i'll be digging around in my cupboards for the letter i got from thom yorke a decade ago
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I was trying to pretend like I wasn't really, really intrigued by that comment.
― Z S, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"DAEREST TOBY WAHT IS IT MAED SINED HTOM"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/1554963486_b9401453c4.jpg?v=0
― Z S, Sunday, 14 October 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
^ a victory
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Toilet has a weird tongue.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 October 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
mommy y is clown fellating that toilette
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i wrote to him first. it's a very cool letter though, featuring little cartoons like the ones on the liner notes to the bends.
it's funny that i have no feeling at all for how many CDs a band sells - i guess i would have estimated OK computer at like 30 million worldwide by now. so i take it back, 1.3 million is indeed impressive.
― toby, Sunday, 14 October 2007 05:43 (sixteen years ago) link
First two tracks = good, especially "15 Step"
Rest of album = boring shit that only serves to remind me why I don't like Radiohead
-- The Reverend, Saturday, October 13, 2007 5:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
Reverend so OTM it's not funny, but I agree the first two tracks are great, I said so before and I shall listen to them again right now.
The reason I got all excited when I first heard "15 Step" was "oh my god! Who thought they'd do JAZZ!?" I mean in a lot of ways, that kind of jazz is a real weakness of mine, for real. And I was just walking out the door to work and I was so excited that I could take the brand new album to work with me. And well...the rest of the album was a downer disappointment, I've already said that.
Someone upthread said the use of "Etcetera" was as good as anything Smiths had on whatever that song is where they said etcetera and I fully agree.
Can we all please imagine a 15 Step 12" on DFA with a mix or two by James Murphy & Co. Thanks.
What went wrong? And what's with lyrics about romantic love when he should be singing about Bush & co. or global warming? Just my opinion.
― Bimble, Sunday, 14 October 2007 06:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay so we have to wait for how many months to get this damn bonus CD??
― Bimble, Sunday, 14 October 2007 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, yeah. Two tracks in I was like "THIS IS THE ALBUM THAT'S FINALLY GOING TO GET ME INTO RADIOHEAD", but it was not to be.
That sounds sexy.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Bimble, domingo 14 de octubre de 2007 6:55 a.m. (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
Are you being serious?
― Turangalila, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, but I'm afraid truth be told I listened to this entire album earlier tonight, full of guilty pleasures. All of a sudden, a lot of it made sense to me. I was worried I'd have to eat all my negative words about this album on this board. "All I Need" especially. Stay tuned, thanks.
― Bimble, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2047/1534118401_a437a4a575_o.jpg
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I think 'All I Need' is terrible...just sounds like a lame trip-hop cast off type thing, y'know UNKLE collaboration type territory.
And even 'Reckoner', with it's Four Tet/Fridgesque percussion falls flat for me. And those horrible post-Radiohead (heh) high register plaintive guitar parts just make me think of the Coldplays > iLiKETRAiNSes of the world. This is Jonny Greenwood on this record, one of the most amazing guitar/multi-instrumentalists of the last 10-15 years (certainly in popular music anyways) - and you can't hear his personality at all in this).
Best tracks for me: 'Faust Arp' and 'House Of Cards' now.
― Mister Craig, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:42 (sixteen years ago) link
EDIT: The horrible post-Radiohead high reg plaintive guit parts bit was aimed at 'Bodysnatchers'.
― Mister Craig, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:43 (sixteen years ago) link
the strings bother me a lot on this record - Greenwood just re-discovered melody apparently. It's all very Fake Plastic Trees, which is great of course, but I kinda prefer the horror-movie/atonal/start-stop strings on Amnesiac.
― Roz, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
jazz????
― Jordan, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
right right heh.
― Roz, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait were you referring to Bimble's post? Cause I was thinking of Amnesiac and jazz strings, bah nvm.
― Roz, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
surely "life in a glass house" counts as jazz?
― toby, Sunday, 14 October 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, jazz?????
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 14 October 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
roffles @ pitchfork rating.
― Jordan Sargent, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
u____u
― W4LTER, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
would be better if they didnt even reveal the score at all
― ciderpress, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link
or if they revealed it in 10 days.
― Jordan Sargent, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
*rimshot*
― Bimble, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
As the "what did P4K give it?" era lingers on, I actually have to hand it to them for that rating.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Sonofabitch, never mind. I only clicked the "?" once. I thought they had balls for a minute.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 15 October 2007 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Sly comment on "how much did you pay?" shenanigans?
― MC, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Ya think?
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Radiohead? Is that a band?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/music/+charts/track/
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Say you pay £4 to download the album and you like it. Is it then okay to pay another £4 to the Radiohead site and download disc 2 of the boxset from Soulseek?
― mei, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
holy shit @ last.fm
I guess the drop-off through the album wasn't nearly as bad as some suggested!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha take that "kanYe"
― Future_Perfect, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Wonderwall?
― Davey D, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"Up 41,620%"
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The new sickmouthy blog entry is well worth a read people.
― butchy, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
my boss has been playing this nonstop since last week! his office is right next to me. i can't take it anymore.
― carne asada, Thursday, 18 October 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
dano perino is a str8 beaver
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 18 October 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
According to Metacritic, Pitchfork gave In Rainbows a 9.3 (thereby explaining its landing in the latter's Best New Music). Or wait, maybe we did it...
― dblcheeksneek, Saturday, 20 October 2007 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
They did - click the "?" twice in the review.
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 October 2007 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I've decided I want this on thick vinyl so bad I could spit.
― Bimble, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a marketing gimmick! Send out your download at a most unsatisfactory bitrate and watch the money roll in for the real thing!
― Bimble, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Bimble, Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:39 AM
i thought you didn't want it at all?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought you were of the opinion that tracks 3-x were the suxxorz. Have I lost my one compadre?
xp
― The Reverend, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm trying to put my finger on what classic rock song "Bodysnatchers" reminds me of. I'm hoping it's not "Bittersweet Symphony."
Classic, obv. I really like how the bass sounds.
― Sundar, Sunday, 21 October 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
a lot of people i know think bodysnatchers sounds like paperback writer
― LaMonte, Monday, 22 October 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Killer Cars sounds a bit like Paperback Writer.
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link