Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool

[tragabigzanda]

[Kaius]

Fuck. I love HTTT.

[zeb]

I'm worried this is gonna be another Hail to the Thief, which I think is the worst Radiohead album by a long mile due to its predictability.

Absurd!

[LoathedVermin72]

HTTT has always been my favorite Radiohead album.

[washing machine]

Speaking of HTTT...

http://www.citizeninsane.eu/burnthewitch.html

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[BurtReynolds]

HTTT has always been my favorite Radiohead album.

typical post.

[Birds in Hell]

I'm not crazy about HTTT either.

For years I had written Radiohead off as a teenage indulgence and only rediscovered their catalogue a few years ago.

I still find their pre-Kid A albums pretty bad and Thief feels like an unwelcome retread of lots of those ideas.

[washing machine]

The Gloaming > There, There is actually great shower music. I've always enjoyed HTTT despite its many flaws.

[Norah]

I Will through A Wolf at the Door is just fantastic.

[LoathedVermin72]

Huh. I always just assumed everyone else loved HTTT too. Guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[Birds in Hell]

Good songs from Thief:

We Suck Young Blood (especially this one)
The Gloaming
A Punch Up at a Wedding
Myxomatosis

[tragabigzanda]

[washing machine]

Good songs from Thief:

We Suck Young Blood (especially this one)
The Gloaming
A Punch Up at a Wedding
Myxomatosis

Not that it matters, but why no love for There There? or Backdrifts? Just trying to crack open the spenno egg is all.

[digster]

Huh. I always just assumed everyone else loved HTTT too. Guess I shouldn't be surprised.

I think it's fantastic. It's very difficult for me to rank Kid A through Rainbows but HTTT can easily hang with any of them.

[LoathedVermin72]

Huh. I always just assumed everyone else loved HTTT too. Guess I shouldn't be surprised.

I don't hate it. (Did I say I hated it? I honestly don't remember...) Anyway, I don't. I just think there are other albums that accomplish the same emotional soundscape as HTTT more effectively and more efficiently.

Name one.

[Jorge]

Hail to the Thief is a wonderful album. I think "Sail to the Moon" is among Thom Yorke's most beautiful songs. I understand the criticism that it's the first album in a while where the band stopped pushing "forward" stylistically, but the songs are solid.

[tragabigzanda]

[washing machine]

In Rainbows was the album that most felt like a "re-hash" or something that wasn't pushing forward stylistically to me when I first heard it. Moreso than HTTT. It's not, and I know that now. It's deceptively straight forward while revealing more and more after each listen. My gut reaction to "Burn The Witch" is similar. I think this song has more to offer than it lets on.

[LoathedVermin72]

I'm not convinced those other albums fulfill the same sonic or emotional space. They certainly don't sound like HTTT to me. Kid A has a completely different soundscape (much more ambient, heavier on the electronic side). Amnesiac is jazzier, looser. HTTT sounds singular in their discography to me. Earthy, warm, romantic, dreamy, sinister, mean, cutting, and even aggressively rocking in ways those albums aren't at all. Adding in the more conventional rock instrumentation from The Bends and OK Computer to what they explored in those albums is a huge step forward, even if they take, in a manner of speaking, a step back to do it. It's a vital link that ties their catalog together.