To quote Spin Magazine,"Radiohead always dance to the beat of a drummer the rest of us initially can't hear." The Arcade Fire . Maybe you need Jonny or Thom to hit their helmet covered head for an instrument.
I mean, all of the speculation and whatnot is cool, but I doubt the band would force its fans to go on a wild goose chase searching for new material...I feel like they would want to get all of their music out there at once. But who knows.
I mean, all of the speculation and whatnot is cool, but I doubt the band would force its fans to go on a wild goose chase searching for new material...I feel like they would want to get all of their music out there at once. But who knows.
i feel like they've missed the acceptable window of opportunity for the element of surprise... i would just find it annoying at this point... i've spent too much time marinating with this album as it is
would be cool if they had some B-sides though like in rainbows
I think I may pick up this album today. The worst thing I can end up with is a mediocre Radiohead album, which is pretty fucking well worth a few bucks. Nothing wrong with failing to create another masterpiece (of which Radiohead has two, in my opinion: OK Computer & In Rainbows).
Listening to Kid A right now... nothing to think about... just being swept away... I'm not here, this isn't happening...
If you'd like a great Radiohead double album check out the 01 and 10 playlist (something like that) using the songs from OK Computer alternating with In Rainbows. It's a great listen. If it had initially been released that way as a true double album, I think it'd be on that short list of all time great double albums.
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very good point... A few people on here have said we need to listen 'harder' to this album.. that us mere mortals cannot 'comprehend' such an album... but you know, sometimes i want music to be almost primitive in its simplicity.. I want to sink a couple of beers, put on Arcade Fire's Month of May and rock the fuck out for 3 or 4 minutes... what I don't want to do is sit and listen to music that I need to 'think' too hard about... this is why we all hated geometry at school remember? I don't want to investigate an album that has more layers than an Eskimo sleepover... sometimes i listen to Sigur Ros, Bon Iver and Radiohead because it 'moves' me... the music is almost pulchritudinous (thought i'd throw in a big word for the more cerebral of those who dismissed our opinions )
and sometimes i want to listen to Spin The Black Circle.
what i don't want to listen to is people saying that because I find this album to be unfavourable, that I am some kind of caveman or Luddite... I'm not... just as I don't listen to those people who say that I should watch Andy Warhol's sleep because its art... its not... its fuckwits being filmed sleeping for an even bigger fuckwit.
now that was a critical appraisal if i ever heard one.
if you need to 'listen harder' to any album, let alone one from radiohead then somethings wrong with the ALBUM not the listener.
i had no problem getting into king of limbs. but then again it generally only takes me that initial spin for me to 'get' any album, if its an album that my mind wants to get. if its not then im not gonna waste my time trying to 'understand' where a bands supposedly coming from. its hurts my head and thats not what music is about.
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if you need to 'listen harder' to any album, let alone one from radiohead then somethings wrong with the ALBUM not the listener.
i had no problem getting into king of limbs. but then again it generally only takes me that initial spin for me to 'get' any album, if its an album that my mind wants to get. if its not then im not gonna waste my time trying to 'understand' where a bands supposedly coming from. its hurts my head and thats not what music is about.
The other day I dragged myself away from the awesome new Social Distortion CD to listen to this thing again (on my amazingly awesome stock car stereo). Maybe a couple songs sounded kind of ok.
So, today my 4-month old son was swinging a rattle toy around and banging it against another toy. I thought this sounded similar to the repetitive drum-sample thing in one of the new Radiohead songs.
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very good point... A few people on here have said we need to listen 'harder' to this album.. that us mere mortals cannot 'comprehend' such an album... but you know, sometimes i want music to be almost primitive in its simplicity.. I want to sink a couple of beers, put on Arcade Fire's Month of May and rock the fuck out for 3 or 4 minutes... what I don't want to do is sit and listen to music that I need to 'think' too hard about... this is why we all hated geometry at school remember? I don't want to investigate an album that has more layers than an Eskimo sleepover... sometimes i listen to Sigur Ros, Bon Iver and Radiohead because it 'moves' me... the music is almost pulchritudinous (thought i'd throw in a big word for the more cerebral of those who dismissed our opinions )
and sometimes i want to listen to Spin The Black Circle.
what i don't want to listen to is people saying that because I find this album to be unfavourable, that I am some kind of caveman or Luddite... I'm not... just as I don't listen to those people who say that I should watch Andy Warhol's sleep because its art... its not... its fuckwits being filmed sleeping for an even bigger fuckwit.
now that was a critical appraisal if i ever heard one. [/quote]
After a week of listening 2 this album I have absolutely grown 2 LOVE IT!!!!!
But I do appreciate your point tho - I guess if u don't dig it, then u just don't dig it.......
Music like Sigur Ros that u mentioned can move u 2 a completely different place if u "get it" (I do) but soooo many people think stuff like that is complete wankery (those sort of people listen 2 Nickelback & Matchbox20)
Many of my favorite albums of all time have not "grabbed" me on the 1st listen but I think that is why I've grown 2 love them more over time - repeated listens reveal so much more than a lot of albums that just throw a heap of well produced hits in your face and then after a dozen spins, u couldn't care less about it.....
BTW - I don't think u r a caveman if u use words like pulchritudinous!!!!
p.s. - I am also one 2 go nuts in my lounge room listening 2 Month Of May (I love that song!!!!)
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I don't understand what the problem is. This album is great. The album is great not because it's Radiohead but because the music is really interesting and for lack of a better word, good. Not sure what everyone's issues are. If you are a person who doesn't like the album I'd like to see you put out something better.
You don't have to like it, but there's no reason to shit all over the people that do. Music is subjective. One man's trash is another man's gold. I'd be interested to see what the favorite albums of people are that don't like The King of Limbs. It's really not that big a deal. If you don't like it, don't listen to it. Every individual is just one person and everyone is entitled to his or her opinion but at the end of the day, it is still just that, an opinion. So get off your high horse and let it be. If you like it, fine. If not, then don't listen. It's not rocket science.
You don't have to like it, but there's no reason to shit all over the people that do. Music is subjective. One man's trash is another man's gold. I'd be interested to see what the favorite albums of people are that don't like The King of Limbs. It's really not that big a deal. If you don't like it, don't listen to it. Every individual is just one person and everyone is entitled to his or her opinion but at the end of the day, it is still just that, an opinion. So get off your high horse and let it be. If you like it, fine. If not, then don't listen. It's not rocket science.
Exactly wot he said!!!!!
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very good point... A few people on here have said we need to listen 'harder' to this album.. that us mere mortals cannot 'comprehend' such an album... but you know, sometimes i want music to be almost primitive in its simplicity.. I want to sink a couple of beers, put on Arcade Fire's Month of May and rock the fuck out for 3 or 4 minutes... what I don't want to do is sit and listen to music that I need to 'think' too hard about... this is why we all hated geometry at school remember? I don't want to investigate an album that has more layers than an Eskimo sleepover... sometimes i listen to Sigur Ros, Bon Iver and Radiohead because it 'moves' me... the music is almost pulchritudinous (thought i'd throw in a big word for the more cerebral of those who dismissed our opinions )
and sometimes i want to listen to Spin The Black Circle.
what i don't want to listen to is people saying that because I find this album to be unfavourable, that I am some kind of caveman or Luddite... I'm not... just as I don't listen to those people who say that I should watch Andy Warhol's sleep because its art... its not... its fuckwits being filmed sleeping for an even bigger fuckwit.
now that was a critical appraisal if i ever heard one.
if you need to 'listen harder' to any album, let alone one from radiohead then somethings wrong with the ALBUM not the listener.
i had no problem getting into king of limbs. but then again it generally only takes me that initial spin for me to 'get' any album, if its an album that my mind wants to get. if its not then im not gonna waste my time trying to 'understand' where a bands supposedly coming from. its hurts my head and thats not what music is about.
Cate, i totally agree. In Rainbows i got from the off... it was, and is, fucking amazing. I love it.
This new album is akin to the sound of 1723 asthmatic hedgehogs trying to whistle out a tune.
Any album that people say "you need to keep at it, then the layers will become apparent and unicorns tears will save dying elephants and what not" is an album i don't really need to know about. I want immediacy, i want impact... what i don't want is a sonic Pythagora's theorem of wank
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
I don't understand what the problem is. This album is great. The album is great not because it's Radiohead but because the music is really interesting and for lack of a better word, good. Not sure what everyone's issues are. If you are a person who doesn't like the album I'd like to see you put out something better.
so you dont like any album by any other band?
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
The album is great not because it's Radiohead but because the music is really interesting and for lack of a better word, good.
Of course the chances are that you wouldn't have even heard it if they were a new band. Like it or not, Radiohead have been riding on the success of their earlier records for a long time now.
I don't understand what the problem is. This album is great. The album is great not because it's Radiohead but because the music is really interesting and for lack of a better word, good. Not sure what everyone's issues are. If you are a person who doesn't like the album I'd like to see you put out something better.
The album is great not because it's Radiohead but because the music is really interesting and for lack of a better word, good.
Of course the chances are that you wouldn't have even heard it if they were a new band. Like it or not, Radiohead have been riding on the success of their earlier records for a long time now.
That's obvious and pretty much goes without saying...but it's also irrelevant because it's not the reality, the reality is Radiohead is not a new band. In addition, I feel Hail to the Thief is as good as anything they've put out and that certainly is not an early record of theirs.
I just don't understand the argument that "if I have to try to like something, I don't like it." I didn't like plenty of albums at first; over time, I've grown to love them. An example would be Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, an album that I thought was plenty overrated until I gave it more time, and now it's one of my favorites. I'm not saying that you have to force yourself to listen to it, but to say that all good albums don't need extra listens to worm its way into your brain is pretty off-base.
Also, yes, if Radiohead was a new band, this record wouldn't get as much attention.
...so?
If Radiohead was a new band, I doubt their label would allow them to release such a record with little to no commercial appeal, at least in terms of singles. The fact that they've been around for a while and have gone through different stylistic changes gives them more room to do what they like. All the better, in my opinion.
If you are a person who doesn't like the album I'd like to see you put out something better.
This is a ridiculous argument. I can boo Kyle Kendrick at a Phillies game because I paid $32 for a ticket and the fucking pitcher sucks. He's getting paid $1M to pitch. Also, I'm sure I'm a much better actuary than Thom Yorke could ever be. That's right motherfucker! :P (and I make a lot less cash doing it than he does goofing around making music on a computer and inventing odd dances)
Music is subjective. One man's trash is another man's gold. I'd be interested to see what the favorite albums of people are that don't like The King of Limbs.
Sure - my fave Radiohead album is Kid A. Pearl Jam album: I think Vs. - hard to choose. Others: Led Zep III, IV & Physical Graffiti, Revolver, lots of other stuff.
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This is a ridiculous argument. I can boo Kyle Kendrick at a Phillies game because I paid $32 for a ticket and the fucking pitcher sucks. He's getting paid $1M to pitch. Also, I'm sure I'm a much better actuary than Thom Yorke could ever be. That's right motherfucker! :P (and I make a lot less cash doing it than he does goofing around making music on a computer and inventing odd dances)
It's not ridiculous. You can boo Kendrick all you want if that is what you wish but can you go out there and do what he does on the mound? Can you do musically what Radiohead does and has done? I think not.
I don't understand what the problem is. This album is great. The album is great not because it's Radiohead but because the music is really interesting and for lack of a better word, good. Not sure what everyone's issues are. If you are a person who doesn't like the album I'd like to see you put out something better.
so you dont like any album by any other band?
I like lots of albums by many different bands.
Sorry, i didnt phrase my question very well... do you dislike any album?
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
This is a ridiculous argument. I can boo Kyle Kendrick at a Phillies game because I paid $32 for a ticket and the fucking pitcher sucks. He's getting paid $1M to pitch. Also, I'm sure I'm a much better actuary than Thom Yorke could ever be. That's right motherfucker! :P (and I make a lot less cash doing it than he does goofing around making music on a computer and inventing odd dances)
It's not ridiculous. You can boo Kendrick all you want if that is what you wish but can you go out there and do what he does on the mound? Can you do musically what Radiohead does and has done? I think not.
Have you ever directed a movie?
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
This is a ridiculous argument. I can boo Kyle Kendrick at a Phillies game because I paid $32 for a ticket and the fucking pitcher sucks. He's getting paid $1M to pitch. Also, I'm sure I'm a much better actuary than Thom Yorke could ever be. That's right motherfucker! :P (and I make a lot less cash doing it than he does goofing around making music on a computer and inventing odd dances)
It's not ridiculous. You can boo Kendrick all you want if that is what you wish but can you go out there and do what he does on the mound? Can you do musically what Radiohead does and has done? I think not.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
Sorry, i didnt phrase my question very well... do you dislike any album?
What a ridiculous question. What do you think?
not really a ridiculous question... you are saying that because I and others haven't recorded an album then we can't pass judgment on Radioheads album... so by your own rules on what can and cannot be critiqued you must love every album ever made... as I presume you are not a multi-selling musical artist... just as I presume at some point you have called a movie "shit" and yet you have never produced, directed and edited your own movie.... just as you've never written a book but yet you'll have read one and said it was pretty rubbish?
so, not ridiculous actually... it's ridiculous to say to people that if they don't like an album by a band they can shut up since they haven't recorded their own.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
This is a ridiculous argument. I can boo Kyle Kendrick at a Phillies game because I paid $32 for a ticket and the fucking pitcher sucks. He's getting paid $1M to pitch. Also, I'm sure I'm a much better actuary than Thom Yorke could ever be. That's right motherfucker! :P (and I make a lot less cash doing it than he does goofing around making music on a computer and inventing odd dances)
It's not ridiculous. You can boo Kendrick all you want if that is what you wish but can you go out there and do what he does on the mound? Can you do musically what Radiohead does and has done? I think not.
So, you’re saying it is unfair to critique anyone, unless you are on the same level as they are in their chosen profession? How the fuck would that work? So, all music magazines and websites who review albums have no right to do so, because they’re not capable of producing music of the same standard?
I certainly couldn’t recreate King Of Limbs, that’s without question. However, if I WAS capable of producing rock albums of mind-numbing beauty and intensity, I wouldn’t dream of making this ambient, trippy shit. King of Limbs is getting lauded more than it deserves because it’s Radiohead, not because of what’s on the album. They could have brought out a satanic death metal album and people would still hail it as a masterpiece with ‘so many layers’.
No one expected Radiohead to make an OK Computer II - this expectation is a myth. What a lot of fans, myself included, DID expect them to do was to maintain the same style of music that made them so fucking good in the first place. Had they done that they would still be the best there was. Instead, they’ve fallen. A long, long way.
I must be the only person here not to have heard this album. Judging by some of the comments I might give it a miss. Personally I thought Kid A sucked balls until I'd heard it about a dozen times and then I only thought it was OK. If this is another "up our own arses" album I don't want to know.
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Just downloaded it... based on the visceral views here, did not want to spend the money on vinyl if I would not enjoy it... already regretting it...
I personally find it more welcoming than In Rainbows...
So question and I have not had time to go through the entire thread
Why is this a double album if its the same length as backspacer... surely it would fit on one vinyl disc...
Is the second disc more new material?
I mean, all of the speculation and whatnot is cool, but I doubt the band would force its fans to go on a wild goose chase searching for new material...I feel like they would want to get all of their music out there at once. But who knows.
would be cool if they had some B-sides though like in rainbows
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Listening to Kid A right now... nothing to think about... just being swept away... I'm not here, this isn't happening...
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if you need to 'listen harder' to any album, let alone one from radiohead then somethings wrong with the ALBUM not the listener.
i had no problem getting into king of limbs. but then again it generally only takes me that initial spin for me to 'get' any album, if its an album that my mind wants to get. if its not then im not gonna waste my time trying to 'understand' where a bands supposedly coming from. its hurts my head and thats not what music is about.
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The other day I dragged myself away from the awesome new Social Distortion CD to listen to this thing again (on my amazingly awesome stock car stereo). Maybe a couple songs sounded kind of ok.
So, today my 4-month old son was swinging a rattle toy around and banging it against another toy. I thought this sounded similar to the repetitive drum-sample thing in one of the new Radiohead songs.
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and sometimes i want to listen to Spin The Black Circle.
what i don't want to listen to is people saying that because I find this album to be unfavourable, that I am some kind of caveman or Luddite... I'm not... just as I don't listen to those people who say that I should watch Andy Warhol's sleep because its art... its not... its fuckwits being filmed sleeping for an even bigger fuckwit.
now that was a critical appraisal if i ever heard one.
After a week of listening 2 this album I have absolutely grown 2 LOVE IT!!!!!
But I do appreciate your point tho - I guess if u don't dig it, then u just don't dig it.......
Music like Sigur Ros that u mentioned can move u 2 a completely different place if u "get it" (I do) but soooo many people think stuff like that is complete wankery (those sort of people listen 2 Nickelback & Matchbox20)
Many of my favorite albums of all time have not "grabbed" me on the 1st listen but I think that is why I've grown 2 love them more over time - repeated listens reveal so much more than a lot of albums that just throw a heap of well produced hits in your face and then after a dozen spins, u couldn't care less about it.....
BTW - I don't think u r a caveman if u use words like pulchritudinous!!!!
p.s. - I am also one 2 go nuts in my lounge room listening 2 Month Of May (I love that song!!!!)
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Exactly wot he said!!!!!
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Cate, i totally agree. In Rainbows i got from the off... it was, and is, fucking amazing. I love it.
This new album is akin to the sound of 1723 asthmatic hedgehogs trying to whistle out a tune.
Any album that people say "you need to keep at it, then the layers will become apparent and unicorns tears will save dying elephants and what not" is an album i don't really need to know about. I want immediacy, i want impact... what i don't want is a sonic Pythagora's theorem of wank
so you dont like any album by any other band?
Of course the chances are that you wouldn't have even heard it if they were a new band. Like it or not, Radiohead have been riding on the success of their earlier records for a long time now.
I like lots of albums by many different bands.
That's obvious and pretty much goes without saying...but it's also irrelevant because it's not the reality, the reality is Radiohead is not a new band. In addition, I feel Hail to the Thief is as good as anything they've put out and that certainly is not an early record of theirs.
Also, yes, if Radiohead was a new band, this record wouldn't get as much attention.
...so?
If Radiohead was a new band, I doubt their label would allow them to release such a record with little to no commercial appeal, at least in terms of singles. The fact that they've been around for a while and have gone through different stylistic changes gives them more room to do what they like. All the better, in my opinion.
And I actually did enjoy this on first listen.
This is a ridiculous argument. I can boo Kyle Kendrick at a Phillies game because I paid $32 for a ticket and the fucking pitcher sucks. He's getting paid $1M to pitch. Also, I'm sure I'm a much better actuary than Thom Yorke could ever be. That's right motherfucker! :P (and I make a lot less cash doing it than he does goofing around making music on a computer and inventing odd dances)
Sure - my fave Radiohead album is Kid A. Pearl Jam album: I think Vs. - hard to choose. Others: Led Zep III, IV & Physical Graffiti, Revolver, lots of other stuff.
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It's not ridiculous. You can boo Kendrick all you want if that is what you wish but can you go out there and do what he does on the mound? Can you do musically what Radiohead does and has done? I think not.
Sorry, i didnt phrase my question very well... do you dislike any album?
Have you ever directed a movie?
What a ridiculous question. What do you think?
Yes.
Ever written and published a book?
not really a ridiculous question... you are saying that because I and others haven't recorded an album then we can't pass judgment on Radioheads album... so by your own rules on what can and cannot be critiqued you must love every album ever made... as I presume you are not a multi-selling musical artist... just as I presume at some point you have called a movie "shit" and yet you have never produced, directed and edited your own movie.... just as you've never written a book but yet you'll have read one and said it was pretty rubbish?
so, not ridiculous actually... it's ridiculous to say to people that if they don't like an album by a band they can shut up since they haven't recorded their own.
So, you’re saying it is unfair to critique anyone, unless you are on the same level as they are in their chosen profession? How the fuck would that work? So, all music magazines and websites who review albums have no right to do so, because they’re not capable of producing music of the same standard?
I certainly couldn’t recreate King Of Limbs, that’s without question. However, if I WAS capable of producing rock albums of mind-numbing beauty and intensity, I wouldn’t dream of making this ambient, trippy shit. King of Limbs is getting lauded more than it deserves because it’s Radiohead, not because of what’s on the album. They could have brought out a satanic death metal album and people would still hail it as a masterpiece with ‘so many layers’.
No one expected Radiohead to make an OK Computer II - this expectation is a myth. What a lot of fans, myself included, DID expect them to do was to maintain the same style of music that made them so fucking good in the first place. Had they done that they would still be the best there was. Instead, they’ve fallen. A long, long way.
I'll listen twice then let you know.