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The King of Limbs also has the worst album art in Radiohead's career - yep, worse than The Bends. That was a big disappointment to me because flipping through the booklets that came with OK Computer and Kid A were some of my formative music memories
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they also updated their facebook image stuff - the art for the new album will probably mirror this: it's very interesting!! From a pure design perspective, it's much, much better than King of Limbs. But it's very hard to read to mood / tone of this. Feels lighter and higher energy than anything since OK Computer. The typeface and color are very poppy. Who knows!!
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I thought the best thing about The King Of Limbs was its artwork, We need a feature like the ignore list, except it's just a "discard my opinions" list
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Now if only they'd go back and delete King of Limbs! ha ha!
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I like the verse but the chorus falls really flat for me - I think it needs a change of instrumentation there. Thom sings a long sustained high note and the reverb gets cranked up but the strings continue basically unchanged. This is one of those tracks that will probably sound better live because the band will be reacting to one another, as opposed to Thom singing over a prerecorded Johnny Greenwood recording.
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Real Name Grover posted:Goons, what're those strings (particularly at the beginning) reminding me of? I swear I've heard something similar in a Final Fantasy game or somewhere. At first I scoffed at this post, but then I realized you might be thinking of Final Fantasy the artist, a.k.a. Owen Pallett from the Arcade Fire. He released an album called He Poos Clouds under the moniker Final Fantasy that's pretty heavy on stacatto strings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuzmxuGIjw0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfw_X-rtJ70 Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 22:45 on May 3, 2016 |
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Steve2911 posted:So the album is out in less than 8 hours. For some reason I think it's going to be self-titled. I also think it's gonna be their last album as a band, and a self-titled final album would be a great way to end it.
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They've talked a billion times about how difficult / painful it is for them to make proper albums by this point, to the degree that people thought they had essentially broken up in the period before King of Limbs. Plus they're old, they each have good solo careers, and Radiohead has been around for a long-rear end time. edit: this is the one I was thinking of: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/radiohead-recording-a-new-album-would-kill-us-1770268.html Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 14:03 on May 8, 2016 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:Less than 2 hours!! It's out 2pm EST - one hour later than you think.
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:What's with these reviews? When huge records are released reviewers freak out and ramp up their literary prose in an attempt to make names for themselves - when's the next time a million people will read one of their reviews? The vast, vast majority of album reviews go mostly unread. Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 15:46 on May 12, 2016 |
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Yeah there are quite a few syncopationed bands and songs out there nowadays if you're into dubstep drums
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Luckily, they left the song very melodied and harmonied, which very few bands do anymore... you pretty much only hear it in dubstep nowadays
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In Rainbows is now on Spotify. wahoo one less reason to open iTunes Can't wait to joyfully give Radiohead $.001 this morning
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Now that trump is president it's time to listen to some motha fuckin Hail To The Thief baby!Mutant Standard posted:really feeling AMSP now that we're living in a nightmare hellworld No! Hail To The Thief is the definitive radiohead "Bad President" album. Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:Yeah, I probably didn't NEED to purchase the deluxe edition but here we are. I can't even imagine how many times i've listened to OKC in the past 20 years so I feel like it's worth it. I think the only money I've spent on OKC was buying the standard-rear end compact disc for $15 in high school.
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I can't stop listening to the new version of Lift on the hacked minidiscs! By modern standards it's a bit lofty and maybe even stadium-rock corny. But it carries a lot of weight — it's strange to listen to this track and realize that it probably would have been an enormous hit and redefined the band's popularity, but instead it sat collecting dust in a bin.
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Action Serious posted:And this post is when I realize I forgot to buy it. poo poo! poo poo!!
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IMHO In Rainbows is innovative because it showed that Radiohead wasn't a one-way road . When Hail to the Thief came out, lots of people would point to songs like The Gloaming or Backdrifts and say "ah, yes — this is what Radiohead will sound like in the future," as if all the band were capable of is a long, linear slide into ambient bloopy electronic music. But is that really innovation? If their next album had been the most echoey, the bloopiest, the starkest electronic album to date, would that be interesting? Or would that have been what everyone expected? In Rainbows opens with 15 step, a 5/4 track that blends rock and electronica and rocks really loving hard... who would expect Radiohead to simply start rocking again? Bodysnatchers is an even more direct and simple rock track... then later on you have tracks like Reckoner and Faust Arp, which were some of their most lush songs to date and sound like nothing they'd really done before. Anything felt possible in the band's future after In Rainbows.
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Pontificating rear end posted:Someone gets really excited when Thom says he's going to play Fog: Yeah this version is on the Com Lag EP and sounds really good. I had a friend in college with a ridiculously nice, antique baby grand piano jammed into the living room of their tiny house... it had been in their family forever... Fog was the first song I learned to play beginning-to-end that I actually liked (a song I wanted to play, vs a boring classical song I didn't actually want to play) Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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