Radiohead and Pioneer for infrastructure improvements

By Jim Stergios
December 19th, 2007

In Radiohead’s latest, In Rainbows (buy it here!), there is a cut called House of Cards about love gone awry… (Already, stop with the carping! I know it’s a been-there, done-that kind of theme. After all, what else does love do?)

But Pioneer demonstrates its impact across the globe when Thom Yorke quotes in House of Cards that “infrastructure will collapse.” And to think that the band wrote the song before the Minneapolis tragedy. Prescient, though I have a sneaky feeling that the line was lifted directly from Pioneer’s A Legacy of Neglect, which was equally prescient.

We are looking forward to the new release from Radiohead, perhaps a follow-up to Kid A that will support school choice and some real action on education.