Screamadelica vs Kid A

screamadelica is fun, kid a isn't.

this also resolves the timeless "john coltrane vs the wiggles" debate

i can't believe it but i'm actually voting for Screamadelica. must be that acid trip at Joshua Tree.

wiggles aren't fun but they're stronger than fun, they're scaring.

wiggle and learn

I've never liked The National Anthem. And not just bcz Primal Scream & early Spiritualized and Stereolab and even 13 era Blur did more convincing free jazz freakouts. (so it's not just IDM that snobs can sniff about on this album.)

It's that if you listen to either version of ITMKE, it's that prowling bassline that adds a swagger to the menace which makes it oddly emotionally conflicted. Like yeah, this is evil, but it's seductive evil in that apocalypse. You can see why ppl would go for that evil.

The bassline on National Anthem really lets it down. It's the evil of incompetence rather than the genuine seductive malevolence of ITMKE.

Sorry. ITMKE is possibly my fave Scream song but I have to be in a cage-pacing mood for TNA.

Well, what can I say? For me, Kid A is sequenced fine, the basslines are cool too, and while I'm here.. to all my old bands I ever played bass for: Do not mistake my reticence to overburden your lovely music with overdecorous or fussy bass notes for incompetence, alright? Oh, you did...

ITMKE?

National Anthem was always my fave on Kid A because it sounded like an XTRMNTR out-take to me.

It took me a while too: If They Move, Kill' em.

Aha!

No, that's KMKY

I was wondering what the result was for this one.

Soon come, I guess..

I listened to Kid A on decent headphones for the first time in about a decade. That was interesting. There were all kinds of details I had either never heard or completely forgotten about.

Still prefer Screamadelica tho.

Winner goes on to face Technique. ;-)

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Was it this thread that suggested I dig out the Apparat DJ Kicks? He seems to have such a high hitrate for picking out sparkly bobbins I will like. Or perhaps he just sparkles everything up. I wish I liked his albums as much as his collabs and DJ sets. I should dig out Walls again. But I listened to his last one and it just sounded entirely too much like U2 in places.

(I know everyone has been saying how much it sounds like Radiohead but it sounds like the bits of RH I don't like.)

I know this is wrong, but I voted for Screamadelica despite not having heard Kid A. But there are so few records I prefer to Screamadelica, what are the odds Kid A would be one of them?

Voted option 3 by using Firebug.

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Come on Screamadelica.

Sounds like you enjoyed it too much.

Or he's having a Harry Hill moment

I just don't feel that way about Radiohead...

C'mon Thommy! Don't fight it, feel it!

http://i.imgur.com/KYkY3.jpg

WOO! HEY!

Whoops, sorry, I voted for the other one. ;_;

We're gonna have a good time! We're gonna have a party!

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/800/thom-yorke-djs-coachella-2-608x608.jpg

We wanna be FREE to DO what we wanna DO.

And we wanna be free to ride our MACHINES without being HASSLED by THE MAN!!!

http://i.imgur.com/q317F.gif

(Shit, I always forget. That line's in the film, but it's not in the song, is it?)

It's that bit at about 3:25 where, after the "I'm gonna get deep down, deep down, woo, hey" spoken bit, and then there's this groovy bit of house piano and then suddenly THE BIGGEST MOST REVERBED OUT GUITAR CHORD IN THE WORLD COMES IN about twice as loud as anything else on the track, and everything else is silent but the bongos and the kick drum, and I have heard that a million times over the past 20 years and it still scares the shit out of me every time. Such a spine-tingling moment.

I used to think that 'just what is it you want to do" and all that was from that episode of Star Trek where the enterprise got 'invaded' by hippies.

like, "We're gonna have a pardee.." was Kirk being sarcastic and getting some bongos out.

Not Knowing the film, obv.

Still, when I hear that dude say "and that's what we're gonna do" etc, and the kid in the background gets all keen..

It always sounds like it's gonna end really badly!

I have no idea if that's what happens in the film or what.

That would be an understatement.

But, still, Nancy Sinatra's hair stays amazing through the whole thing.

Oh, is that where she's called "Mike"?

I just read about the 'influences' of 69 love songs, it mentions her on the "Papa was a rodeo" song page.

Wow! Close!

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i voted for the winner with literally 1 minute left in the poll

thank you, some dude

closer than i expected. Wrong, but I figured on a Kid A rout.

Solipsism wins on the Internet. Who would have thought.

i voted Screamadelica but know deep down that Kid A is a better record. just have better memories for the former, fair results.

I did not expect it to be that close! Neither did I expect that winner!

I do actually think Screamadelica is the better record, but I think it's probably an age thing, that both Kid A and RH are more fresh in ppl's minds.

It's good to be surprised by a poll you thought was a lock-in though!