Radiohead - The King of Limbs

a lot of them are better than the originals. the four tet one is great.

the Caribou one is good, but I don't know if that's just because Little By Little is a very good song.

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

gotta repost this:

Topic: So Radiohead's going to have the top album for the 90s 00s and 10s
Message: Assuming LP8 will be a typical Radiohead album

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.

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."

"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.

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.

...and I genuinely LIKE the new album!

stephen colbert's funny

So, SNL tonight.

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.

hahahaha i remember this album

http://i.imgur.com/BeoOv.png

Phil might be the oldest Radiohead member but he looks like the healthiest in that photo.

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.

Several men that look like old lesbians in that photo tbh

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

Well, when he first started doing falsetto, there weren't that many people 'influenced by Jeff Buckley', and now every damn body is...

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.

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.

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.

Kings of Lettice morelike..

Morning Mr. Magpie and Little by Little still sound great imo

I like Little By Little and Give Up The Ghost, sure, but in the same way I like A Reminder or Melatonin.

This is probably my most-played album by them (proportionally, given how long I've had it) by them.

By them.

Are there any demos where Yorke is accompanied by any of the other members singing? I think his falsetto in unison w/ maybe something a little more throaty would be a v v interesting equation

like as if radiohead stopped w/ the progressive instrumental schtick and did something new w/ vocals. the "meep meep meep" of kid a's intro doesn't entirely count b/c they never really did that again, so far as i'm aware

all that talk about his voice was in a canadian interview/special about kid a. i'll try to find it now.

here it is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DdQWrQdIAk
it's in there somewhere.

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, September 26, 2011 3:54 AM (16 hours ago)

falsetto ≠ Jeff Buckley influenced

York was influenced by Buckley at one point though (specifically he credited his vocal on "Fake Plastic Trees" being inspired by seeing JB perform)

Yorke

yeah i know Yorke was (kinda) - was talkin bout everyone else

listened to In Rainbows today and while it has moments of great power (and while, as an album, it really does seem to have a great, thoughtful movement to it) I join with those who think Yorke's vocal contributions are favoring sonics a little too hard - very little of what he says comes through the falsetto haze. It sounds nice, but I'd like a lyrical hook or two like "I am back to save the universe" or "we hope that you choke" or even "knives out, catch the mouse"

still haven't heard King of Limbs

i bet people still post on atease, lmfao

I bet people still read general interest stories about popular music in periodicals without actually being interested in the bands, lol

they tore shit up on colbert!. too bad they had to cut "the national anthem" short.

falsetto ≠ Jeff Buckley influenced

wasn't intimating it was.

Some radio show was playing "first not-hit singles by bands that became very famous" and whoa, that Coldplay one. The band were very good but wasn't Chris Martin Jeffing?

The only Coldplay song i can tolerate

they tore shit up on colbert!. too bad they had to cut "the national anthem" short.

― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 07:28 (15 hours ago) Bookmark

this was great, huh? i heard this record when it came out & then tuned out but am looking forward to going back to it. the uhh second & third songs they played were really something.

"The Daily Mail" is so great.

Wow they were really good on Colbert. I didn't really like 'daily mail' and 'bloom' on record but they sound pretty good live with horns.

There's a studio version of The Daily Mail?

There's the "Live From The Basement" version, that's pretty much a studio take. I grabbed the audio for myself!