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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 11, 2020 7:35:09 GMT
I find Kid A a bit flat now really, although I respect them massively for sticking it to the rockists at the time. It has a very cynical vibe, it really does sound like a band pissed off with its own hype. Amnesiac seemed to have a better range of sounds on it. I'm sure I must have heard the recent two or three but I can't remember much about them. There was that one with the Trumpton hauntology in the video which I took the piss out of for ripping the idea from Half Man Half Biscuit. Very few actual songs. I've always found the hype around Kid A completely misplaced. There are several albums of theirs I rate higher. They are great, at times, and I like 'em quite a bit.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 8:17:24 GMT
I'd like them a hell of a lot more with a different singer. It's not just his voice, but the turgid vocal melodies he comes up with. You listen to something like 'No Surprises' and whilst the music is quite pretty, the vocal just kills everything - so dreary and lifeless.
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Post by tory on Sept 11, 2020 8:35:40 GMT
I had their first single, Drill, which I bought in woolies for 30p. Sold it for £150 on Discogs.
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Post by DarknessFish on Sept 11, 2020 13:12:59 GMT
I'd like them a hell of a lot more with a different singer. It's not just his voice, but the turgid vocal melodies he comes up with. You listen to something like 'No Surprises' and whilst the music is quite pretty, the vocal just kills everything - so dreary and lifeless. I think that's their best song by a long way, and that Thom Yorke's vocals are just about the only stand-out thing that Radiohead have going for them. Looks like our bonding over Level 42 was all for naught.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 13:43:54 GMT
He can't hit certain high notes i grant thee, i don't know why he writes them in to the song. He's still unique enough to get away with it though.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 11, 2020 13:47:58 GMT
There's a formlessness to Yorke. Like he's scared to commit.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Sept 26, 2020 14:16:15 GMT
How Radiohead Predicted Our Tumultuous Times 20 Years Ago A new book, ‘This Isn’t Happening,’ explores the rock band’s eerily prescient 2000 album, ‘Kid A’
Well, it’s important to remember that in 2000, when “Kid A” came out, the internet was actually a really exciting place. It seemed to offer a lot of possibility. If you were a Radiohead fan, you could go online and stream the album before it was out, which was a very unusual thing. You could go on message boards and learn about bootlegs. “Kid A” evokes the internet of 2020 more than 2000. Even the internet of 2010 seems pretty positive compared to now. To me, that’s when social media started to change things.
The destabilization we all feel. You don’t know what the truth is. We can’t really take it all in. We absorb as much as we can, the best we can, and we assume we’re right in the conclusions we make. The album really captures that. I think of it like an overture to the 21st century. Like in an opera, it tells you what’s coming. So much hadn’t happened yet in October of 2000: 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, extreme political polarization, the economic meltdown. The world was going to change dramatically. If you want to think about the beginning of the 21st century, in terms of albums, it’s hard for me to think of a better choice than “Kid A.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 15:26:12 GMT
The mighty Radiohead is going 35 years. Mental. Long may they reign!
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 1, 2020 16:24:56 GMT
The mighty Radiohead is going 35 years. Mental. Long may they mope, whinge and whine!
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 4, 2020 12:14:45 GMT
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Post by npht on Dec 8, 2020 19:16:00 GMT
Radiohead's run from The Bends thru Amnesiac is exceptional. Love all four albums and love those songs live even better. They have some interesting songs after Amnesiac but that was their high mark, although In Rainbows comes close.
Thom's unique vocals with the bands great instrumentals has always hit a sweet spot with me. Personally, the last 10 years has all been about their live performances which they have never let me down.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2021 13:16:40 GMT
The mighty Radiohead is going 35 years. Mental. Long may they reign! The mighty Radiohead is going 36 years. Mental. Long may they reign!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2021 14:20:12 GMT
I always thought The Mighty Radiohead, as an entity, should be considered infallible Art. I mean.... i know i'm preaching to the converted but it still, had to be said. God bless those boys.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Aug 10, 2021 14:35:49 GMT
I think you should list all the bands you like APART FROM RADIOHEAD and we can all have a good laughlook
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