Decks Dark
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
i'm still listening to this album frequently
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
Never been a huge Radiohead fan, but thought this was their strongest since Kid A, and was disappointed that the buzz about it dissipated after a few weeks. Only weak track for me was Desert Island Disk.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Isn't this true of all albums/media these days? A few weeks is a long time. No one is talking about the Bowie album anymore, but that doesn't mean that no one is still listening.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
Find this album a bore tbh. First three tracks and Tinker Tailor would make a sweet EP tho
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Jordan otm. I still dig this out fairly frequently but make a point of trying not to over-listen to it.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:11 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
interesting. I thought Daydreaming would walk this. the first bit of Identikit frustrates me - sounds thin, awkward and unfinished like much of King of Limbs. I don't like how Thom puts the emphasis on "THAT we all can love / THAT we all can love"
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
that bit sounds like he's trying to crowbar lines into a melody that would have suited better lyrics
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
only 2 votes for "Ful Stop" is madness
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
Would not have expected Identikit to win, it's not even in my top five. The 'broken hearts' choral explosion is pretty astonishing, but as others say the intro and outro are relatively weak.
― chap, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 08:43 (seven years ago) link
Thom is the worst part of Identikit but without him it sounds to me like a less interesting song from Studio (remember them?)
https://youtu.be/po8e8nftgqI
it might be one of the songs I usually skip... surprised to see it at 1
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 10:03 (seven years ago) link
Is this the third time Thom has used a chorus of repeating rain-related ad nauseum?
1. Paranoid Android (rain down come on me)2. Sit Down Stand Up (the raindrops (x100))3. Identikit (broken hearts make it rain)
Seems he really enjoys repeating the word rain.
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link
I'd happily hear a Radiohead cover of 'Have You Ever Seen The Rain?'
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
xp it's a billion times better than king of limbs Marcos. it's probably their best album since OKC or Kid A. takes a few listens. very chilled and monochromatic but never dull or boring
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin)
or at least their best since "some girls"
rain related songs i would listen to radiohead cover:
can't stand the rainraining bloodbuckets of rain/nuggets of rainshe brings the rainlady raincold rain & snow
rain related songs i would not listen to radiohead cover:
sound of the rainthe rain songpurple rainit's gonna rainit's a rainy day sunshine girl
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
I could see them covering She Brings the Rain as they're huge Can fans and have covered them before.
They're also very much into Neil Young so:
See the sky about to rainBe the rain
Be the rain has a global warming message in there so it seems specially fitting.
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
Other Neil young songs involving rain (huh? There's more than I thought seems that NY influence on Thom is they share a rain-obsessesion):
Early Morning RainRaining in my heart
Also you guys forgot "Box of Rain" by grateful dead that's a popular one.
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
"Rain Dogs" could be good.
― chap, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
rain
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
Although hard to think of two singers more different than Thom Yorke and Tom Waits.
The rain dogs the rain dogs the rain dogs the rain dogs
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
Yeah they're very different... I'd be more interested in Waits covering Radiohead. Life in a Glasshouse and Pyramid Songs would fit him nice.
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Rain Dogs FTW
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
they would do a good "Rain" (Beatles) i feel
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
yeah, definitely my fave. woulda voted for it
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 8 December 2016 00:55 (seven years ago) link
Live clips I've seen of "Identikit" can feel like they have a little more energy than the studio version but I still like it a lot.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Thursday, 8 December 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
'Ful Stop' seems to have become my favourite track on the album now, with 'Identikit' being nudged down into second place.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 9 December 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
"Decks Dark", for that little Talk Talk choral lift.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 9 December 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
weekly broadcast of archival gigs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJKOUQS1T4
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
In case folks didn't hear it, Radiohead eventually put "Ill Wind" (from the deluxe AMSP version) onto YouTube etc.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C7tfLhHaeU
The version of the album I essentially consider "the" version now lops off "Burn The Witch" (which doesn't fit the sound/vibe/flow of the rest of the album), and slots in "Ill Wind" in alphabetical order between "Identikit" and "The Numbers" and it works perfectly. A much more coherent and cohesive album--the Radiohead I put on most often, having listened for 26 years at this point.
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
me too
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
I dont know this album super well, nor am I a Radiohead stan so feel free to disregard my thoughts, but I'd say it's one of their least interesting. Lovely warm production, though they've been doing that a while now, great little touches, but doesnt show you anything they haven't done already, and better. Feels like a treading water effort.
― candyman, Monday, 8 March 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
ugh, wrong
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
Very, very wrong.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
i talked about it a lot in some other thread but this is totally the best radiohead album imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
Nah, but it's top 5.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
THE best? Not just the best for deep 'head heads? Better than in rainbows, okc and the bends? Ok.
― candyman, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Brad routinely claims the best album in a celebrated band's discography is among those you'd expect the least – it's an endearing quirk of theirs.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
idk between the songs being very good if almost the loosest and most impressionistic set they'd ever written and the sustained haunted woods feeling which gets deeper and deeper as a result of the sequencing... yeah, it's the one for me. in rainbows used to be my fave. ok computer is a good record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
It’s very concise and it’s well loved not just by “deep” radiohead fans. E.g.: In rateyourmusic where every radiohead album has over 40,000 the consensus is:
OKC > KID A > IR > AMSP > THE BENDS
I don’t really have a use for OKC anymore. At this point I’d say KID A, AMSP and TKOL are the Radiohead albums I personally feel like coming back to the most.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
It's a clichéd thing to say, but OKC literally changed my life. It will always be my favourite.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
Candyman sometimes I wonder if you’re Turrican in disguise :)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
Brad is otm, Moon Shaped Pool the best Radiohead album.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
Also: Wrong. This album is sublime.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
I feel like I’m in an island when I say I’d rank TKOL in their top 5. Disclaimer: I count Staircase and Supercollider as part of TKOL to make it a 10 track album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
hmm, looks like i've never expressed my love for "glass eyes" in this thread, but i'm pretty certain i was that song's voter.
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
― pomenitul
It was without doubt the Radiohead album that has triggered the heaviest emotional response for me, but it was pretty much the cd that never left my discman for almost two years. I think I might have overplayed it to death.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
just realized they now seem to alternate between ornate, precisely engineered/performed albums (IR, AMSP) and more raw/off-the-cuff ones (TKOL, HTTT)
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 8 March 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
I think I might have overplayed it to death.
Me too, but I simply can't overstate its importance to my development as an obsessive Lover of Music.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
candyman is RONG but got me listening to this for the first time in years. thanks, candyman.
― Steve M (Banned) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 March 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
getting into "uptown music" (Babbitt disciples like Charles Dodge and Mario Davidovsky)
Funny you should mention these guys – when I found out about the 'Idioteque' / Paul Lansky connection, I looked up Mild und leise and was woefully disappointed. At the time I was firmly in the 'early electronic music suxxx!' camp – much like Afx when he said Stockhausen should 'stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to' (which is somewhat ironic since I was too shy to dance in my teens). So yeah, you were definitely ahead of the curve there.
― pomenitul, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
It was propinquity, or serendipity, or both. I grew up in a neighborhood adjacent to Columbia University and had neighbors who worked with those guys. They knew I liked weird music- one of them gave me a CD of 'Philomel' for Christmas when I was 15!
I was nerdy in the pre-internet age only in the sense that I listened to middling 60's and 70's bands like Paul Revere and the Raiders at age 9 or 10 instead of Green Day and Nirvana. Kind of parochial. Def not too cool :)
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
I was into Luc Ferrari around the time of Kid A but didn't know about any of the associated musique concrete stuff at all which is... baffling.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Were there samples or references to other EA compositions than mild und leise?
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Monday, 15 March 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
They sample arthur krieger's 'short piece' from the same 'elctronic music winners' album. That title!!!
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
*kreiger
Oh wow, they were winning pieces in the first ISCM competition!
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
Ha!!! I didn't know.
What's the etiquette around sampling two consecutive tracks off the same record in a song? I was under the impression that sort of thing was frowned upon at the time.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
i think one is ok, two is definitely frowned upon, but if you do it three or more times it becomes something that is categorically different and maybe even better
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
relate to people upthread who say OKC felt like a pivotal life moment. it's not like i hadn't heard amazing, ambitious music by that point. i was already a fan of the bends. but OKC came out at exactly the right point: literally the day i finished my GCSEs, just as Britpop's shiny naivete was starting to fade. it felt right
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 15 March 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
xp You just keep sampling more of it like you're jamming and it'll look like you meant to do it
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 March 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link