Don't know how this could even be argued....................Reminds me of this a little
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
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Don't know how this could even be argued....................Reminds me of this a little
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That Burn The Witch sounded really bad at first. Basically a reinterpretation, or just a stripping down, so the drums and bass and melody sounded identical but the e-bow thing just sounded awful; over the top and ill-fitting. Then it sort of worked. Those strings are always in your face when you first hear the track... I think it's intentional – so off putting, like an uncomfortable truth...
It's also a much better opener than I thought. The setlist looked shit when I first saw it, a bit lazy and it's diluted so many classics and the old rhythm of the old shows, but Burn The Witch's chorus is a big moment. It really builds up to it, and first song, everyone is ready for a song-a-long, so it has that real "hoooo yes! Finally! We are seeing Radiohead!" and look to your mate vibe an opener should really have. I like it. Reminds me of Blur's Go Out... they have so many other more fitting openers, but these somehow work.
Wish I was seeing them despite the tour sort of being a little meh for me.
It's also a much better opener than I thought. The setlist looked shit when I first saw it, a bit lazy and it's diluted so many classics and the old rhythm of the old shows, but Burn The Witch's chorus is a big moment. It really builds up to it, and first song, everyone is ready for a song-a-long, so it has that real "hoooo yes! Finally! We are seeing Radiohead!" and look to your mate vibe an opener should really have. I like it. Reminds me of Blur's Go Out... they have so many other more fitting openers, but these somehow work.
Wish I was seeing them despite the tour sort of being a little meh for me.
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I'm expecting a far bigger tour in 2017.. Hopefully they will come here but I wouldn't bank on it, they skipped Australia for the In Rainbows tour but they were here for TKOL.
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What a... Let Down.
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What a... Let Down.
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Go buy The Drones Feelin' Kinda Free.
Better album than this and an Australian artist.
Better album than this and an Australian artist.
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Anyone going to that thing in Northcote tomorrow? Sounds incredibly awkward and lame; seven hours of standing around, listening to a Radiohead playlist, hanging around Radiohead fans. Torturous! I just want the free stuff, and for the free shit to be cool.
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is there one in northcote? had a look on the page didn't show any stores in australia doing it...
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They announced a few in Australia the other day. The only one is some random store in Northcote I've never heard of it. I was hoping it was Readings on Lygon Street to be honest.
Also, does Polyester no longer exist at all? Selling $90 vinyl aside, the old CBD store was great. I saw Ducktails play a great acoustic show there once. I thought the Brunswick Street one became the main one but it's weird they wouldn't have jumped on this.
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I would call myself a huge Radiohead fan, but haven't touched OK Computer in more than 10 years. I'm probably the odd one out here, but it just doesn't connect with me as much as their other stuff.
Kid A is probably still their best IMO, though I love Amnesiac and In Rainbows, and give The Bends a play occasionally.
A Moon Shaped Pool took quite a few listens. Once I got there I'm loving it. Beautiful music with dark lyrics...
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The Bends is a great album to get out every once in a while. For me, on a re-listen, you tend to really love it again and rinse it, but after a few plays in a few days you start to get bored by a lot of songs and cringe a bit – the Peter Pan lyric should be laughed at way more. That's a shocker, sounds like something Macklemore would namedrop (ultimate diss). I think if they kept going down that path they'd end up at a Mellon Collie-level of indulgence and w***ery.
OK Computer for me is their best record and Kid A is level with that. I think In Rainbows is a modern classic. If it was made by a band who had never written two better albums, it'd be talked up more than any other 2000s release I reckon. It's beautiful, lush, and so many interesting, diverse, and simply good songs. But for me Kid A and OKC have more amazing moments and those rare little bits, little bits of absolute perfection, a fair bit more than In Rainbows – when that thick, stunted sort of stuttery foamy sound comes in during Kid A, the start of EEIRP, the first time the sample comes in during Idioteque, the Climbing Up The Walls guitar sounds that are genuinely shit scary at night, the production on No Surprises, the little shimmery guitars and then the double-thud in the intro to Airbag...
This is why A Moon Shaped Pool is limp for me. Not enough of these moments. The severe lack of different songs really grates me as well – it's like one of those shit boring National records (aka all of those National records) where everything is just down tempo and sullen. Present Tense should have been way way groovier, and Skirting on the Surface could have added some fun and funk without being a Bodysnatchers... still think a The National Anthem like angry song would have been a good, different side of the same vibe on this. Every heart break has its moments of absolute fury.
OK Computer for me is their best record and Kid A is level with that. I think In Rainbows is a modern classic. If it was made by a band who had never written two better albums, it'd be talked up more than any other 2000s release I reckon. It's beautiful, lush, and so many interesting, diverse, and simply good songs. But for me Kid A and OKC have more amazing moments and those rare little bits, little bits of absolute perfection, a fair bit more than In Rainbows – when that thick, stunted sort of stuttery foamy sound comes in during Kid A, the start of EEIRP, the first time the sample comes in during Idioteque, the Climbing Up The Walls guitar sounds that are genuinely shit scary at night, the production on No Surprises, the little shimmery guitars and then the double-thud in the intro to Airbag...
This is why A Moon Shaped Pool is limp for me. Not enough of these moments. The severe lack of different songs really grates me as well – it's like one of those shit boring National records (aka all of those National records) where everything is just down tempo and sullen. Present Tense should have been way way groovier, and Skirting on the Surface could have added some fun and funk without being a Bodysnatchers... still think a The National Anthem like angry song would have been a good, different side of the same vibe on this. Every heart break has its moments of absolute fury.
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Not cool at all. Sucks and unlikely.
Radiohead are not a re-release band. The ones a few years back were commissioned by EMI and was basically cash grab-retribution for the band choosing to self-release.
I might sound like I'm sore and pretentious but I've waited for so many old songs to surface. I remember when I used to really like Weezer, and that band still lives in 1997 with their management, and news of the Pinkerton reissue was coming and going. It finally came out, and Longtime Sunshine and Getting Up and Leaving were as good as I'd hoped, but now it's like... that chapter is shut. The rest of the compilation discs were full of pointless interviews that shed nothing on the style and time of Weezer in 1996/1997 while I tend to find unreleased demos are basically just midi versions of stuff we already have. Even as an uber fan, so what if there's a different sound in the chorus or a third of the lyrics change?
Bloc Party had all these rare songs and demos and they trickled out over time. Now there is basically nothing left. The search (does not) con-tin-ue... it feels like things are over.
And seriously how weird will it be getting Big Boots and Lift in this way? That is Radiohead admitting defeat on dead old songs which they have never done before. It would be an anti-climax. The only cool thing would be if they released the OKC versions of songs already or later released – I'm sure True Love Waits would be so different.
Oh and don't even get me started on 'remasters.' These albums weren't released in mono in 1956.
Radiohead are not a re-release band. The ones a few years back were commissioned by EMI and was basically cash grab-retribution for the band choosing to self-release.
I might sound like I'm sore and pretentious but I've waited for so many old songs to surface. I remember when I used to really like Weezer, and that band still lives in 1997 with their management, and news of the Pinkerton reissue was coming and going. It finally came out, and Longtime Sunshine and Getting Up and Leaving were as good as I'd hoped, but now it's like... that chapter is shut. The rest of the compilation discs were full of pointless interviews that shed nothing on the style and time of Weezer in 1996/1997 while I tend to find unreleased demos are basically just midi versions of stuff we already have. Even as an uber fan, so what if there's a different sound in the chorus or a third of the lyrics change?
Bloc Party had all these rare songs and demos and they trickled out over time. Now there is basically nothing left. The search (does not) con-tin-ue... it feels like things are over.
And seriously how weird will it be getting Big Boots and Lift in this way? That is Radiohead admitting defeat on dead old songs which they have never done before. It would be an anti-climax. The only cool thing would be if they released the OKC versions of songs already or later released – I'm sure True Love Waits would be so different.
Oh and don't even get me started on 'remasters.' These albums weren't released in mono in 1956.
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Meh. For new gen fans only. Anyone who went through a Radiohead phase at some point, particularly back in the day, would have collected virtually all the b-sides and rarities floating around (which is a life's worth of satiation), and any unapproved leakage down the decades won't necessarily be regarded as canon.
No doubt they will hold onto a few more live versions from wherever, maybe even some Fitter Happier drafts lol, for the inevitable cash-grab 30th anniversary reissue (if CD reissues are still commercially viable then, and one could argue that 20th anniversary is the optimum time to strike with generational re-release). Some unreleased material has no doubt been ingested and newly digitised in the intervening years in some archive somewhere, and I could imagine a True Love Waits version would be the greedy inspiration behind such rumours.
No doubt they will hold onto a few more live versions from wherever, maybe even some Fitter Happier drafts lol, for the inevitable cash-grab 30th anniversary reissue (if CD reissues are still commercially viable then, and one could argue that 20th anniversary is the optimum time to strike with generational re-release). Some unreleased material has no doubt been ingested and newly digitised in the intervening years in some archive somewhere, and I could imagine a True Love Waits version would be the greedy inspiration behind such rumours.
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New song from the special edition, for those who want to hear it early.
Ill/North Wind
hxxps://soundcloud.com/rawkon-1/radiohead-ill-wind
Very Amnesiac b-side sounding..( haunted mansion party vibe!)
Ill/North Wind
hxxps://soundcloud.com/rawkon-1/radiohead-ill-wind
Very Amnesiac b-side sounding..( haunted mansion party vibe!)
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It's okay, but certainly a b-side, and wouldn't trouble most people's top 10 RH b-sides I wouldn't think. Too reminiscent of a few other RH tracks (I got Blow Out, Go Slowly, Supercollider, etc. vibes at various points, not really feeling Amnesiac b-side vibes personally) and too vague. When it started I thought it had a nice closer sound to it (particularly with Burn the Witch as the complementing bookend), but it quickly loses impetus. Still, the ideas make it feel like an AMSP session track, so interesting to see some more. I'm glad this and Spectre were left off the album.
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I think it sounds like one of the first songs they did for the album because it sounds nothing like anything off the album.
People are saying it's a HTTT-vibe but not for me: sounds like Amnesiac. I love the jazzy bass and rhythm on this thing, it's great, and the synth pad in the middle is what should have still been on Identikit. I wish they kept up this sort of sound (along with original Identikit) for the record, or a record, but oh well.
People are saying it's a HTTT-vibe but not for me: sounds like Amnesiac. I love the jazzy bass and rhythm on this thing, it's great, and the synth pad in the middle is what should have still been on Identikit. I wish they kept up this sort of sound (along with original Identikit) for the record, or a record, but oh well.
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aren't many bands going as well 23 years after their debut as Radiohead.
Certainly up with their best work
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Why does Ed O'Brien have to make a stupid Brazilian album? Most white dudes trying to integrate third world sounds into their music end up making total trash. Vampire Weekend, Graceland, and Think Tank the only real outliers in there. Ed wrote the Street Spirit riff, all of Go To Sleep, and has some of the best backing vocals I've heard. Honestly he could craft a pretty tidy little album, way better than Phil's schmultzy 'I wanna be a lead singer' guff.
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With the OKC reissue coming up and whatever else, could a mod maybe merge all the old Radiohead threads? Then just rename the thread to whatever is relevant news at the time (ie change this to 'OK Computer reissue').
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https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/radiohead-tour.914459/page-14#post-35284310
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/top-ten-radiohead-tracks.787412/page-5#post-26646096
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...lbum-apart-from-ok-computer-and-kid-a.982899/
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https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/radiohead-tour.914459/page-14#post-35284310
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/top-ten-radiohead-tracks.787412/page-5#post-26646096
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...lbum-apart-from-ok-computer-and-kid-a.982899/
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