Radiohead - The King of Limbs

I bought TKOL and got the "thank you" email, followed the link and it wanted to charge me £6.00 for the songs. Like fuck.

"The Butcher" is amazing.

after about a dozen listenings, i have a newfound appreciation for this album... that still doesn't warrant anything beyond this being my least favorite of their work.

but i still rather dig the subtleties, like the "blooming" of the guitars on... er, that last song... and percussion that really carries itself like no other album before it. sorta.

So, anybody got their newspaper album yet? Mine turned up about 10 minutes ago:

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you should post more pics! esp. of what being a "newspaper album" entails and maybe some snippets of those 650pieces of artwork

(because i cannot be bothered to buy this album)

Will do. The 650 pieces of artwork looks like a sheet of blotter acid.

yeah, i'm assunming that's it muting thru the partially transparent lettering and am not making a stretch when i say that it looks like christmas wrapping paper

but thank you! (in advanced)

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HP Lovecraft, that I didn't expect.

didn't know bob ludwig mastered it

I kinda hope mine doesn't get delivered today since its pouring outside and it will likely be sitting in the rain for hours.

The plastic bag it's sealed in seems like it would be pretty water resistant.

Oh good.

New Track "Staircase". Live from the basement.

http://bit.ly/mJpIN7

Wow, that's really nice. I know it kind of came and went without much fuss, but I really like King of Limbs - "Codex" would be in a POX for me.

That's a great song! Deeply atmospheric, it would've stood proud on KoL.

Wasn't sure about this new one at first until the 2-minute mark - lovely.

OMG THEY CLONED PHIL!!!!

oh wait.

He always was the best thing about that band, really.

Thom Yorke has never had a decent haircut in his life, has he?

Yep, it's too bad that wasn't on King of Limbs, either as an addition to the original tracklist or as a replacement for one of the weaker tracks.

Once I had a nightmare where my dad was much older, and his eyes showed that he had gone insane. And I sat there for what seemed like hours listening to him, coming to terms with my dad having lost his mind. For some reason that shot of Thom at the end of the clip reminded me a lot of that dream. A weird, fleeting glimpse of him at 76 years old, yelling at someone

Loving this song.

Weird to me how a guy who was so mind-bogglingly in-sync with the music in "Lotus Flower" keeps bouncing to a totally different beat in this.

but as it stands, i really dig this song and kinda wanna hear more. hopefully it doesn't lose that draw that only kept king of limbs to about a one-week wonder.

I'm so obsessed with this new song.

Staircase is far better than anything that was released on The King of Limbs. Maybe they're not a lost cause just yet.

For a long time I thought Give Up The Ghost was the only good track here, but now I'm a bit obsessed by Little By Little. Seems a lot of the tracks on this album are based on working around a "drone track" - not a single note, but a repetition of some sort on which to stack instruments and voice over. Give Up The Ghost has that acoustic loop/chant thing all the way through, and Little By Little seems to be based on an upwards-winding riff that plays snakes and ladders with itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCifQxW2t14

"Little By Little" saved this album for me.

xp

Little By Little was my favorite from the get-go; still is.

eh, new song just sounds like a non-poppy aimless trance like the rest of King of Limbs

imo if their krautrock stylings went for the gusto a little more things would be more exciting

unless that would make them sound like a aimless trance jam band

can you clarify what you mean by "trance jam band?"

I don't know. maybe something in the vein of sector 9

but I wasn't clear. if their krautrock stylings got more gusto is could end up sounding like an "aimless trance", "jam band"

I was thinking more that they should go listen to songs like Vitamin C and Hellogallo

lol, Hallogallo

Hey radiohead, have you heard of this band Can? They're German, check it out

They love the hell out of Can, I just think their appropriations come off a little limp. Enjoyable, but watery.

They've played Spoon live iirc

Ya they played "The Thief" live in like '98 and I remember a sticker w/ a blurb by Thom Yorker on the cover of the Neu! reissues when they came out

I would subscribe to the Thom Yorker in periodical form

Yeah, the did 'The Thief' live on the Kid A tour. That's what made me pick up Tago Mago!

I think I love it.

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

@Willem, Radiohead played 'Spoon'? Would watch etc

Radiohead's surprise show at Glastonbury
BAND'S fans are left disappointed after Thom Yorke and Co focus on latest album

RADIOHEAD started their secret gig nervously, admitting they haven't played songs from their The King Of Limbs album before.

Walking onstage THOM YORKE even bashfully said "Hello, we're called Radiohead" even though the audience, packed into the Park Stage, all knew who they were.

The band, watched by LILY ALLEN, ARCTIC MONKEYS and ELBOW, opened with Lotus Flower, Little By Little and Morning Mr Magpie from the Limbs album.

But it was older songs 15 Step and Weird Fishes from In Rainbows that got people interested.

But there was just too much self-indulgent nonsense and not enough hits.

Even Thom admitted they were the night's "budget-price U2".

He wasn't wrong.

Yeah as much as they grew on me, they're still the kinds of songs that make up a specific album's atmosphere but wouldn't necessarily translate live without some serious restructuring, or something else to get the crowd excited.

BAND'S fans are left disappointed after Thom Yorke and Co focus on latest album

Is it me or is this headline mind-boggling to other people as well? A band "disappoints" because they focus on their LATEST album. Yeah whodathunkit...

Festival crowd and the slew of writers following their trail... In two years they'll finally know the words to the KoL songs and be disappointed that a majority of the songs the band play then are from yet another new album. These bands always with their new albums, when does the hurting stop eh guys?