Radiohead Tour Started! Reviews Here!

pdalowsky

dude if it wasnt for the bends or ok computer Radiohead would be scanning things in tescos by now.. their recent albums are utter shit. maybe not the last one but the period of Kid A, amnesiac etc is dire, and total bollocks. This is from a Radiohead fan too....someone who was there right from the start. To say I'm missing the point is also bollocks, as the point surely isnt their later albums, its what made them great, sure they've experimented, but to what degree of success?? very questionable.

its all a preference but they were vastly superior ten years ago.

pdalowsky

Comfis wrote:

i hope noone has complains from Radiohead Glasgow setlist

when RH play paranoid android i am always satisfied from the setlist!!

and 2+2=5 and There There and almost the whole in rainbows..(except for house of cards)

well this is a huge improvement on what they were knocking out recently

Mike_Muse_Rage

I think the London Victoria 1st night setlist was probably the worst of their career. I wish I'd gone to the second night.
Oh and I love Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief. Fantastic albums, really broaden the musical landscape.

Comfis

Radiohead Manchester setlist was almost identical to Glasgow setlist!!

but we had a 3rd encore for a first time, and LSP was replaced from Pyramid song!

here are a few Radiohead glasgow videos

The Long Road

thunderDAN wrote:

you and whose army blows The Gloaming out of the water....but that isn't saying much

Opinions are like onions, just without the pee. BTW, The Gloaming is one of their BEST live songs........you see?

tcaporale

pdalowsky wrote:

dude if it wasnt for the bends or ok computer Radiohead would be scanning things in tescos by now.. their recent albums are utter shit. maybe not the last one but the period of Kid A, amnesiac etc is dire, and total bollocks. This is from a Radiohead fan too....someone who was there right from the start. To say I'm missing the point is also bollocks, as the point surely isnt their later albums, its what made them great, sure they've experimented, but to what degree of success?? very questionable.

its all a preference but they were vastly superior ten years ago.

You say that like it's a fact. Personally, I think The Bends has not aged well at all. It's not totally Radiohead's fault - just about every British band since has ripped them off - but the record does not sound nearly as fresh as it must've when it came out, because some of the material sounds weak in comparison to Radiohead's newer stuff (the abysmal "Sulk" and "Black Star" quickly come to mind). Yes, OKC was a masterpiece, and yes, In Rainbows is another masterpiece. But to say Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Thief, three very well-recieved albums (both commercially and critically) are total bollocks is plain stupid. I can understand why one would be turned off by SOME of the material on Kid A, but "The National Anthem", "How to Disappear Completely", "Idioteque", and "Everything in Its Right Place" are excellent. Same goes for "Pyramid Song", "You and Whose Army?", "Life in a Glasshouse", "Knives Out", and "I Might Be Wrong" on Amnesiac and "There There", "Where I End and You Begin", "2 + 2 = 5", "Go to Sleep", "A Wolf at the Door" and "A Punchup at a Wedding" for Hail to the Thief.

SVRDhand13

Comfis wrote:

Radiohead Manchester setlist was almost identical to Glasgow setlist!!

but we had a 3rd encore for a first time, and LSP was replaced from Pyramid song!

here are a few Radiohead glasgow videos

but the 3rd encore was only one song!

NYCPJ

pdalowsky wrote:

dude if it wasnt for the bends or ok computer Radiohead would be scanning things in tescos by now.. their recent albums are utter shit. maybe not the last one but the period of Kid A, amnesiac etc is dire, and total bollocks. This is from a Radiohead fan too....someone who was there right from the start. To say I'm missing the point is also bollocks, as the point surely isnt their later albums, its what made them great, sure they've experimented, but to what degree of success?? very questionable.

its all a preference but they were vastly superior ten years ago.

I would tend to agree (nothing can touch The Bends or OKC) but live, even the Kid A/AMnesiac stuff shines. I gained a new appreciation for it once i saw them perform some of those songs.

pdalowsky

its clearly not fact, its my opinion, Radiohead were on the trail of greatness, not they churn out odd albums that even dumbfound the critics,

I wouldnt agree that Kid A was well received critically, I read loads ofn reviews when it the shelves and none were great....And to be honest after a record like OKC they could have burped and farted on a record and it'd have sold by the million....this is the OKC materpiece effect.

That record made the band totally global.

tcaporale

pdalowsky wrote:

its clearly not fact, its my opinion, Radiohead were on the trail of greatness, not they churn out odd albums that even dumbfound the critics,

I wouldnt agree that Kid A was well received critically, I read loads ofn reviews when it the shelves and none were great....And to be honest after a record like OKC they could have burped and farted on a record and it'd have sold by the million....this is the OKC materpiece effect.

That record made the band totally global.

I'd say Kid A has definitely grown in stature since it was released. It's on the RS Top 500 Albums Ever list and Pitchfork named it the top album of the new millennium.

Comfis

here is the Radiohead Amsterdam setlist

and a few videos from the Radiohead Manchester show (including an amazing video of Weird fishes)

PS: even if the 3rd encore was only one song, it would be great if this song was Lucky!!

Comfis

Besides, I just created a List of all Radiohead setlists of the In Rainbows Tour

hope it will be interesting

Comfis

Radiohead had a 24 songs setlist at the Roskilde festival.. i suppose that the Hurricane fest fans would feel hard about this

digster

pdalowsky wrote:

I wouldnt agree that Kid A was well received critically, I read loads ofn reviews when it the shelves and none were great....And to be honest after a record like OKC they could have burped and farted on a record and it'd have sold by the million....this is the OKC materpiece effect.

A quick stop at metacritic.com has about twenty to thirty reviews of Kid A, including the reviews of pretty much every major music publication. They're almost uniformly positive, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say it was not well-recieved critically.

And here are the reviews: http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/radiohead/kida?q=Kid%20A

Comfis

i am back after a trip in berlin and an amazing radiohead live gig

Radiohead Berlin Setlist
Radiohead Berlin Videos

Mike_Muse_Rage

Berlin had a fantastic setlist, like every date from this tour EXCEPT London Victoria Park night 1. :(

mauichick

SVRDhand13 wrote:

I guess but the festival has only a couple of bands I like and it was expensive. It was $106 for each day and then they surprised us with a ferry charge (its on Liberty Island) of $20 a day plus other random charges . So two shows for about $270.

It's pricey, but the ferry is worth every penny IMO and pretty magical to see them with the skyline as a backdrop if you haven't before (i saw both 2001 shows)

Enjoy

Tenacious B

digster wrote:

A quick stop at metacritic.com has about twenty to thirty reviews of Kid A, including the reviews of pretty much every major music publication. They're almost uniformly positive, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say it was not well-recieved critically.

And here are the reviews: http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/radiohead/kida?q=Kid%20A

Let's not confuse people with facts.

SVRDhand13

mauichick wrote:

It's pricey, but the ferry is worth every penny IMO and pretty magical to see them with the skyline as a backdrop if you haven't before (i saw both 2001 shows)

Enjoy

Thanks! Are you going?

mauichick

SVRDhand13 wrote:

Thanks! Are you going?

I'm still on the fence..Thought I was going to do Lolla instead and I just saw 3 dates in France and between that and 3 pj and "fingers crossed" 3 ed solo, more $$ spent on concert tix is kinda rough right now
Its going to kill me to miss it on the day of though since I live in JC

The light show will blow yr mind as well