Red Mosquito

Chris_H_2 wrote:i mean, you'll never work in television again sounds like it's from the my iron lung ep and the smoke would fit right in on TKOL. they've been doing this across their career.

Smoke sounds more like a Radiohead song. But YNWITA, though perhaps reminiscent of older Radiohead, is something they abandoned LONG ago and seem to have zero interest in now. Why couldn't it be a Radiohead song? The answer seems obvious to me and I disagree with Thom.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:

This is the shit Radiohead should be doing. Yeah, I'm SUPER into these tracks. Especially You Will Never Work in Television Again.

yeah. THIS.

fuck yeah!

i don't know what that bolded part means.

i agree with it.

i concur with it.

i want to bold it more.

i want to embolden it.

it is also how i feel.

how do you feel?

this isn't an explanation of the bolded part

it is how radiohead should sound, modern-day. I realize this is a different band, but RH have not sounded like this since In Rainbows.

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:

This is the shit Radiohead should be doing. Yeah, I'm SUPER into these tracks. Especially You Will Never Work in Television Again.

yeah. THIS.

fuck yeah!

i don't know what that bolded part means.

i agree with it.

i concur with it.

i want to bold it more.

i want to embolden it.

it is also how i feel.

how do you feel?

this isn't an explanation of the bolded part

it is how radiohead should sound, modern-day. I realize this is a different band, but RH have not sounded like this since In Rainbows.

And not even then. They haven't sounded like that since The Bends.

Which, to be clear, is fine. I'm down with a band stretching and not repeating themselves. But it's weird that 2/5 of Radiohead think the song is worthy of release as long as it isn't under the Radiohead umbrella.

epilogue wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:

This is the shit Radiohead should be doing. Yeah, I'm SUPER into these tracks. Especially You Will Never Work in Television Again.

yeah. THIS.

fuck yeah!

i don't know what that bolded part means.

i agree with it.

i concur with it.

i want to bold it more.

i want to embolden it.

it is also how i feel.

how do you feel?

this isn't an explanation of the bolded part

it is how radiohead should sound, modern-day. I realize this is a different band, but RH have not sounded like this since In Rainbows.

And not even then. They haven't sounded like that since The Bends.

The Bends was 23 years ago. That’s not representative at all of Radiohead; it’s an outlier. So what you’re saying is you want Radiohead to sound not like Radiohead, but the second album of their career that they made in the 1990’s.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:

This is the shit Radiohead should be doing. Yeah, I'm SUPER into these tracks. Especially You Will Never Work in Television Again.

yeah. THIS.

fuck yeah!

i don't know what that bolded part means.

i agree with it.

i concur with it.

i want to bold it more.

i want to embolden it.

it is also how i feel.

how do you feel?

this isn't an explanation of the bolded part

it is how radiohead should sound, modern-day. I realize this is a different band, but RH have not sounded like this since In Rainbows.

And not even then. They haven't sounded like that since The Bends.

The Bends was 23 years ago. That’s not representative at all of Radiohead; it’s an outlier. So what you’re saying is you want Radiohead to sound not like Radiohead, but the second album of their career that they made in the 1990’s.

Not at all what I'm saying. As evidenced by the post I made above this one.

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:

This is the shit Radiohead should be doing. Yeah, I'm SUPER into these tracks. Especially You Will Never Work in Television Again.

yeah. THIS.

fuck yeah!

i don't know what that bolded part means.

i agree with it.

i concur with it.

i want to bold it more.

i want to embolden it.

it is also how i feel.

how do you feel?

this isn't an explanation of the bolded part

it is how radiohead should sound, modern-day. I realize this is a different band, but RH have not sounded like this since In Rainbows.

Again, I’m not sure how you can pick out a song and say that this is how the band should sound like when they’ve only really had that particular “sound” with their first two albums released nearly 25 years ago. That hasn’t been Radiohead for 85% of their catalog.

Feels like you're being willfully dense here, Chris.

I wouldn't really say these sound like The Bends much at all; it feels more like the band that did The King of Limbs decided to do a stripped-down rock kind of thing. When I think The Bends, I think of big choruses and melodies; compared to that, these feel less listener-friendly. They're good songs, though I wonder if it means we've entered a period where Radiohead is for all intents and purposes defunct.

epilogue wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:

This is the shit Radiohead should be doing. Yeah, I'm SUPER into these tracks. Especially You Will Never Work in Television Again.

yeah. THIS.

fuck yeah!

i don't know what that bolded part means.

i agree with it.

i concur with it.

i want to bold it more.

i want to embolden it.

it is also how i feel.

how do you feel?

this isn't an explanation of the bolded part

it is how radiohead should sound, modern-day. I realize this is a different band, but RH have not sounded like this since In Rainbows.

And not even then. They haven't sounded like that since The Bends.

The Bends was 23 years ago. That’s not representative at all of Radiohead; it’s an outlier. So what you’re saying is you want Radiohead to sound not like Radiohead, but the second album of their career that they made in the 1990’s.

Not at all what I'm saying. As evidenced by the post I made above this one.

So then on what do you base your conclusion that this is how this band should sound?

I’m truly baffled by this.

digster wrote:I wouldn't really say these sound like The Bends much at all; it feels more like the band that did The King of Limbs decided to do a stripped-down rock kind of thing. When I think The Bends, I think of big choruses and melodies; compared to that, these feel less listener-friendly. They're good songs, though I wonder if it means we've entered a period where Radiohead is for all intents and purposes defunct.

Agreed 1000000%.

This sounds like a simplified …. Radiohead.

I think Radiohead has decided that there are certain songs they can't do because they don't sound like Radiohead. But here we have two members of the band doing songs that are in that vein. So clearly, they enjoy the sound. They enjoy the songs. These are good enough for 2/5s of Radiohead but not for Radiohead because it doesn't "sound like Radiohead."

That's what I'd like to see Radiohead get over.

I see a lot of guess work going on here. I don't think Thom especially is much of a "planner" and more of a "feeler and doer", and I don't think any of them are the type to quit the band, especially over something like this. These aren't very heady songs; they feel very off the cuff, and that's why I think they're a side project. Full band RH painfully arrange the fuck out of their albums, and this and all other Thom Yorke side project stuff is all more of a "let's wing it" nature.

epilogue wrote:I think Radiohead has decided that there are certain songs they can't do because they don't sound like Radiohead. But here we have two members of the band doing songs that are in that vein. So clearly, they enjoy the sound. They enjoy the songs. These are good enough for 2/5s of Radiohead but not for Radiohead because it doesn't "sound like Radiohead."

That's what I'd like to see Radiohead get over.

I'm not sure how you could say that about a band that has such disparate sounding songs like You Never Wash Up After Yourself, Fog, Optimistic, Planet Telex, House of Cards, Sit Down Stand Up, Let Down, Bodysnatchers, Sulk, Daydreaming, and Hunting Bears, to name a few. All of these songs are what the band sounds like. So I don't know how you can say that a straightforward song like You Will Never Work in Television Again (which would fit nicely on In Rainbows) or The Smoke (that sounds strikingly similar to Lotus Flower) doesn't sound like Radiohead.

please stop yelling.

you're not my real dad

Chris_H_2 wrote:you're not my real dad

by the way, that reminded me of a story. when my son was in junior soccer about 7 years ago, my wife secretly promised to pay him $5 if, during one of his games when i yelled something at him, he yelled out so everyone on the sidelines could hear: "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD." he did. half the parents who knew me laughed. the other half gasped.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:you're not my real dad

by the way, that reminded me of a story. when my son was in junior soccer about 7 years ago, my wife secretly promised to pay him $5 if, during one of his games when i yelled something at him, he yelled out so everyone on the sidelines could hear: "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD." he did. half the parents who knew me laughed. the other half gasped.

i would’ve yelled back something about adoption being an arduous process.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

epilogue wrote:I think Radiohead has decided that there are certain songs they can't do because they don't sound like Radiohead. But here we have two members of the band doing songs that are in that vein. So clearly, they enjoy the sound. They enjoy the songs. These are good enough for 2/5s of Radiohead but not for Radiohead because it doesn't "sound like Radiohead."

That's what I'd like to see Radiohead get over.

I'm not sure how you could say that about a band that has such disparate sounding songs like You Never Wash Up After Yourself, Fog, Optimistic, Planet Telex, House of Cards, Sit Down Stand Up, Let Down, Bodysnatchers, Sulk, Daydreaming, and Hunting Bears, to name a few. All of these songs are what the band sounds like. So I don't know how you can say that a straightforward song like You Will Never Work in Television Again (which would fit nicely on In Rainbows) or The Smoke (that sounds strikingly similar to Lotus Flower) doesn't sound like Radiohead.

Careful, you're referencing songs from 25 years ago!

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:you're not my real dad

by the way, that reminded me of a story. when my son was in junior soccer about 7 years ago, my wife secretly promised to pay him $5 if, during one of his games when i yelled something at him, he yelled out so everyone on the sidelines could hear: "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD." he did. half the parents who knew me laughed. the other half gasped.

i would’ve yelled back something about adoption being an arduous process.

i almost yelled out "that's pretty obvious, considering how you're playing!"