Radiohead - The King of Limbs

is there anyone else out there who loves "separator" the most on tkol? speaking of drums, it's got one of rh's sickest beats imo

^ Yes, I think it's my favourite on the record. Love the rhythm section and the vibe.

yeah Separator has my vote too but I am a sick beats man

*separates from the rest of the thread and invites ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ and m__k to sick beats island

jordan, let me know if i'm out bounds here, but i'll just say that the separator drum pattern is literally soothing to play. there's such a good balance between left and right, between leaning on the left for the closed hi-hats at the beginning, leaning right to do the 2 16th-notes on the bass drum, punctuated by an open hi-hat (lifting up the left foot/leg in doing-so) and then stepping back on the left again to close the hi-hats and begin the pattern again. it is left and right, in about equal doses, with a nice measure of balance and waiting and anticipating thrown in. it's like the Downward Dog of drumming

i imagine it's what "slapping" feels like to a bass player. like, there's this temptation to slap because maybe it feels good? but the difference is, this beat also sounds good

Beat is nice but I hate the way you can hear an audible join where you can tell it's a loop. I can't work out if it's deliberate or just sloppy editing

would be much better with a real drummer imo, it's not too hard. but then again, i don't think phil could do it. that led to the sacking of course

sick beats, man, this is some island

*there's only one disc, on this island. it is donkey kong country*

listening to this now (well, From the Basement) and I remembered I always lose the "1" in Little By Little which drives me mad. Also the riff is an endless staircase and the vocal literally climbs up it, little by little.

I've never taken much notice of Radiohead, but there's a live concert of them on at the moment and this band is not for the likes of me. Thom Yorke's out of tune vocals and idiotic stage antics are unbearable - his vocals are unbearable when they're in tune though tbf. I even hate the look of them: the pointless bald drummers, the guitarist with the fucking hat on. They are better than Muse though, who I saw on the same channel a few months back and who are literally the worst band in the world.

Jesus Christ, what a night, it's the Stereophonics now and it was Manic Street Preachers earlier.

"Thom Yorke's out of tune vocals and idiotic stage antics are unbearable"

posh Oxford wankers should be banned from music if they are shit.

Radiohead are fucking pez, man. Absolute shite!

wow more like analhead - the licking of rims jk this is not bad and yall need to calm down in the radiohead - the king of limbs thread

yeah, what's going on here. we're just trying to hang out and have a good time

i was going about my saturday evening, rearranging my living space. and now suddenly i have this problem

if he ever wants another lazy damaged eye I'd be happy to volunteer for throwing some battery acid and rubbing some industrial swarf in his other eye just get the lol of it!

two fucked up eyes would make him look really deep and enigmatic

calzino you DO know about the infamous Curse of Thom's Lazy Eye, right? it comes upon all those who make fun of his eye. it makes your every spoken word sound exactly like him at the end of climbing up the walls :-O

kick them off the island Karl

this has already been a hard month for a lot of people. ed o'brien, colin greenwood, phil selway -- all sacked. they found out via twitter. it's sad, but fair. but the curse of thom's lazy eye isn't up to me. the wheels are already in motion though

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Separator is my favorite song too. It’d be Staircase if that was a proper song on the album. Supercollider is also one of my favorite songs from these sessions… I hate that neither made it to the album. If I had to rank them it’d be:

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

I picked this thread to comment on because the concert was from the TKOL period and so there was a lot of what doglatin rightly described as 'indistinct, skittering drumming that sounds like it was recorded on a phone' - which, for some reason, they felt they need to reproduce live using two bald drummers and which, into the bargain, was surely dated as hell in 2012? Also guitarists who start to play guitar and some horrible digital synth sound comes out, like Wire tried doing, to universal derision, on their famously shitty "Manscape" album twenty years previously. I don't mind this band, apart from Thom Yorke, I watched the concert to see what exactly it is about them that people with fairly good taste like. I get the impression this was not a good period for them though.

u guys thom's been fired

It was only a matter of time. The Thom limb has been removed. The king of limbs is now Jonny and the band is now called Jonnyhead

Xp it is definitely least favorite period of theirs, though the From the Basement versions of them improve on most of them a bit.

Hey, bald drummer #2 played on all those Portishead and Roni Size records, please treat him with respect.

One bald drummer is fine, two is beyond the pale.

The baldshaming itt is a disgrace.

It was about time Radiohead released something that actually divided the fanbase.

Know what's beyond pale? Those bald-ass heads.

I won't come in here and say this is my favorite or the best Radiohead album, but Andy does like it a lot more than what seems to be the consensus. Also have to agree that the Basement versions are the better way to hear this material — though I do not mind listening to the proper album one bit. Further, I also agree that "Supercollider" and "The Butcher" are necessary additions whenever this era is considered. Not sure why, but I remember being extra excited when we were able to buy the 12" for those.

Don't really get the talk of the poor production on the album, but that's oddly how I feel about Hail to the Theif.

httt was their "lets rush thru this shit to get out of our label contract asap" record so that makes some sense

I actually love how TKOL sounds, can’t agree with HTTT hate how thin and crisp everything sounds in that one.

Probably my least favorite RH album based on sound alone.

That’s the actual album of theirs that should have been cut to 8 songs.

Everyone has their own preferred 8-track version of httt and they all rule in different ways

was recently reading a critique of Godrich on rateyourmusic.com on Parquet Courts' "Wide AwAAAAAAAAAKE!" (which he had nothing to do with) that got me trying to put my finger on what it is with Godrich's production sometimes.... but i dunno i think it might be more that the band eventually comes up with more interesting arrangements (e.g. how "The Gloaming" has evolved live). I'm not sure how to discuss production in depth. I guess my next step might be seeing how the hoffman dudes describe it. ANyway, for your entertainment:

When working on Room on Fire, the Strokes had originally worked with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, but scrapped it, deeming his production as "soulless." It's funny: hardly a bastion of soul themselves or known for their smarts, and yet the Strokes were able to see something that most people wouldn't catch up on for years (still haven't figured out): Nigel Godrich's whistle-clean, digital-doodad production seems to only work for Radiohead, and that sound has been just as influential on the indie-alternative scene of the 2000s as Radiohead themselves. No proof better than Danger Mouse, who followed closely in Godrich's footsteps.

God, what a hack. Brian Burton made his name on The Grey Album, a smart-stupid mash-up between Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' The White Album that frankly no one has heard more than twice, and then was somehow everywhere after: Gorillaz, Beck (notably, after Beck worked with Godrich), Sparklehorse, Broken Bells, Gnarls Barkley (with Godrich). And it was the same shit each and every time: clean and barren and soulless and not dangerous at all. Safety Mouse! He's the anti-Midas. All of it very much of its time, which would be fine except he's somehow still around producing songs for bigger names.

httt was their "lets rush thru this shit to get out of our label contract asap" record so that makes some sense

pitchfork had called it the "thom got beat up in the street and wrote this" record which might also make some sense.... they deleted the review tho, weird

For better or for worse Nigel is the sixth member of Radiohead. Not counting Pablo Honey and the random collaborations only The Bends and the Suspiria OST were not produced by him and he was still somewhat involved in those two.

I think his style is usually very “dry” but I can’t imagine another producer clicking as well with their vision OKC-onwards.

I think Nigel works for “soul-less” albums like Kid A or Amnesiac, albums like HTTT or In Rainbows I think would have been interesting to hear with someone else.

In Rainbows is my fave, Thief my least, so I'm really not sure how to even talk about this. Is dry production like when you stuff the kick drum with towels?

I feel more like we're talking about the degree to which the songs were fleshed out on the records.

I think Nigel works for “soul-less” albums like Kid A or Amnesiac, albums like HTTT or In Rainbows I think would have been interesting to hear with someone else.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, June 20, 2021 5:51 PM

except in rainbows sounds amazing.

Like what the heck were the Strokes looking for from him?

gravitas

orchestral arrangement for "meet me in the bathroom"

julian casablancas wanted to practice his english accents for jokes