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Until listening with headphones, I didn't realize the weird noises at the end of "Daydreaming" are both a weird backwards voice AND a string section. At least I think they are. Crazy.
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Sir Lemming posted:Until listening with headphones, I didn't realize the weird noises at the end of "Daydreaming" are both a weird backwards voice AND a string section. At least I think they are. Crazy. Efil ym fo flaH Wonder what Rachael thinks of this record
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May 10, 2016 11:18
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Sooooo is that actually Thom (albeit with some technical assistance) singing the disco-y interlude in "Identikit?"
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May 10, 2016 15:00
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ZoDiAC_ posted:Wonder what Rachael thinks of this record So admittedly I haven't kept up on Thom's personal life. Was he married but no longer is, and this is the first record since the divorce?
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May 10, 2016 15:03
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Sand Monster posted:So admittedly I haven't kept up on Thom's personal life. Was he married but no longer is, and this is the first record since the divorce? I don't think they were married, might be wrong, but yeah basically.
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May 10, 2016 15:16
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I keep hearing "Pieces of a ragdoll mankind" on Identikit as saying "rectal mankind".Sir Lemming posted:Until listening with headphones, I didn't realize the weird noises at the end of "Daydreaming" are both a weird backwards voice AND a string section. At least I think they are. Crazy. Its like a backwards delay effect of his voice that eventually gets overtaken by strings playing the same melody.
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May 10, 2016 17:10
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kalensc posted: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. HTTT has Scaterbrain, Myxomatosis, Sail to the Moon, We suck young blood , Punch up at a Wedding and Wolf at the Door. Its one of their strongest releases. Every single one of those songs beats In Rainbows except for maybe Videotape. BigFactory posted:I don't think they were married, might be wrong, but yeah basically. Thom and Rachel Owen lived together for 23 years and had two children but they never married. They split up last year on "totally amicable terms" or some such. Really lovely for the kids; they have a 15yo son and a 12yo daughter. AARO fucked around with this message at 17:32 on May 10, 2016 |
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olin posted:HTTT has Scaterbrain, Myxomatosis, Sail to the Moon, We suck young blood , Punch up at a Wedding and Wolf at the Door. Its one of their strongest releases. Every single one of those songs beats In Rainbows except for maybe Videotape. As someone said earlier, it's crazy that fans of RH can have such varying opinions on their records. HTTT has never totally clicked for me and the tracks you listed are, by and large, my least favourite on the album. I don't hate them at all (or HTTT), but seeing your list particularly illustrated the divide to me. I guess it's inevitable (and good) that a huge pile of material will appeal differently to different people.
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May 10, 2016 18:26
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Tenterhooks posted:As someone said earlier, it's crazy that fans of RH can have such varying opinions on their records. HTTT has never totally clicked for me and the tracks you listed are, by and large, my least favourite on the album. I don't hate them at all (or HTTT), but seeing your list particularly illustrated the divide to me. I guess it's inevitable (and good) that a huge pile of material will appeal differently to different people. Punch up at a wedding has a sick bass line. I like that song. olin posted:Thom and Rachel Owen lived together for 23 years and had two children but they never married. They split up last year on "totally amicable terms" or some such. Really lovely for the kids; they have a 15yo son and a 12yo daughter.
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May 10, 2016 18:30
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BigFactory posted:People break up, sometimes they have kids. You don't know if it's really lovely or not. If no one is angry and everyone remembers to be grown ups, its significantly better. Its a part of life.
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May 10, 2016 18:48
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As with most of Radiohead's albums post-OK Computer, it took me a few listens to get into this one, but it might be my favorite since Kid A now.
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May 10, 2016 19:45
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olin posted:HTTT has Scaterbrain, Myxomatosis, Sail to the Moon, We suck young blood , Punch up at a Wedding and Wolf at the Door. Its one of their strongest releases. Every single one of those songs beats In Rainbows except for maybe Videotape. I find the whole my album > your album stuff tedious but this is hosed. So painfully wrong, everything here.
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ICHIBAHN posted:I find the whole my album > your album stuff tedious but this is hosed. So painfully wrong, everything here.
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May 10, 2016 20:29
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ICHIBAHN posted:I find the whole my album > your album stuff tedious but this is hosed. So painfully wrong, everything here. All the songs he mentioned are great, but none of them match Weird Fishes, House of Cards or Jigsaw either. All Radiohead songs and albums are cool and good and it's okay for everyone to like them.  Except Pablo Honey.
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May 10, 2016 21:31
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Anyone can play guitar and I Can't are catchy as gently caress, and Blow Out is legit good. Not a masterpiece, but Pablo is fun pop when the mood strikes.
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May 10, 2016 21:38
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HD DAD posted:Anyone can play guitar and I Can't are catchy as gently caress, and Blow Out is legit good. It's probably their best album.
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May 10, 2016 21:38
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BigFactory posted:It's probably their best album. Indeed, but is it good for the beach or the gym?
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May 10, 2016 21:49
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Sand Monster posted:Indeed, but is it good for the beach or the gym? Both!
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May 10, 2016 21:55
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After careful thought, I'm handicapping Pitchfork's rating at 8.9. Low, I know, but it's still going to be BNM.
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May 10, 2016 22:00
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HTTT is decent but their worst of the post 2000s I think. Though those songs your mentioned are probably the worst in the record. Bizarre choices. That's on you though.
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May 10, 2016 22:34
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Am I losing my mind or did Burn The Witch open with bird noises? On the album it just jumps right in. Am I freaking out or was there an album version / single version?
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May 10, 2016 22:49
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ICHIBAHN posted:Am I losing my mind or did Burn The Witch open with bird noises? On the album it just jumps right in. Am I freaking out or was there an album version / single version? You're thinking about the music video. It starts with a bird chirping. The single doesn't have that.
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May 10, 2016 22:51
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ICHIBAHN posted:HTTT is decent but their worst of the post 2000s I think. Though those songs your mentioned are probably the worst in the record. Bizarre choices. That's on you though. TKOL is their worst post-2000 (and honestly, worst outright) for me because it's a "good" album in that the songs were much better represented live (similar to how Amnesiac songs are all better live) except the studio versions lacked the depth and energy that the live performances bring. That said, AMSP owns and is Album of the Year material except for the fact that Blackstar exists. Long term I don't know where it'll sit in my personal rankings, but if it isn't their most cohesive album outright, it's really loving close to being it.
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I like that opinions on all the albums vary. I think it's a testament to the quality of the band that everyone can get something out of every album. I really like Hail to the Thief, and I think it probably holds a particularly special place for people about my age, who were just entering college in 2003 and maybe becoming newly politically aware and angry about the direction that discourse and human interaction were heading. As with all of their albums the temporal context is super important.
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Steve2911 posted:All the songs he mentioned are great, but none of them match Weird Fishes, House of Cards or Jigsaw either. I think our Radiohead tastes are opposite polarity. Those three songs are basically my least favorite in their catalog post-OKC (I assume your other favorites are Let Down, Knives Out, Punch Up, Little by Little, Mr. Magpie, Give Up the Ghost, Bodysnatchers).
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May 11, 2016 00:57
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People don't like Knives Out? Man that's my favorite Radiohead song.
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Seriously, who the hell doesn't like Knives Out
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Are there full credits available anywhere? The NYT review mentioned specific string players/a choir on songs so they're out there somewhere ...
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Jewmanji posted:(I assume your other favorites are Let Down, Knives Out, Punch Up, Little by Little, Mr. Magpie, Give Up the Ghost, Bodysnatchers). Good list of good songs here. Puppy Galaxy posted:Are there full credits available anywhere? The NYT review mentioned specific string players/a choir on songs so they're out there somewhere ... Haven't found a full list of credits, although London Contemporary Orchestra confirmed their involvement in a brief facebook post.
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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 get where you're coming from, but this album doesn't have much in the way of bombastic string arrangements...it has gentle, sort of flaccid versions of what Greenwood was already doing better on his PT Anderson scores for the last 7 years. The first half of this album is really great, but I gotta echo what someone else said, beyond track 5 it's really close to adult contemporary. It's nice to have a song or two that hit that natural idyll (like Codex did, or Sail to the Moon), but a whole album full of them is a bit much for me. There are moments on this album that sound exactly like a Broken Bells album, an accessibility which I don't prefer. I'll probably just cut Identikit and Glass Eyes right out of my rotation, and some of the other stuff on the album is a bit too precious as well. HttT and KoL are two of my favorite RH albums and I love how out-there both can get, just in terms of the overall abrasiveness and glitchiness of their production. Also, I much prefer the active/alert/paranoid Radiohead to the vulnerable/defeated Radiohead. I agree that this album sounds like a band at the end of the line.  I'll probably come around on it. 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. I'm with you, there are a few sub-par tracks but overall I think it has more content than any of their albums, and is tied with Amnesiac for my favorite. Of RH's stuff it's my [desert island 'disc']. Also has Radiohead's best cover art. Ballz posted:The King of Limbs is a Colin and Phil tour de force and I loving love it. Princeps32 posted:Real talk TKOL is flawed but Bloom alone was worth the price of admission, even the first time, because of that rhythm section. Well said. Bloom is one of their best songs, period. Probably Magic posted: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. Sometimes on playlists I cut out The Gloaming, I Will, Punch Up..., and Scatterbrain. Just leave the overall order the same and it works really loving well for the flow of the whole. stuart scott posted:I like that opinions on all the albums vary. I think it's a testament to the quality of the band that everyone can get something out of every album. I really like Hail to the Thief, and I think it probably holds a particularly special place for people about my age, who were just entering college in 2003 and maybe becoming newly politically aware and angry about the direction that discourse and human interaction were heading. As with all of their albums the temporal context is super important. I can identify with this.
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This is the first album they've had since Kid A where I've felt every track is essential. This stacks up with Kid A and OK Computer and I'm still processing that they've released another album like this. I knew they could, but geez.
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May 11, 2016 03:49
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I never realized that True Love Waits was a jigsaw piece made years ago for a puzzle that hadn't been created yet. It's the perfect corner piece that completes a gorgeous picture.
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For anyone that bought the 24 bit WAVs from WASTE - list to True Love Waits at 0:27-0:28 mark. Does the audio file sound distorted on the word "babies"? I've downloaded it twice and tried it in various programs, but it's almost like there's something wrong with the file. I didn't notice it until headphone listens.
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Louisgod posted:I never realized that True Love Waits was a jigsaw piece made years ago for a puzzle that hadn't been created yet. It's the perfect corner piece that completes a gorgeous picture. Much like the fatty jerky was a jigsaw piece to a puzzle in your mouth?
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Puppy Galaxy posted:Much like the fatty jerky was a jigsaw piece to a puzzle in your mouth? Okay..?
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Louisgod posted:I never realized that True Love Waits was a jigsaw piece made years ago for a puzzle that hadn't been created yet. It's the perfect corner piece that completes a gorgeous picture. Yeah, agreed. Talk about tragic irony.
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Louisgod posted:Okay..? Go eat some jerky jerkyboy
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The thing that trips me up about this album is the rhythm. Or lack of it. Like, historically, Radiohead songs have a certain rhythmic rigidity, a clear pulse. Even when they're using weird time signatures or polymeters, everything snaps into a locked tempo. Pyramid Song sounds like it's adrift at first, for example, but the drums make sense of it. ... Whereas like half of AMSP drifts around dreamily, hazily, free tempo-style. I really, really want some Pyramid Song-style drumming to enter halfway into Daydreaming, to lay down that classic rhythmic grid, but it never happens; I suppose it would have been the obvious thing, oh well. It's not just the rhythm, either. The decision to have Ful Stop fade in and fade out, rather than have a clear beginning and end, is quite strange. Again, it makes the song seem less definite and more hazy, fuzzy-edged. It's weird for a song called Ful Stop to not have a definitive full stop ending.
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Louisgod posted:Okay..? one time someone posted just your posts in a thread in sa mart about beef jerky and you had +/- a dozen posts about something called "fatty jerky." I also remember you being mod who probated/banned people who brought up your love of "fatty jerky." Frankly the whole thing was funny as hell to me. Anyway I'm glad you enjoy the new Radiohead, I do too.
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