Thome Yorke - The Eraser

[driver 8]

Went cd shopping today and picked up the new Muse album, as well as this little beauty.

I've been a very big Radiohead fan for quite some time now, and I had concerns about a Thom Yorke solo album.

I shouldnt have worried. Its a great album. I feel its gonna grow too.

The title track is the best for me

Anyone else got this?

 

[driver 8]

Thom...i meant Thom!

 

[Herbs]

I haven't got it.................yet. It's on the to get list, having heard what Thom Yorke can do without the rest of Radiohead (UNKLE- Rabbit In Your Headlights ) I have no doubt that it'll be good, I've heard Eraser on jjj, sounds good.

 

[embleygirl]

This is next on my albums to get and the reviews are good. Yorke is an amazing artist.

 

[just maybe]

Dull. Whiny.

 

[Darealrath]

Will be picking this up tomorrow. From the little i've heard it is similar in sound to the more recent Radiohead albums, which i guess were driven by Thom. Wonder if it means Radiohead will release their next album sounding a bit more like their old stuff.

We seem to have scarily similar taste in music driver 8.

 

[midorigreenwood]

Will pick it up next week =) been listening to the leaked version that spilt through about a month ago.

The best thing about this album is......... I can finally understand what the freaking hell Thom is actually saying!!! After many years of putting up with him mumbling through songs or his voice masked by bleeps and bops, for this album you don't need to furiously look through the album leaflets or google to decipher the british dai lai lama's sayings.

I haven't totally made up my mind about the album yet. I love many of the songs like Skip Divided and Harrowdown Hill but its hard not to look at it with unbiased eyes due to my Radiohead ar$e kissing ways
(Johnny greenwood ^______^ *swoooooon* if only I was gay and you were single :3)

It makes waiting for their next album easier to take though. =)

 

[driver 8]

We seem to have scarily similar taste in music driver 8.

For sure. We seem to be popping up in all the same musical threads here.. I've gotta say, you have EXCELLENT taste in music


The Eraser is one of the best songs I've ever heard, its pure genius, the notes say J. Greenwood is responsible for that beautiful piano

A lot of comparisons can (and will) be made to Kid A/Amnesiac, but thats too be expected. Thom and Johnny are the driving forces behind Radiohead, and obviously this too

In saying that, if this was a Radiohead album, I wouldnt be happy. But from the new songs I've heard, I need not worry.

 

[Adz]

Album of the year and so much better than Hail to the Thief.
My favourite is Harrowdown Hill.

 

[just maybe]

Album of the year?

Would have to be a pretty slow year.

 

[The Dice Man]

Ok have had it for 5 days now and half a dozen listens and I must say what a depressing(and not in a good way like Nick Cave), over-inflated, pretensious piece of **** this album is.

If there are to be elevators in the future, watch this album rock up the elevator charts!


Now dont get me wrong, Im a massive Radiohead, and Yorke fan but by being the Coolest anti-cool guy on the planet he almost comes across as wanting to make music that is 'too snotty' to be accepted and appreciated.

I suspect this is done on purpose.

There are a few good skeletal tunes that would've had alot more balls about them if Thom allowed Radiohead to be involved, but as it stands I cant see myself enjoying this album in the future unless I decide to get heavily into acid at some future point...

Even then I think it lacks too much genuine emotion to really get into.

Lost!

 

[just maybe]

Well said.

 

[driver 8]

After 10 days of solid listening...

Favourite songs are:

The Eraser
Black Swan
And it Rained All Night
Harrowdown Hill

 

[Darealrath]

Had enough listens now for it to click for me. Not a classic by any means but i'm sure liking it.

Probably not enough listens to have a definitive favourite track yet but i'd add Analyse to your list, driver 8.

 

[driver 8]

I agree, Analyse has grown on me hugely.

I'm really njoying this album, but I can se why a number of people arent interested. Its not everyones cup of tea.

In saying that, all the people I know who have written it off havent given it the required time Its by no means a 3 or 4 listen cd.

For example, I got the new Muse cd the same day as the eraser. Muse took me 2 listens and i was straight into it... its a very easy cd to listen to. The Eraser took plenty of time and listens... probably a week and a half before I understood it

 

[driver 8]

6 weeks on now and I can say with 100% confidence that this is the best album I've heard in years

Thom Yorke is a genius.

If you've listened to this a couple of times and written it off, I implore you.. go back to it!!

 

[Upgrayedd]

i thought it was crap

 

[CarterS]

I agree, Analyse has grown on me hugely.

I'm really njoying this album, but I can se why a number of people arent interested. Its not everyones cup of tea.

In saying that, all the people I know who have written it off havent given it the required time Its by no means a 3 or 4 listen cd.

For example, I got the new Muse cd the same day as the eraser. Muse took me 2 listens and i was straight into it... its a very easy cd to listen to. The Eraser took plenty of time and listens... probably a week and a half before I understood it

i agree, i've started warming to it now and I got it right when it came out...i've been finding myself reaching for it constantly.....and its a headphones album if there ever was one, lots of little sounds and stuff and lots of things going on....

 

[driver 8]

6 months on....

Do we have any changed opinions?

I loved the album when this thread was started... but my love has more than doubled since then.

Best album for many a year....

Cant get enough

Best songs: The Eraser, The Clocks, Harrowdown Hill, Cymbal Rush

 

[Darealrath]

I bought it the same time i bought the new Muse and in the last fortnight i've listened to BH&R once and The Eraser probably 7 times.

Analyse is still my favourite.

 

[driver 8]

I bought it the same time i bought the new Muse and in the last fortnight i've listened to BH&R once and The Eraser probably 7 times.

Analyse is still my favourite.

What other songs do you like?

Any you dont like?

 

[CarterS]

I still love it, through strangely i think the title track is one of the weakest, it's a little bit too long and there's just not as much going on as the rest of them. Analyse is my favourite too, but I like Black Swan, Harrowdown Hill, some of the lyrics, a snippet here and there remind me of Dylan, they just cut through something and hit you, but it's only a line here and there, i think he's still hinting at something even more amazing, the music not trying to please anyone, basically no guitars, and what ones are there are buried so far down in the mix, sounds like the music of the future to me, i can't wait to see both the next radiohead record and if he does a second solo album, i think he's building to something in the same way they built up to Ok Computer, or PF built up slowly and obviously to Dark Side of the Moon, you know, when everything just clicks. But then again the new Radiohead album is supposed to be a guitar record songs album more than an album album so maybe i'm way misguided. heh.

 

[Darealrath]

What other songs do you like?

Any you dont like?

Cymbal Rush is the only one i'm not really into. I wouldn't say I dislike it though.

The Eraser, The Clock, Black Swan, And It Rained All Night and Harrowdown Hill are pretty hard to split for a 2nd fave.

 

[driver 8]

Awesome.. thanks.

Cymbal rush was the last one I got into as well.....

I still actually havent listened to this record on headphones. Apparently it adds a whole new level to it

 

[Darealrath]

I still actually havent listened to this record on headphones. Apparently it adds a whole new level to it

Hmm yeah, i could believe that. Might end up looking like that 'radiohead fan' on that ad though