NEW RADIOHEAD ALBUM!!!!!!!!

Music For Rhinos wrote:

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 For Rhinos wrote:

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.

Music For Rhinos wrote:

dunkman wrote:

Music For Rhinos wrote:

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?

Music For Rhinos wrote:

Yes.

Ever written and published a book?

Music For Rhinos wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

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.

First listen with headphones was over the weekend and i liked it more, but i'm still not about to gush about it.

Music For Rhinos wrote:

dunkman wrote:

Music For Rhinos wrote:

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?

Yes.

i just noticed you said 'yes' to this... I should have said that incestuous porn doesnt count.

Music For Rhinos wrote:

facepollution wrote:

Music For Rhinos wrote:

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.

Well the subconscious mind is a funny thing, could it possibly be that some people have it so ingrained in their head that Radiohead are so amazing, that they would find something they like in ANYTHING they ever produced? I'm inclined to think that in some cases that could be true.

Oh, and talking about things being irrelevant, your personal view on Hail To The Thief has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Radiohead have only been afforded the opportunity to make far less accessible records based on the success of their far more accessible earlier records.

Music For Rhinos wrote:

If you are a person who doesn't like the album I'd like to see you put out something better.

Those were the kind of arguments I was making on the playground when I was 7 years old :wtf:

facepollution wrote:

Well the subconscious mind is a funny thing, could it possibly be that some people have it so ingrained in their head that Radiohead are so amazing, that they would find something they like in ANYTHING they ever produced? I'm inclined to think that in some cases that could be true.

If they say this album is great I'd have to say yes to this possibility.