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Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Fri January 11, 2019 11:59 pm
AnalLog
Joined: Thu January 24, 2013 2:19 am Posts: 1355 Location: Portland, OR
The post-Kid A/Amnesiac B-Side set has grown in to quite the gem. My own version of that "album" goes like this:
1. The Daily Mail 2. I Am A Wicked Child 3. Up On The Ladder 4. Bangers + Mash 5. The Butcher 6. Staircase 7. I Am Citizen Insane 8. Paperbag Writer 9. Down Is the New Up 10. Ill Wind 11. Supercollider 12. Spectre 13. These Are My Twisted Words 14. Last Flowers 15. Gagging Order 16. Go Slowly 17. 4 Minute Warning
Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Fri February 08, 2019 12:45 am
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Fri March 22, 2013 7:20 pm Posts: 8592 Location: 41.1716° S, 174.8248° E
So in the week that my turntable has so far been at the repair shop I've been listening to live DVDs and some CDs that I don't have on vinyl.
Over yesterday and today I've listened to Kid A and Amnesiac - both of which I haven't listened to in the longest time. Going into this it was my memory that Kid A was outstanding and Amnesiac was its poor cousin, but I have to say now, that while Kid A is great - Amnesiac is at a higher level of greatness. I still prefer Morning Bell on Kid A though
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Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Fri February 08, 2019 1:15 am
NEVER STOP JAMMING!
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 11:15 pm Posts: 20771 Location: the bathroom
Rangi Guy wrote:
So in the week that my turntable has so far been at the repair shop I've been listening to live DVDs and some CDs that I don't have on vinyl.
Over yesterday and today I've listened to Kid A and Amnesiac - both of which I haven't listened to in the longest time. Going into this it was my memory that Kid A was outstanding and Amnesiac was its poor cousin, but I have to say now, that while Kid A is great - Amnesiac is at a higher level of greatness. I still prefer Morning Bell on Kid A though
Amnesiac always got the short end of the stick because of the way publications treated it at release, calling it a release of songs that didn't make it to Kid A. So everyone just thought it was kind of a b-side album. It's a great album in its own right.
Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Fri February 08, 2019 1:03 pm
tl;dr
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:06 pm Posts: 8553
I tend to enjoy "Amnesiac" more than "Kid A" as well. While a comparison of each album's track-by-track average would probably come out in favor of "Kid A," there is just something about the album as a whole that feels exhausting to me, like I'm wading through quicksand or something -- too slow-going, sluggish, and heavy for too long. The hither-and-yon, patchwork vibe of "Amnesiac" seems to keep me tuned in for longer, and has more spots to come up for air. Plus is has possibly my two favorite bookends in their whole catalog, which always serves the stuff in between well.
Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
Posted: Fri February 08, 2019 2:20 pm
Broken Tamborine
Joined: Wed November 06, 2013 9:16 pm Posts: 431
I absolutely love Amnesiac, but it's maybe the one record of theirs I would resequence if given the opportunity. They left some really great stuff on the cutting room floor ("Cuttooth," "Amazing Sounds of Orgy," "Fog"). And I don't think we really needed that extra version of "Morning Bell" -- all it really does is make the record feel even more like Kid B.
my memory that Kid A was outstanding and Amnesiac was its poor cousin, but I have to say now, that while Kid A is great - Amnesiac is at a higher level of greatness.
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