Radiohead - 01 and 10

[KaLL]

Hopefully none of you thought there was a new album announced

I just discovered this and my mind was blown!

Maybe i'm horribly behind on this news, but is this new to anyone else?

 

[mansize rooster]

first that i have heard of it

radiohead and tool fans always come up with this kinda shite between albums lol

 

[Pegman]

Hahaha, this was just on cracked.com! Since going up there, I've seen it another 2 times. So i'd say you're not really behind the news.

I actually tried it when I heard it... Nothing in it I'd say. The songs flow, just as any mix tape people make can flow. People talk about the lyrics flowing between the songs now. I think it's more a case of people wanting there to be something, and hence hearing something that's not really there.

 

[KaLL]

Hahaha, this was just on cracked.com! Since going up there, I've seen it another 2 times. So i'd say you're not really behind the news.

I actually tried it when I heard it... Nothing in it I'd say. The songs flow, just as any mix tape people make can flow. People talk about the lyrics flowing between the songs now. I think it's more a case of people wanting there to be something, and hence hearing something that's not really there.

Yeah i saw it on cracked and i had to investigate. I haven't done it with the full album yet, just Airbag > 15 Step > Paranoid Android > Bodysnatchers > Subterranean Homesick Alien, and i found they worked really well. I mean, Airbag having the same BPM as the metronome click at the end of Airbag, and same key transitions and that sort of thing seems a bit too clever to be coincidence.

That said i think people are reading into it a bit too far; Whilst i wouldnt put the Golden Ratio thing past Thom Yorke, it relies too heavily on specific crossfades and that sort of thing...

 

[sblack]

I think I found that article linked from somewhere last year sometime.

I thought there was something there, but nothing definitive.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Does it explain why Kid A was their only decent album?
















*sits back with popcorn and waits for massive backlash*

 

[La Di Da]

^
Wouldn't even give you the satisfaction.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

^
Wouldn't even give you the satisfaction.

I didn't like them at all until I got Kid A and I loved that album so much I went and bought their back catalogue.

Was very disappointed, don't hate it all but Kid A is something special and stands out to me.

 

[La Di Da]

I didn't like them at all until I got Kid A and I loved that album so much I went and bought their back catalogue.

Was very disappointed, don't hate it all but Kid A is something special and stands out to me.

Kid A is my favourite album by them as well but i still appreciate most of the other albums (pablo honey is crap). If you were expecting the other albums to sound like Kid A i can see why you would be disappointed as it was their first proper foray into the electronica realm.

Do you like Amnesiac?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Kid A is my favourite album by them as well but i still appreciate most of the other albums (pablo honey is crap). If you were expecting the other albums to sound like Kid A i can see why you would be disappointed as it was their first proper foray into the electronica realm.

Do you like Amnesiac?

Again was a bit disappointed but prefer it to the rest.

There is something about Kid A that I feel I can't describe adequately, it is to me, simply mind bogglingly brilliant. As soon as you say you love Kid A to a Radiohead fan they say "yeah but have you heard ....... It's so much better and I just don't get it.

 

[Plugger35]

Again was a bit disappointed but prefer it to the rest.

There is something about Kid A that I feel I can't describe adequately, it is to me, simply mind bogglingly brilliant. As soon as you say you love Kid A to a Radiohead fan they say "yeah but have you heard ....... It's so much better and I just don't get it.

I'm assuming most of them say that OK Computer is so much better and there is a good reason for that, it is so much better. It's their best album by a long way, the one that elevated them from just a run of the mill rock band to the rock legend status they have now.

OK Computer is their most complete album, a masterpiece that reinvented music the way that Pink Floyd did in the 70s. Kid A and Amnesiac were both good albums but they are pretty patchy, some great tracks but some pretty ordinary ones as well. Neither of them had the the impact that OK Computer had but they were always going to suffer in comparison, it was impossible for Radiohead to top it.

If you look at the best album of all time lists OK Computer usually features in the top 5, whilst their other albums would be lucky to be in the top 50.

 

[Suspense]

aside from a couple of select tracks, i can't listen to any of the pre-amnesiac albums anymore. too many annoying/uninteresting songs. ignoring the filler, httt is their least annoying/most interesting album.

OK Computer is their most complete album, a masterpiece that reinvented music

how did this album "reinvent music"?


friggen radiohead fans...

 

[Plugger35]

aside from a couple of select tracks, i can't listen to any of the pre-amnesiac albums anymore. too many annoying/uninteresting songs. ignoring the filler, httt is their least annoying/most interesting album.


how did this album "reinvent music"?


friggen radiohead fans...

Well maybe "reinventing music" was going a bit far but it pushed the boundaries of music at the time. OK Computer arrived at the height of the Oasis/Blur Brit Pop era and just blew all other bands into irrelevence with a completely different style of music.

Even today there are no other albums that sound like OK Computer, it's like some wierd alien album that Radiohead somehow tapped in to and are now using to control the masses.

All hail our new Radiohead overlords I say.

 

[Zarrix]

As much as I don't really like Radiohead and their aura anymore, OK Computer is an awesome album. Not sure whether it changed the landscape, but songs such as Karma Police and Paranoid Android have been long remembered. I accredit it as one of the albums that made me get into music a few years ago as well ( The other big ones being Oasis' What's the Story and Muse's Origin of Symmetry).

I don't really like any album post OKC though, what happened to them was fairly much the antithesis of selling out, they thought of themselves as indie gods (In theory, it is very similar to selling out anyway). Thus, even though they have the occasional good song in these albums, as a whole, they lost that edge they had in the 90's. I think the only song I liked on In Rainbows was Bodysnatchers (which was a flash back to The Bends era anyway)

FWIW, The Bends> OKC though

 

[La Di Da]

aside from a couple of select tracks, i can't listen to any of the pre-amnesiac albums anymore. too many annoying/uninteresting songs. ignoring the filler, httt is their least annoying/most interesting album.


how did this album "reinvent music"?


friggen radiohead fans...

HTTT has a few great tracks on it but to me it sounds mpre like a compilation of songs rather than an album. It doesn't flow as well as their other albums and there is some filler on there as you mentioned. Myxomatosis is one of my favourite radiohead songs though.

 

[Suspense]

Well maybe "reinventing music" was going a bit far but it pushed the boundaries of music at the time.

how so?

OK Computer arrived at the height of the Oasis/Blur Brit Pop era and just blew all other bands into irrelevence with a completely different style of music.

i think its worth distinguishing between reinventing music and reinventing the music industry. nirvana is often cited as having "reinvented music" when in fact there was very little revolutionary about their sound and many bands before them had done most of the reinventing. ie. husker du's zen arcade, minutemen's double nickels, the wipers' youth of america, pixies' doolittle etc. that said, i'd completely agree that they reinvented the music industry in a similar way that radiohead's ok computer did.

Even today there are no other albums that sound like OK Computer

im just gonna assume you misspelt loveless here.

 

[Suspense]

HTTT has a few great tracks on it but to me it sounds mpre like a compilation of songs rather than an album. It doesn't flow as well as their other albums and there is some filler on there as you mentioned. Myxomatosis is one of my favourite radiohead songs though.

myxomatosis is great. songs like there there and punch up are my favs. some of the few occasions where they combine their obvious melodic talents with a genuinely bangin grooves. jigsaw too from their newest owns.

 

[KaLL]

From a songwriters perspective, OK Computer is a very complete album. I'm not a massive Radiohead fan - i basically like selective tracks and that sort of thing; but OK Computer is awesome imo.

 

[FIGJAM]

Sounds like a complete heap of shit to me!

I'm sure it plays well, but even as a big Radiohead fan, I'm not going to waste my time compiling the playlist.

 

[La Di Da]

how so?

i think its worth distinguishing between reinventing music and reinventing the music industry. nirvana is often cited as having "reinvented music" when in fact there was very little revolutionary about their sound and many bands before them had done most of the reinventing. ie. husker du's zen arcade, minutemen's double nickels, the wipers' youth of america, pixies' doolittle etc. that said, i'd completely agree that they reinvented the music industry in a similar way that radiohead's ok computer did.

im just gonna assume you misspelt loveless here.

Will agree with MBV's loveless not only a unique album but a very, very good one. Thats not too say OK Computer isn't, i personally think that is very unique. Slint's spiderland would also fit into this category i reckon.

Good post regarding the reinvention of the music industry, i definitely agree.

 

[FIGJAM]

Music is pretty much always evolution rather than revolution.

That said, I invented the 4/4 time signature and nobody can take that away from me.

 

[Juicy1]

Radiohead - redefining the idiom that is modern music.














BFW

 

[XFactor1979]

unlike U2: i dont expect anything from this band

even if they dont make another album i'll be fine with their body of work

 

[La Di Da]

unlike U2: i dont expect anything from this band

even if they dont make another album i'll be fine with their body of work

I don't understand this post. Either way U2 shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Radiohead.