i have a feeling some people have a lot to say about this
― blank, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
2012
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
inspired by listening to "karvel" + thinking about vocal catharsis via chic electronica
― blank, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
who am i why am i here
*throws money*
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
I've listened to Radiohead much more on the whole. Biophilia >>> King of Limbs though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
i don't mean who's better, i mean talk about these cats
― blank, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
jesus
― blank, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
― sarahell, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
2112
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 13 October 2012 00:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
o_O these threads have reached new limits
can't we just have a burger v pizza thread and call it a day
― surm, Saturday, 13 October 2012 03:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
tru answer: bjork
― you don't have to be a tsar, baby, to be in Moscow (m bison), Saturday, 13 October 2012 03:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
Radiohead. There's five of them against only one of her.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 13 October 2012 03:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
if you mean in a fist fight or a basketball game or something, both already happened, and she won both times.
― 2 Buttonz (some dude), Saturday, 13 October 2012 03:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
now in all lowercase letters, for more slouching ignominy!!!
― skeevy wonder (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 October 2012 04:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
I'd give the 90s to Björk by a nose and the 00s/10s to Radiohead by a landslide.
― Melissa W, Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
Love both of them but this is easily Björk.
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 13 October 2012 09:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Melissa W
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
I haven't managed to get into a Bjork album since Vespertine.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
wtf a radiohead
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Saturday, 13 October 2012 13:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
doesnt make no sense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
― the tune was space, Saturday, 13 October 2012 14:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
At this point I'd rather investigate DMB than listen to anything by either artist
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 13 October 2012 14:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
"Post" is a really great record and "Pablo Honey" too
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 13 October 2012 14:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
I listened to Kid A for the first time last year. I don't know what made it any better than say, Dave Matthews Band or something. I made a remark about it at the time, but I can't find it in search, so my exact impressions are lost to me. Why, oh, why did I change usernames so many times? Never again.
Anyway, is fake plastic trees really a mournful elegy to breast implants? Does Bjork have any songs about breast implants?
I just discovered that I have OK Computer in my itunes library. No idea how or when that got in there. Maybe I'll listen to it before voting! Does anyone think it's better than Debut, Post, or Homogenic?
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Saturday, 13 October 2012 14:49 (7 months ago) Permalink
It has two really good songs iirc and they are the first two so that's convenient
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 13 October 2012 15:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
I've listened to it much more than Post or Homogenic (and have never heard all of Debut). Not sure if it's 'better' though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 13 October 2012 15:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:47 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
― suggest butt (Pillbox), Saturday, 13 October 2012 15:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
man I still rep for Kid A; National Anthem, How to Disappear, In Limbo = still my shit
― skeevy wonder (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
still
― skeevy wonder (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
ok, just listened to half of Medulla for the first time. enough to know that I'll be listeninv to it again. Where Is The Line is fucking massive!
Now going to see how much of Ok Computer I can cram in on the rest of my ride down to DC. So far (Airbag) it reminds me of a better U2 or something.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
Now onto Paranoid Android, which may have been the whole reason I never got this album in the 90s despite all the hype. Wasn't interested in any songs about my least4 favorite character from a book I read when I was 10.
Whoa, at about 2:00, it shifts to some go-go sixties sounding shit. Not looking good for you, Radiohead.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
@ about 4:00. I've heard THIS part before. Was it in a movie or something? Not bad. A little bleaty.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
Kinda liked SHA in a NPR rock kinda way until it got all U2 again with the "Uptight!" bit. Like, that could have been done like the Beatles or U2. They made an artistic decision. Fine.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
Really feeling like I would have had to have been there in 1997 for this album. Like, watching some xfiles with some frineds. then we all smoke a bowl and someone puts this on.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
White-knuckled it through Exit Music for a Film. Stop mumbling and look at me when you're speaking or I won't understand you.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:48 (7 months ago) Permalink
I liked all the bleeps that emerged at about 3:45 or so in Let Down.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
wow
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
Far too brief though.
Oh, I've heard this next one somewhere before too.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
OK Computer hasn't aged particularly well, but I still think of it as one of the most important records in my career as a music fan. The Bjork album I've enjoyed and listened to the most is, strangely, Telegram.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
I liked Karma Police. "Fitter Happier" is fine. Reminds me of that Leonard Cohen song.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
Whoever said upthread Bjork for 90s and Radiohead for 00s is OTM.
Amazed that you've never heard OKC before. Seeing it liveblogged in 2012 is just wtf.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'm a weirdo. Electioneering was pretty exciting.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah totally. the context of OK Computer coming out in the wake of so much cheeky/cheery 3-minute Britpop stuff made it a pretty mindblowing album for 17 y/o me at the time. It really felt next-level in a way that is impossible to parse in 2012, mostly because OKC had such a huge impact on what it came to inform in terms of arty/indie-type rock over the years. Love it or hate it, there's no denying that it shaped a whole universe of stuff that followed it, particularly Pitchfork-type stuff (Animal Collective, Dungen, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea) - not that these are taking direct cue from OKC, rather that it reopened the doors for this kind of art-school rock/pop with avant-garde and electronic undertones, as opposed to Britpop, grunge etc...
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:09 (7 months ago) Permalink
Was Karma Police on side 2 or side 1? I'm liking the second half of 4the album a lot better. Climbing the Walls was great.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
The two songs I never enjoyed were Let Down and Electioneering. Although the Easy Star Allstars interpretation of Let Down with Toots singing on it is the highlight of Radiodread.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
Ok, I have 1 song left. I liked most of the second side. That's more than I was able to say about Kid A.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
When this came out, I was mostly listing to Phish, some jazz, some funk, a lot of reggae, Steely Dan, still listening to a lot of hardcore punk from the 80s, mostly not listening to ska by this point. I wasn't really involved in the musical zeitgeist, despite working at Sam Goody at the time lol.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
Oh and hip-hop too! this was Wu Tang Forever era rght?
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
yes hip hop existed in 1997.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
Always thought Kid A and Vespertine were interesting companion albums. Both icy and glitchy. The former for me meant tripping balls at 3 a.m.; the latter a mid-January bedroom record.
― SongOfSam, Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
sorry guys, Vespertine was released in 2001 and beats all Radiohead material from that decade, so she wins the award for highest peak in 2000s
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
Amnesiac still better than Kid A
just have to get this stuff off my chest
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
no fucking way is Amnesiac better than Kid A
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
an inferior version of "Morning Bell", the terrible "Hunting Bears", the overly swampy, murky mix of "I May Be Wrong", the ponderously dull "You And Whose Army?"... There are some career highlights on that album but the lowlights torpedo the whole package.
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
I like Hunting Bears
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
Hunting Bears is the only one I don't really remember well off of Amnesiac. I like I May Be Wrong and YAWA though.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
tbf Hunting Bears is kind of a random intro for Like Spinning Plates in album order
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
also speaks to the understated sexual preferences of unknown band member
best songs on the album are the one-two punch of "Pyramid Song"/"Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors"
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
we like opposite songs on this album, DJP
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 October 2012 14:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
Pyramid Song and Dollars and Cents are the only songs I really listen to from Amnesiac.
Vespertine is better than Amnesiac, about the same as Hail to the Thief and worse than Kid A and In Rainbows.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't even dislike Amnesiac; it's just there are four other Radiohead albums alone I like more (HTTT, Kid A, OK Computer, The Bends)
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
I've been listening to those live Bjork discs she used to release on One Little Indian after each tour. Specifically the Homogenic and Vespertine ones. I kind of like them better than the studio versions? There's something very tingling about hearing those crazy studio fantasia arrangements being executed onstage that really sells them for me. On the albums they never quite move me.
― you can kill things and still like them, i don't know (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
I've been avoiding this thread but
tbf Hunting Bears is kind of a random intro for Like Spinning Plates in album order― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkalso speaks to the understated sexual preferences of unknown band member― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Made me actually spit tea on my monitor with laughter.
Hunting bears was written by Ed. I never considered that interpretation before, but now I shall. At great length.
(I voted Bjork but I don't think that surprises anyone.)
((I also far prefer Amnesiac to Kid A but it's a personal preference for B-sides when it comes to Rh))
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:03 (7 months ago) Permalink
I need to revisit Vespertine; I played the hell out of it for a year and then never listened to it again
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
Bjork one of those classic 'off the bus' artists.
I did get that nice 'family tree' box, but hey I like 3" CD collections with a 5" CD also, and seeing as that's the only one...
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think Vespertine and (maybe?) Kid A were the two albums I first listened to pre-release due to lol internet
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
I've had times in my life where I've loved both these but now I feel like I really never need to hear any of their albums again. With OK Computer, I think the above quote "a better U2" is spot on. But I don't really like regular U2. So it's just, "yeah it's good, but not really my alley". I like Kid A quite a bit but I'm never in the mood to listen to it; the mood they go for is done so much better on other (older) albums. I thought Hail was pretty good and maybe my go-to when I just wanna hear some Radiohead (never happens). Bjork is one where I really like the anthemic stuff she does like "Big Time Sensuality" and "Isobel" and "Alarm Call" but am kind of left cold when she does like serious mood music where you can tell she worked overtime perfecting every last note, I dunno it just sounds overworked to me. Plus I don't really like the "stick the mic down your throat" technique either. Like recently I've gotten into Jun Togawa, she's really everything I hoped Bjork would be; equally eccentric, but she plays into her own silliness a bit. Her lyrics are all in Japanese which means I only understand them slightly less than Bjork's.
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
Just dug Vespertine out for the first time in ages (thanks, thread) and it's even more awesome than I remember it.
I had never actually listened to Medulla all the way through before, and it's as strange and weird and awesome as everyone says it was.
So although I was feeling all eyerolly and "this is just the poor man's Aphex Twin vs Madonna thread" it's been good for me.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
I saw Kid A in my coll the other say, went "aww" but didn't dig it out. Guess I'd still ove it.
I saw "OK Comp" for £2 in Morrissons, went "oh" but continued not to own it.
Which is odd, as I bought a "OK Comp tribute" CD recently, still haven't actually played it...
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
xpost well, the two albums chosen have been good ones to pair, I guess.
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
Vespertine was where I got off the Björk train. I listen to it once a year to remind myself that I still hate it.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 18 October 2012 18:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
:(
it took a while to grow on me, and song-wise I think my favorites are on the 90s albums
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
I listened to Kid A for the first time last year. I don't know what made it any better than say, Dave Matthews Band or something
pretty otm, radiohead-worship is so baffling to me.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
I made a remark about it at the time, but I can't find it in search, so my exact impressions are lost to me.
I remembered this now! My remark was that absolutely nothing stood out for me except that part of one of the songs reminded me of part of "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles.
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
Which I preferred.
Listening, I remember that Vespertine is probably the least-abstract Bjork album. Not as bombastic as the louder moments of any prior album, and not quite as experimental with song structure as later albums, definitely a less-varied sonic palette.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 19 October 2012 00:01 (7 months ago) Permalink