Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

May or may not be musically related, they are known recyclers of titles (e.g. Reckoner). That is neat though!

ooh wonder what became of "fela kuti thing"

I bet it ended up as "Feral"

or actually "Bloom" feels a bit more Fela to me

"burn the witch" had been floating around since at least httt, there was an early draft of the lyrics on their website at the time. thom also mentioned it on the radiohead blog a bunch of times from 2005-2007, including posting parts of the lyrics and mentioning that jonny was writing orchestration for it. there were even a few times on the in rainbows tour where thom played the opening chords to tease it in response to audience shouts for it, only to joke that they'll play it when they have an orchestra with them.

Relistening after a long time, on headphones. What a gorgeous record, damn.

Love the echoes of Jean-Claude Vannier and Nick Drake throughout.

elided your line to "Jean-Claude Van Damme" for a delightful moment there

That, too!

All the good albums are influenced by Jean Claude Van Damme

A Moon Shaped Punch

it can be seen as the "JCVD" of their oeuvre

1. Kick the Witch
2. Daykicking
3. Kicks Dark
4. Desert Island Kicks
5. Ful Kick
6. Punched Eyes
7. Indentikick
8. The Punchers
9. Present Tense Situation
10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Punch
11. True Love Kicks

"what new could anyone possibly have to save about this album?", he thought to himself as he opened the thread.

"how foolish my thinking has been, indeed!", he said aloud upon reading the contents of the new answers.

9. Present Tense Situation

On reflection this is not up to my high standards. I might need some help with it.

Tense Kick

Timecop 2: Present Tense

Presenting Punch

presentensity

Punch head

Some classics from the back catalogue did hint at this new direction -

Every kick in its Right Place
Roundhouse of Cards
Subterranean Spinkick Alien

It goes back even further. Who doesn't remember Creep Up On Your Adversary And Sweep The Leg

Yeah their second album also hinted at the influence

(Nice Kick)
My Iron Fist
Bullet Proof... I know I Am
Black Belt
Street Spirit (Punch Out)

When Thom Yorke’s first solo album was announced critics and fans where nervous about the title “The Eraser” hinting he was going for a Schwarzenegger influence to separate his own brand, but relaxed when the tracklist rolled out and Black Eagle, Punches for Peace, And it Kicked All Night meant the Van Damme influence was still firm in his heart.

A Punchup at a Wedding

Street Spirit (Punch Out)

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

Sorry, stupid autocorrect. This is actually called “Street Fighter (Punch Out)”

Kyxomatosis

Pop (Your Shoulder Out Of Joint Then Snap Your Neck By Twisting Your Head Between My Palms) Is Dead

The Kick Of Limbs

Kick A

Don't get my kicks hangin out the 15th floor

I missed this back in May but it's a great little reflective (!) piece: https://www.gq.com/story/radiohead-a-moon-shaped-pool-secret-goodbye-five-year-anniversary

Very nicely put. Whether 'A Moon Shaped Pool' was Radiohead's last or not--I agree it feels final. For me, it rekindled my love for the band, so critical to my import-only-single-chasing youth, after the previous several (actually, large chunks of everything since 'Hail To the Thief') had left me somewhat cold. It felt like mature work, less busy chasing something its constituents wished to be (i.e. avant-garde electronic act, "funky," non-melody-based, rock-out anthemers) and just felt like they are. And yet it felt no less complex than they'd been post-'Bends,' just more coherent. It felt freed--of expectations, of expectations to defy expectations. Somehow the successful fruition of 'True Love Waits'--far more poignant, as sung by an older man in the midst of loss of love, than in the youthful earnestness of its earliest incarnation--does indeed feel like a "completion" of the band.

(My feelings about the album are colored by how I listen. I've ultimately decided to remove 'Burn The Witch' and think of it as an excellent b-side, as it's a false start to the mood, tone and sound of the album; and I add 'Ill Wind' inserted in alphabetical order, which fits perfectly.)

Agreed, I suspect most people skip BtW (as good as it is in isolation).

i skip BtW as well

lol, i was watching this video linked to in that piece above, about the secrets of the video for "Daydreaming", and after having to turn it off part-way through (try to guess if you end up watching it, and I'd like to know what's after it!), I realized that I had the exact same experience with this video a few years ago, turning it off at the same point

https://vimeo.com/178823364

um... "inspired by the subreddit"?

let's just say it focuses on the number 6 - a number which can be made from other numbers

i... think if you finish it its power over you will diminish

thanks cuz it's interesting and i hadnt heard of it

i'm always into it until it suddenly goes onto that tangent, i just can't with numerology when it gets to the "hotel door 123 is 1*2*3 = 6", because then i have to think "yeah and 1+2+3=6 too" and feel very sad

i can remember loads of speculation around the album release that it was the end. Then they toured. And toured again? And Thom made another album. And they toured again? And also The Smile. and.... god bless em

i do wonder if it is true, as the rumors say, that phil, colin, and ed have all been sacked

xp They go into the half my life bit but that's obvious... but what i didn't clie into before was that Radiohead was also half of Thom's years at that point, and then they go into was that literal, professional half of his life what undid his relationship and bla bla bla don't think it was any more numbers

5 minutes three plus Nigel well that's Jesus isn't it

5 minus. I'm putting down my phone goodnight

they go into was that literal, professional half of his life what undid his relationship

has thom yorke ever talked about what undid their relationship, though? i haven't been reading all their press like i used to back in the day, but it doesn't seem like something he'd be that open about. but maybe, who knows

5 - Nigel = 6
Nigel = -1

the video is saying that nigel is the "negative force" in thom's life. it is nigel that undid the relationship

not by anything that nigel did, but how his negative force corrupted their relationship

Burn the Witch is one of the best songs on this one!!!

Putting it as the opening song is the right choice I think. It doesn’t really fit with the rest of the album but it’s too good to be a b-side