Radiohead - The King of Limbs

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Considering it's a newspaper sort of thing I wouldn't be surprised if song titles read like onion headlines, eg:

1. Fat Kid Successfully Avoids Ridicule by Swimming with Shirt On
2. 6 Year Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss of Formal Schooling
3. U.S. Launches AIDS-Awareness Campaign In Botswana: ‘You All Have AIDS,’ Says U.S.
4. Peregrine Falcon Acting Pretty Cocky Since Being Taken Off Endangered Species List
5. CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
6. Johnson & Johnson Introduces 'Nothing But Tears' Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns
7. Evangelical Scientists refute Gravity with New "Intelligent Falling" Theory
8. Project Manager Leaves Suicide PowerPoint Presentation

do another, i think you might really get it on the next go

no, you do one.

1. Rubaiyat
2. Each individual into a spark
3. Ferere Roche
4. Vandelabra
5. On the passing of a more innocent time on Wednesday
6. Bit
7. Elongated Paranumbre
8. Rock and Roll Weekend

#5 sounds like it'll be an intriguing look back to their early years as 'On A Friday'

1. Speaker Speaker (3:10)
2. Trawl (6:47)
3. Mangrove Inertia (2:10)
4. Kleptodraniac (5:13)
5. The Realest Loudest Most Impossible Thing (1:01)
6. Loudmouth (The Inhaler) (5:03)
7. The Thirst (7:32)
8. So It Goes (18:46)

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I just panned most of the thread, but did anyone say what exactly the "newspaper" album thing is supposed to be/mean?

Based on the photo upthread, I'd say they (like every British band of the 60s, and maybe Radiohead are just catching on) want to be the Band. I just imagined what Yorke would sound like trying to sing "Up On Cripple Creek." Didn't turn out so well.

god help me but i am anticipating this. i haven't ever actively disliked a radiohead album

never heard pablo honey then?

I don't think it's going to be a cover based on a "newspaper" like the pics up thread. On the website it says, *world's first* newspaper album. I'm guessing that with the info provided on the website, that it will be a kind of create your own album cover.

purpose-built record sleeve

What is a purpose-built sleeve? Just a basic cardboard record sleeve with nothing on it?

Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.

Maybe all these art pieces are to go on the purpose-built sleeve as you see fit. Meaning, YOU are the artist for the cover. I mean, 625 pieces of artwork are a lot of pieces to mess with.

never heard pablo honey then?

― if there is a King Moaty, apparently he is huge into slapstick. (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:37 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

haw. yeah, i've never actually gotten into it? not like "nope, not for me" but never really took the time. i started w/ok computer and never felt compelled to go backwards

bends is dope, kid

my iron lung is a jam for the ages

talking of which, i personally want 8 talk show hosts.

whoops forgot about the bends---i love it!

Radiohead is still my favorite band so I'm stoked for this. I wonder at what time will we be able to download this on Saturday?

are there any songs to listen to yet or

Also, are we certain this is giong to be eight tracks? (Sorry if source was given upthread - I just skipped through this thread)

actually just dug out my HS 'driving to school' cd wallet and imported the bends. a hoy hoy 2 u, a hoy hoy

^ I use to use those CD wallets back in the day. Made all of my CDs unplayable after awhile iirc.

With the In Rainbows release they sent out the download e-mails in waves, I think I got mine at like 5 in the morning.

there were like weekly tragedies in high school where someone-or-other's CD wallet would get stolen. it happened so often i always stayed away from them.

this thread has been living hell but i'm heavily anticipating this.

xxpost. Just checked my gmail and it looks like I got mine at 2am Eastern time last time.

Jim
American Pop Culture is sickening. One of the greatest bands ever, Radiohead, will release a new album Saturday and it wont get 1/100th the fanfare a new Justin Bieber single would.
Today, 4:55:06 PM EST

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/02/16/how-worrisome-is-bieber-fever.aspx

there were like weekly tragedies in high school where someone-or-other's CD wallet would get stolen. it happened so often i always stayed away from them.

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, February 16, 2011 8:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol this was definitely a thing. mine was actually a CD lozenge. like literally an ovaloid (z) disc (x,y) that accordioned into storage. i bought two of them.

once i figured out that discmans (men?) were allowed in certain school situations (bus, should you be bussing; study hall; between class; lunch if w/e), i just brought the thing with me

are there any songs to listen to yet or

― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), j

It seems the strongest and one of the most rehearsed of the unreleased songs is 'present tense'. There's several live recordings of it around the internet.
Johnny has used an instrumental version of it on his upcoming 'Norwegian Wood' soundtrack so this either means they really like the song or maybe they were deciding on removing it and Johnny rescued it to use it there.

Check out recordings of full song in Mexico city and of Thom playing it solo:

http://www.citizeninsane.eu/thepresenttense.html

Might be the echo-y quality but music sounds Sigur Ros-ian.

thanks, ian

A rather slow day of updates, but Radiohead posted a tweet today:

渋谷 ハチ公広場 金曜日 １８時５９分

which google translates as

Hachiko Square Shibuya, 59 minutes at 18 Friday

I'm guessing 18 is for the hour and not for the date, so:

18:59:00 Friday February 18, 2011 in Japan converts to
09:59:00 Friday February 18, 2011 in GMT

Hey I just remembered the webcasts they did after In Rainbows, I hope they do some of that again this time. Those were really fun.

Xpost are you saying that's when they'd release the mp3s? Seems more likely that they'd play a show there.

Nope I have the suspicion they will either broadcast some sort of announcement on the big screens at Hachiko square or even more probably (and better!) do a webcast like the ones they did for IR and Kid A.

Hachiko square has too much affluence... doesn't seem like an adequate place for shows. There's loads of screens in there tho so they might have rented some seconds to broadcast.

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Godzilla-sized version of the Radiohead bear emerges, eats everyone.

Godzilla-sized version of the Radiohead bear emerges, eats everyone.

― Ned Raggett,

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cheers for the new desktop wallpaper

Okay so allegedly whatever's happening in Japan is in three hours.

The only thing that's stopping me preordering this (mp3) album is the chance of DRM.

Radiohead event in Shibuya cancelled due to safety concerns. Website broadcast planned. http://bit.ly/gR6DYR

" People bummed about the Radiohead non-event can enjoy a "special online thingummy" here at 18:59: http://thekingoflimbs.jp "

ie in a couple of hours GMT

Radiohead don't believe in DRM, Autumn Almanac. And In Rainbows did not have DRM.

AWES <3

So apparently I wasn't that off on my prediction. They were set to broadcast 6 minutes of something in one of the screens on Shibuya but apparently it has been cancelled and instead they'll do some sort of webcast from the japanese website. Anyone interested I suppose will get to see something over here in an hour:
https://thekingoflimbs.jp/index.php

Dissapointed about the Shibuya thing, the whole thing sounded like a brilliant marketing tactic. Maybe too good in fact... apparently they didn't expect such a crazed response from fans... even the japanese government got concerned.

what, that they might not have been able to see from where they would have been standing?

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/