Radiohead - The King of Limbs

Lotus Flower >>>>>>>> 75% of In Rainbows

(& actually pffft to anyone acting like OK Computer wasn't the most consensus of Radiohead picks, certainly the first EoY consensus pick, tho perhaps that's what u meant...?

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forgive me - but what's EoY?

End-of-year

oh, I meant to include OKC as a consensus end of the year pick.

in rainbows part 2 was better than this

not that this is bad, but I've listened to it like 8 times now and I still can't really remember which song is which

Surely this is the best example of this meme there has been or will be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYERyX7XIA

not that this is bad, but I've listened to it like 8 times now and I still can't really remember which song is which

Hey, don't talk shit about Hail to the Thief.

This seems a little back-loaded on the first few listens. I think I still like it a lot though.

finally listen to this for the first time. it just seemed kind of there...floating on top of everything, made me want to get high though. 37 minutes and only eight songs seems short but this was only the first listen and was just OK.

So I still haven't heard this. It will have to wait till tomorrow.

But a friend and I sat up talking all night and listening to select tracks from Pablo Honey onwards, including B-sides like 'Faithless The Wonderboy', 'How Can You Be Sure' and 'Molasses.

It's actually incredible how far this band has come and how consistent the output.
Someone I know who works for a large record company wrote today on Facebook: "Note to the world - Radiohead haven't made a good album in over ten years". I could only say that they've never made a record that's disappointed me.

I don't count myself as a huge huge fan, but Radiohead have been a part of my life since The Bends helped me through those horrible pubescent years; OK Computer challenged my burgeoning ego as a sixth former; Kid A and Amnesiac soundtracked my university years while Hail To The Thief confirmed me as a working adult with a proper girlfriend and a workaday job... In Raibows came out on the perfect Autumn day, a couple days after I turned 27. No job. Broke. Not a care. Went out cycling with my friend. At ease. Not thinking too much.

Then you listen to Lewis (Mistreated). Just another random b-side. And now you think they're the biggest and most deserving band in the universe. These grunge opportunists. These impassioned opportunists. These negative creeps.

Hail to Radiohead.
I can't wait to hear what they've got in store for my thirties.

sorry /drunk

of course i'd like to sit around and chat, but it's 5 in the mornign and i've been on the stoli. goodnight ilm.

'nite!

if you're having trouble sleeping, try putting on the new album!

i haven't got it yet.

hypnotised by old tunes.

currently: in limbo

if i could move i'd go to bed and/or download the new album. but i've no money till monday. bah!

tempted to use soulseek. this is really bad, isn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOlqBtl_cYg

riding home at night on a country lane. school tomorrow. headlights coming up fast.

it's not really bad, in fact it's not even bad, it's just not amazing or memorable

i remember it from 15 years ago.

For me this album really lacks a centerpiece. I like/love it, and it's not going to affect how much I stan for Radiohead, but it's definitely not my favorite, and I think they can do better. And I think they will in the future. It's just a strange interlude but it doesn't sound like an end to their ability to write great music.

Because this still contains man elements that I love.

many. not man. I don't know how I feel about man elements.

Someone I know who works for a large record company wrote today on Facebook: "Note to the world - Radiohead haven't made a good album in over ten years".

Sour grapes?

Tim F is wrong about the Pony one.

THIS is the best version of the meme there has been or ever will be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnjOUKXqm9Q

Anyone else notice that in the fine print for the 'Newspaper' edition that it takes 25 days from dispatch to be delivered? So it will more than likely be June before we get 'em over here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYq1oqtQ7k0

I really am glad about this video, because the meme is way more entertaining than the album.

new thom dancing meme is also way more entertaining than more reactions, so i'll chop chop -

1st listen - what are ppl complaining about, the production is typically gorgeous and musicianship is A+
2nd - 4th listens - eh, there's no Reckoner on here, or anything I can remember or hum later. Radiohead - tunes = wtf?
5th listen (several hours later) - still can't really hum anything but the sound is more addictive. Great I have a new tuneless drug.

First thoughts - http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/radiohead-the-king-of-limbs/

after some more listening i think 'codex' is a worthy successor to 'pyramid song' and 'sail to the moon', really lovely tune

I like them at their most krauty so this is as up my street as they ever get, by and large.

As I alluded to above, this is their first album which is absolutely fine - just fine - while it's on, but truly pales in comparison to their previous output. It's nowhere even near "The Eraser." Should have been a free-EP teaser for a forthcoming album that has songs on it.

(Lack of songs on this album being hyperbole, but nothing here jumps out as a particularly strong song, or even a strong composition.)

Speaking of hyperbole, LOL at this NYTimes take: "Most of the new album is so vertiginously layered that it’s plausible the band spent nearly four years in the studio making it." Four years? Come on.

Benny Hill meme doesn't work because there is no need to speed up what is already ridiculous and fast.

i dig this record so far.

not as immediate or warm-sounding as in rainbows. but for as much as i loved that album, after i'd digested the hooks, i felt little need to return to it. i think this king of limbs disc will be the reverse: it will take a long time for it to sink in, but in the meantime and beyond, i'll want to keep listening to it (kind of the way i felt about OKC and Kid A, actually).

Listening to Radiohead - 'Vegetable' youtube.
It's like they took verse chorus verse and perfected it (radiohead style). Dropping memorable chorus sounds is a plus in this case.

You know what keeps coming to mind with the mutual release date excitement discussion? "Well I learnt what 10:17 release times meant in GMT ages ago." But then I guess that is a reference only like rev and j0rdan and a few other goons will get and p4k don't write articles about

Of all the previous Radioheads, I think the one I miss the Radiohead who would never record a guitar unless they could make it sound like something other than a guitar - a synth, a creepy alien noise, a shimmer, a screaming chainsaw noise, anything. They've moved away from this since HTTT. A lot of the guitar sounds are kind of dull on this record and it would really benefit from a bit more sonic colour.

the wife loves it

http://i.imgur.com/N4xno.gif

a bunch of weird radiohead tweets certainly makes it sound like more is coming.

1st listen: not bad, but boring

giving it another try w/breakfast

listening... 3 tracks in - there needs to be a hook. nice stream of consciousness but the stream digs into itself and nothing else. sort of similar to 'In Raibows' in that aspect

i dig this record so far.

not as immediate or warm-sounding as in rainbows. but for as much as i loved that album, after i'd digested the hooks, i felt little need to return to it. i think this king of limbs disc will be the reverse: it will take a long time for it to sink in, but in the meantime and beyond, i'll want to keep listening to it (kind of the way i felt about OKC and Kid A, actually).

― Daniel, Esq.,

if you got to digest the hooks they aren't really there, you know what I'm saying?

naw. some stuff's buried at first and then clear as a bell later. all sorts of things. like on oar.

what is oar?

the greatest jamband that Rockville, MD ever produced, that's who

xp It is used to propel a canoe