Radiohead: Classic or Dud?

Agree with almost everything Turrican says other than this bit:

However, I find the rest of the record incredibly tedious and very going-through-the-motions-like. 'Sail To The Moon', 'Scatterbrain' and 'A Punchup At A Wedding' are all crippling borefests.

The latter two are some of my favourite bits on the album. HTTF is flawed by wonky sequencing. Take out a few ho-hum bits, rearrange it and you'd have had a killer record, not too far off the OKC mark IMO. There There is their best song.

HTTT is the first Radiohead album where I can't remember how all the songs go (think there might be one on Amnesiac). I'd be tempted to try rearranging HTTT to make it less flabby.

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2002/Mar/Week4/1066038.jpg

I've found stuff to like about every Radiohead album since "Amnesiac," but the times I've seen them in support of "HTTT" or "In Rainbows" I've found them less than inspiring and sometimes even rote live. Then again, that aforementioned Hutch Field summer 2001 show in Chicago is one of the best shows by anyone I've ever seen. It had been about a week of record breaking heat and humidity, then for the night of the show it suddenly chills out into perfect weather. The city had been really flighty about even letting this happen, so there were no alcohol sales, which love or hate your beer certainly cut down on assholery. The crowd was so into it, so chill, plus "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" had had enough time to sink in that people all recognized what they were listening to (in every sense). And then of course mere weeks later September 11th happened and everything has sucked to varying degrees ever since.

I got a similar feeling from the crowd at the show I saw at Suffolk Downs that year. They were hanging on every blip, digging the new songs as much as (or more than) the older ones, even though few of us could see shit. There was beer, but assholery was at a minimum, as a good portion of the crowd was underage. Suffolk Downs is at the end of a Logan runway, which made for some insanely spectacular effects (huge jet flying low-ish over the crowd, over the stage, and sailing into the distance right at the slow midsection of "Paranoid Android").

Thom, Johnny and MF Doom collaboration track:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12715-retarded-fren/

Really hoping the full album rumor is in the works.

i heard that through once & thought it was terrible; idk if there is like an 'indie guys do hip hop' mindset in which they felt they should make like a loop that's v evidently a loop, rather than just being naturally musical & doing their own thing. doom unusually spiky + bad on it also.

agreed. he doesn't seem to work so well at a slower pace like that (dull) track. i like Doom and Radiohead, so obv was hoping for better.

I don't even understand why it's being called a collaboration when it's clearly just a sample from Jonny's older solo stuff.

Just posting this cuz I love her and am proud of her, but my gf took some nice shots from the photo pit at Bonnaroo on Friday.

http://blogs.metropulse.com/the_daily_pulse/assets_c/2012/06/IMG_8546small-14502.html

Well, that din't work.

Photo is here:

http://blogs.metropulse.com/the_daily_pulse/assets_c/2012/06/IMG_8546small-14502.html

Whoa, great shot!

Oh, and they're very good looking. That of course helps. ;-)

― masonic boom, Monday, July 2, 2001 12:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^ still OTM.

Lovely picture, BTW.

jfc can't there just be one general radiohead thread, now that the 2000s are over

everyone is sleeping on the suspiria soundtrack

Haven't gotten around to it yet but the single was lovely.

of the more song-oriented material, "unmade" is a gem

as for the rest, i don't expect it to resonate with everyone, but this is quietly some of the most experimental, patient, satisfying music in the entire radiohead catalog

https://radiohead.com/library/

finally, a better quality version of their drunken "winter wonderland" cover

Videos appear to be in 1080! Only looked at ‘Just’ so far though. Looks better than it did on YouTube.

https://www.radiohead.com/library/curatedby/colin/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Djc5z-EMg

Ringo Starr had a solo career I guess

Why isn't this a Kinks cover?

ed, no

once it kicks in it rises to the level of forgettable

Sadly otm.

now i'm imagining ed back in the 2000s when he was always trying to get radiohead to do the full-on back to the basics, return to The Bends sound album, and then a moment of weakness the other guys relent and Ed plays the demo for shangri-la

oh i quite liked "brazil" so i was optimistic but this is not good at all

Big Pomplamoose influence, tasty!

this sounds like something I'd make, and that's not a compliment

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/22/radioheads-thom-yorke-and-jonny-greenwood-form-new-project-the-smile

Thom & Jonny have formed a new band The Smile with Tom Skinner, who's the drummer in Sons of Kemet. Nigel's producing of course

That group photo is pretty hardcore, Thom looks 110 years old there.

And yet Jonny looks about 19

I wonder if they decided on the name before or after taking that photo

lol

So is that the right or the left SoK drummer

https://watch.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/livestream-1/backup/livestream1.html

just tuned in and they're playing right now. sounding very krauty which is promising. jonny's on bass

they apparently played unreleased radiohead song "skirting on the surface" that's been floating around for like 15 years now

several of the songs were really good. it's been announced that colin, phil, and ed have been sacked. colin because both thom and jonny can demonstrably cover it and their overall sound with just bass + guitar is really lovely and open, a relief of sorts from the pre-sacked radiohead. phil was sacked because this new guy is a much better drummer, has jazz-chops and can thus improvise, his feel and approach is much more appropriate for modern-day thom+jonny, and because he has hair. also because can he sing, too. ed was sacked because he's fucking macca now

Radio ... dead? Say it ain't so.

Is the bassist the only one that has no had his side project yet?

....wow, really?

colin hasn't released any solo albums or anything but has played on a bunch of other things here and there, including solo work by thom, jonny & ed, and a gaz coombes album

they've been sacked

Nah.

i can personally confirm karl's source on this.

lol

so what you are saying is the people responsible for saying they've been sacked have been sacked?

‘They’ve been sacked’ is a classic Thom lyric iirc.

it was ed sleeping with paul that was the final catalyst for the sacking

Ooh, I like this opening song of the set's 4+4+3 11/8 rhythm--the following one's cool too, with a unison-line main riff that I could imagine Theon Cross from Sons of Kemet playing as bassline-on-tuba

Also, someone obv needs to radio Ed

the first song is "skirting on the surface", here's older versions of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGm1dxyOSco

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