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True Love Waits or Daydreaming would be good songs to play at the beach if you want everyone to drown themselves.
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turnip kid posted:"Too many strings" is such a strange criticism. I love bombastic string arrangements. I wish there were more strings, to be honest. Give me strings. I feel the length of HTTT so there's a track or two I just skip out of habit, but it's a very good album. Coming off of OK Computer, Kid A, and Amnesiac, and I Might be Wrong (Live) it fell flat for me initially as well, but after In Rainbows I went back to it and it clicked to a far higher degree. These quotes are rather illuminating as to why the album felt "off" in some regards, they tried a new style for creating music and ramped up the pace a lot after Kid A and Amnesiac were so thorough and deliberate. I'd read these sentiments elsewhere before but had never seen these original quotes. quote:Yorke said: "We were like, 'Do we want to fly halfway around the world to do this?' But it was terrific, because we worked really hard. We did a track a day. It was sort of like holiday camp." The REAL Goobusters posted:Let's be real Radiohead is not a summer jam or gym type of band. Summer jam maybe not, although there's a bunch of good summer driving or lounging songs in their discography IMO, especially early on. A few tracks from Pablo Honey, The Bends, and the first two discs from Towering Above the Rest are still in the cycling/jogging playlist that I shuffle through, would work in a gym too for me at least. kalensc fucked around with this message at 19:27 on May 9, 2016 |
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I'm not going to lie and say that I listen to every single Hail to the Thief song (though it's Scatterbrain and Wolf at the Door that I do skip, which people love, while stuff people dismiss like Backdrifts, I really adore), and that might be what keeps it from being one of my favorite "albums" like In Rainbow was, but Hail to the Thief is definitely my favorite Radiohead album. It's so creepy and yet whimsical in its own strange way, with all the fairy tale allusions, and I'd listen to it regularly walking through wild forests because it captures the paranoia that goes with it so well. Really a fantastic album for me.
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May 9, 2016 20:19
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Well Identikit clicked for me today. I keep trying to list my personal highlights and can't figure out what to leave off the list. I guess if I had any complaints now I wish there was a 12th barnstormer track somewhere in the middle with the energy level of Burn the Witch, but I wouldn't change anything about the songs that exist. Very very happy with this one.
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Probably Magic posted:I'm not going to lie and say that I listen to every single Hail to the Thief song (though it's Scatterbrain and Wolf at the Door that I do skip, which people love, while stuff people dismiss like Backdrifts, I really adore), and that might be what keeps it from being one of my favorite "albums" like In Rainbow was, but Hail to the Thief is definitely my favorite Radiohead album. It's so creepy and yet whimsical in its own strange way, with all the fairy tale allusions, and I'd listen to it regularly walking through wild forests because it captures the paranoia that goes with it so well. Really a fantastic album for me. Yeah, that's exactly how I feel about it, even though it's not my favourite. Also Scatterbrain and Wolf are amazing.
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May 9, 2016 20:25
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2+2=5, Where I End and You Begin, and There There are also some of the best rockers they ever wrote. Also Go to Sleep is both super catchy and completely hilarious lyrically.
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May 9, 2016 20:31
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1. Ful Stop 2. Glass Eyes 3. Daydreaming 4. Burn the Witch 5. Decks Dark 6. Desert Island Disk 7. Present Tense 8. Identikit 9. Tinker Tailor (B Side to the Burn the Witch single) The Numbers (B Side to the Identikit single) True Love Waits
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May 9, 2016 20:33
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BigFactory posted:I was expecting something fancy! You let me down. Are you at least conditioning your power? They're very fancy  The only thing I condition is my luscious hair. edit: I too am bummed this new Radiohead album is not suitable for ragers anymore, unlike the rest of their albums 
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May 9, 2016 20:35
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The piano/bass part that comes in with about 1:20 left in Decks Dark is so good. This album is really good and I'm excited to still be in the stage of discovering new things on every song. I'm not skipping anything on any listen, which is pretty rare for me.
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May 9, 2016 20:52
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Volte posted:Listening to it on day 2, having slept on it, I'm pretty sure this is my favourite Radiohead album from beginning to end. Radiohead has always been an outlier in my musical taste, which mostly lie in classic rock, blues, folk, and jazz. Even the few contemporary artists that I do like tend to draw mainly from that pool of classic influences. Radiohead was always influenced mainly by bands and sounds I was never into, but somehow this album seems to create the link between my tastes and theirs that wasn't there before. I used to have to dip back into my old library if I wanted to hear those folk and blues influences that I grew up on, and now I can listen to this album. That's a big deal to me. I played In Rainbows for my dad once and he did not get it. He just kept saying "he sounds like the guy from Bread"
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May 9, 2016 21:31
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May 9, 2016 21:34
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BigFactory posted:IDK this is being hyped up as one of the big releases of the summer? After Drake's bummer of an album a few weeks ago I just need to hear something upbeat. Gorillaz please salvage this poo poo year of music. You're listening to the wrong type of music and bands/artists for upbeat summer music dude. E: oh it was a troll lol
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May 9, 2016 21:43
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BigFactory posted:IDK this is being hyped up as one of the big releases of the summer? After Drake's bummer of an album a few weeks ago I just need to hear something upbeat. Gorillaz please salvage this poo poo year of music. It's a big release that came out in the summer. it's not summer jamz '16
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May 9, 2016 21:55
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Ful Stop is one of the best Radiohead songs of all time.
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May 9, 2016 22:04
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Am I the only person who feels that some of the songs just kinda fizzle out? Present Tense is mostly awesome but then it just sorta ends with no real denouement. Ful Stop as well, most of the instruments just kinda fade out at the end so it just kinda ends like a wet fart. I'm having a hard time really explaining it but they sort of have a habit of writing a lot of songs where they feel like they will go so much farther with them but then just sorta... stop.
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May 9, 2016 22:14
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robodex posted:Am I the only person who feels that some of the songs just kinda fizzle out? Present Tense is mostly awesome but then it just sorta ends with no real denouement. Ful Stop as well, most of the instruments just kinda fade out at the end so it just kinda ends like a wet fart. Yeah, an issue I have with a lot of the album is that they keep building up songs and then just end them right before they have the chance to really pop off. I'm sure it was an intentional choice but there's so many moments on here that feel like they're holding back.
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May 9, 2016 22:24
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Can't wait to listen to this solo on the beach in Barcelona, then watching them do some of it live. That's my jam
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ICHIBAHN posted:beach The thread has already established that this is unacceptable, Decades fucked around with this message at 23:04 on May 9, 2016 |
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May 9, 2016 23:02
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Man buying those ACL fest tickets last week was such a good idea.
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May 9, 2016 23:06
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BigFactory posted:Where do you listen to music? Deep in a forest My local wood In my home recording studio When out to see friends. Why, you wanna get all alpha male about it? There's billions of songs, man, don't hate on something for not being something else
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May 9, 2016 23:26
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That jumping damper pedal in True Love Waits. 
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Some initial thoughts 1+ day in... I like it! It'll fluctuate up and down on the old Radiohead Ranking list for a while, but right now I've got it solidly in the middle of the pack behind OK Computer but above The Bends. Identikit is weirding me out, and I'm not sure how much of it has to do with my familiarity of the version played live in 2012. Hail to the Thief was more or less ruined for me because I used to constantly listen to those 2002 Portugal/Spain shows, so it could be a bit of that, but I have to think that even if I had never heard the song before, that little disco interlude halfway through would still throw me for a loop. The Numbers has been bothering me as well, as it sounds extremely familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is. Pretty sure I never heard any live performances of it previously. Echoing other people's sentiments that it feels like it just needed one more rocker somewhere in there. I think Daydreaming might be a bit too early on the album, or at the very least, needs a minute or two chopped off it. It's a good song, but it's such a slow burn... I do like how it transitions to Decks Dark though, and things kind of take off from there. True Love Waits is great and this is definitely the album it was meant to be on.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:It's too bad AMSP doesn't open with Ful Stop, and save Burn The Witch for the midpoint. Man, this is a great tip! There isn't a song I don't like on here, but the album flows perfectly with the two swapped around. Ful Stop makes a great opening track. True Love Waits is totally changed around, but no less great for it.
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May 10, 2016 00:54
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I too traded Burn the Witch with Ful Stop and so far it has made for a more sensible and enjoyable listening experience. I am one of those fools who has to go through the stages of grief after each new radiohead album turns out not to be Kid A. "This song sounds like Optimistic, but on 20mg of adderall, and the rhythm section doesn't go crazy at the end." I've taken turns being underwhelmed, pleasantly awed, disappointed and impressed by this album and I can say only two things for sure. That this is an album that demands my full attention, and that I intend to give it atleast that much. It is right off the bat more interesting that KoL, but in some ways just as dense.
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May 10, 2016 01:42
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Ballz posted:The Numbers has been bothering me as well, as it sounds extremely familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is. Pretty sure I never heard any live performances of it previously. The Numbers used to be called Silent Spring. Thom would play it on his guitar without accompaniment.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:The Numbers used to be called Silent Spring. Thom would play it on his guitar without accompaniment. That's not it, I had never listened to a live performance of it. Identikit and True Love Waits are the only songs I was really familiar with prior to the album dropping. Even Ful Stop I had only listened to a handful of times, because almost all of my downloads from TKoL tour were from the first leg of the tour, before the song entered in to their setlist. I should go back to Radiohead Not for Profit and see what new recordings have popped up there in the past couple of years. The best quality shows I have from the 2012 tour were San Jose and Arizona.
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May 10, 2016 03:01
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The verse melody for Identikit really reminds me of...something from the 90s. And it's driving me crazy trying to remember what.
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I read a bunch of reviews today and it's crazy to me that not one touched on the significance of the rhythm section. I find the idea of Radiohead as Thom and Jonny is really exaggerated, and even the better reviews that mention Colin and Phil tend to minimize their contributions and relegate them to generic backround players. That's so wrong. They're actually both super distinct and creative musicians, and essential parts of the band's sound. Ed on the other hand, I tend to have a hard time guessing what he might be doing on the studio recordings. I mostly think of him as the general auxiliary guy / eye candy. I feel like I remember reading a long time ago that he had written one of the band's most iconic lead guitar lines though. I wanna say Street Spirit? E: Oh also, the best part of early rushed album reviews are the misheard lyrics. The Independent went with "Low Fi Banker Tax" even though low flying panic attack has been common knowledge for a week now, while the other Independent (Ireland) shat on Identikit because they thought the chorus was "Move Your Arse / Make It Rain", conjuring the imagine of Thom in a pub standing on the bar in a fur coat throwing 20 pound notes at people. Now that's what I call journalism. Decades fucked around with this message at 04:15 on May 10, 2016 |
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Decades posted:E: Oh also, the best part of early rushed album reviews are the misheard lyrics. The Independent went with "Low Fi Banker Tax" why do they even bother reviewing it?
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Decades posted:Ed on the other hand, I tend to have a hard time guessing what he might be doing on the studio recordings. I mostly think of him as the general auxiliary guy / eye candy. I feel like I remember reading a long time ago that he had written one of the band's most iconic lead guitar lines though. I wanna say Street Spirit? Ed is the atmosphere man, nowadays. Early on, he was more of the rhythm guitarist, but now any sort of spacey, whooshy, reverby texture you hear is usually Ed and his freakishly impressive pedal board. That awesome synth/organ sound at the climax of 15 Step? Ed cutting up and processing his guitar, and playing it back as programmed samples. That's what he's prepping when he's kinda off in the corner during the first half of the song live. Super, super talented. And yep, he's responsible for Street Spirit, Meeting In The Aisle, Big Boots, and I think Go To Sleep. Probably more, but who knows.
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Decades posted:I read a bunch of reviews today and it's crazy to me that not one touched on the significance of the rhythm section. I find the idea of Radiohead as Thom and Jonny is really exaggerated, and even the better reviews that mention Colin and Phil tend to minimize their contributions and relegate them to generic backround players. That's so wrong. They're actually both super distinct and creative musicians, and essential parts of the band's sound. The King of Limbs is a Colin and Phil tour de force and I loving love it.
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Yeah I don't mean to suggest Ed's not pulling his weight. I trust that he's doing cool things, and it's obvious live, but on the albums it's hard to put your finger on compared to the other four. Ballz posted:The King of Limbs is a Colin and Phil tour de force and I loving love it. Absolutely. It's a somewhat flawed album but it's also pretty misunderstood. My early impression of the new album is that they might've managed to combine that rhythmic depth with the warmth and humanity of In Rainbows, which shows an impressive level of self awareness. They don't just experiment for kicks. They learn from their experiences and apply the knowledge going forward.
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HD DAD posted:And yep, he's responsible for Street Spirit, Meeting In The Aisle, Big Boots, and I think Go To Sleep. Probably more, but who knows. I've often heard fans claim Ed wrote the Street Spirit and Go to Sleep riffs but I've never found a source, and I'm pretty sure I've read every Radiohead thing ever. Can you back this up?
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Famethrowa posted:why do they even bother reviewing it? An increase in website traffic coming from both casual readers and also people Googling phrases like "new radiohead album review", which then translates in to ad revenue.
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Ballz posted:The King of Limbs is a Colin and Phil tour de force and I loving love it. Real talk TKOL is flawed but Bloom alone was worth the price of admission, even the first time, because of that rhythm section.
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Barry Foster posted:Yeah, that's exactly how I feel about it, even though it's not my favourite. Also Scatterbrain and Wolf are amazing. I've yet to meet anyone who hasn't absolutely raved about Scatterbrain and Wolf at the Door, while I would've been fine with the album ending with Myxomatosis, but I figure I'm the only one who feels that way. That's okay. We can all agree that There There is amazing, so it's all good.
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Wikipedia says this on Ed O'Brien:Wikipedia posted:Notable contributions to Radiohead include the high-pitched lead guitar in "No Surprises", the "spidery" guitar line in "A Wolf at the Door", the main rhythm guitar on "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", the second guitar on "Talk Show Host", and the arpeggio riff that makes up the closing song on The Bends, "Street Spirit (Fade Out)". Their source = ???? Also, for some reason my phone is autocorrecting Ed to Arf and now I'm imagining an adorable version of Radiohead made up of dogs 
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Hedrigall posted:Also, for some reason my phone is autocorrecting Ed to Arf and now I'm imagining an adorable version of Radiohead made up of dogs 
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If only it were a Pomeranian.
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