Radiohead - The King of Limbs

admittedly wasn't paying much attention, just gave it a background listen on that 30-something min. youtube video

naturlich!

this is the first Radiohead album I have ever listened to in its entirety.

maybe because it's so short lol

in rainbows was pretty short too and much better

I finally heard it! It's okay, more like a collection of b-sides though, not in an awful way.

Give up the ghost is def the jewel in the crown so far though...

this album is actually good, the problem is that you expect so much more. favorite, so far, is "Little By Little."

what i'm hoping now is, if they want to go in this direction, then release one of these things once a year. have 10 mini-albums for the next ten years.

will In Rainbows be the last classic album from Radiohead?

i wore this out the first week and now kind of forgot about it. i should return to it, I suppose.

'the universal sigh' sounds like a radiohead parody

(maybe it's meant to be?)

http://www.theuniversalsigh.com/

So, who got a copy of the newspaper?

this is happening in Toronto tomorrow. am going to see if i can snag one.

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2011/03/radiohead.jpg

BIG ISSUE LAST ONE

looks like they are in different languages depending on where you get your copy, the ones in Vienna were in German

Record Store Day single The Butcher/Super Collider (2,000 copies), April 16th

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/03/radiohead-beastie-boys-beck-jonsi-ready-record-store-day-releases/

is that Michael Cera next to the wino?

just released 24big FLAC for all the people who spent £10 on it as .wav/.mp3 and now want to spent another £10 on a slightly better format....

Can't see that pissing off any fans out there.....

24bit, but it kinda works as 24big files....

I like this a lot more than I liked In Rainbows

hey this is pretty great! #waitedforphysicalrelease

TMI

a reach, but i'll give it to ya

TMI

(yeah, I resisted that one)

lol glad someone took it

TMI

Vinyl has made Give Up the Ghost semi-listenable.

'Give Up the Ghost' is still one of my favorites in here... has the same sort of 'pastoral'(?) feel of '4 minute warning'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT2pkjPs_6s

Actually could have fitted pretty good in KoL instead of being reduced to b-side material.

just read "KoL" as "Kings of Leon" -- as in, Radiohead wrote a song that could've fitted in Kings of Leon's arsenal instead of being reduced to a Radiohead b-side.

ewww

just read "KoL" as "Kings of Leon" -- as in, Radiohead wrote a song that could've fitted in Kings of Leon's arsenal instead of being reduced to a Radiohead b-side.

― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor)

We could say that about 'Bangers and Mash' actually.

Kings of Leon would never have written Bangers & Mash (terrible as that song is).

i think i like these record store day tracks better than anything on the record.

'the butcher' plays some rhythm games similar to 'little by little' but i think it works a lot better here...neither the kick nor the bass hit on the downbeat, so when the main beat finally drops in the middle it feels like everything flips around/snaps into place (but in a much more satisfying way than 'lxl').

The Butcher should have been on the album.

hmm, I think Supercollider (7:02) must be the longest Radiohead song? paging LJ

And the longest for no reason!

i'm just now listening. was not a fan of Supercollider in its live incarnations so..

It's not good.

Not getting into the album at all.

Yup longest Supercollider must be the longest Radiohead song yet, and doesn't go anywhere. Nobody was expecting "paranoid android 2" at this point but still... even Faust Arp seemed more dynamic and that one was 2 minutes long.

oops typed "longest" twice by mistake.

Are people aware that if they've paid for the newspaper album or digital album, they can download Supercollider & The Butcher for free from the King of Limbs website? Because I wasn't til just now.

Apparently those downloads are only 128kb? There are 320kb ones very easily findable...

They've been upgraded to 320kb apparently. If you've bought the digital album you can download wavs.

Supercollider is quite nice, not feeling the Butcher at all really. Where all these tracks fall down (and Little By Little for that matter) is a lack of force in either the beats or the bass (or both). I'm not suggesting they suddenly turn into Ill Blu or something but the music they're influenced by would never be built on such a brittle skeleton, and the end result is kind of anaemic.

I think the opposite... the beats and bass are pretty much the only thing holding most of the songs together. The problem is that it's all backbone and not enough muscle/flesh.

It doesn't help that Thom is often at his worse over that sort of beat, he doesn't quite seem to know what to do with his voice.

I only see Melissa W in Radiohead threads