Radiohead - The King of Limbs

you are silly.

although i agree with the first bit of that

you are both wrong

Nude is their second best song.

"Avant-rock"

Wire vernacular?

I'm listening to Burn the Witch again. I think the first go round I was concentrating too much on the video. Definitely like the orchestration on this. Wouldn't be surprised if they'd been listening to Owen's stuff, but they've never been great at hiding their influences/

Bodysnatchers is the heaviest track on ir, yes. But 15 Step is no heavier than Weird Fishes or Jigsaw, to my ears.

jigsaw and videotape have always felt like the weakest 2 tracks on IR but on the whole it is immaculately sequenced and a wonderful album

house of cards is one of the best things they've done imo

i *might* allow reckoner

Jigsaw is lovely.

I mean, I like p much all the tracks on IR but Bodysnatchers is an outlier and without any other tracks in that style, it throws IR out of whack.

"jigsaw" was my immediate favorite for that record and, when i revisited it yesterday, still is. such a groove

uh from that record*

i can never forgive jigsaw for fading out jonny's guitar solo

Jigsaw is one of their best songs, the last minute is bliss

so many great codas on IR. Thom's vocals in the last part of 'Nude' are among his all time best 'ooooooooooooh's

I mean, I like p much all the tracks on IR but Bodysnatchers is an outlier and without any other tracks in that style, it throws IR out of whack

I think of 'Weird Fishes/Arpeggi' as its counterpart, not as blown out but another uptempo live band-format track.

Jigsaw is one of their best songs, the last minute is bliss

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.),

Thom's weirdly strained vocals ruin it.

I think I still resent IR because my favorite songs were relegated to the bonus disc - Down is the New Up, Last Flowers til the Hospital, Up on the Ladder, Bangers + Mash. I mean, Last Flowers til the Hospital is one of the best ballads TY ever wrote.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the sequencing on In Rainbows, myself. It's one of Radiohead's 4 best LP's, I think.

In Rainbows is the only Radiohead record with no weak moments. It's easily my favourite these days. Weird Fishes could well be my favourite song of theirs.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the sequencing on In Rainbows, myself. It's one of Radiohead's 4 best LP's, I think.

It did well in the Radiohead poll a few years ago, came 3rd I think.

i was spoiled by the bootlegs of the 2006 tour and the 2005 orchestral performance of Arpeggi. the album was a severe let down in comparison, especially Arpeggi. but my mind was filling in the blanks. dangers of keeping up with bootlegs...

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After OK Computer and Kid A? Makes sense.

Think so

Burn the witch grows on you, esp sans video

Video is cool but doesn't really match the song.

at abt 1:30 in "burn the witch", the mix foregrounds the staccato horror strings. that's the best bit, and it sadly never comes round again. remix wanted.

Brian Cant > Thom Yorke. Freddie Phillips >>>>>>> Jonny Greenwood.

I've never understood the impetus to drop into a fan thread and explain how other stuff is better than the band under discussion. Is it intended to be educational? trolling? hipster power move?
Although there are other artists I like better than R'head, I sometimes deliberately listen to their music in the FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT IT'S NOT THE ALL TIME ABSOLUTE BEST. Hope yall can deal.

Yeah I think I just set off the grenade on my own belt there. As you were.

I can't think of the last time I listened to Radiohead on purpose, so I put on In Rainbows today and loved every minute. Probably my fave after Kid A and OK Computer, and in some abstract way a great "final" record/capper.

(xp) lol, britishes reference alert

at abt 1:30 in "burn the witch", the mix foregrounds the staccato horror strings. that's the best bit, and it sadly never comes round again

The single seems to cut off very suddenly which suggests there's either a longer album version or the songs flow together in some ways. If it's predominantly orchestral I could see either scenario.

Radiohead haaaaate doing long songs, they're weird conciseness freaks

In any case Burn The Witch is like two minutes shorter than Paranoid Android so maybe it isn't a single edit, and they're highly unlikely to break the seven minute mark on anything.

one of their best traits imo

xp

have they ever even *done* a single edit?

the ending to Burn the Witch doesn't sound like a single edit at all to me. it sounds like the really predictable "build up and suddenly cut off" move that is used in many songs and pretty much every single movie trailer from the last 10 years

vacuum cleaner whooshing noise slowly overwhelming, swelling strings rising, sudden cutoff of everything followed by a soft bass tone and/or a muted explosive sound effect, sounds of heavy breathing, close-up of film star whispering "burn the witch", blackout, all caps "radiohead", blackout, "May 2016", brief credits, followed by instructions to put on your 3D glasses

yeah isn't it weird that Paranoid Android is their longest song at only six and a half minutes? Do they have a longer song?

Supercollider is longer I think

'Supercollider' is their longest song, it's over 7 minutes long.

Anyway, I'd rather bands packed in as many ideas as possible into a three minute long track than stretched them out over 20 minutes. Credit to Radiohead for realising how long their songs need to be.

Who here hasn't fantasised about a 15-minute Radiothon

Credit to Radiohead for realising how long their songs need to be.

Not like me, I know, but I will forgo the obvious zinger here.

Hahahaha!

And yet...

the chorus is kinda nice-ish
radiohead aren't making interesting music now
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What chorus?

I'm sure if they wrote a song that felt like it should be 15 minutes long, then it would be 15 minutes long. I don't particularly see the point in taking 3-4 minutes worth of ideas an overinflating it for the sake of it.