Radiohead - The King of Limbs

'Supercollider' is one of my favourite things to come out of this era of Radiohead, definitely.

Played around with this last night. You just have to add the stand-alone singles in the middle and it becomes a full, pretty good album:

1. Bloom
2. Morning Mr Magpie
3. Little By Little
4. Feral
5. Supercollider
6. The Butcher
7. The Daily Mail
8. Staircase
9. Lotus
10. Codex
11. Give Up the Ghost
12. Separator

Really flows well.

On Give Up The Ghost, why does Thom keep singing "Radio 1"?

Haha. I think he's saying "Don't harm me" and "Into your arms" in the background.

Was at a jazz club in DC last year and the band played "Give Up the Ghost." Pretty interesting arrangement.

i'm listening to this again for the first time in ages, and it's fair to say this album has bits that sound like a complete mess and not in a good way. The drums on the first two tracks sound like they were put in as placeholders. Even on Little By Little, which I like a lot, it sounds like the rhythm is doing something completely out of touch with the rest of the song.

I love the drums + bass combo on this one O_O

If it were for me all radiohead albums would be this rhythm-driven... its the closest I get to a modern Can. It's the actual songs I have a problem with, the elements are there but it's too abstract at points. You can see they are mature musicians now but there's more interest in style than content. They know how to make a song sound cool and ambitious, they just need a song now.

the most interesting thing about "little by little" is how the rhythm is almost at odds with the rest of the song! it creates this neat, fluctuating pocket

live from the basement version of this record is probably their best record, but if i were playing god with the studio recordings i'd probably just have "staircase," "little by little," and "supercollider" followed by the second side

i never got into this. and i really like ok computer, kid a, in rainbows, some of the bends and hail to the thief

amnesiac has its moments

the singles make this album way better. weird that they didn't get included.

i would add harry patch too

I really like These Are My Twisted Words.

Ditto - think I prefer it to almost everything on the album. Nice and muscular.

Little by Little is a shoe-in for my ballot in the upcoming Radiohead poll

Think the only two from the actual album that'll make my ballot are Lotus Flower and Codex, though Supercollider and probably Staircase will be there.

you guys, the beat on 'little by little' isn't that weird (think of it like a dancehall beat), it's the guitar part that makes the whole thing feel out of sync. the guitar is on all upbeats, but the way it moves and the legato-ness make it feel like the downbeat. also the drums are way too quiet in the mix to hold it down, the kick is barely audible.

It sounds like two songs playing at slightly different tempos, like if you were listening to one song and you could faintly hear your upstairs neighbor listening to a different song.

It isn't the first time they try these sort of disorienting guitar parts. It reminds me of 'Go to sleep' and 'Jigsaw falling into place' but whereas I found those two songs unremarkable the percussions on 'Little by little' are all sorts of amazing. I swear it sounds like a distant relative of Tago Mago / Ege Bamyasi.

idk, those have some odd-ish length phrases, but are pretty easy to feel on a bar-by-bar basis. this one is in 4/4 but i have to concentrate just to feel it the right way.

I didn't care for _In Rainbows_ or _King Of Limbs_ and found them very disappointing, but oddly, all of these songs work great for me in a live setting

Personalised KoL era playlist I'm digging right now:

Bloom (Live from the Basement)
The Daily Mail
Staircase
Supercollider
Morning Mr Magpie (Live From the Basement)
Lotus Flower
Codex
Give Up the Ghost
Separator

i'm so glad they re-wrote 'you and whose army' with the daily mail. seriously.

Mine was better, chap ;)

I really hate daily mail, glad that one didn't make it. Staircase, though is one of the best songs from the whole set and it fits perfect inside the album. I can't believe they left that one out.

Give Up The Ghost
There's a signpost to future directions within this one, and it's not pointing where you think it is.

― Mark G

I'm now curious for what you meant with this.

So am I.

(was it me? Really?)

guess it really isn't pointing where you think it is

Ok, I have found the original message, they are one-line reviews of all the tracks.

Was I aping someone's style? Was I being funny? Or was I meaning what I said?

I don't recall anything about this album at all now.

I guess I'm going to have to hear it again, aren't I?

Well, I did a one track review before you where I compared it to Neil Young, maybe that was it?

Noh, I'm neither way wrt Neil

Man the live, martial version of "Lotus Flower" they used as set opener on the tour was maybe 10 000 times better than the album cut.

New album soon?

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/10/radioheads-new-album-is-finished-band-plans-to-tour-in-2016/

I still don't think that this is one of Radiohead's better albums, but 'Morning Mr Magpie', 'Feral' and 'Codex' have grown on me a hell of a lot recently.

Separator is the standout for me. it sounds 100x more natural and looser than anything else on the album. i love the way it unfurls

Yeah, there's a great moment in 'Separator' where the high-pitched guitars kick in.

I really like the melody and guitars on Separator but I hate that drum loop and it's especially strange when most of the album was so focused on intricate rhythms.

TKOL might be the only over-edited rock album of the 21st century

What about the remixes? What did we think about all of them?

We're agreed that the From The Basement version of TKOL are much better than this crumby album though, right?

export I hate most of the rhythms on this album. Like IDM gone wrong.

I think the From The Basement version of 'Bloom' is definitely superior. I think some are better, others aren't.

I think the From The Basement version of 'Bloom' is definitely superior.

OTM. And Magpie too. Prefer the studios of Lotus Flower and Codex.

The Basement version of 'Bloom' makes the album version seem like a sick joke.

While the live version of 'Morning Mr Magpie' is more guitar-heavy, thrashy and chaotic, I actually prefer the studio version because it's not. I understand that different people listen to the same things in different ways, but what I personally get from the studio version of 'Morning Mr Magpie' is that its rhythms and that funk-like guitar riff that runs throughout most of the song give the track a really uptight feel, like it captures a feeling of being uptight and on the verge of an emotional release that never happens, so it stays completely in this tightly-wound space perpetually with absolutely no catharsis that breaks the track out of that space, and I've come to realise that that is what gives the track its edge. Tension with no release. The live version, by comparison, seems to be all release and no tension.

On the other hand, 'Bloom' works better in its live incarnation for me because it does provide a feeling of release when the drums kick in during the instrumental break - suddenly the song opens up and begins to make a little bit more sense, whereas the studio version feels far more linear in that sense and, as demonstrated by the live version, doesn't quite give the track what it desperately needs.

New album very soon?

http://pitchfork.com/news/65175-radiohead-erase-internet-presence/

TS: 'How To Disappear Completely' vs. The Eraser

Thread inspired me to pull out the TKOL FTB sessions audio again - just lovely.

I feel like we need a Radiohead in 2016 thread, and Melissa W should start it.

Radiohead's upcoming tropical house album.

New album very soon?

I sure hope so.

If new Radiohead material is indeed about to be released soon, I'm at least hoping for something a little bit more realised than The King of Limbs. Two of the best tracks from the period ('Staircase' and 'Supercollider') weren't even on the record, and in hindsight the live versions are often superior.

Staircase is such an awesome song. I'm shocked they didn't save that one for an album.