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Answers Me posted:Are there any other bands that are this good at cultivating their mystique and getting people to obsess over every little detail? Maybe Boards of Canada, but not quite to the same extent. yes, huge acts like The Beatles and David Bowie have legions of extreme fans who know (or think they know) every little detail of every aspect of recording every song, the precise meaning and hidden meaning behind every word, the full detailed life story of every band member, producer, engineer, roadie, etc. and how that is reflected in the lyrics, etc. also bands that developed their own sort of cult like the Grateful Dead have a lot of that going on
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Steve2911 posted:Are there more pictures than the one on the store front? Because it doesn't look like that. It looks like that second page. Same color scheme.
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May 14, 2016 21:20
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BigFactory posted:It looks like that second page. Same color scheme. You mean red?
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Fun weekend exercise: Compile the 20-year evolution of True Love Waits from its Bends-era origins to what ended up on the new album. I'm just now listening to a show from 2006 (coincidentally where Thom first teased Burn the Witch) and it's played as a piano-driven intro to Everything in Its Right Place. I sometimes wonder how much the band changes and experiments with songs before they finally make it onto an official album release. We get hints and snippets from time to time, but I think True Love Waits is kind of unique in that it routinely popped up in live performances from the mid-90s to today. Nude is probably the only other song I can think of that came as close to getting as much exposure before making it to an LP.
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May 14, 2016 21:39
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Steve2911 posted:You mean red? Yeah, red and orange.
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quote:"I feel tremendous guilt for any sexual feelings I have. So I end up spending my entire life feeling sorry for fancying somebody. Even in school I thought girls were so wonderful that I was scared to death of them. I masturbate a lot. That's how I deal with it." Thom "elliot rodger" yorke.
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May 15, 2016 05:48
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Guys I flipped the image upside down. I'm not crazy, right? They have a really similar structure.
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May 15, 2016 11:37
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May 15, 2016 11:58
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I hope you guys have read this fascinating and really interesting Oral History of OK Computer from the band themselves. Really gives you a good view into their mindset http://www.clickhole.com/article/oral-history-radioheads-ok-computer-2370
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May 15, 2016 12:27
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This guy did a good acoustic cover of Decks Dark. He does have some chords wrong. WarrenMusic got it all correct as usual. Warren Music is really a huge asset to musicians who love Radiohead. He makes covers and tutorials for almost all of their songs and every chord is correct. If you download tabs, you know that 90% of the time they have incorrect chords. But Warren always gets it right.
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Another art piece dropped today. I hope these are daily because they're loving gorgeous. The fire one seems to be a companion piece to The Numbers (Stanley Donwood posted this a while back), so if that's the theme I'm guessing this is Glass Eyes.
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The more I listen to A Moon Shaped Pool, the more my affection for it wanes. I don't think in the long term I'm going to consider it one of Radiohead's better albums. Identikit is loving brilliant in a way I can barely articulate, though. Melancholic, bombastic, and funky all at once, and every part of it works. It just feels like a new signature Radiohead song, and I don't know if I've truly felt that way about anything else they've done since maybe Nude. And among the songs they debuted live in 2012, this was the one I was least excited about. What a wonderful surprise this turned out to be. Edit: Ful Stop and Decks Dark are great, too, but holy poo poo do I love Identikit.
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May 15, 2016 20:30
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The lyrics are good Have you had enough of me? Sweet darling Have you had enough of me?
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May 16, 2016 14:27
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Listened to the album a bunch with friends over the weekend. I was surprised but everyone was really into it. Took a pic!
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May 16, 2016 14:52
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by the way are we hitting the gym later? I'll bring my Kid A vinyl
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No joke Amnesiac sounds wonderful on vinyl, and HTTT sounds hilariously better as well. The CD master for that one was not that great.
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In seriousness I really really love this album now, I can barely handle it. I guess this always happens but after 4 or 5 listens I really got an appreciation for how well the songs fit together (I don't know that that's apparent at first), how gorgeous some of these textures are, and how awesome Selden is on this one. I do agree with those who have said that the mix is a little muddy. Especially in spots like the end of Decks Dark. But it's tolerable. In general I'd say it reminds me of some of the odder OK Computer b-sides, which is a very good thing IMO. Also Present Tense feels like it would've been at home on In Rainbows. I also always loved what they did with Videotape compared to the early versions -- and I know I'm in the minority on this -- because they took a pretty straight-ahead ballad and made it feel really eerie and lonely, and I feel the same way about True Love Waits here. stuart scott fucked around with this message at 17:40 on May 16, 2016 |
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Thanks for sharing this, I've never heard of this guy. This album sounds incredible, gonna take me a few more listens to soak it up. Pretty clear that Nigel has borrowed a lot from it - especially the string sound and arrangement.
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  I'm thinking Desert Island Disk.I really, really love these. I remember Donwood saying that the album's cover was made at least partially using the weather. I wonder if that's true of the whole series. If so I'd love to see how they were made some day.
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May 16, 2016 19:01
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Not feeling any of the current art.
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ICHIBAHN posted:Not feeling any of the current art. I think it all looks cool, but album art usually tells more if an obvious story?
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Seaniqua posted:Thanks for sharing this, I've never heard of this guy. This album sounds incredible, gonna take me a few more listens to soak it up. Pretty clear that Nigel has borrowed a lot from it - especially the string sound and arrangement. No prob. Melody Nelson was one of those life-changer albums for me. Definitely check out Charlotte's IRM as well, that album is tits, even if it's a bit more based on contemporary pop structures.
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May 17, 2016 04:28
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Is the album art going to turn out like the Load and ReLoad covers where they look cool, but then you find out it's literally blood, semen, and urine, and you sorta go "oh... uh.... hmm."
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May 17, 2016 11:46
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Rehash of In Rainbows tbh
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ZoDiAC_ posted:Rehash of In Rainbows tbh At least In Rainbows had rainbow colors and stuff, so it was thematically appropriate, and still a cool abstract image. So it kinda fills that "album art" cliche a little. Where Moon shaped pool has much cooler artwork visually, I think, and I guess it kinda hits some of the dreamy gauziness of the music, but it doesn't really help you understand what the album is about, if that makes any sense. Like the best album art doesn't have to be good "art", but it compliments the music and helps push the story more, so the music makes more sense because the art tells some of the story. Like this is perfect album art imo: http://imgur.com/SYtHxHJ
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I'm actually still not entirely sure how the In Rainbows art was done. I know it's wax and ink, but there's a step I'm missing somewhere, because it's goddamn gorgeous.
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BigFactory posted:Like this is perfect album art imo: http://imgur.com/SYtHxHJ
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HD DAD posted:I'm actually still not entirely sure how the In Rainbows art was done. I know it's wax and ink, but there's a step I'm missing somewhere, because it's goddamn gorgeous. He filled syringes with paint and squirted them at canvases.
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 you are lost Present Tense? Or shenanigans?
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you are lost Present Tense? Or shenanigans? e: Something Awful wants you to see this twice. stev fucked around with this message at 21:14 on May 17, 2016 |
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BigFactory posted:At least In Rainbows had rainbow colors and stuff, so it was thematically appropriate, and still a cool abstract image. So it kinda fills that "album art" cliche a little. Where Moon shaped pool has much cooler artwork visually, I think, and I guess it kinda hits some of the dreamy gauziness of the music, but it doesn't really help you understand what the album is about, if that makes any sense. Like the best album art doesn't have to be good "art", but it compliments the music and helps push the story more, so the music makes more sense because the art tells some of the story. You're right. I also find that album covers have a mildly synesthetic effect on my perception of an album. For instance, I hear Loveless as being a very pink/red album, whereas MBV, which has basically an identical sound, feels very blue to me (for obvious reasons). OKC and Kid A have always felt white/black/blue, HTTT and IR is rainbow-ish, etc. So a black and white album cover definitely drains some tone out of an album for me. Is that crazy?
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I do the same! I can't divorce the sound of songs from the colour of the album art in my head. Amnesiac will always be black and red, and so on. I once somehow did this in reverse: when Muse first released the song Supermassive Black Hole in 2006, I couldn't help but think of it as black and pink. Then, like a month or two later, they released the single artwork which exclusively used black, white and pink.
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I'm the same. It extends to books for me too.
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Pablo Honey doesn't set off my synaesthesia
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http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/just-playing-in-a-room-with-friends/quote:Colin takes me on a tour, from the music library holding the biggest vinyl collection in the world to a gargantuan grain storehouse now full of dusty film canisters and boxes containing unplayable digital tapes (an early misstep in the march of progress). The studio itself is strange: a sunlit suite of rooms with antique rugs, ornate fireplaces and elegant period furniture, lined with books in wooden cabinets and invaded by recording equipment, as if the teenage scion of a stately home has taken advantage of his parents’ absence. A whiteboard shows only a list of tracks in black marker pen, starting with “Daydreaming” and ending with “Burn the Witch”. The rejected James Bond film tune, “Spectre”, floats in the middle, slightly separate. Colin points to the main console, a vast sweep of knobs, buttons and faders.
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Here's a fun exercise - go to your digital music organizer and list your ten most played Radiohead songs. It's like ranking your favorites, only not because sometimes you rely on computer-generated mixes that pick popular favorites. This is the case for me, as I use Genius Mixes in iTunes, and, well... 1. Karma Police 2. Bodysnatchers 3. Pyramid Song 4. Creep 5. Jigsaw Falling Into Place 6. Paranoid Android 7. Knives Out 8. (tie) High and Dry/Reckoner 10. (tie) There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)/Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner)/House of Cards
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My top 10 on iTunes is just Amnesiac. (Not just Radiohead, in general). That's definitely not right...
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May 20, 2016 06:42
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I have self-updating "top songs" playlists for all my favourite artists. 
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Steve2911 posted:My top 10 on iTunes is just Amnesiac. (Not just Radiohead, in general). Do you have to manually manage songs when you sync a device? Because that's what lead to my iTunes saying I've listened to Remain in Light a good 23 times in a week's time.
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Hedrigall posted:I have self-updating "top songs" playlists for all my favourite artists. Pyramid Song being the most perfect song Radiohead has ever recorded, and probably my favourite song of all time. Edit: oops that was meant to be an edit of my post not quoting it
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