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Radiohead - The King of Limbs (v. New Thom Yorke solo album out!)

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Quote from: The King in Crimson on November 23, 2011, 05:26:24 PM
Quote from: emindead on November 23, 2011, 02:37:15 PM
So I listened to Pablo Honey the other day. Besides Creep that album has nothing.
Even Creep sucks. So I'd say it has nothing. :D

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Y'all crazy.






Oooh also the link Sander posted is one of my favorite covers ever!

Nel_Annette

Anyone Can Play Guitar is awesome.

Actually, looking at Pablo Honey's tracklist, I like a lot of that album. More than I can say for The Bends, which pretty much has Street Spirit as the saving grace after a whole album of blandness.


skydivingninja

Quote from: Nel on November 23, 2011, 07:58:46 PM
Anyone Can Play Guitar is awesome.

Actually, looking at Pablo Honey's tracklist, I like a lot of that album. More than I can say for The Bends, which pretty much has Street Spirit as the saving grace after a whole album of blandness.

WUT

Nel_Annette

What? It's boring. Street Spirit is awesome, but I never really go back to the rest of that album. Just doesn't do anything for me.

Zantera

While I do enjoy The Bends, it lacks standout songs for me.
Street Spirit is a good pick, (Nice Dream) is another favorite, but as a whole I feel like The Bends has all good songs, but few that reaches higher points then that, for me at least.

orcus116

Lacks standout songs?

Just
Planet Telex
Fake Plastic Trees
High And Dry
My Iron Lung
The Bends
Street Spirit

All far and away better songs than a lot of more recent Radiohead songs.

Mladen

Standout tracks on The Bends?

Planet telex
The Bends
Fake plastic trees
Bones
Nice dream
Just
My iron lung
Black star
Street spirit

Oh wait, that's pretty much the entire album.

Pols Voice

Yeah, almost the whole album is great, with the title track, High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, and Street Spirit being my favorites.

Zantera

Those are all great songs, but not FANTASTIC for me.
When I look back at all their albums after The Bends, I feel like at least every album has a few standout songs that I like more then my favorites on The Bends.

Heck, even The King of Limbs (which was a small disappointment) has The Lotus Flower and Codex.

The King in Crimson

Quote from: Mladen on November 24, 2011, 12:13:23 AM
Standout tracks on The Bends?

Planet telex
The Bends
Fake plastic trees
Bones
Nice dream
Just
My iron lung
Black star
Street spirit

Oh wait, that's pretty much the entire album.
This, The Bends is pretty fucking special great. In fact, I'd say it has more standout songs than Kid A.

Zantera

No way.
Kid A has Everything In It's Right Place, Morning Bell, Idioteque, Optimistic, In Limbo and How to Disappear Completely, all of them are better then everything on The Bends.  :P

Phoenix87x

I love all of The Bends, except for sulk. For me, it always kinda threw off the flow of the album.

The King in Crimson

Quote from: Zantera on November 24, 2011, 10:18:46 AM
No way.
Kid A has Everything In It's Right Place, Morning Bell, Idioteque, Optimistic, In Limbo and How to Disappear Completely, all of them are better then everything on The Bends.  :P
Yeah but, The Bends doesn't have anything as sucky as Treefingers, Motion Picture Soundtrack, or the title-track.

Also, if there's anything on Kid A that's better than everything on The Bends, then it's The National Anthem. :D

Mladen

Quote from: The King in Crimson on November 24, 2011, 10:28:03 AM
Quote from: Zantera on November 24, 2011, 10:18:46 AM
No way.
Kid A has Everything In It's Right Place, Morning Bell, Idioteque, Optimistic, In Limbo and How to Disappear Completely, all of them are better then everything on The Bends.  :P
Yeah but, The Bends doesn't have anything as sucky as Treefingers, Motion Picture Soundtrack, or the title-track.

You can't be serious, Motion picture soundtrack is a lovely piece of music.

The King in Crimson


skydivingninja


jag66

Quote from: skydivingninja on November 24, 2011, 12:37:59 PM
I actually like "Kid A".  I don't really know why.

Because it's really rather good.. that's why I like it anyway  :)

Marvellous G

Kid A is pretty close to being 'music as art,' and I normally hate that kind of label.

Pols Voice

The song Kid A kind of creeps (nugget!) me out, honestly. "We've got heads on sticks" and all that, plus the music is just weird. Not much music makes me feel unsettled, but Radiohead has a few tracks on Kid A and Amnesiac that I find pretty freaky.

Marvellous G

Totally agree, the title track's the one song that's properly scared me when I tried to sleep after listening to it. It's just so... unsettling. Then when I read that Thom Yorke recorded it with that vocal filter to gain 'psychic distance' from the 'horrible subject matter,' it got even creepier.  :lol

Mladen

That's such a cool song. I honestly have no idea what it's about, but to me it sounds like one blurry flashback. Very weird stuff indeed.

mizzl

Quote from: The King in Crimson on November 24, 2011, 10:28:03 AM
Quote from: Zantera on November 24, 2011, 10:18:46 AM
No way.
Kid A has Everything In It's Right Place, Morning Bell, Idioteque, Optimistic, In Limbo and How to Disappear Completely, all of them are better then everything on The Bends.  :P
Yeah but, The Bends doesn't have anything as sucky as Treefingers, Motion Picture Soundtrack, or the title-track.

Also, if there's anything on Kid A that's better than everything on The Bends, then it's The National Anthem. :D
lol

KevShmev

Quote from: The King in Crimson on November 24, 2011, 10:28:03 AM

Yeah but, The Bends doesn't have anything as sucky as Treefingers, Motion Picture Soundtrack, or the title-track.



The King in Crimson


Mladen

Ooh, they're playing in Italy next summer! Come just a bit closer, please, and I am so there.   :smiley:

emindead

The Bends is like a Greatest Hits album of Radiohead, only that it's their second album.

Zantera

Too bad it's their worst album (not counting Pablo Honey).
Still great though.

Marvellous G


mizzl

Ok why the fuck do Radiohead albums never cease to be amazing? Relistening Kid A for the 12398x, still baffles me.

Phoenix87x

Quote from: mizzl on November 28, 2011, 09:42:59 AM
Ok why the fuck do Radiohead albums never cease to be amazing? Relistening Kid A for the 12398x, still baffles me.

Right behind I&W, Kid A is my favorite album ever made. Just utterly incredible.

I'm spinning The Bends at the moment, and loving every minute of it  :heart


skydivingninja

Kid A is just so unlike anything I was listening to at the time, and it just gradually clicked for me after a year.  In fact, its still unlike anything else I listen to.  Just a perfect album.

emindead

So I was listening to "In Limbo" while driving in my car... what's so special about it?

KevShmev

Quote from: emindead on November 30, 2011, 08:25:11 PM
So I was listening to "In Limbo" while driving in my car... what's so special about it?

That main, clean guitar line is just marvelous.  It sounds like something you'd listen to while floating over the clouds.  That is the best way I can describe it.