Radiohead - The King of Limbs

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.

Radiohead Erase Internet

i wonder how many songs from 1997 are gonna be on this

xxpost:

Ideally, it should have been on The King of Limbs. Perhaps if they'd spent a couple more months on the record, both it and 'Supercollider' could have been!

hoping the rejected bond theme is an indicator of what to expect.

Indeed.

I'm pretty surprised that the website didn't fade back in at dawn this morning with some new music/news. Ah well, a little more waiting yet...

more like "The King of Limp (Cocks)" btw

― Keepin' it Rael with Peter Gabriel (King Boy Pato), Monday, February 14, 2011 8:47 PM (5 years ago)

still the best post itt

It wd be p hilarious if they like created that new company and erased all their shit and then, like, released no music at all and just silently retired

So, they've posted a video of a bird chirping at the crack of dawn on Instagram. Guess the LP actually is called The Dawn Chorus, then.

It's a nice little stop-motion animated chirping bird.

Apparently the otherwise still-blank website sometimes shows the bird video too, but I'm yet to spot it.

The website shows the bird video on the hour and half hour - I refreshed at 10am (UK) and it was there.

The bird is a teaser for a 'wicker man' sort of video... 'Burn the witch' reference I guess... video will be uploaded probably in the following hours. Jacknife Design is involved https://www.instagram.com/jacknifeprints/

They had previously worked with them for the There There video.

I've not managed to see the rorschach blob image yet myself that's meant to appear at 20 past and 20 to the hour.

I caught it this time, it was actually at 42 minutes past.

you know, i miss test patterns too, but not _that_ much.

Another new video on their website (& elsewhere presumably) with a link to WASTE.

There's a thing on Dead Air Space right now.

That sounds...different.