layered music that leans heavily on electronic processing for its moody sonic atmospherics; O'Riley's evokes those complex textures with but a judicious use of the sustain peddles, a deft use of dissonance (as on "Knives Out"), and a rhythmically anxious left hand. Call them etudes for the post-modern age if you will, but O'Riley's performances here largely achieve what all great interpretations strive for: New insight and enlightenment. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews:
one of the best radiohead October 2, 2008
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 Looking Forward, Looking Back March 2, 2007
A Minstrel in the Gallery (Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA)
Ove the last decade or so, Radiohead has created some of the most complex and mind-blowing rock music out there, and I wondered if a solo pianist could really capture their essence. However, O'Riley does a marvelous job, and brilliantly conveys the melancholy, mysterious, and introspective qualities of Radiohead. His renditions of "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Let Down" are particularly powerful. What I really loved about this cd is while I could follow all of the songs he played, at times I felt like I was listening to a timeless piano sonata by Beethoven, and even a Nocturne by Chopin or Brahms. Overall, this is a faithful interpretation by an excellent musician who honors one of the greatest bands of recent times, while also paying hommage to his classical heritage. This cd is a must buy for even the casual Radiohead fan or anyone who enjoys solo piano.
Music Lovers February 17, 2007
T. Crooms (Ohio, Usa)
i love almost all kinds of music. piano and radiohead really works for me, i liked the whole thing. if you can get into some piano, you can get into this cd. if you dig radiohead, get into it purely because someone took the time to put some awesome songs into yet another form for more audiences to get into. its beautiful. thats all there is to say.
a transcription worthy of Franz Liszt December 8, 2006
rhatrz (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful recording. Try playing it for music loving frends who would never listen to a band like Radiohead. They won't believe it when you tell them the source of this richly textured heartbreakingly melodic tour de force. I'm in my late 50's and love Mahler, Sibelius,and Beethoven. I also love Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, John Fahey and Wilco. Good music can come along in any time and I'm glad that Christopher O'Riley loves Radiohead and transcribed it for solo piano; he's missed nothing in the process. If your not choked-up by the end of this CD, music must not be your thing.
 Sleepytime music March 27, 2006
Rubin Carver (Gilbert, AZ USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Being the total Radiohead fanatic that I am, I decided to pick this up when it came out... perhaps a fresh take on their music would breath some life back into the songs I've been listening into the ground, I thought. So I took it up into the mountains with me and listened to it for a bit. My reaction to it now is similar to then: it's a dreamy if somewhat insubstantial collection of vaguely familiar tunes.
All of the playing on this disc is superb on the technical level... obviously O'riley is a top notch classical performer. The arrangements are a mixed bag, though. There are some amazing renditions on here - see the impressionistic 'Everything In Its Right Place' and the melancholy coffee house arrangement of 'Knives Out'. Some others are also quite listenable, including 'Subterranean Homesick Alien', 'Exit Music', 'Bulletproof', and 'Motion Picture Soundtrack'. However, the upbeat pop tunes have difficult translating to solo piano. the Pablo Honey tunes suffer the worst here, and feel slightly unnatural; perhaps like a classical pianist paying tribute to a favorite band, rather than the more personal adaptations that make the 'Knives Out' arrangement so effective.
Overall, a nice cd to put on in the background when you're reading or settling in to bed, but Radiohead fanatics beware - don't expect anything that lives up to the band's immense standards.
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