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The anthemic quality he seems to go for on some of the songs - with a choir of singers singing in unison - gets to be a bit much at times, but overall I think I like this quite a bit more than Neil's other recent efforts.
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I do love The Bends, but in some ways this is my fave Radiohead disc. It's just so BIG and dramatic. Also I spent 2 weeks driving around Ireland listening to it while my marriage moved closer and closer to an edge I thought was far off...
So where the foo's the next record?? Have heard rumblings (wriiten & recorded really quickly or something??) but can't recall when it's due out.
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I heard they're still working on recording it, but they have no record deal at the moment, so who knows when we'll see it. Thom Yorke has apparently finished a solo album that will be coming out later this year.
I agree with you - Hail to the Thief is a very underrated album and would have made a bigger splash if people had not decided that Radiohead were not fashionable anymore.
PS - Billboard says the Thom Yorke album will be out in July.
I agree with you - Hail to the Thief is a very underrated album and would have made a bigger splash if people had not decided that Radiohead were not fashionable anymore.
PS - Billboard says the Thom Yorke album will be out in July.
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I don't think that Radiohead became 'unfashionable'. They just thought it would be clever and 'arty' to (generally) stop putting tunes on their records.
I lost interest after Kid A and Amnesiac. Others may find them to be 'brave' albums, I just thought they were prententious.
Perhaps i should give 'Thief' a listen.
I lost interest after Kid A and Amnesiac. Others may find them to be 'brave' albums, I just thought they were prententious.
Perhaps i should give 'Thief' a listen.
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I like each one of their records for different reasons, including the "difficult" Amnesiac and Kid A and don't think that they are necessarily self-consciously "arty". To each his own I suppose, but I have no problem with them challenging listeners a little bit.
Listening to Kid A again at the moment. Jesus, it isn't that arty or dense.
Listening to Kid A again at the moment. Jesus, it isn't that arty or dense.
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They're touring right now, Hamm Apollo tonight, I think. Will look out for it on Dime. In many ways I preferred Amnesiac over Thief, which I thought was good in parts, e.g. Wolf at the Door, but overall didn't quite get there. I think the best thing they've done of late was I Might Be Wrong, the live one. It's just thaqt bit more full-blooded than the later studio stuff. I'm somewhere between admiring their bravery and desire to experiment and regret that the more obvious full-on emotional power of Bends and OK Comp has been largely abandoned. I was playing the latter in the car recently, and it still sounds great (forget all the 'best album ever' bollocks). Give me the catharsis of Let Down over the more left-field stuff any day.
I'm playing the Steel Pulse 'Reggae Greats' I wrote of in the recent purchases. Very nice, some great stuff, especially the Handsworth Revolution tracks. Good voice(s), good overall vibe.
I'm playing the Steel Pulse 'Reggae Greats' I wrote of in the recent purchases. Very nice, some great stuff, especially the Handsworth Revolution tracks. Good voice(s), good overall vibe.
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This morning I've been listening to the player at the Smithsonian Folkways website:
http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html
About a third of way down the blue box on the left, hit 'pop up' and you can leave it open and playing. Some great stuff here.
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Amnesiac is difficult alright, one of the worst experiences I've ever had checking out an album. It made me strongly suspect it was some joke at the listener's expense.Who Shot Sam? wrote:I like each one of their records for different reasons, including the "difficult" Amnesiac and Kid A and don't think that they are necessarily self-consciously "arty".
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Is that a new one by them? They were playing the smallish local venue the night of the Champs League Final, might have been tempted otherwise.
Extreme response to Amnesiac, BBN! And rather reactionary, if I may say. Much of it is very interesting and listenable, and it's hard not to be impressed by a band wanting to make music that doesn't like it belongs to a 20+ year old genre. I like parts and aspects of the three post-OK C LPs, but they always leave you wanting more. Could be why they are struggling with/delaying their new LP, and why Thom is doing his own thing. They know they want to make something that impresses people as much as Bends/OK C, but they don't want to repeat themselves.
I'd love to see them live, and were it not for the fact that I have Moz and Ron coming soon and have been buying a bit of music of late and more releases coming soon, I would have tried hard to see them in Hammersmith. Thank God for Dime. I don't know what their sets are normally like, but their two recent nights in Copenhagen have great sets. Something old, something new. Black Star and Let Down are pretty much my favourites from LPs 2 and 3, with Street Spirit a close rival on no. 2, and Wolf At The Door my fave from Thief, and many other faves here too, so this would have blown me away. Is Spooks inspired by The Human Stain, I wonder?
May 6 2006
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Intro / Everything In It's Right Place
Planet Telex
Bangers And Mash
Open Pick
Karma Police
Black Star
Nude
15 Step
Street Spirit
A Wolf At The Door
The Bends
Four Minute Warning
Pyramid Song
House Of Cards
Idioteque
Spooks
There There
(encore)
Bodysnatchers
You And Whose Army?
Let Down
Paranoid Android
(encore)
Lucky
May 7 2006
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Setlist:
Intro / Everything In It's Right Place
National Anthem
15 Step
Exit Music
2+2=5
Bangers & Mash
Nude
How To Disappear Completely
I Might Be Wrong
Black Star
Morning Bell
Arpeggi
Fake Plastic Trees
Spooks
Idioteque
Bodysnatchers
There There
(encore)
House Of Cards
Let Down
Planet Telex
Karma Police
(encore)
The Bends
Can't wait to check these out!
Extreme response to Amnesiac, BBN! And rather reactionary, if I may say. Much of it is very interesting and listenable, and it's hard not to be impressed by a band wanting to make music that doesn't like it belongs to a 20+ year old genre. I like parts and aspects of the three post-OK C LPs, but they always leave you wanting more. Could be why they are struggling with/delaying their new LP, and why Thom is doing his own thing. They know they want to make something that impresses people as much as Bends/OK C, but they don't want to repeat themselves.
I'd love to see them live, and were it not for the fact that I have Moz and Ron coming soon and have been buying a bit of music of late and more releases coming soon, I would have tried hard to see them in Hammersmith. Thank God for Dime. I don't know what their sets are normally like, but their two recent nights in Copenhagen have great sets. Something old, something new. Black Star and Let Down are pretty much my favourites from LPs 2 and 3, with Street Spirit a close rival on no. 2, and Wolf At The Door my fave from Thief, and many other faves here too, so this would have blown me away. Is Spooks inspired by The Human Stain, I wonder?
May 6 2006
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Intro / Everything In It's Right Place
Planet Telex
Bangers And Mash
Open Pick
Karma Police
Black Star
Nude
15 Step
Street Spirit
A Wolf At The Door
The Bends
Four Minute Warning
Pyramid Song
House Of Cards
Idioteque
Spooks
There There
(encore)
Bodysnatchers
You And Whose Army?
Let Down
Paranoid Android
(encore)
Lucky
May 7 2006
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Setlist:
Intro / Everything In It's Right Place
National Anthem
15 Step
Exit Music
2+2=5
Bangers & Mash
Nude
How To Disappear Completely
I Might Be Wrong
Black Star
Morning Bell
Arpeggi
Fake Plastic Trees
Spooks
Idioteque
Bodysnatchers
There There
(encore)
House Of Cards
Let Down
Planet Telex
Karma Police
(encore)
The Bends
Can't wait to check these out!
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I'm with WSS. Why accuse 'Head fans of pretending to like their more experimental stuff? I played Amnesiac loads when it came out. Very much the sort of record, like so much of the really good stuff, that you want to play 5 times before you really get to grips with it. Perhaps you cut your losses too soon?
Kitty Empire of the Observer makes a shocl declaration that she prefers them as an experimental electronic act over a guitar one. some interesting notes here on the new stuff:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/s ... 06,00.html
Kitty Empire of the Observer makes a shocl declaration that she prefers them as an experimental electronic act over a guitar one. some interesting notes here on the new stuff:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/s ... 06,00.html
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Despite the brilliance of OK Computer, most of Radiohead's fans at that point were very much in the mainstream "alternative rock" crowd. I think that's why Kid A threw them for a loop - it's not that experimental to people who have heard experimental music by other artists, but to the mainstream it probably would be.
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I'm not accusing them of actually pretending to like it, just suggesting many would agree with me that it's not an ultimately satisfying record considering the extent to which they have invested themselves in it and in Radiohead's importance. You even said, "I like parts and aspects of the three post-OK C LPs, but they always leave you wanting more"...Otis Westinghouse wrote:I'm with WSS. Why accuse 'Head fans of pretending to like their more experimental stuff? I played Amnesiac loads when it came out. Very much the sort of record, like so much of the really good stuff, that you want to play 5 times before you really get to grips with it. Perhaps you cut your losses too soon?
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