Radiohead - The King of Limbs

"Jamie Oliver unexpectedly turns up and doesn't cook me any food"

xp I was at the Park gig - the field was rammed, the sound further up the hill was pitiful and the weather was crap. In that context, hitting people with a string of Kings of Limbs tunes was never going to work. Within a few songs people were leaving like someone had let off tear gas. It wasn't a bunch of drunk dimbos wanting Creep. And it's not that KOL material is new - it's that it's low-key, low-energy and relies on good sound to bring the details, so it was just the wrong set for the environment.

I never understood the hate for Pop Is Dead. It's not a great song, but it's early Radiohead, y'know, trying to find their footing before The Bends, trying a bit of a Britpop direction, see if it works. Faithless The Wonder Boy should've been a single.

There was a TV show, Johnny Vaughan/Caitlin Moran, forget the title, and Ra were playing a bunch of songs, all boring. Then they did "Creep" at the end, and I was like "whoa!!". The only format available was on "Pop is dead" as a live version, so I bought that.

"The first in a series of remixes on 12" vinyl will be released on Monday 4th July (or Tuesday in the US & Canada).

The series kicks off with Caribou remixing Little by Little, and a remix of Lotus Flower by Jacques Greene, both of which we we're really excited about.

Hopefully you will find the vinyl in your local independent record shop, but if not, you can buy by mailorder here from the 4th. If you don't have a record player, digital versions will be available here, here, here and here. Or you can just listen to them here:"

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/110701/caribou-jacues-greene-remixes

these are lovely!

Huh, weird thing was I was pretty sure I heard a DJ spin what sounded like a remix of said song last night on the way out of a good local spot around here -- I wonder...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cML8bGN_8U

woah! You and Whose Army-esque. This and "Staircase" make me wonder what they're planning on doing w/ these spare songs.

also, nice to come back to he King of Limbs with fresh ears after an extended break.

the whole performance is here in excellent quality.

The performance of Give Up the Ghost they did for this is literally the only version of it I have ever liked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMJzgH3r9o&feature=player_detailpage#t=2892s

Ahh, apparently linking to a specific time doesn't work here. Just click on 10 in the menu.

thankig u 4 the videos!!!

i didn't hate king of limbs or anything but the basement show is much much better than the record?

Bloom sort of starts out a mess, gets transcendental toward the middle (where the horns first enter), and then ends on a bit of a mess as well

The second percussionist sure fills out the sound nicely.

so weird that i only found out that this thing existed today. i don't know if that says more about radiohead's diminished profile, or my diminished interest in them.

I don't know if i've ever read anything about glastonbury that want totally stupid. Festivals are horrible anyway, radiohead should do whatever they want

Exactly.

people really seemed to not give a shit about this record

I feel I'm going to end up listening to these songs or variations of them for some time, since Radiohead is back into not just commissioning remixes, but doing them for tons of songs and connecting with artists I Iike.

xp honestly, I think of this as a deliberately subtle & casual timestamp release (didn't they even refer to it as a "newspaper album"?) and not some Grand Statement. I also think it'll age pretty well, even if it'll never be anyone's favourite RH record.

Yeah, I'll have to agree there, T. -- it just settles in nicely, and has turned out to be one of many good records released this year in general. Nothing wrong with that.

I like it a hell of a lot more than I'm Rainbows

So the remix series has been boring as hell

yep

a lot of them are better than the originals. the four tet one is great.

the Caribou one is good, but I don't know if that's just because Little By Little is a very good song.

Four Tet one is the best of a bad bunch i think. They all seem pretty half-hearted but the below par source material probably doesn't help

gotta repost this:

Topic: So Radiohead's going to have the top album for the 90s 00s and 10s
Message: Assuming LP8 will be a typical Radiohead album

TBF, even if I were a top producer I'd shirk at the idea of doing a decent KoL remix. The Caribou one is all very well, but you can tell he's struggling to do much with it.

Stephen Colbert meeting Radiohead is such a special occasion, a regular episode of "The Colbert Report" wasn't sufficient.

The Comedy Central show will air its first hour-long episode Sept. 26, when Colbert sits down with the British rock group.

Radiohead will perform four songs, featuring material off its most recent album, "The King of Limbs," as well as the recently debuted and unreleased track, "The Daily Mail." An additional song will also be performed for the online version of "The Colbert Report."

Colbert said in a statement: "I look forward to meeting the Radioheads and leveraging their anti-corporate indie cred to raise brand awareness for my sponsors."

"people really seemed to not give a shit about this record."

i've been briefly pondering my *current* lack of interest in radiohead. not just in the recent album but also stuff i've previously loved.

Burn out? I kinda feel the same way. It's not that I'm not interested, it's just that I'm not compelled to play them like I used to.

...and I genuinely LIKE the new album!

stephen colbert's funny

So, SNL tonight.

oh jeez... that was not their best performance, eh?.
makes me not feel so bad about not getting presale tix to roseland.
and i'm a huge fan of tkol.

hahahaha i remember this album

http://i.imgur.com/BeoOv.png

Phil might be the oldest Radiohead member but he looks like the healthiest in that photo.

Regarding the performance I think all of them were good but thom yorke has long lost the ease on his falsetto. Every now and then he nails it but he's more often off than not.

Several men that look like old lesbians in that photo tbh

second drummer guy looks like photo-composite of existing drummer + the guy who played the farmer in babe + philip roth. also v bad haircut for heartthrob j greenwood.

thom yorke has long lost the ease on his falsetto. Every now and then he nails it but he's more often off than not.

the kind of quivering, occasional mis-fire to his falsetto is part of his thing, i think, like it makes it more sound more excitingly precarious somehow

falsetto was getting seriously old - it's appreciated that he doesn't dote on it so much. i only imagine he justifies his not using it in the wake of coldplay/james blunt/etc

falsetto was getting seriously old - it's appreciated that he doesn't dote on it so much. i only imagine he justifies his not using it in the wake of coldplay/james blunt/etc

― kelpolaris

This is actually true. In interviews circa kid a/amnesiac he stated that one of the main reasons he started doing electronical manipulations of his voice / deadpan delivery was because he didn't want his voice to start sounding like the ones on all the other britpop bands.

ah! neat. i thought i remember hearing a similar quote that more had to do w/ their de-emphasis on guitarplay in the face of so many bands (like coldplay) miming their style. i would've thought that this would've also translated to yorke not putting his falsetto on employ as Kid A sorta evidenced but by the time In Rainbows was released (with a particular song so "truly falsetto" that yorke sounds like a faraway whale) i disregarded whatever memory i might've skewed of the quote. hm, maybe it's the same one?

Damn... I don't really remember the source or the quote.... maybe it's the same interview. I remember it was something about him having some sort of personal crisis... being very dissatisfied with the sound his own voice at the time and how 'precious' it sounded. He said the lyrical themes on 'Kid a' were very cruel and he didn't want to sing them in a straight manner, using effects on his voice allowed him to be some sort of detached, clinical messenger.

That said... I don't think there's anything incredibly cruel about the lyrical themes on kid a (ok computer and the bends work with far more depressing and straightforward messages) but I think it's great that he has a rationalization of the creative elements on the album and why it's supposed to sound the way it sounds.