Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

xpost - I think getting you to hear it wrong is the intention.

Oh I know, and I like it.

love this album

I'm just now getting around to listening to Daydreaming. I'll get to the album in due time.

I don't really have a place in my life for music like Daydreaming -- I'm 36 years old, and after a LOT of work and reflection I've managed to get to a point where I basically like my life and who I am, and I don't really need to listen to stuff that makes me purposelessly sad.

Joy at sadness: sadness at joy. Still as valid at 36 as it is any other time of life.

That's such a strange attitude to me. Do you not watch movies or read books that cause you to empathize with other people's emotions?

Not saying I avoid anything sad, but I find Radiohead so flatly and aimlessly sad.

I just have lost my patience for generalized ennui.

Daydreaming is kind of boring aside from the little sound effect flourishes in the background

i like daydreaming but it's not really a standout track for me - kind of surprised it was chosen as a single.

it'll be interesting to see alternate tracklistings that people make for this

Daydreaming is a sustained mood piece. It doesn't sound 'sad' to me. It's chilled out and reflective in the same way a lot of In Rainbows is, or How To Disappear Completely.

Daydreaming is a standout

How To Disappear Completely builds in intensity throughout its running time; Daydreaming, based on one listen, is extremely static for most of its run time with most of the interesting things happening in the background.

That's what I like about it!

Actually listening again, there are two distinct points of musical development in Daydreaming; the bit around 2:17 when the polyrhythms resolve into 6/8 (which then snaps back onto 3 against 2 for the verse) and the bit around 5:02 when the strings come back in on top of the repeated 6/8 theme and build a slightly bigger crescendo. Also I found it less boring the second time but that was partially because I skipped directly to the bits where I knew a change was coming, lol.

that's also what i like about it; the things that would typically move the most don't move much at all, so the arrangement/environment takes over

I like the way the strings emulate the snoring sound.

you should listen to the rest of the album DJP; daydreaming makes more sense in the context of the rest of it

Nice album, I think. Contemplative, very focused and tense.

Yeah it's not my favourite as an individual song, but it's a kind of announcement, or an opening up, after the relatively straightforward Burn the Witch.

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Enormous Led Zep feels in The Numbers - feels like the orchestral entry in Stairway.

It was reminding me really strongly of some 70s rock song but I couldn't put my finger on which. Maybe it's just Zep? The strings are a little reminiscent of "Kashmir" too.

I was thinking full moon, but maybe they mean crescent moon? That would be cool, though tough for laps.

Guitar riff in the numbers is v neil young

I had assumed crescent moon. Otherwise, it would just be round.
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Oh, Neil Young makes sense. I was getting real flashbacks to Canadian classic rock radio.

Only listened to it once so far and am planning to do so again later. Was pretty good, great in parts. As ever sometimes they get a bit bland, and one track seemed to me like a retread of Optimistic with more strings. I forget which one.

the moon only has one shape so I am sure it is a spherical pool with craters.

along with the Jonny Greenwood point of reference, some of the big string swells recall Beck (Paper Tiger, Mutations etc.), as well as the general soft-edged, enveloping quality of the sound worlds.

i'm a dad fuck the world!!!!!!!!

digging this on first listen :)

There's no hyphen though, so maybe it is the moon that's shaping the pool, not a pool shaped like a moon.

so the moon shaped pool is the ocean then. we solved it.

Oh duh

Wouldn't "shaped by the moon" still require hyphenating "moon-shaped"? Sort of like "An artist-curated exhibition" or "an owner-operated business"

could it be like a half moon crescent or something

When my brother and I were kids we were baffled by the title "Like Water for Chocolate" and came up with a bunch of theories about what it meant, e.g. that it was part of an order -- "I'd like water, four chocolates, and a bowl of soup," or that it was a mishearing of a business name, "Lake Waterford Chocolates."

I don't think you need a hyphen because the idea of a "moon pool" is just stupid

and saying only that a pool is "shaped" is also stupid (I guess a pool on the moon would be cool, so I was wrong)

hot tub time machine 3: on the moon! would've been a good title

Ok I lied about knowing how hyphens work, but "the ocean" feels right.

then again, "shaped pool" may be Thom's name for all pools that are not infinity pools. maybe Thom saw his first pool that wasn't an infinity pool recently and thought it was gross. So he made Austin buy his album twice to stop this from happening again.

and Thom is saying "send all of these gross 'shaped pools' to the moon"

you can get different graphics on the vinyl liner of a pool (like i've seen em simulate tile etc) but it would be pretty cool to get a perfectly round pool then have the liner be a super HD photo of the moon so it would look just like the moon from above, just my thoughts

How cool would it be to have a pool with this on the bottom:

http://madmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2011/03/trip-to-teh-moon-1902_0.jpg

But yeah, ocean makes sense.

it's about skinny-dipping, you moon others in the pool, it is a sex album

or if you had walter becker printed at the bottom of the deep end of your pool. the true liner notes to the album. the true "vinyl liner" so to speak.

you could also put real hair where walter's hair and beard would be. the kids would have to search for diving sticks in the tangles of walter's hair how cool would that be?

I'm suddenly haunted by http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xiiXuDexL.jpg

xxpost - eazy - good thought leading on vinyl pool graphics that would be very cool

Maybe it's about the really awesome swimming pool in Thom Yorke's back garden. Radiohead pool parties are legendary.