Red Mosquito

swan wrote:I've got tickets to one of the LA shows in August, and am really hoping they bring along 3-6 string players for this tour. I don't doubt that they can pull off any & all songs without, but it sure would be nice to have that element..

I'm excited by what this could mean for live performances of older songs with strings

TKOL's closer, "Separator," has a really strong groove, in my opinion -- in fact I hear it as kind of similar to Miles Davis's "On the Corner," where the drum "riff" is the focal element of the song, more so than any of the stuff more customarily in the foreground.

Kaius wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Well. Boy oh boy was I wrong about TKOL. I am loving this. What an unexpected development.

An upper-tier Radiohead album for me, for sure.

ANTI is Rihanna's OK Computer

I'm just so happy both of these albums exist.

swan wrote:it's nice that this board has a strong contingent of folks who are in to geeking out on Radiohead

"Burn the Witch" is clicking for me now. I think it makes for a great opener.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Kaius wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Well. Boy oh boy was I wrong about TKOL. I am loving this. What an unexpected development.

Codex ownz.

I'm on that one right now. Only track that I didn't totally love so far was "Feral", which seemed a little filler-y. But yeah, this album is super good. It's got some real groove.

i love the breakdown at 3:35 and how it bridges back into the hook around 3:50-55. One of my favorite moments in their catalogue.

Magpie and Little By Little are beautiful songs. And Kaius is right about Codex.

"Desert Island Disk" would make a perfect concert opener.

First impression: I mildly like it. "Burn the Witch" is the best song. A lot of it doesn't work for me. Again, it doesn't get in my guts like it seems to want to. Especially "True Love Waits" - the new instrumentation is mostly just distracting.

i didn't realise so many folks were down on TKoL. i know it takes a while to grow but it's become easily a top 5 radiohead album for me.

im still getting used to this one but im really enjoying it. especially the first two tracks.

Oh Noel..
Noel Gallagher mocks Radiohead: “If Thom Yorke fucking shit into a light bulb … it’d get 9/10”

They are contemporaries to an extent, and no doubt Noel remembers a time when "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova" were omnipresent hit singles while "High and Dry" was something that might appear at 10:45 PM on "120 Minutes" with Matt Pinfield, sandwiched between Pavement and Matthew Sweet videos. I'm sure it doesn't set well with him that five years later Radiohead was being lauded as the greatest band on the planet while Oasis was getting C-minus-level reviews for "Heathen Chemistry."

I should probably post the whole interview for context..he slates them as a live act too..

haha he's so mad

He's hysterical..i'd love to go for a pint with him..he gives great interviews..

Morning Mr Magpie is crazy with good headphones.

Ful Stop would fit in perfectly on HTTT

Chris_H_2 wrote:Ful Stop would fit in perfectly on HTTT

umm...no

Can definitely hear some Neil Young and Serge Gainsbourg in "The Numbers". At least to my ears.