Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool

[Brett]

Pool is fairly moody and listless. It's got rock songs on it, but they don't have the effortless energy of the uptempo songs from the last couple albums. They feel like they're just going through the motions, which is probably intentional given the themes running throughout.

I haven't had much desire to listen to it in a while and I never found it to be very engaging. That said, I'm not as much of a Radiohead fan as most of you guys, so this not measuring up to my favorites in their catalog doesn't bother me too much.

[epilogue]

KD, please rank the Radiohead albums for me again so I can understand how I should feel about your previous post.

In Rainbows
OK Computer
The King of Limbs
Amnesiac/Hail to the Thief (depends on the day)
Kid A
The Bends
Pablo Honey

This is still it for me, with "A Moon Shaped Pool" slotting either before or after "The Bends" -- not sure yet.

Okay. I trust your Radiohead-ness. Carry on.

[swan]

8/8/16

LA 2

01 - Burn The Witch
02 - Daydreaming
03 - Decks Dark
04 - Desert Island Disc
05 - Ful Stop
06 - My Iron Lung
07 - Morning Mr Magpie
08 - Lucky
09 - Pyramid Song
10 - Like Spinning Plates
11 - Bloom
12 - Identikit
13 - The Numbers
14 - Everything In It's Right Place
15 - Feral
16 - Idioteque
17 - Bodysnatchers

18 - True Love Waits
19 - Present Tense
20 - 2 + 2 = 5
21 - Lotus Flower
22 - Paranoid Android

23 - Airbag
24 - Reckoner

goodbye for now US

Even though I missed out on Let Down, this was a top fucking notch setlist. Pyramid Song > Spinning Plates was...wow. Hit like a ton of bricks.

[Kevin Davis]

Pool is fairly moody and listless. It's got rock songs on it, but they don't have the effortless energy of the uptempo songs from the last couple albums. They feel like they're just going through the motions, which is probably intentional given the themes running throughout.

I haven't had much desire to listen to it in a while and I never found it to be very engaging. That said, I'm not as much of a Radiohead fan as most of you guys, so this not measuring up to my favorites in their catalog doesn't bother me too much.

I will say, I claim to like Radiohead a lot more than my actual listening behavior reflects.

[epilogue]

Pool is fairly moody and listless. It's got rock songs on it, but they don't have the effortless energy of the uptempo songs from the last couple albums. They feel like they're just going through the motions, which is probably intentional given the themes running throughout.

I haven't had much desire to listen to it in a while and I never found it to be very engaging. That said, I'm not as much of a Radiohead fan as most of you guys, so this not measuring up to my favorites in their catalog doesn't bother me too much.

I will say, I claim to like Radiohead a lot more than my actual listening behavior reflects.

Same.

And Pool, much like Kid A, is a record that works so much more with mass stimulation and movement. Put that fucker on your headphones and go for a walk around the city. Or get on the train and people watch. It opens right up.

[bodysnatcher]

Pool is fairly moody and listless. It's got rock songs on it, but they don't have the effortless energy of the uptempo songs from the last couple albums. They feel like they're just going through the motions, which is probably intentional given the themes running throughout.

I haven't had much desire to listen to it in a while and I never found it to be very engaging. That said, I'm not as much of a Radiohead fan as most of you guys, so this not measuring up to my favorites in their catalog doesn't bother me too much.

I will say, I claim to like Radiohead a lot more than my actual listening behavior reflects.

Same.

And Pool, much like Kid A, is a record that works so much more with mass stimulation and movement. Put that fucker on your headphones and go for a walk around the city. Or get on the train and people watch. It opens right up.

Yep. The first time I listened to Pool (or at least the first half) was on the bus on a shitty rainy day going into work. Everyone sitting and standing around looking dead in the face... Perfect.

[epilogue]

Pool is fairly moody and listless. It's got rock songs on it, but they don't have the effortless energy of the uptempo songs from the last couple albums. They feel like they're just going through the motions, which is probably intentional given the themes running throughout.

I haven't had much desire to listen to it in a while and I never found it to be very engaging. That said, I'm not as much of a Radiohead fan as most of you guys, so this not measuring up to my favorites in their catalog doesn't bother me too much.

I will say, I claim to like Radiohead a lot more than my actual listening behavior reflects.

Same.

And Pool, much like Kid A, is a record that works so much more with mass stimulation and movement. Put that fucker on your headphones and go for a walk around the city. Or get on the train and people watch. It opens right up.

Yep. The first time I listened to Pool (or at least the first half) was on the bus on a shitty rainy day going into work. Everyone sitting and standing around looking dead in the face... Perfect.

Hey, buddy? Everything okay? You, uh, you need a hug or anything?

[bodysnatcher]

Pool is fairly moody and listless. It's got rock songs on it, but they don't have the effortless energy of the uptempo songs from the last couple albums. They feel like they're just going through the motions, which is probably intentional given the themes running throughout.

I haven't had much desire to listen to it in a while and I never found it to be very engaging. That said, I'm not as much of a Radiohead fan as most of you guys, so this not measuring up to my favorites in their catalog doesn't bother me too much.

I will say, I claim to like Radiohead a lot more than my actual listening behavior reflects.

Same.

And Pool, much like Kid A, is a record that works so much more with mass stimulation and movement. Put that fucker on your headphones and go for a walk around the city. Or get on the train and people watch. It opens right up.

Yep. The first time I listened to Pool (or at least the first half) was on the bus on a shitty rainy day going into work. Everyone sitting and standing around looking dead in the face... Perfect.

Hey, buddy? Everything okay? You, uh, you need a hug or anything?

[epilogue]

CHOMP

[bodysnatcher]

there hasn't been a CHOMP pic in about 3 weeks. i'm worried.

[epilogue]

Yeah, you need check on that dude!

[pnjguy]

I like what they've to burn the witch live. Wish they would do a recording of it that way.

8/10/2016 RH Rankings (movement since AMSP's release)

10.00 - Kid A (no change)
9.27 - Amnesiac (-.15)
9.15 - In Rainbows (-.36)
8.85 - Hail to the Thief (+.24)
8.45 - OK Computer (-.05)
7.75 - King of Limbs (no change)
7.55 - Moon Shaped Pool (+.33)
5.26 - The Bends (even)
2.39 - Pablo Honey (-.45)

[Kalevi]

HTTT
OK computer
Amnesiac
Kid a
Bends
Pool shaped moon
In rainbows
King of limbs
Never listened to Pablo honey

[ridleybradout]

Fascinating stuff - The Secrets of Daydreaming

[bodysnatcher]

That was awesome. I had heard the beginning of the 23 theory, but nothing that deep, or all of the other stuff. God I love this band.

[iweartwoshoes]

I liked that they labelled all the women, just in case any Radiohead fans struggled with the concept.

[Jorge]

That was awesome. I had heard the beginning of the 23 theory, but nothing that deep, or all of the other stuff. God I love this band.

I'm the opposite. I haaaaaaaate shit like that. I think maybe half of those points don't hold up at all ("hi" and "dry" lollll). Numerological analysis of music videos is a waste of time.

[Iholdthepain]

If 10% of those theories are true, then it's brilliant!

[gardenparty]

"Nine is the number of studio albums they've released but also a 6 upside down"

Lotsa bullshit in that video

Though, some of it is right I'm sure

[CopperTom]

Has anyone seen a recording for 7-26-2016? I think it's the only show I haven't seen a recording for and it's the only one that I want.