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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
PostPosted: Fri January 18, 2013 4:17 am 
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I think Give Up The Ghost is one of the prettiest Radiohead songs I'll ever hear.

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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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Do you mean that the song structures are repetitive or that each track on the album sounds the same? If it's the latter then I couldn't disagree more.

I was referring more to song structure. I don't remember every song sounding the same. But I remember feeling like the individual songs weren't taking me anywhere unexpected or exciting.

But, again , it's been a while.


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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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I don't think I've heard any of the non-album tracks - the b-sides, leftovers, etc - from the King of Limbs sessions.


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I don't think I've heard any of the non-album tracks - the b-sides, leftovers, etc - from the King of Limbs sessions.


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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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Oh man, Daily Mail is gorgeous. I like that more than anything on KoL.


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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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It's great live, but I don't know that I would have liked it on the album.

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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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I'll make revisiting KoL a priority. But already, Daily Mail grabbed me more than anything from the album on first listen. I've already listened to it again. I didn't do that with any of the album's tracks.


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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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Joey (and anyone else), what was it about The King of Limbs that didn't resonate with you?

The absence of any memorable melodies. Melody is one of Radiohead's strongest suits, even in their deliberately "difficult" records, and in TKOL it was more-or-less abandoned for an emphasis on dense textures and rhythm.


Man, I couldn't disagree with this more.

I think "Lotus Flower" and "Codex" are both wonderful melodies.


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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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I don't know, I revisited the album thanks to this thread and I stand by my assessment. I still like the record, but less so than any other except for Pablo Honey. And Reid, I didn't say there were no melodies, I said there were no memorable ones. The only one that gave me pause to reconsider was "Lotus Flower"; other than that, I find them stiff and, honestly, pretty boring, almost like they're subservient to the rhythm and chord progressions instead of gliding elegantly above them like the best Radiohead songs. Compare "Codex" to something like "Sail to the Moon" and it pales in comparison, stale and lifeless. As textured and layered as this album is, and as good as it sounds, I find it melodically gaunt and anemic in comparison to their previous work. Perhaps this is by design, or perhaps Mr. Magpie did take their melody.

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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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I guess I don't really know what to say.

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theplatypus wrote:
or perhaps Mr. Magpie did take their melody.

This was cheesy I'm sorry

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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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We clearly value different things in music, so I sort of understand what you're referring to, particularly when you touch on that interesting bit about the melody being "subservient to the music." Those are just things that I enjoy. I don't find the melodies "gaunt" at all. I guess that's sort of why this album resonates so well with me.

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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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Sure. And like I said, I do like the album, just not as much as I like the others. "Lotus Flower" is pretty great.

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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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the Radiohead discography is far and away the hardest of any band for me to rank.


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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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The Bends
Kid A

In Rainbows
Hail to the Thief
Amnesiac

The Kings of Limbs
Pablo Honey


That's how I would rate them, the Bends/OKC/Kid A remains essential to me...I think I was 16 when I first heard 'Street Spirit' and a couple of weeks later 'Paranoid Android' was released. Those years will always be my favorite RH years.


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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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I think Platypus is right, the melodies arent memorables...its like all the songs are about to take off but they finish quietly..i remember thinking where is the band as a whole? It was a letdown for me because i was so in love with In Rainbows i was expecting something else.

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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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I still think the version of Videotape that they played live on the tour before they released In Rainbows is one of the best songs the band has written. Then they messed it all up.


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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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Hail To the Thief
The Bends
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In Rainbows
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What's your favorite song on Pablo Honey?

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Blowout is the correct answer.



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 Post subject: Re: The everyone LOVES radiohead thread!
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I didn't like King of Limbs until I saw the songs live. And usually I can't stand it when people say stuff like that. So I dunno.


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