Radiohead - The King of Limbs

In Rainbows doesn't feel very memorable, surprising or important for me - if I only heard 15 Step, Reckoner and Jigsaw Falling Into Place again from it I'd be happy

Hail To The Thief otoh is immense and everything I ask of Radiohead and more - propah fucken widescreen that record

Ah well, you and me differ then. To some extent I actually like it so much because it doesn't sound like it's trying so hard to be 'important' as previous releases. Every song feels organic and unaffected.

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I love about half the tracks on HTTT, could definitely loose a couple though.

I disliked In Rainbows because I didn't think the songs worked well together. I enjoy those songs much more when I encounter them in isolation on Genius playlists than I do when I try to listen to the album; as a group, they don't really support or flow into each other very well, pretty much unlike every other Radiohed album aside from Pablo Honey.

can't tell if markers is being ironic or

― The image post from the hilarious "markers" internet persona (history mayne)

with the being excited for the record? not at all. i genuinely like radiohead

Again, I disagree. Works very well as piece IMO

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Wonder will 'Twisted Words' be on it? Or hey maybe 'Lift' at last lol. this site seems to think it might know what's going on. dunno mind:
http://www.citizeninsane.eu/tkol.html

― piscesx

It's a pretty good documentation of unreleased songs that they've been playing around recently. Unless 'burn the witch' ended up being renamed for something on In Rainbows it will most definitely appear this time around... remember I've seen that one mentioned frequently. Only song in there I recognize is 'follow me around' which I don't think has any chance of being released at this point but anything could happen.

Thing is, Radiohead are a band who don't do 'organic and unaffected' so well - they're at their best when there's a sense of engaged and intelligent contrivance - they never 'jam', they control every detail masterfully and present every narrative as a hotwired, energy-packed and pristine mechanism whose internal logic has been endlessly considered and whose consequent Importance is implicit in its twists and turns. Other bands do 'organic and instinctive' really well, but Radiohead trying to do that left me cold - it felt like a compromise, with them watering down their surprising and arch narratives but not really coming up with a compelling method in its stead.

And yeah, In Rainbows as an album loses that sense of control and logic which all of Radiohead's other albums are bursting to display. 'Look at me, I'm fucken SEQUENCED'

Yep, they work better in a calculated, controlled environment, I reckon they wouldn't make a decent jam band.

in rainbows is their best album btw

I also liked In Rainbows more when I play it in random order; it made me briefly think my first impression of the album was wrong. (I had a similar thing happen with Pulp's This Is Hardcore which I loathed until I shuffled it; hearing it that way broke my preconceived notions and let me enjoy it in its original sequence. With In Rainbows, trying to play it in retail order reinforced how annoying I found the album as released.)

in rainbows is their best album btw
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I think this record will sound like dubstep.

oh god

haha I would be 100% behind that

I'd agree with Rainbows being their best too if you hadn't gathered already. It's miles off from being jammy, thank god, and still very highly controlled. But toning down the overwroughtness a few notches really suits the band, for me. There aren't so many instantly show-stopping moments as previously, but there's still masses of drama on the album, it's just subtler, less immediate and ultimately more satisfying.

well, a dubbier sound MIGHT work tbh - they'd have to do something interesting with it but it could be OK. my #1 album of last year was a 90's dude kinda getting his dubstep on so...

Hail To The Thief otoh is immense and everything I ask of Radiohead and more - propah fucken widescreen that record

lj knows where it's at

My main problem with In Rainbows is that it lacks unarguable tunes tbh. Understated and subtle Radiohead resulted in A Punchup At A Wedding which is one of my favourite Radiohead songs, but that one's taut and nervous and unearthly and dramatic in a way that only a few of In Rainbows' tracks approach

I feel very strange going into this album, because I used to love Radiohead's music, and now I don't get much pleasure out of it.

I will never forget finding out about In Rainbows...anticipating it like hell, and there on that Wednesday morning, seeing the update on the school internet. Limbs I'm just going to look forward to hearing this weekend, and try to reconnect and cast my mind back to my fandom of this band.

I guess if they're going to go "subtle"* I'd rather they do so like "Go To Sleep" or "I Will" rather than... um I can't even match In Rainbows song titles to the songs, which one is the one in 6/8?

* this seems like a very odd word to use in conjunction with Radiohead

yeah A Punchup isn't really *subtle* as such, more 'incremental', brooding, and eventually spectacular

I listened to In Rainbows in the downstairs part of the library for the first time, bunking off a morning lesson as I was so excited. The chills lasted the entire day.

I would've ranked it as no2 behind Kid A across their discography.

Punchup is the worst song on any Radiohead album, it's just plodding.

I predict this record will sound nothing like dubstep, either dubstep proper or some kind of James Blake indiestep. It would feel like too obvious a move.

hmmm...i...agree with lj!

I hate Punchup too actually. My jam on HTTT was always Where I End And You Begin..

What? No! "Punchup" is fucking great!

At any rate nothing is worse than everything on Pablo Honey that isn't "Creep"

or "Blow Out" or "Stop Whispering"

(There are too many songs on HTTT that compete for favorite song from that album for me, which is another reason why it's my favorite Radiohead album.)

xp I don't know about proper predictions, but it just seems likely to me that they'll respond in their own way to 00s dubstep the way they did to 90s IDM.

Either way, I like how we've had barely any pointers or hints about its direction. Such a surprise when we hit play I guess..

god yeah, where to start? 2+2=5 is one of the best opening tracks qua opening tracks of the 00's and it keeps on being amazing from there onwards

xp: last time we got this level of surprise, I hated the album

i'm hoping for a heavily electronic album that's influenced by all the recent shit they've been listening to, but i really doubt that's what we're getting.

xp I dunno, I was geeking out on live tracks they played on the 2006 tour, so actually the only proper surprise for me with IR was hearing how they'd sound all recorded, mixed and sequenced.

The Citizen Insane thing upthread could give us some hints, if we're inclined that way..

this album will be funky house

Chillstep

omg

Radiohead doing a witch house album would be so my type of shit

this album is going to be snorecore

i was just thinking the other day that a lot of the james blake album just sounds like a thinner 'everything in its right place'

It's going to sound like Asian Dub Foundation.

God, that is a terrifying thought.

The cover looks kind of Black Metal, maybe that's where they're going.

It's gonna sound like latterday Anathema, don't kid yrselves

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wrKlFhH7lCo/Seoa9XocppI/AAAAAAAAANA/hE1TQQSCaxU/s320/tapes.jpg

there is no format that can realistically compete with CDs in terms of sound quality

Any MP3 over 192kbps is fine with me.

Named after this?

OMG it's going to be their Joshua Tree.

That is one evil looking tree.

loooool Moka