Radiothread - All I Want Is The Moon Upon a Stick

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Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

I've come around on TKOL a little since it first came out and I hated it. Now I think it's their weakest album even behind Pablo Honey but still has some enjoyable tracks.

I'd still prefer to listen to the Atoms For Peace album over TKOL any day of the week.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2016 10:28

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 15:22

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

ZoDiAC_ posted:

Do you like it over Tomorrow's Modern Boxes?

Hahaha, to be honest, I forgot about that album almost immediately after it came out. I was so excited that it came out. I made a thread for it here and everything. But then it seemed like no one really cared about it too much. I don't think I've even listened to the whole thing since soon after its release.

But IIRC, the memorable songs on TKOL had more staying power than Tomorrow's Modern Boxes did.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2016 11:01

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Yeah, The Eraser is a Thom Yorke solo thing done right. That's an album I still listen to all the way through semi-regularly a decade after it came out. There's not a single track on that album that I dislike/that isn't a total earworm.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 02:45

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Vintersorg posted:

Began digging into Radiohead again and it just feels so GOOD. Brings me back.

Is Hail to the Thief considered to be underrated? Personally, at the time, I didn't like it but after the years ive learned to love it. Especially the one two punch of Scatterbrain and then A Wolf at the Door - which is probably in some weird list near the top of my most favorite Radiohead song ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg4q_ZUiTNA

It was the first Radiohead album I ever heard (because I got into them right after it came out), so it's got a special place in my heart and I love it a whole lot even if I don't think it's necessarily their best album.

I think the one two punch of 2+2=5 and Sit Down Stand Up is one of my favorite things Radiohead's done. It never fails to give me chills every time I listen to that album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstDdzedgcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA_burPl6z0

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 06:06

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Is that like 1/4th of the tracklist for Towering Above The Rest? I looked at all the poo poo that thing contained one time and I got a headache just looking at it. I never could've made it all the way through that.

24 discs :negative:

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 19:21

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Earwicker posted:

Yeah, the little red book that came with Amnesiac was one of my favorite physical releases back in the day.

Seems pretty rare for artists to put any kind of effort into that sort of thing these days, outside of expensive collectors edition stuff. Its understandable but kind of sad.

The In Rainbows make-your-own-case packaging was pretty awesome. I think that was the last time they put out an album with neat packaging like that. Although I don't know if they did something like that for TKOL or not because TKOL was the only Radiohead album I didn't buy on CD.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2016 20:08

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The REAL Goobusters posted:

I like creep better than everything on TKOL except maybe Give up the ghost

Same. Creep's been overplayed to death but it's still a more enjoyable/better-constructed song than just about all of TKOL's tracks.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2016 18:49

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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

Yeah, KoL is like a whole album of Pyramid Song, which is awesome.

Except that Pyramid Song is actually really entertaining to listen to whereas KoL is not.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2016 04:16

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Polo-Rican posted:

they also updated their facebook image stuff - the art for the new album will probably mirror this:

it's very interesting!! From a pure design perspective, it's much, much better than King of Limbs. But it's very hard to read to mood / tone of this. Feels lighter and higher energy than anything since OK Computer. The typeface and color are very poppy. Who knows!!

Love the artwork. I thought the best thing about The King Of Limbs was its artwork, but this is real cool too.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 23:40

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Mutant Standard posted:

I hate the synths in Where I End and You Begin.

This is objectively the wrong opinion

# ¿ Apr 6, 2016 02:38

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Anaranjado posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/4dlz4u/im_delaying_my_suicide_for_radioheads_upcoming/

Lmao.

In an interstellar burst, Thom Yorke needs to come back to save this guy's universe.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2016 22:34

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

So...does that mean it isn't coming out in June? :smith:

# ¿ Apr 15, 2016 20:40

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# ¿ May 2, 2016 03:21

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Corvo posted:

They're probably gonna run a month-long PR campaign on social media since all this started on May 1st and the manager guy let slip that the album was apparently planned to release in June.

May Fool's :haw:

# ¿ May 3, 2016 09:13

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

That tracklist :eyepop:

# ¿ May 8, 2016 18:00

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

After my first listen, I'm not really feeling this one too much :smith:

I loving love Ful Stop, Identikit, The Numbers and True Love Waits, but I feel like I could never listen to the rest of the tracks for the rest of my life and be totally fine with that.

I'm bummed that this is the 2nd Radiohead album in a row that I haven't enjoyed much after being a fan of well over a decade, but yeah, here we are. I hope they start making interesting music again one of these days. Most of these tracks don't feel like they gave me any compelling reason to revisit them, which is not something I ever thought I'd say about a Radiohead album before like 5 and a half years ago.

# ¿ May 9, 2016 09:52

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

She should've sucked young blood to get healthier. Instead she gave up the ghost and let the bodysnatchers strip her nude and destroy her house of cards. She didn't even get a 4 minute warning.

(Oh god I'm so sorry for his loss :smith:

)

# ¿ Dec 21, 2016 19:28

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Seeing Radiohead live is on my bucket list, but man, I do NOT want to see them at the arena they picked to play here :smith:

I'm considering road tripping to another city just to see them at a different venue. The next closest one to me is Atlanta. How's the Philips Arena as a venue?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 23:57

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Rollersnake posted:

You might say I'm not optimistic about my chance of getting tickets tomorrow!

How To Disappear Completely: By not going to a Radiohead show I have no chance of getting tickets for

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 21:20

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Otis Reddit posted:

song sucks

Yep

# ¿ Jun 2, 2017 18:00

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Blue Planet 2 looks very good.
That song sounds very not good.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2017 09:29

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

I saw that on Twitter earlier and laughed a whole lot. The greatest part is that Jonny condones it and Thom retweeted it :lol:

# ¿ Oct 10, 2017 07:34

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Sir Lemming posted:

it's an interesting glass house from which to throw rocks...

Well that is where they live...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLPE164XG6E

Also, Lana's song is the inferior Get Free. She should've just covered this instead and saved herself a legal battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asOvnGHwtDU

# ¿ Jan 8, 2018 13:02

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Ballz posted:

Is this the Radiohead equivalent of steamed hams?

TWO COLORS?
AT THIS TIME OF YEAR?
AT THIS TIME OF DAY?
IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY?
LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN MY HEAD?

# ¿ Feb 3, 2018 10:15

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Edward Mass posted:

New Thom Yorke solo stuff expected soon.

Hey, remember Tomorrow's Modern Boxes?

No?

Me neither.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2018 23:14

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Steve2911 posted:

I liked both Yorke albums. They're little wriggly earworm fests.

The Eraser is legitimately better than The King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool.

Tomorrow's Modern Boxes? Not so much

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 00:28

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Princeps32 posted:

nah not a chance. TKOL's highlights beat out every single track on the eraser, and i'm not even sure how you compare it to something like AMSP

hughesta posted:

this is utter madness

TKOL, AMSP and TMB have nothing on tracks like these (though they were probably part of the blueprint for those albums tbh):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9YlhHgGWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A604BZ1YZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-UXk42ZY4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvEOWNfx7lY

This and Atoms For Peace's AMOK are both better than the aforementioned 3 albums.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 09:46

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Earlier it occurred to me how loving dope Up on the Ladder would work if sampled for a hip-hop song. There should be more Radiohead hip-hop mashups. Lots of pure loving gold to be mined that surprisingly hasn't been as much as it seems like it should've been by now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft8oPkgF0Wc

# ¿ Mar 16, 2018 00:45

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CRINDY posted:

I was at the movie theater a few days ago and somehow their in-lobby music was an orchestral instrumental cover of You.

I swear to god I am not making this up.

Was it one of those Vitamin string quartet renditions? They have a poo poo ton of those for all sorts of bands.

What an odd song choice though hahaha

Hedrigall posted:

Well there's this masterpiece: https://youtu.be/P2fPmyH6Q6E

lmao, now there's a thing I haven't heard in several years!

That never worked for me like Rainydayz though. I need solid hip-hop tracks that seamlessly integrate Radiohead samples. I know it can potentially be done, it just isn't for whatever reason.

Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Mar 16, 2018

# ¿ Mar 16, 2018 06:40

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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

gently caress that noise!

I'll stand by that opinion until I'm six feet under

I still regularly listen to The Eraser from start to finish. Can't say the same of King of Limbs.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2018 22:52

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AARO posted:

Thom Yorke is gonna be fifty this year.

Maybe he's got early onset dementia and that's why he hasn't been able to make any worthwhile music in years

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 04:55

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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

KoL better tho

Agreed, though KoL still ain't great

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 07:31

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AARO posted:

I love to hang out in threads about bands I don't like. It's not a waste of time.

Hey, Radiohead were one of my all time favorite bands!

(keyword "were")

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 09:01

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thrilla in vanilla posted:

Radiohead.....is good.

Hail to the Thief certainly is, and it's 15 years old today!

https://twitter.com/pitchfork/status/1005437232990343168

That means it's also been almost 15 years since I first got into Radiohead.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 16:42

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

HD DAD posted:

HTTT is Radiohead�s The Life Of Pablo.

Both being loving excellent albums

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 16:56

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Post your favorite HTTT songs/performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ZUQMBD5yI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdnzB_xkERQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpk835d1K7U

lelandjs posted:

I had heard them on the radio but didn�t really pay them much attention (I was 15 at the time), grabbed HTTT at my local library on a whim and spun the poo poo out of it. Next time my family went to the library I grabbed the other Radiohead album they had available�Kid A�and demanded that we listen to it on the car ride back. As the title track was ending, my dad (who had been turning up the CD louder and louder as it played, confused at what he was listening to) asked �uh, when does the music start?�.

And then National Anthem kicked in and nearly blew the speakers.

I think I have more of a soft spot for HTTT than other Radiohead fans because it was my first longform exposure to them, but even I can admit it�s one of their lesser efforts. It�s too much of its time, and has a lot of derision and spite. Which, again, makes sense given the era when it was written and recorded, but Thom is usually above writing a song complaining about a reviewer that didn�t like the show he attended.

Thom put up a 10-track HTTT playlist a few years back that might be worth listening to if you haven�t already:

1. There There
2. The Gloaming
3. Sail To The Moon
4. Sit Down. Stand Up
5. Go To Sleep
6. Where I End And You Begin
7. Scatterbrain
8. 2+2=5
9. Myxomatosis
10. A Wolf At The Door

I�m not a huge fan of this �alternate� version (it�s not very dynamic, sticking 2+2=5 towards the end makes no goddamn sense, and I like Backdrifts too much to leave it off the disc) but it�s a neat way to revisit the album.

My brother had been a fan of theirs for years by the time HTTT came out, but it was my first longform exposure to them as well at age 13. I listened to it over and over again that summer that it came out, then dove backwards through their discography. I think I actually managed to avoid hearing Creep until months after getting into Radiohead. I'd never heard it on the radio growing up or anything.

But yeah, finding Kid A was like a religious experience for me. Listening to it still is.

Even still, HTTT is a top 5 Radiohead album for me. I'd probably say my top 5 are OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, HTTT and In Rainbows (in chronological order).

Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Jun 9, 2018

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 17:11

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

2+2=5 followed by Sit Down Stand Up remains one of the best 2-song album openers I have ever heard. No joke.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 17:54

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

There's like one or two venues in town that always make you go through a metal detector and they search your bags and poo poo. It's a hassle. Every other venue checks your ID and gives you a wristband and that's it.

Although I do live in a city that has one of the highest crime rates per capita in the US...

# ¿ Jul 26, 2018 23:51

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Radiohead's best album is old now, woah :corsair:

https://twitter.com/consequence/status/1047151315003084800

# ¿ Oct 3, 2018 05:16

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 15:22

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

https://twitter.com/radiohead/status/1083679928636399617

Woah, hey, what the hell is this? New single from out of nowhere? Is this from a new album? :monocle:

I like this!!! It feels like the first Radiohead track I've really dug in years, so this is a nice surprise!

# ¿ Jan 11, 2019 12:31

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