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ok, got Radiohead's latest for my Bday in a limited edition book thing.
I thought I'd try something different and write what I was thinking/hearing as I listened to it the 1st time ever.
I'll relisten to it in a week and see if it changes, but for now:
PACKT LIKE SARDINES IN A CRUSHED TIN BOX
Metallic clanging start. Electronic beats again, very Kid A.
Computer beeps and pulsing
Voice treated. Very soft and peaceful.
“After years of waiting…nothing came…”
“I’m a reasonable man, get off my case…get off my case…”
Sounds like Aphex Twin.
Modem connecting sound.
Paranoid Android voice in background is back, buried in mix.
Not Radiohead at all, but one of the best things from them I’ve heard.
EGYPTIAN SONG
Piano intro
Minor key. Keening from Thom. Quiet laughter in background/crowd noise?
Drums start with off signature beat.
Vocals sound bored and mumbled
“Jumped in the river what did I see? Black eyed angel swam with meeeee”
“Nothing to fear…nothing to fear….”
Very whiny and ponderous. Sounds like someone trapped under ice.
Strings match melody line.
PULL/PULK REVOLVING DOORS
More electronica.
Music cuts in and out. Vocals totally chewed and processed through synth.
Like Stephen Hawkins telling a joke in a wind tunnel.
No real tune, just static.
Music box for about 2 seconds. “Secret Doors” is the only word I can make out.
Self-Indulgent to the extreme.
YOU AND WHOSE ARMY?
Actual guitar, simple strumming.
Thom sounds like he’s had a stroke. ”You and whose army? Come on…you think you drive me crazy…”
Boots in now, proper band sound. Thom singing almost normally. Sliding guitar, strings.
I MIGHT BE WRONG
Feedback/computer humming
Swampy blues guitar riff. Sounds like Dr John.
Fantastic beat. Vocals echo and distorted.
This rocks, very good…funk almost.
“I can’t help you…move on”
Radiohead do blues/funk with samples and mean bass riff.
“Let’s go down the waterfall….it’s nothing at all”
Cuts out. Riff on guitar.
Electronic beat once more. Thom making Thom noises again.
Guitar repeating sloppy, delta blues riff.
KNIVES OUT
Dire Straits “Sultan of Swing” comes to mind.
“I want you to know he’s not coming back….look into my eyes I’m not coming back…so knives out, catch the man…don’t look down shove it in your mouth”
1st song that actually sounds like Radiohead of old.
I like a lot.
MORNING BELL/AMNESIAC
Sounds like Danny Elfman music.
Church bells?
“Release me…you can keep the furniture, bump on the head…”
Same lyrics. Music reminds me of No Surprises but with bigger sound to it.
DOLLARS & CENTS
Bass and swimming guitar.
Lyrics indecipherable almost.
Echo everywhere. “Be constructive”
Music slows down, like tape running out but picks up again.
Nice vocals, crack occasionally.
Synth line. Very atmospheric.
Thom shrieking about “No escape”.
Double/upright bass.
Big band meets Kraftwerk.
HUNTING BEARS
Intro to “Paint it Black” by Stones comes to mind.
Cuts in at end of riff to repeat.
Sounds like music from Apocalypse Now, almost like The Doors “The End” for 1st few bars.
No lyrics.
A strange and wonderful piece of music.
LIKE SPINNING PLATES
Backwards. Sounds like spinning plates.
Low Hammond organ, backwards as well.
Lyrics backwards as well? Hard to tell.
Why the hell write a song backwards?
Very clever boys, but what’s the point?
“this just feels like spinning plates…I’m living in cloud cuckoo land”
Yep, sounds like it too with this one.
Experiment in self-gratification.
LIFE IN A GLASSHOUSE
More distortion/feedback from computer synth.
Piano.
Brass section
“I’m in trouble with my own friend, she is papering the windowpanes, she is putting on a smile”
Jazz, tuba and clarinet is there.
Sounds like the end of a night at Jazz Club.
Tom Waits has done this better with “Shore Leave” and “Black Rider”
Jazz…grrrrreat.
Do I like it?
Some of it.
It’s not that much of a change from Kid A.
I think it might grow on me except for a couple of tracks that are just for them to listen to and nod to as they remember how hard it was to get those sounds.
I thought I'd try something different and write what I was thinking/hearing as I listened to it the 1st time ever.
I'll relisten to it in a week and see if it changes, but for now:
PACKT LIKE SARDINES IN A CRUSHED TIN BOX
Metallic clanging start. Electronic beats again, very Kid A.
Computer beeps and pulsing
Voice treated. Very soft and peaceful.
“After years of waiting…nothing came…”
“I’m a reasonable man, get off my case…get off my case…”
Sounds like Aphex Twin.
Modem connecting sound.
Paranoid Android voice in background is back, buried in mix.
Not Radiohead at all, but one of the best things from them I’ve heard.
EGYPTIAN SONG
Piano intro
Minor key. Keening from Thom. Quiet laughter in background/crowd noise?
Drums start with off signature beat.
Vocals sound bored and mumbled
“Jumped in the river what did I see? Black eyed angel swam with meeeee”
“Nothing to fear…nothing to fear….”
Very whiny and ponderous. Sounds like someone trapped under ice.
Strings match melody line.
PULL/PULK REVOLVING DOORS
More electronica.
Music cuts in and out. Vocals totally chewed and processed through synth.
Like Stephen Hawkins telling a joke in a wind tunnel.
No real tune, just static.
Music box for about 2 seconds. “Secret Doors” is the only word I can make out.
Self-Indulgent to the extreme.
YOU AND WHOSE ARMY?
Actual guitar, simple strumming.
Thom sounds like he’s had a stroke. ”You and whose army? Come on…you think you drive me crazy…”
Boots in now, proper band sound. Thom singing almost normally. Sliding guitar, strings.
I MIGHT BE WRONG
Feedback/computer humming
Swampy blues guitar riff. Sounds like Dr John.
Fantastic beat. Vocals echo and distorted.
This rocks, very good…funk almost.
“I can’t help you…move on”
Radiohead do blues/funk with samples and mean bass riff.
“Let’s go down the waterfall….it’s nothing at all”
Cuts out. Riff on guitar.
Electronic beat once more. Thom making Thom noises again.
Guitar repeating sloppy, delta blues riff.
KNIVES OUT
Dire Straits “Sultan of Swing” comes to mind.
“I want you to know he’s not coming back….look into my eyes I’m not coming back…so knives out, catch the man…don’t look down shove it in your mouth”
1st song that actually sounds like Radiohead of old.
I like a lot.
MORNING BELL/AMNESIAC
Sounds like Danny Elfman music.
Church bells?
“Release me…you can keep the furniture, bump on the head…”
Same lyrics. Music reminds me of No Surprises but with bigger sound to it.
DOLLARS & CENTS
Bass and swimming guitar.
Lyrics indecipherable almost.
Echo everywhere. “Be constructive”
Music slows down, like tape running out but picks up again.
Nice vocals, crack occasionally.
Synth line. Very atmospheric.
Thom shrieking about “No escape”.
Double/upright bass.
Big band meets Kraftwerk.
HUNTING BEARS
Intro to “Paint it Black” by Stones comes to mind.
Cuts in at end of riff to repeat.
Sounds like music from Apocalypse Now, almost like The Doors “The End” for 1st few bars.
No lyrics.
A strange and wonderful piece of music.
LIKE SPINNING PLATES
Backwards. Sounds like spinning plates.
Low Hammond organ, backwards as well.
Lyrics backwards as well? Hard to tell.
Why the hell write a song backwards?
Very clever boys, but what’s the point?
“this just feels like spinning plates…I’m living in cloud cuckoo land”
Yep, sounds like it too with this one.
Experiment in self-gratification.
LIFE IN A GLASSHOUSE
More distortion/feedback from computer synth.
Piano.
Brass section
“I’m in trouble with my own friend, she is papering the windowpanes, she is putting on a smile”
Jazz, tuba and clarinet is there.
Sounds like the end of a night at Jazz Club.
Tom Waits has done this better with “Shore Leave” and “Black Rider”
Jazz…grrrrreat.
Do I like it?
Some of it.
It’s not that much of a change from Kid A.
I think it might grow on me except for a couple of tracks that are just for them to listen to and nod to as they remember how hard it was to get those sounds.
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Well, please try. ;0)
If I had to listen to it any more I think I'd take a gun to my head.
He does have a point.
Mine was a free-form "what I think as I hear it" type of deal.
Listened to it more, it's a grower.
Like moss
Mine was a free-form "what I think as I hear it" type of deal.
Listened to it more, it's a grower.
Like moss
Grix Thraves wrote:
> I prefer Goatboy's review. It was much more thought out.
I like to get straight to the point. Rather than treat each track individually, when they're all as bad as this you can write off whole albums in a few words.
> I prefer Goatboy's review. It was much more thought out.
I like to get straight to the point. Rather than treat each track individually, when they're all as bad as this you can write off whole albums in a few words.
I prefer Goatboy's review. It was much more thought out.
Amnesiac.
Heard a bit.
Hated a lot.
Heard a bit.
Hated a lot.
I looked at it, the library card thing and thought it was a reject with the "spine cracked" "rejected" etc for a couple of seconds.
Those wily tricksters, and they say Radiohead are doom and gloom!
Those wily tricksters, and they say Radiohead are doom and gloom!
They'll never go back to their earlier roots now. They've gone on far too much to just go back to using simple instruments again.
I'm glad it's possible to understand the lyrics in most of the songs... something that irritated me in Kid A. Yes, it was good music, but after a while it would have been nice to say the words along to it in your mind, instead of having to go "muhhg muugh mmaahh muugh ma."
I like this idea of using a book for a CD case though. :0)
I'm glad it's possible to understand the lyrics in most of the songs... something that irritated me in Kid A. Yes, it was good music, but after a while it would have been nice to say the words along to it in your mind, instead of having to go "muhhg muugh mmaahh muugh ma."
I like this idea of using a book for a CD case though. :0)
Ahhh I do like it.
I got it yesterday and played it all night. Very similar to Kid A but this seems obvious because they were written at the same time and both go hand in hand with each other.
The first half of the album is excellent, a lovely melancholy, yet addictive definition of Radiohead. The latter part, well I haven't listened to it properly and Im not sure on it. Pull/pulk revolving doors reminds me of Apexx Twin, so I like it and I might be wrong is a lovely piece of music.
Oh and there's a large article on Radiohead in the latest edition of MOJO, which does actually explain a lot about Thom's feelings etc.
it also says how the band are picking up their guitars again, and playing with distortion pedals. Any old school fans of Radiohead are now gonna get what they were hoping for I guess.
I got it yesterday and played it all night. Very similar to Kid A but this seems obvious because they were written at the same time and both go hand in hand with each other.
The first half of the album is excellent, a lovely melancholy, yet addictive definition of Radiohead. The latter part, well I haven't listened to it properly and Im not sure on it. Pull/pulk revolving doors reminds me of Apexx Twin, so I like it and I might be wrong is a lovely piece of music.
Oh and there's a large article on Radiohead in the latest edition of MOJO, which does actually explain a lot about Thom's feelings etc.
it also says how the band are picking up their guitars again, and playing with distortion pedals. Any old school fans of Radiohead are now gonna get what they were hoping for I guess.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> I was supposed to get Amnesiac today... but got an email
> from Amazon instead saying it "will be delayed". Thanks a
> lot.
Perhaps they just 'forgot' to post it?!
> I was supposed to get Amnesiac today... but got an email
> from Amazon instead saying it "will be delayed". Thanks a
> lot.
Perhaps they just 'forgot' to post it?!
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