Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Guitar riff in the numbers is v neil young

I had assumed crescent moon. Otherwise, it would just be round.
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Oh, Neil Young makes sense. I was getting real flashbacks to Canadian classic rock radio.

Only listened to it once so far and am planning to do so again later. Was pretty good, great in parts. As ever sometimes they get a bit bland, and one track seemed to me like a retread of Optimistic with more strings. I forget which one.

the moon only has one shape so I am sure it is a spherical pool with craters.

along with the Jonny Greenwood point of reference, some of the big string swells recall Beck (Paper Tiger, Mutations etc.), as well as the general soft-edged, enveloping quality of the sound worlds.

i'm a dad fuck the world!!!!!!!!

digging this on first listen :)

There's no hyphen though, so maybe it is the moon that's shaping the pool, not a pool shaped like a moon.

so the moon shaped pool is the ocean then. we solved it.

Oh duh

Wouldn't "shaped by the moon" still require hyphenating "moon-shaped"? Sort of like "An artist-curated exhibition" or "an owner-operated business"

could it be like a half moon crescent or something

When my brother and I were kids we were baffled by the title "Like Water for Chocolate" and came up with a bunch of theories about what it meant, e.g. that it was part of an order -- "I'd like water, four chocolates, and a bowl of soup," or that it was a mishearing of a business name, "Lake Waterford Chocolates."

I don't think you need a hyphen because the idea of a "moon pool" is just stupid

and saying only that a pool is "shaped" is also stupid (I guess a pool on the moon would be cool, so I was wrong)

hot tub time machine 3: on the moon! would've been a good title

Ok I lied about knowing how hyphens work, but "the ocean" feels right.

then again, "shaped pool" may be Thom's name for all pools that are not infinity pools. maybe Thom saw his first pool that wasn't an infinity pool recently and thought it was gross. So he made Austin buy his album twice to stop this from happening again.

and Thom is saying "send all of these gross 'shaped pools' to the moon"

you can get different graphics on the vinyl liner of a pool (like i've seen em simulate tile etc) but it would be pretty cool to get a perfectly round pool then have the liner be a super HD photo of the moon so it would look just like the moon from above, just my thoughts

How cool would it be to have a pool with this on the bottom:

http://madmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2011/03/trip-to-teh-moon-1902_0.jpg

But yeah, ocean makes sense.

it's about skinny-dipping, you moon others in the pool, it is a sex album

or if you had walter becker printed at the bottom of the deep end of your pool. the true liner notes to the album. the true "vinyl liner" so to speak.

you could also put real hair where walter's hair and beard would be. the kids would have to search for diving sticks in the tangles of walter's hair how cool would that be?

I'm suddenly haunted by http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xiiXuDexL.jpg

xxpost - eazy - good thought leading on vinyl pool graphics that would be very cool

Maybe it's about the really awesome swimming pool in Thom Yorke's back garden. Radiohead pool parties are legendary.

i'm a dad fuck the world!!!!!!!!

― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, May 9, 2016 11:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

took me a few scans to reparse this to something other than "I'm going to dad-fuck the world!!!"

Signed up for a month of tidal for this, beyonce, and prince. I feel so manipulated. Listening to Beyonce first because this experience is sweet and sour but not at all moon shaped.

this album is sooo mellow. i like it. so where and when can i buy a digital copy of this? (i havent been reading this thread in case this has been mentioned already)

believe it is everywhere except spotify. link to radiohead store is on their twitter.

the radiohead store was really easy to use

it is still under construction, but there is a guestbook you can sign at the bottom

did i mess up by getting this on itunes

the guitar part on "Desert Island Disk" is totally Bert Jansch, love it

the tidal app shows circular album artwork that spins slowly as the music plays as if you've purchased a shit cd player from Sharper Image

spins at 3 rpm for some reason

a perfectly round pool would be awesome. I've never seen one. if a bunch of people were swimming laps, it would be like a figure 8 race car track, so exciting! and dangerous!

why wouldn't everyone just swim around the perimeter?

you're right, though, this is awesome
http://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/i/spin/image/spin_prod_944764112?hei=245&wid=245&op_sharpen=1&qlt=85

like radiohead's kid a redefined rock music the swimmers would defy conventional notions of what a lap swimming is

swimming in a circle doing an Australian Crawl seems hard, I can't even think about Butterfly or Backstroke. Overground circular pools are awesome though, I used to enjoy having everyone just go around the edge trying to create the biggest whilpool we possibly could. it never worked as well as you wanted.

I picture a much bigger circular pool at least 50m in diameter. although an olympic sized circular pool at 100m would be blow my stupid mind.

oh wait, I have it all wrong. an olympic pool would be 50m diameter. while a standard pool I mostly swam in for HS swim meets was 25m.

don't mind me.

the guitar part on "Desert Island Disk" is totally Bert Jansch, love it

I wasn't sure which acoustic player it made me think of most. I even thought of acoustic Steve Howe a little. Jansch might work.

I still haven't heard this yet - the weather's been too nice and to be quite honest with you it doesn't feel like the optimum time of year to appreciate a new Radiohead album. I've been keeping up with opinions of it online though, and I've found myself being reminded on just how much fucking hard work it is to dig through a zillion over-inflated "best thing eva!"/Patrick Bateman type posts from Radiohead die-hards. This is happening much more elsewhere than here, thankfully, and seems to happen every time this band release a record. It's one of those things I keep forgetting about when Radiohead are dormant/working on something, but now the album's out and it's like "oh god, it's this shit again" ...

Also: 4.02 average on RYM already! I'm sure the record's good, but I don't expect it to be "best album of all time" type of stuff, and only a day after release!

It's probably the sunniest Radiohead album in fairness.

heart shaped moon pool box

Also: 4.02 average on RYM already! I'm sure the record's good, but I don't expect it to be "best album of all time" type of stuff, and only a day after release!

It'll sink.

There's always backlash.

There's now a lukewarm 60 on the Metacritic page.

it begins...

RYM scores always start high, probably because early voters are more likely to be fans.