Red Mosquito

zeb wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Kid A

Oh yeah?

Birds in Hell wrote:Go on.

EDIT: Oh, sorry, I see you already mentioned you like Thief the best. For some reason.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

zeb wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Kid A

Oh yeah?

you got a problem with that?

LoathedVermin72 wrote: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.

darth_vedder wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote: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.

This guy gets it.

tragabigzanda wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote: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

Chris_H_2 wrote:Every time I hear new Radiohead, which is never quite like anything we've ever heard before, I ask myself why Pearl Jam can't ever take a chance any try something different. And then I think, yeah ... Pearl Jam.

tragabigzanda wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote: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.

This guy gets it.

I'm gonna overstate my case with some broadly general comments, but I think you'll understand my points:

2+2=5 = A fresh sound

Sit Down, Stand Up = A fresh sound

Sail To the Moon = a rehash of You and Whose Army?

Backdrifts = a boring combo of Like Spinning Plates and Idioteque

Go To Sleep = It's fine, but they did it better on Jigsaw Falling Into Place

Where I End and You Begin = It's fine, but they did it better on Bodysnatchers

We Suck Young Blood = a boring rehash of Life In a Glasshouse

The Gloaming = Pulk/Pull + Like Spinning Plates (though I do like this song quite a bit)

There There = Optimistic II

I Will = It's the first half of You and Whose Army repackaged

A Punchup... = A fresh sound for Radiohead, but it's a pretty straightforward RnB-influenced tune. Actually reminds me a lot of Elliott Smith's A Distored Reality...

Myxomatosis = National Anthem II (though I do love this song)

Scatterbrain = Paranoid Android + Knives Out

A Wolf at the Door = A fresh sound.