Radiohead - In Rainbows

man that's a fast version of weird fishes xxp

into it

A feature of Radiohead’s thing is “weak B-sections”, like so many of their songs begin with the best assemblage of sounds you’ve ever heard, and then suddenly change into something that is an ineffective pay-off— I consider this more of a feature than a bug

i'd agree here, the, well... arpeggiated bits of this song are some of my favorite music ever but the last third feels slight. still cool sounds going on throughout of course

But my favourite Radiohead is always krautrock Radiohead (my favourite mode of any band is their krautrock mode!)

YES!

wish they'd done more like 'these are my twisted words'

Interesting, I do forget about most of the B/C sections and codas on this record, so it's a nice surprise when they hit and the strings/Ondes Martenot come in.

the bridge/b-section/whatever of "bodysnatchers" (has the light gone out for you/cuz the light's gone out for me/it's the 21st century/etc) makes the song

Weird Fishes in particular has a very cool harmony/melody decision that I should one day sit down and figure out, it’s subtle not-complicated but very effective. Great song

Pre-In Rainbows, but as an experiment I'm gonna go back to this today, haven't heard it in years:
https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/exit-music-songs-with-radio-heads

(my favourite mode of any band is their krautrock mode!)

I’m just thinking in rainbows, but some of its B sections are the best to my taste. Jigsaw callings climax, body snatchers comedown and build, Reckoners separating on a blank shore (etc., really for every track except weird fishes and Nude) are all my favourite parts. Everything in its right place does not have a lacking part to it at all.

feel like this dropping 40 or so years later FOR FREE "pay what you want" so many people dancing in the streets where i was is the closest i'll come to experiencing sgt. pepper / lonely hearts club band getting released

i've long wanted a krautrock radiohead album

these days mind there's only one thing i want from radiohead, and it's not krautrock :(

Side A + Lotus Flower of King Of Limbs is enough Radiohead krautrock for me (I like it)

i have no complaints about the b & c sections of "weird fishes", they're both wonderful, especially the c section - that driving bass line! the disintegrating guitars! the background drones!

Give me separator or everything in its right place or lucky as their best

― H.P, Thursday, January 4, 2024 6:47 AM

*leaping high ten*

Catching that hi-10 friend. Johnnys guitar coming in at “I fell open / I lay under” is chills every time. That Kraut drum beat, so good

Leaving this little fishy here
https://on4word.bandcamp.com/track/weird-fishes-arpeggi

(Plus, the part on the "In The Basement" session version of "Weird Fishes" when Jonny briskly walks away from the keyboard station to set up his loop-delayed/chaotic gtr pattern for the last section of the song is so classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcEJyvv6_kc)

has anyone ever seen one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHpPZElT1mQ

I think there’s a lot to be said for how Radiohead changed after ‘How To Disappear Completely’ video documentary - they turned the microscope into a telescope of where they wanted to go.

Call me a basic, but nothing will beat There There as their best track despite it being on a bit of a hodgypodgy album

― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Thursday, January 4, 2024 8:20 AM (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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