Kid A?

  On 4/8/2012 at 8:38 PM, Kanakori said:

It sounds IDM but IDM is not aphex twin

Yeah, I mean I never thought it sounded particularly AFX... just Warp-ey in general. At that time, Thom Yorke said he bought the whole Warp back catalogue (so we're talking up until 2000 here), & I can certainly hear bits of Autechre, Plaid & Squarepusher as well as AFX... albeit subtly.

  On 4/9/2012 at 6:30 AM, Candiru said:

I had never seen a shooting star before. Wizards cap, etc. etc.

 

They reached a peak with OK Computer, basically started over, and then reached some more peaks after that. Not too many bands do that. Optimistic through Motion Picture Soundtrack is a totally freaking sweet run of songs.

agreed. okc was a peak. then there was a left turn with kid a and [/i]amnesiac[/i] (the left turn that brought loadsa afx fans into the fold, and also introduced loadsa afx fans to radiohead).

then... it's weird, if you ignore hail to the thief (which is... kinda its own thing)... i might be wrong sorta predicts in rainbows and ESPECIALLY king of limbs (and the eraser etc)

edit: king of limbs was definitely a peak, though. give up the ghost is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard. and yeah, the basement sessions are even better but it's apples and oranges, innit?

they seem to be a jam band now. a jam band with fucking loads of gadgets and an ability to use them. i think what radiohead are now is fucking fantastic. they are, to me, a band who are super-duper able to use whatever instrument or gadget that they decide to. and they're kinda relaxed about it too.

tl;dr radiohead seem to finally truly know their shit in every medium and finally seem to be happy about it as well.

interesting kaini. interesting.

I'm coming back to this because I'm too drunk..

  On 5/22/2012 at 12:11 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUIeDjo2dA

aww man he fucked up morning bell it's in 5 not 9

  On 5/22/2012 at 4:12 AM, dr lopez said:

  On 5/22/2012 at 12:11 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUIeDjo2dA

 

aww man he fucked up morning bell it's in 5 not 9

here, these are the droids you are looking for

[media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mniHGEdDzvA[/media]

lol not much going on besides thom and jonny

but it's gooooood. i saw em on this tour, fuck me it was amazing.

I can't wait. I'm going a week from friday

lucky. ver head are always good live (except when thom is cranky)

Why doesn't anyone talk about Everything in its Right Place as one of the better tracks off of Kid A? Till this day, i feel that that song is one of the best openers i've ever heard. Its like a musical orgasm.

  On 5/22/2012 at 4:48 AM, kaini said:

lucky. ver head are always good live (except when thom is cranky)

still good. but he isn't cranky as much anymore either, so even better.

I may bring some cock sauce with me and throw it at him if he is pissy

  On 5/22/2012 at 4:59 AM, jules said:

  On 5/22/2012 at 4:48 AM, kaini said:

lucky. ver head are always good live (except when thom is cranky)

 

still good. but he isn't cranky as much anymore either, so even better.

 

I may bring some cock sauce with me and throw it at him if he is pissy

*insert animated gif of thom doing an om nom nom nom dance - there's definitely one out there*

but yeah, he definitely seems like a happier man lately.

and if i was thom i'd bend down over the edge of the stage and let you squirt that shit into my mouth.

om fuckin nom indeed.

I like Amnesiac better too. But the song "Optimistic" from Kid A has one of the best main melodies evar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-KSrcyF6qQ

The 8-Bit version of Kid A is pretty fun, too. Someone just shared that with me this morning, coincidentally.

  On 5/22/2012 at 4:57 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Why doesn't anyone talk about Everything in its Right Place as one of the better tracks off of Kid A? Till this day, i feel that that song is one of the best openers i've ever heard. Its like a musical orgasm.

Agreed, a splendid album opener indeed.

  On 5/22/2012 at 4:57 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Why doesn't anyone talk about Everything in its Right Place as one of the better tracks off of Kid A? Till this day, i feel that that song is one of the best openers i've ever heard. Its like a musical orgasm.

yeah it's the best track. why they would create such a rhythmically intense and focussed opener and then dash all hopes when kid a comes on. Kid A's not a bad track it's just bizarrely sandwiched between everything and national anthem.

  On 5/22/2012 at 9:53 PM, dr lopez said:

  On 5/22/2012 at 4:57 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Why doesn't anyone talk about Everything in its Right Place as one of the better tracks off of Kid A? Till this day, i feel that that song is one of the best openers i've ever heard. Its like a musical orgasm.

yeah it's the best track. why they would create such a rhythmically intense and focussed opener and then dash all hopes when kid a comes on. Kid A's not a bad track it's just bizarrely sandwiched between everything and national anthem.

i always thought it was a really fucking weird track. and coming from an autechre fan... i just don't know what to make of it. two-ish minutes of beebling and burbling and wtfness.

the live kid a is a force

The 8-bit In Limbo made my day, awesome. The intro is fucking hilarious but completely bang-on.

  On 4/8/2012 at 10:10 PM, YO303 said:

Aphex Twin Ripped off Radiohead, he says he doesn't like rock music, then how come "I care because you do" sounds exactly like Kid A? AFX listened to it and said "i can remove the vocals and con idm nerds".

He went forward in time, to troll the past...

...brilliant

I love this album, its my favorite radiohead album by far. It has a strong connection to fall colors and weather in my mind, probably because I used to pick and eat mushrooms during falltime (woodlovers) with the album as a soundtrack of sorts.

I would like motion picture soundtrack played at my funeral :)

  On 5/24/2012 at 12:01 AM, Caretstik said:

The 8-bit In Limbo made my day, awesome. The intro is fucking hilarious but completely bang-on.

there's also this, which is absolutely amazing

yea that is just mind blowing

  On 5/22/2012 at 12:11 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUIeDjo2dA

lol at treefingers

  On 5/24/2012 at 2:22 AM, kaini said:

  On 5/24/2012 at 12:01 AM, Caretstik said:

The 8-bit In Limbo made my day, awesome. The intro is fucking hilarious but completely bang-on.

 

there's also this, which is absolutely amazing

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  On 5/24/2012 at 5:57 AM, zaphod said:

  On 5/22/2012 at 12:11 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUIeDjo2dA

 

lol at treefingers

Kid A is my favourite album of theirs by a long way (though there are later individual tracks I love more like Like Spinning Plates and Codex, its the one I love most as a whole). It came at a time where I was properly getting into music (and had a disposable income to do so) and I remember the stormy morning I headed down to Woolworths (RIP) to pick up my copy. Within just the first few seconds of track one I knew this album would be something special, and those few chords still give me goosebumps to this day.

  On 5/24/2012 at 10:18 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

there are times when the hard-drives sound just like Thom; it's nuts!

That's 'cos they are indeed playing back his voice, there was a big hacking fad a few years back with making hard disk speakers -

  On 5/24/2012 at 2:22 AM, kaini said:

  On 5/24/2012 at 12:01 AM, Caretstik said:

The 8-bit In Limbo made my day, awesome. The intro is fucking hilarious but completely bang-on.

 

there's also this, which is absolutely amazing

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Shit, that's ace. Probably how it would've sounded if they'd included it on Amnesiac.