Give Up The Ghost! That's an amazing song. I still totally rate the last 5 songs on this album.
Though I do actually wish Staircase (but not Daily Mail which is blah) and Supercollider were on it.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ok remember that a year ago I posted a link to rearrange the tracklist in accordance to the newspaper version? ( http://www.oesquema.com.br/trabalhosujo/2011/02/28/the-king-of-limbs-newspaper-album-ou-codex.htm#comment-21810 )
Well, I was thinking about using this rearranged tracklist and adding supercollider and staircase in there to make it a 10 track album. daily mail and butcher I feel like they disrupt the overall aesthetic of the album and I'm fine with leaving them as b-sides. I was also thinking of removing Feral completely and adding Staircase in there because it sounds great in between lotus flower and little by little. Without removing any of the original tracks this is what I came up with. I think it sounds fantastic. Give it a try and tell me what you think:
1) “Lotus Flower”2) “Feral”3) "Staircase"4) “Little By Little”5) “Codex”6) “Give Up the Ghost”7) " Supercollider"8) “Morning Mr Magpie”9) “Bloom”10) “Separator”
― Moka, Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just had a quick listen to the Basement sessions and eff me if they aren't a zillion times better than the studio album. I just don't like the majority of KOL - too many experiments that don't work, like bad IDM. Bloom is the prime example - listening on good headphones makes it sound WORSE because you can hear all the horrible production clicks and it sounds like a CD skipping (not in a good way).
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
The King of Limbs is by far Radiohead's best EP.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 16 February 2012 13:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
RONG. That's How Am I Driving.
Wow, but atease really hate this record, don't they?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 16 February 2012 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I only ever listen to the Basement recordings at this point. So much so that I actually ripped them myself, edited out the studio chatter, and arranged into a playlist so I can basically pretend it is the record.
― Simon H., Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha, that's great. willing to share?
― willem, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
that sounds awesome.
― tmi but (Z S), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
love the cheapness of king of limbs, sounds homemade, like they made u a demo tape
― mod flanders (m bison), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, homemade is a good way of putting it. It sounds very organic, the accretions of time, like it grew that way, shaggy and slightly mossy.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wait, maybe that's ~Thom Yorke's hair~ I'm thinking of?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Airbag EP has some great tracks on it but the tracks don't really mesh into a nice whole. Also Palo Alto is on there, and Palo Alto shouldn't be on anything.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aw, I like "Palo Alto." If only for that crazy mean guitar tone.
― Simon H., Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
OMG Melissa we can no longer be friends. Palo Alto is not just one of my favourite guitar tones but also contains some of my favourite Thommist lyrical images of all time - "in a beautiful bombshell I throw myself into my work!" but also the maniacal boredom with which he repeats that "I'm ok how are YOU!" line so that it almost sounds like a threat.
Also I love the artwork / packaging so so much and also the story of Thom and Stanley getting hold of an EMI marketing research questionnaire and ~customising~ it in their special way, I just love it as an object as well as the music on it.
Also Meeting In The Aisle is still my favourite RH song ever but we've been through this before.
How can you not like Palo Alto o_0
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
ya Palo Alto is p all time amazing
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love Meeting in the Aisle, but Palo Alto is just annoyingly sing-songy in its melody. I know it's supposed to be, but it goes too far for me to be able to enjoy actually listening to it.
― Melissa W, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ok fair enough, because that is exactly what I love about it. It's got this real nursery rhyme, playground chant aspect to the melody, especially of the choruses that really highlights and brings to the foreground the repetitive and almost nonsensical aspects of ritual interrogative conversation especially in a workplace environment.
It's also one of those songs that totally sounds like he was describing when he wad talking about getting thoughtworms/earworms (obviously he didn't use thoughtworm as a phrase but he totally described a thoughtworm) and then he said words to the effect of "yeah I get them stuck in my head until I put them in a song, then they're out of my head and into YOUR head hahahahahahaha" ::maniacal Thom giggles::
Also Jesus Christ the textures on that song, did Jonny mic up a malfunctioning radiotelescope or what?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I keep moving from city to city and I always find myself singing along Palo Alto in my first days in the place even tho I don't even have it in my ipod and I've only listened to it on the Meeting People dvd.
― Moka, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
this clip
― Moka, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink