Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

WTF!?

Whoa

Which somehow makes this album feel even sadder.

otm

I haven't listened to the record much since May, but I imagine there'll be a lot of Blackstar-esque lyric parsing going on now, beyond the obvious True Love Waits ending.

So awful, only 48 with two young kids

As if we needed more reasones to say fuck 2016

oh no
i hadn't seen the above update, how sad

was just listening to this and came to post how this album has really had staying power for me and i like it more now than when it came out, one of their best up there with ok computer, kid a/amnesiac (which i sorta count as one), and in rainbows

Oh, it's better than In Rainbows. Probably their most consistent album, which is saying something.

The news about Yorke's former partner is just horrid.

Yeah, sad news indeed... I don't care who it is, 48 is really no age to go, children have lost their mother shortly before Christmas and it's an awful situation for all concerned. Fuck cancer.

Yorke (and Owen) were private people who went to great lengths to ensure that their personal lives were kept private, therefore I'm not comfortable with speculating any further on what are incredibly personal events. Whether this is the timeline of events or poring over the lyrics on the most recent album looking for "clues" ... it really isn't any of my business.

As for the LP, I think its sonic consistency is one of the flaws of the record - I find my interest starting to wane at some point after 'Identikit' ...

It's definitely not as engaging as In Rainbows, IMO.

the albums i listed are my favorites (moon shaped now being one) and, to me, i don't really compare any of them that much as they all have very different vibes to me

for ex. is ok computer "better" or "worse" than moon shaped pool? i don't know they are such drastically different bands at those points in their career

"A Poo Shaped Moon"

*gong*

the ilxor display name 'a poon shaped mule' has haunted me ever since (and i can't see the name of this album without the spoonerism popping into my head)

or ex. is ok computer "better" or "worse" than moon shaped pool? i don't know they are such drastically different bands at those points in their career
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, December 23, 2016 4:16 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For me, I would undoubtedly say "yes" as, regardless of how both albums sound or the approaches they take, OK Computer sustains my interest from beginning to end whereas A Moon Shaped Pool doesn't. By the time 'True Love Waits' comes on, I've already tuned out, whereas OK Computer has me gripped until the last "ding!" on 'The Tourist'

Burn the Witch, Daydreaming, and True Love Waits tower over the rest of the record for me. Can't remember what most of the other songs sound like despite listening to it a lot yesterday.

Daydreaming almost feels like a Boards of Canada cover or something. The Numbers is also a standout, imho.

just saw those PTA-directed videos of Jonny and Thom playing in the woods though, those were sweet.

20th anniversary edition of OK Computer coming in July

http://www.oknotok.co.uk/

"Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OK COMPUTER: the original twelve track album, three unreleased tracks and eight B-sides, all newly remastered from the original analogue tapes*.

Inside a black box emblazoned with a dark image of a burned copy of OK COMPUTER are three heavyweight 180 gram black 12" vinyl records and a hardcover book containing more than 30 artworks, many of which have never been seen before except by us, and full lyrics to all the tracks except the ones that haven't really got any lyrics.

Under this weighty tome are yet more surprises: a notebook containing 104 pages from Thom Yorke's library of scrawled notes of the time, a sketchbook containing 48 pages of Donwood and Tchock's 'preparatory work' and a C90 cassette mix tape compiled by us, taken from OK COMPUTER session archives and demo tapes.

To avoid accusations of wilful obscurity, a 320k MP3, 16- or 24-bit WAV download of 23 tracks will be available to you on 23rd June and a download of the cassette will be inside the box."

the unreleased tracks are Lift, I Promise and Man of War (aka Big Boots), wow

if they're digging in the vaults it would have been nice to hear things like the versions of Nude and True Love Waits from then as well but what we're getting is great anyway

Y'know, for a supposed "classic" album, it's incredible how utterly bored as fuck I am of it 20 years later.

I think I'm far more bored with "The Bends" but, yeah, if I want to listen to Thom Yelp it's gonna be Kid A / Amnesiac or something more recent.

I can't really say why, I mean I loved all their records on release but the staying power just isn't there for me. Or at least the desire to go back and revisit their material.

xpost: if I'm reading it correctly the cassette is not the album but demos which means True Love Waits and Nude could be in some form in there... maybe incomplete tho.

in rainbows is the one with staying power in my experience

though i still love the last 2 tracks on ok computer

i revisited ok computer when all that pfork coverage was happening. at some point i lost the ability to *hear* it bc i was so obsessed with radiohead in high school, but it's still really great

its the middle section from karma police thru no surprises that i don't really dig as much anymore

that includes "climbing up the walls" which is prob my favorite moment on the album

i still love ok computer

the guitar sound on 'the tourist' is still some sort of unattainable ideal

completely forgot that "moon shaped pool" existed

I think I listened to OKC almost daily for a year when I was 13 so I have no more use for it but whenever they play an OKC song live I still get goosebumps.

For an album I loved so much back then it's weird that I don't have it on my vinyl collection. Might buy it this time around even when I know I wont be playing it much.

The price is fair too. $30 for 3 vinyls seems like a good price in these times of insanely priced reissues. Even the deluxe version sounds fair if you're crazy about Radiohead.

and a C90 cassette mix tape compiled by us, taken from OK COMPUTER session archives and demo tapes

mmm tasty

I think I'm far more bored with "The Bends" but, yeah, if I want to listen to Thom Yelp it's gonna be Kid A / Amnesiac or something more recent.

I can't really say why, I mean I loved all their records on release but the staying power just isn't there for me. Or at least the desire to go back and revisit their material.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 4:10 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I set up a Radiohead playlist not too long ago and I pretty much found myself skipping almost every track from Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer, which I found surprising because I listened to those albums a hell of a lot back in the '90s and there's a lot of music from that time that I can still listen to now. I'd love to be able to say that I can still endlessly spin The Bends and OK Computer and that I can still get the same thing out of those records as I used to, but I can't. I can still get a lot out of Kid A, Amnesiac and In Rainbows, and I'm finding The King of Limbs to be increasingly an exciting record on a sonic level, even if I don't think the songwriting is quite there. I find A Moon Shaped Pool a bit bland.

Rarely spin Bends and OKC but when I do they tend to rawk

i was in a bar recently that played pablo honey over their speakers straight through and on almost every track i was like "wow this kinda sucks"

i guess i'm expressing why i'm deeply unsurprised that anyone would skip almost every track from pablo honey

I mean, I know that The Bends and OK Computer are both great records. I know that they're stuffed to the brim with great, emotional, well-written songs that are performed and produced well and that both records are great start-to-finish experiences. Even though I've listened to both records hundreds upon hundreds of times, I still can't say that I've overplayed them as much as some other albums that I've listened to a hell of a lot. I don't know what it is, but I can't get more than a couple of tracks into either record before I want to listen to something else.

yeah I hope there's some real interesting stuff on the cassette, I'd missed that initially

Blow Out is the only track I'd keep from Pablo Honey really

Pablo Honey has never deserved half the shit that gets thrown at it. Looking at the tracklisting, the only track that I'd say was out-and-out awful was 'How Do You?' and even that's inoffensive. It's a good record, even if it is an album that doesn't seem to float my boat anymore.

i mean my last attentive listen to it was in a loud bar so i'll give you the benefit of the doubt there

It's not even a case of Radiohead making sense when you're a certain age and then growing out of it, because the age range of Radiohead's audience is quite vast.

"Blow Out" is the only salvageable bit really

Even the deluxe version sounds fair if you're crazy about Radiohead.

For an extra $100? I have clearly not been keeping up on the insanity of deluxe reissues. How many times is anyone going to page through Thom's scribblings?

I admit the cassette sounds cool. Good use of the format.

after blowing pretty much all of my teenage disposable income on radiohead, i am looking forward to downloading the shit out of the 3 new songs

wonder if they'll be demo versions or live or remixed or

damn, Lift? i haven't actively listened to Radiohead in 10 years but this is sick

tape collage cassette sounds awesome too

yeah, the cassette will be the most interesting thing, i think!

Then it just turns out to be 90 minutes of them telling dick jokes.

fuck i wish i could just buy that separately