Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:35 AM, kaini said:

thom says a lot of things, he's a rather off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment sort of fella.

radiohead also released a track called 'pop is dead' and another one called 'anyone can play guitar' in the early nineties - both associated with their incredibly fucking shit debut album. i'm as sure they would like to forget pablo honey as i'm sure thom would like to forget his statements in interviews around the turn of the century. anyone who's seen the grant gee documentary 'meeting people is easy' which concerned that era of the band and the OK computer tour would remember that! ;) (serious)

 

god i sure am glad this isn't a pissing contest! lol!

well pop IS dead and meeting people IS easy!! lol

so, not sure what the problem is, unless you can'tt piss very far????????.............

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:40 AM, kaini said:

god i sure am glad this isn't a pissing contest! lol!

weakling. u changed your whole shit........

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:42 AM, kaini said:

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:40 AM, sirch said:

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:35 AM, kaini said:

thom says a lot of things, he's a rather off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment sort of fella.

radiohead also released a track called 'pop is dead' and another one called 'anyone can play guitar' in the early nineties - both associated with their incredibly fucking shit debut album. i'm as sure they would like to forget pablo honey as i'm sure thom would like to forget his statements in interviews around the turn of the century. anyone who's seen the grant gee documentary 'meeting people is easy' which concerned that era of the band and the OK computer tour would remember that! ;) (serious)

 

god i sure am glad this isn't a pissing contest! lol!

 

 

...........................sucker

 

you'll have to do better than that to retain even the slightest shred of credibility in a thread full of fanbois! lol!

lol, this made me laugh................ too true, kaini.............

tbh though, i'm really tiring of Thom's voice of late, are you? they're not sounding any different! - not to troll, but...... it's more of the same, no!!????????

Hey guys I really liked the new album

hey, thom acknowledges that he was not the easiest person to be around for a while - that while kinda started with OK computer, and ended around the time Kid A was released - but around the time the band was touring Kid A, thom ordered the entire warp records back catalogue and described squarepusher's 'go plastic' as 'the closest approximation to the noise in my head' and spent his entire time recording sketches of drum machine loops at the back of the bus, by himself. so i think it's a fair thing to say that he was still essentially an antisocial watmmer type person.

between kid A and hail to the thief he, and the band, rediscovered how awesome a guitar can be. the first noises you can hear on hail to the thief are thom asking jonny if his guitar is plugged in. he plays drums on a couple of tracks on that album (both in the studio and live) - other tracks feature sequenced drums. whatever the track in question needs. between hail to the thief and the current album, all you need to do is have ears to know that radiohead are comfortable with guitars again. they have rediscovered the possibilities of that instrument but in a 21st century context - guitars passed through a MAX/Msp patch when they feel the need to do so, and through a live-miced Marshall amp when they need to do so.

so essentially your problem is just a projection of your own personal opinions, which is fine.

[/fanboi]

and thom is probably my joint second favourite singer after scott walker (along with joanna newson, but that's another story).

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:25 AM, kaini said:

must you bring minecraft into everything?

no, i believe this is the second time i've mentioned it in a post to you.

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also, lol @ thom dancing.

i'm kinda gay for thom.

Hey, each to their own!! this is a free.......... errrr, wherever you live, it's cool, yo!

i was a huge radiohead fan back then and i probably read every interview there was, i don't recall them saying anything like that. in fact, at the time Ed was saying that what he really wanted to do was a straight up pop album.

kid a wasn't born out of the band or thom thinking that guitar music was dead, it was more a crisis of confidence in his songwriting and them being bored of what they were doing so far and trying to change things up. things like what you're are saying were put into their mouths by the NME and the like. as mentioned earlier, kid a has guitar songs in it (in limbo, optimistic) amnesiac does too. as far as i can tell they have never done any sort of grandiose statement about their music in respect to what else is out there.

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:55 AM, sirch said:

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:25 AM, kaini said:

must you bring minecraft into everything?

 

no, i believe this is the second time i've mentioned it in a post to you.

but why did you mention it in a previously minecraft-free thread?

i wouldn't.

  On 2/23/2011 at 6:00 AM, GORDO said:

kid a wasn't born out of the band or thom thinking that guitar music was dead, it was more a crisis of confidence in his songwriting and them being bored of what they were doing so far and trying to change things up. things like what you're are saying were put into their mouths by the NME and the like. as mentioned earlier, kid a has guitar songs in it (in limbo, optimistic) amnesiac does too. as far as i can tell they have never done any sort of grandiose statement about their music in respect to what else is out there.

indeed, the only definitive statements i can remember are with regards to the warp records catalogue and the go plastic quote i mentioned above. and they were both in interviews with Q (not much better, but... better)

  On 2/23/2011 at 6:01 AM, kaini said:

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:55 AM, sirch said:

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:25 AM, kaini said:

must you bring minecraft into everything?

 

no, i believe this is the second time i've mentioned it in a post to you.

 

but why did you mention it in a previously minecraft-free thread?

i wouldn't.

who gives a fuck.....

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:35 AM, kaini said:

thom says a lot of things, he's a rather off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment sort of fella.

radiohead also released a track called 'pop is dead' and another one called 'anyone can play guitar' in the early nineties - both associated with their incredibly fucking shit debut album. i'm as sure they would like to forget pablo honey as i'm sure thom would like to forget his statements in interviews around the turn of the century. anyone who's seen the grant gee documentary 'meeting people is easy' which concerned that era of the band and the OK computer tour would remember that! ;) (serious)

 

god i sure am glad this isn't a pissing contest! lol!

i actually thought their debut album was good.

and yes, anyone can play guitar.

but serious, kaini, who are you to say that? you're sure Thom would like to forget his statements in interviews???????

well i've seen more recent interviews, innit.

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:53 AM, kaini said:

hey, thom acknowledges that he was not the easiest person to be around for a while - that while kinda started with OK computer, and ended around the time Kid A was released - but around the time the band was touring Kid A, thom ordered the entire warp records back catalogue and described squarepusher's 'go plastic' as 'the closest approximation to the noise in my head' and spent his entire time recording sketches of drum machine loops at the back of the bus, by himself. so i think it's a fair thing to say that he was still essentially an antisocial watmmer type person.

 

between kid A and hail to the thief he, and the band, rediscovered how awesome a guitar can be. the first noises you can hear on hail to the thief are thom asking jonny if his guitar is plugged in. he plays drums on a couple of tracks on that album (both in the studio and live) - other tracks feature sequenced drums. whatever the track in question needs. between hail to the thief and the current album, all you need to do is have ears to know that radiohead are comfortable with guitars again. they have rediscovered the possibilities of that instrument but in a 21st century context - guitars passed through a MAX/Msp patch when they feel the need to do so, and through a live-miced Marshall amp when they need to do so.

 

so essentially your problem is just a projection of your own personal opinions, which is fine.

 

[/fanboi]

 

and thom is probably my joint second favourite singer after scott walker (along with joanna newson, but that's another story).

LoL

gotta love the kaini industry

  On 2/23/2011 at 6:09 AM, sirch said:

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:35 AM, kaini said:

thom says a lot of things, he's a rather off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment sort of fella.

radiohead also released a track called 'pop is dead' and another one called 'anyone can play guitar' in the early nineties - both associated with their incredibly fucking shit debut album. i'm as sure they would like to forget pablo honey as i'm sure thom would like to forget his statements in interviews around the turn of the century. anyone who's seen the grant gee documentary 'meeting people is easy' which concerned that era of the band and the OK computer tour would remember that! ;) (serious)

 

god i sure am glad this isn't a pissing contest! lol!

 

i actually thought their debut album was good.

and yes, anyone can play guitar.

but serious, kaini, who are you to say that? you're sure Thom would like to forget his statements in interviews???????

well i've seen more recent interviews, innit.

yes, i am sure. and anyone can play guitar, but i'd love you to upload a video of you doing a jonny greenwood, or a robert fripp, or a johnny marr. not anyone can do that.

here's an interview from thom from around the time you mention:

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There are creatures endlessly peering at you, amking incomprehensible noises, playing with your arse a lot while you protest loudly. You can't tell anybody what's wrong or explain yourself. You have no points of reference as to where you are, no language in which to form thoughts, and when you go back to sleep you return to the milky heaven whence you came.... He spends a lot of time talking to the fairies, I think.

 

There's a song on Amnesiac called "Hunting Bears," and Radiohead also have their "blinkybear" band logo. Why the obsession with bears?

 

Er, if I remember rightly, it stemmed initially from a deep paranoia of genetic engineering. And then from a children's book. You know: creating monsters, only to awaken one morning to the terrible truth that there is nothing at all you can do to stop them. We're over it now.

 

My boyfriend and I like to put on Kid A when we get busy. What music do you know your boots to?

 

"Knock boots"? Is that what you do to prevent foot-and-mouth disease? Boots sperad infection from farm to farm. When I go to the shops I have to walk over disinfectant mats, but there is no music playing. When we come to the U.S., we will all have to be disinfected. All us British people are infected, you know. Frothing at the mouth. Highly contagious. Do not under any circumstances approach us. Do not drink the water.

do these sound like the words of someone who is relaxed or well-adjusted or at ease with themselves?

here's a pretty well-referenced excerpt from wikipedia; i actually wrote a small portion of this;

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Hail to the Thief featured more conventional use of guitar than the band's previous two albums, and more piano than any Radiohead album to date, but also continued to make use of electronic beats and samples. Band members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, in addition to guitar and vocals, are both credited with playing "laptop" on the album, a reference to their sonic manipulations with software programs such as Cubase, Max/MSP (software developers Cycling '74 are thanked in the credits, a trend continued on subsequent albums), and Pro Tools. In addition, Greenwood continued to employ the ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument he first used on Kid A and Amnesiac.

In interviews, Radiohead members described their attempts to record in a "live" style on Hail to the Thief, not so much to capture the sound of their live concerts, but to achieve more energy and spontaneity with fewer overdubs. They explained that the electronics heard in songs such as "Sit Down. Stand Up." were not added later, but mostly performed in the same room at the same time as the piano, guitar and vocal parts. "On tour in 2001 in America, I think we learned to swagger as a band," Ed O'Brien said in an interview with Yahoo!. "We wanted to capture that on record. We also didn't want to spend too long in the studio."[2] Yorke said, "The last two studio records [Kid A and Amnesiac] were a real headache. We had spent so much time looking at computers and grids, we were like, 'That's enough. We can't do that anymore.' This time, we used computers, but they had to actually be in the room with all the gear."[1] An example of the album's musical blend can be found in its opener, "2 + 2 = 5", which begins with a drum machine rhythm and progresses to a loud rock climax.

Highlighting Radiohead's continuing assimilation of different musical styles, the album liner notes contain thanks from Jonny Greenwood to Jeanne Loriod, a celebrated player of the ondes Martenot who died shortly before the album came out. Greenwood, inspired by the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen (husband of Jeanne Loriod's sister, Yvonne), picked up the ondes during the Kid A period, and played it on Hail songs such as "Where I End and You Begin" and "We Suck Young Blood". Ed O'Brien mentioned The Rolling Stones as an influence on Radiohead's attempts at greater spontaneity, while The Beatles are cited in the songs "A Wolf at the Door" and "I Will".[7] Neil Young was one of Yorke's largest influences during the period, according to interviews, while Yorke said the Krautrock band Can had directly inspired "There There", and Jonny Greenwood mentioned the influence of Siouxsie and the Banshees on its guitar sound.[8]

(see wiki for the references)

i could spend more time railing against your crap, but it's late, and it just makes me look like a fanboy.

i don't really care much if you like radiohead or not; it just annoys me when you jump to uninformed conclusions.

nothing of what you've posted makes any difference to what i've said. all you're doing is backing up with random interviews!.

when i already know all of Radiohead's history....... lol

watmm sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am 29 and what is this

i love baph

music is cool

  On 2/23/2011 at 10:01 AM, triachus said:

lol. hopefully this shuts sirch up. stop trolling this thread. I can't stand the whole guitar argument with this band. they have 2 guitarists and thom too and they contribute a ton on every album. enough is enough.

My my, what a spiffy denim shirt Phil is wearing......

So yes I've listened to this album lots now and I still think it's fantastic. The songs came into focus nicely and I appreciate this more swampy/murky sort of Amnesiac approach they've gone back to. This album doesn't remind me of In Rainbows at all, and even after hearing people say that I still can't hear it. In Rainbows was clean and broad whereas this is misty and blurred, and the songs are less obvious. I mean I love In Rainbows but the songs were very economical in their arrangement whereas the writing on this is a little more subtle.

'Give Up the Ghost' does however remind me of Grizzly Bear, a lot. I hear a fair bit of them throughout the record even.

  On 2/23/2011 at 5:53 AM, kaini said:

whatever the track in question needs

That's all needs to be said in terms of recording IMO, whether it be a Strat or an Amiga.

So far, the only songs not entirely grabbing me are Magpie and Lotus Flower, but I find them just good instead of fucking ace like the rest of the album.

I agree with the murky amnesiac thing, but it's definitely pushed considerably further. I don't hear the in rainbows thing 1 bit. all of those songs had more of a verse/chorus structure and this batch of songs are much mire if a blob.

I just can't help but think if this record had just 1 more song on it, it would feel much more complete to me. it just seems to go by so fast. stacking the only two slower songs on the album maybe make this feel very lopsided too I think. if there is one complaint I have it's the pacing of the record itself. but that can be easily rectified with another limb...

i like the 2nd half of the album

is that wrong?

anyone smell a make your own tracklisting coming soon? I think they are going take a page from quaristice and release a bunch of stuff at different times coming up.

  On 2/23/2011 at 3:45 PM, paul8088 said:

i like the 2nd half of the album

 

is that wrong?

the one that is not yet released?

  On 2/23/2011 at 4:48 PM, jules said:

anyone smell a make your own tracklisting coming soon? I think they are going take a page from quaristice and release a bunch of stuff at different times coming up.

limbrange

quadlimbs

king of ten