Huh, weird thing was I was pretty sure I heard a DJ spin what sounded like a remix of said song last night on the way out of a good local spot around here -- I wonder...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 July 2011 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Melissa W, Sunday, 10 July 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
woah! You and Whose Army-esque. This and "Staircase" make me wonder what they're planning on doing w/ these spare songs.
― THIS IS SATIRE BTW (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
also, nice to come back to he King of Limbs with fresh ears after an extended break.
― THIS IS SATIRE BTW (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
the whole performance is here in excellent quality.
― THIS IS SATIRE BTW (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
The performance of Give Up the Ghost they did for this is literally the only version of it I have ever liked.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Melissa W, Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ahh, apparently linking to a specific time doesn't work here. Just click on 10 in the menu.
― Melissa W, Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
thankig u 4 the videos!!!
― markers, Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
i didn't hate king of limbs or anything but the basement show is much much better than the record?
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bloom sort of starts out a mess, gets transcendental toward the middle (where the horns first enter), and then ends on a bit of a mess as well
― taste the rainbow...zoom zoom...if you build it, they will come (Z S), Sunday, 10 July 2011 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
The second percussionist sure fills out the sound nicely.
― THIS IS SATIRE BTW (Simon H.), Monday, 11 July 2011 04:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
so weird that i only found out that this thing existed today. i don't know if that says more about radiohead's diminished profile, or my diminished interest in them.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 23 July 2011 08:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know if i've ever read anything about glastonbury that want totally stupid. Festivals are horrible anyway, radiohead should do whatever they want
― van ingalls wilder (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Exactly.
― The Not Liking Radiohead Awards (Turangalila), Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
people really seemed to not give a shit about this record
― markers, Saturday, 23 July 2011 17:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I feel I'm going to end up listening to these songs or variations of them for some time, since Radiohead is back into not just commissioning remixes, but doing them for tons of songs and connecting with artists I Iike.
― mh, Saturday, 23 July 2011 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp honestly, I think of this as a deliberately subtle & casual timestamp release (didn't they even refer to it as a "newspaper album"?) and not some Grand Statement. I also think it'll age pretty well, even if it'll never be anyone's favourite RH record.
― The Not Liking Radiohead Awards (Turangalila), Saturday, 23 July 2011 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'll have to agree there, T. -- it just settles in nicely, and has turned out to be one of many good records released this year in general. Nothing wrong with that.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 July 2011 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like it a hell of a lot more than I'm Rainbows
― nobody cares 4 u (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 23 July 2011 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
So the remix series has been boring as hell
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep
― future events are now current events (Z S), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
a lot of them are better than the originals. the four tet one is great.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
the Caribou one is good, but I don't know if that's just because Little By Little is a very good song.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Four Tet one is the best of a bad bunch i think. They all seem pretty half-hearted but the below par source material probably doesn't help
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
gotta repost this:
Topic: So Radiohead's going to have the top album for the 90s 00s and 10sMessage: Assuming LP8 will be a typical Radiohead album
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
TBF, even if I were a top producer I'd shirk at the idea of doing a decent KoL remix. The Caribou one is all very well, but you can tell he's struggling to do much with it.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Stephen Colbert meeting Radiohead is such a special occasion, a regular episode of "The Colbert Report" wasn't sufficient.The Comedy Central show will air its first hour-long episode Sept. 26, when Colbert sits down with the British rock group.Radiohead will perform four songs, featuring material off its most recent album, "The King of Limbs," as well as the recently debuted and unreleased track, "The Daily Mail." An additional song will also be performed for the online version of "The Colbert Report."Colbert said in a statement: "I look forward to meeting the Radioheads and leveraging their anti-corporate indie cred to raise brand awareness for my sponsors."
The Comedy Central show will air its first hour-long episode Sept. 26, when Colbert sits down with the British rock group.
Radiohead will perform four songs, featuring material off its most recent album, "The King of Limbs," as well as the recently debuted and unreleased track, "The Daily Mail." An additional song will also be performed for the online version of "The Colbert Report."
Colbert said in a statement: "I look forward to meeting the Radioheads and leveraging their anti-corporate indie cred to raise brand awareness for my sponsors."
― James Mitchell, Monday, 19 September 2011 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
"people really seemed to not give a shit about this record."
i've been briefly pondering my *current* lack of interest in radiohead. not just in the recent album but also stuff i've previously loved.
― djh, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Burn out? I kinda feel the same way. It's not that I'm not interested, it's just that I'm not compelled to play them like I used to.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 19 September 2011 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
...and I genuinely LIKE the new album!
stephen colbert's funny
― conrad, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
So, SNL tonight.
― LaMonte, Saturday, 24 September 2011 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh jeez... that was not their best performance, eh?.makes me not feel so bad about not getting presale tix to roseland.and i'm a huge fan of tkol.
― Creeztophair, Sunday, 25 September 2011 04:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahahaha i remember this album
― tumbl dude (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 25 September 2011 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
― →→→→→→ http://bit.ly/q2rbFq ←←←←←← (markers), Sunday, 25 September 2011 06:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Phil might be the oldest Radiohead member but he looks like the healthiest in that photo.
― Moka, Sunday, 25 September 2011 08:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Regarding the performance I think all of them were good but thom yorke has long lost the ease on his falsetto. Every now and then he nails it but he's more often off than not.
― Moka, Sunday, 25 September 2011 08:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Several men that look like old lesbians in that photo tbh
― Brilliant God-Man (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 25 September 2011 10:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
second drummer guy looks like photo-composite of existing drummer + the guy who played the farmer in babe + philip roth. also v bad haircut for heartthrob j greenwood.
thom yorke has long lost the ease on his falsetto. Every now and then he nails it but he's more often off than not.
the kind of quivering, occasional mis-fire to his falsetto is part of his thing, i think, like it makes it more sound more excitingly precarious somehow
― 347.239.9791 stench hotline (schlump), Sunday, 25 September 2011 10:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
falsetto was getting seriously old - it's appreciated that he doesn't dote on it so much. i only imagine he justifies his not using it in the wake of coldplay/james blunt/etc
― kelpolaris, Sunday, 25 September 2011 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
― kelpolaris
This is actually true. In interviews circa kid a/amnesiac he stated that one of the main reasons he started doing electronical manipulations of his voice / deadpan delivery was because he didn't want his voice to start sounding like the ones on all the other britpop bands.
― Moka, Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah! neat. i thought i remember hearing a similar quote that more had to do w/ their de-emphasis on guitarplay in the face of so many bands (like coldplay) miming their style. i would've thought that this would've also translated to yorke not putting his falsetto on employ as Kid A sorta evidenced but by the time In Rainbows was released (with a particular song so "truly falsetto" that yorke sounds like a faraway whale) i disregarded whatever memory i might've skewed of the quote. hm, maybe it's the same one?
― kelpolaris, Monday, 26 September 2011 04:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Damn... I don't really remember the source or the quote.... maybe it's the same interview. I remember it was something about him having some sort of personal crisis... being very dissatisfied with the sound his own voice at the time and how 'precious' it sounded. He said the lyrical themes on 'Kid a' were very cruel and he didn't want to sing them in a straight manner, using effects on his voice allowed him to be some sort of detached, clinical messenger.
― Moka, Monday, 26 September 2011 05:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
That said... I don't think there's anything incredibly cruel about the lyrical themes on kid a (ok computer and the bends work with far more depressing and straightforward messages) but I think it's great that he has a rationalization of the creative elements on the album and why it's supposed to sound the way it sounds.
― Moka, Monday, 26 September 2011 05:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, when he first started doing falsetto, there weren't that many people 'influenced by Jeff Buckley', and now every damn body is...
― Mark G, Monday, 26 September 2011 08:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
There isn't actually as much falsetto on, say, OK Computer, as there is on later Radiohead albums. In Rainbows is full of it, and there's a lot on KoL as well. I wish he'd use it less actually, his lower register (see the opening of Lucky) is fantastic. His falsetto is fine when he's swooping over the top of things but on lyrics that require a little more enunciation it's never been entirely convincing.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 September 2011 09:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
his lower register (see the opening of Lucky) is fantastic
That's his lower register? I guess he won't be singing "Old Man River" soon then.
― Mark G, Monday, 26 September 2011 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think I am getting a bit fed up of Radiohead's, I dunno, vagueness? Ambiguity? It was alright for a bit and quite welcome when Thom decided his vocals would be a bit more oblique on albums like Kid A, but the band's approach on KoL really lacks tenacity and I'm left wishing they'd give me something to get my teeth into. It's not as though the lyrics on 90s Radiohead albums were bad.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Monday, 26 September 2011 10:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kings of Lettice morelike..
― Mark G, Monday, 26 September 2011 10:18 (1 year ago) Permalink