Radiohead - The King of Limbs

Once I had a nightmare where my dad was much older, and his eyes showed that he had gone insane. And I sat there for what seemed like hours listening to him, coming to terms with my dad having lost his mind. For some reason that shot of Thom at the end of the clip reminded me a lot of that dream. A weird, fleeting glimpse of him at 76 years old, yelling at someone

Loving this song.

Weird to me how a guy who was so mind-bogglingly in-sync with the music in "Lotus Flower" keeps bouncing to a totally different beat in this.

but as it stands, i really dig this song and kinda wanna hear more. hopefully it doesn't lose that draw that only kept king of limbs to about a one-week wonder.

I'm so obsessed with this new song.

Staircase is far better than anything that was released on The King of Limbs. Maybe they're not a lost cause just yet.

For a long time I thought Give Up The Ghost was the only good track here, but now I'm a bit obsessed by Little By Little. Seems a lot of the tracks on this album are based on working around a "drone track" - not a single note, but a repetition of some sort on which to stack instruments and voice over. Give Up The Ghost has that acoustic loop/chant thing all the way through, and Little By Little seems to be based on an upwards-winding riff that plays snakes and ladders with itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCifQxW2t14

"Little By Little" saved this album for me.

xp

Little By Little was my favorite from the get-go; still is.

eh, new song just sounds like a non-poppy aimless trance like the rest of King of Limbs

imo if their krautrock stylings went for the gusto a little more things would be more exciting

unless that would make them sound like a aimless trance jam band

can you clarify what you mean by "trance jam band?"

I don't know. maybe something in the vein of sector 9

but I wasn't clear. if their krautrock stylings got more gusto is could end up sounding like an "aimless trance", "jam band"

I was thinking more that they should go listen to songs like Vitamin C and Hellogallo

lol, Hallogallo

Hey radiohead, have you heard of this band Can? They're German, check it out

They love the hell out of Can, I just think their appropriations come off a little limp. Enjoyable, but watery.

They've played Spoon live iirc

Ya they played "The Thief" live in like '98 and I remember a sticker w/ a blurb by Thom Yorker on the cover of the Neu! reissues when they came out

I would subscribe to the Thom Yorker in periodical form

Yeah, the did 'The Thief' live on the Kid A tour. That's what made me pick up Tago Mago!

I think I love it.

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

@Willem, Radiohead played 'Spoon'? Would watch etc

Radiohead's surprise show at Glastonbury
BAND'S fans are left disappointed after Thom Yorke and Co focus on latest album

RADIOHEAD started their secret gig nervously, admitting they haven't played songs from their The King Of Limbs album before.

Walking onstage THOM YORKE even bashfully said "Hello, we're called Radiohead" even though the audience, packed into the Park Stage, all knew who they were.

The band, watched by LILY ALLEN, ARCTIC MONKEYS and ELBOW, opened with Lotus Flower, Little By Little and Morning Mr Magpie from the Limbs album.

But it was older songs 15 Step and Weird Fishes from In Rainbows that got people interested.

But there was just too much self-indulgent nonsense and not enough hits.

Even Thom admitted they were the night's "budget-price U2".

He wasn't wrong.

Yeah as much as they grew on me, they're still the kinds of songs that make up a specific album's atmosphere but wouldn't necessarily translate live without some serious restructuring, or something else to get the crowd excited.

BAND'S fans are left disappointed after Thom Yorke and Co focus on latest album

Is it me or is this headline mind-boggling to other people as well? A band "disappoints" because they focus on their LATEST album. Yeah whodathunkit...

Festival crowd and the slew of writers following their trail... In two years they'll finally know the words to the KoL songs and be disappointed that a majority of the songs the band play then are from yet another new album. These bands always with their new albums, when does the hurting stop eh guys?

In two years they'll finally know the words to the KoL songs and be disappointed that a majority of the songs the band play then are from yet another new album.

hahaha yeah sure they'll be fuckin' mouthing along to the classic anthems of 2011-era radiohead

The main reason the crowd were disappointed was because there were far, far too many people for such a small stage with limited speaker power. Unless you were there really early it sounded like someone playing the King of Limbs from two fields away. I never thought I'd walk away from Radiohead at Glastonbury but I did after two and a half songs.

hahaha yeah sure they'll be fuckin' mouthing along to the classic anthems of 2011-era radiohead

― where ilxor ends and markers begins (history mayne), Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:09 AM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark

Touché ;-)

I can't believe those guys stopped playing "Faithless The Wonder Boy" live.. Those dudes sold out.

Thing is, those secret gigs are usually for bands to road-test material they haven't played live before. The following day Orbital played virtually an entire album's worth of new material on another stage, in what was trailered as a DJ set but turned out to be live. The exception was Pulp for pretty obvious reasons. It was pretty obvious they went for mostly KoL material.

I'll say. And I hate it when both crowd and press at a festival are of that particular sour-grapes viewpoint that the band they saw didn't play enough hits.

There are people who would be annoyed if they played mostly new material at one of their headlining shows, I would bet. Crowds really do expect bands to just go on playing familiar, chart-topping material forever. It's more pronounced among people who are in their 30s-50s who assume that their favorite band from when they were 20 are going to play their runaway hits from the first few records every show, but any band that has had some mainstream popularity runs into this issue.

One thing I especially enjoyed last night from Peter Murphy's show was that he didn't play "Cuts You Up" -- he easily could have and he played other KROQ-hit level songs but it was kinda nice he went for it and didn't include the big one.

But that's the hilarious flip side of it, Ned -- it's so expected that now we feel happy when they DON'T go out and play the one big hit.

I'm kind of giggling now thinking about Radiohead playing all of King of Limbs, maybe a couple Can covers, and then jumping into playing Creep at the end

There are people who would be annoyed if they played mostly new material at one of their headlining shows, I would bet. Crowds really do expect bands to just go on playing familiar, chart-topping material forever. It's more pronounced among people who are in their 30s-50s who assume that their favorite band from when they were 20 are going to play their runaway hits from the first few records every show, but any band that has had some mainstream popularity runs into this issue.

― mh, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:40 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yes, I fully understand this. But it doesn't make it right. And that's why I applaud bands "taking a stand" and doing what they want to do. If a certain audience like a band, they should have the decency to go into any concert of said band with an open mind. That's the trade-off no? You pay for an expensive ticket, the band provides for an entertaining evening, but on their terms. I can see why lol-festival crowd would be disappointed, because on average they care way less and just want to hear Creep and get drunk again, but saying a band is disappointing because the play songs of a *new* album is stretching it.

Oh, I didn't mean it made it right. If I pay for a ticket, I am expecting to hear whatever the band decides to play. If I look up information on previous dates on the same tour I may have some expectations if it's a similar venue and show format, but other than that, zilch.

I'll subscribe to anything a band likes to play enthusiastically - and if that's the latest material, sure, whatever. But man it'd be nice if performers realized a little more that they are, ultimately, entertainers and people are paying for these tickets. I really see no justification for the " we're not gonna do what you want, we're gonna do what we want " mentality when we, the audience, are paying.

I'm not really an advocate for the Greatest Hits mentality either... I'm not totally sure I could watch the band play Paranoid Android unenthusiastically just b/c some kid wants the footage for his iphone/facebook. I happen to like archival footage where typing in "1995 radiohead" will cue up exactly what I expect to see... having a band play it's greatest hits again and again not only demeans the rest of the catalog but also seemingly gives implication to a band that their best days are behind them.

so really, the argument could be avoided for all current and future artists if they just played bits from their entire discog but played heavy emphasis on their latest offerings. perhaps old material as a "warm-up"?

imo some musicians think of themselves more as artists than entertainers and feel that if you pay to see their work, they're going to attempt to practice their art

obviously some musicians are pure entertainers, some are artists, and some straddle the line. the fun part of being economically successful is you can do more artistic endeavors -- the caveat is that part of your audience will always see you as entertainers and throw a fit

So basically, kelpolaris, you're saying you're kind of fucked if you are a musical artist and you want to do new stuff and you have a ~1 hour festival set

if you are a musical artist and you want to do new stuff and you have a ~1 hour festival set you should probably just repeatedly play "Creep"

oh most definitely

especially if you're a non-radiohead band

I saw a 2003 Radiohead set that featured 'Creep' and 'The Bends' and ey lads if that's how unenthusiastic you're going to be when playing the hits then don't bother eh.

extended, three hour jam on i will imo

didn't see the setlist, but radiohead generally does a good job of mixing in the new material with the older, well-known stuff. reviewer probably tripped and got a stick up his butt