hearing this early version of "kid a" with piano and live drums opened up this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-oHjLIcPMU
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 6 November 2021 04:29 (two years ago) link
“How to Disappear into Strings” is just incredible. Would love to hear more of just the string arrangements for their other songs.Jonny Greenwood albums imo
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 6 November 2021 04:36 (two years ago) link
xp that's not actually an "early" version. it's established that it was one of the first tracks finished for the album (by november 1999), but this version is from their summer 2000 tour, not too long before kid a was released. it's just a fairly different arrangement to how they started playing it from the httt tour onwards (though they've tweaked the live arrangement quite a few more times since then). they never played it between kid a's release & the httt tour, so they presumably weren't happy with this particular arrangement at the time.
― ufo, Saturday, 6 November 2021 04:38 (two years ago) link
i think pretty much everything from kid a/amnesiac was finished by the time they went on tour in june 2000, except "life in a glasshouse"
― ufo, Saturday, 6 November 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
i stand corrected chronologically but i maintain i was otm about it fuckin slapping
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 6 November 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link
yeah it's a great version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZhnUWCDuo4
this one's a soundboard recording from that tour, much better quality
― ufo, Saturday, 6 November 2021 05:17 (two years ago) link
thats great!
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 6 November 2021 05:31 (two years ago) link
early “Kid A” live versions were great- think this one is soundboard as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJQcw2GcCM
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 6 November 2021 06:57 (two years ago) link
In context it’s admirable that they were out of their comfort zone not only on record but adapting it to a live setting.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 6 November 2021 08:49 (two years ago) link
re the Pulk/Pull TLW, what a weird one. Prefer the released versions of both, but I'm fascinated by the history of TLW as a parallel to the song's subject and its final release on what was basically a divorce record, lyrically.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 6 November 2021 09:35 (two years ago) link
Man I just listened through to the whole reissue and Amnesiac sounds amazing, even Hunting Bears sounds amazing
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
hot take: hunting bears has always sounded amazing.
(but yes, this new remaster absolutely rewards headphone listening for longtime fans of the material.)
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Pull/Pulk sounded a lot less opaque too. Like, I could hear Thom was saying actual words and not just mumbling through an FX unit
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
Huh? I thought it was confirmed that these weren’t remastered at all? I think the only change is in the half speed vinyl cut?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
maybe i'm just listening more intently this time around? i just assumed these were newly spit-shined or whatever. however the case, these albums have always sounded fantastic and always will.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
The radiohead subreddit kind of confirms it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/comments/qpwmrs/psa_on_kid_amnesia_neither_kid_a_nor_amnesiac_are/
There’s been dozen of threads confirming it’s the same release. It should sound better in vinyl format either way.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
XP ah right I was wondering if it was a remaster or if my ears are just working differently now
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
Don’t fix what’s not broken imho. The originals still sound great to my ears. There’s very little things I’d change.
I’d definitely remaster Hail to the Thief if they release a 20th anniversary thing for that one.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xUC-FYazdU
^^^^ This is the very first-ever performance of “How to Disappear Completely” (back when it was known as “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found”). I far prefer it to the album version.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 13 November 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
it took years of listening to kid a before the album version started to seem like the "real" one
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 November 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
that performance truly was a benefit for the bootleggers, lol!
Ummm... I don't hear how that fuzzy live bootleg is really any better or all that different from the studio version?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 15 November 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
must agree, sounds at that point like an ok computer outtake. still quite good, but.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Monday, 15 November 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
and again: much as i love them, i'm not really at the level of fandom that merits appreciating bootlegs with radiohead.
contradiction: the live performances of the king of limbs era material is the definitive way to hear that stuff, but that's probably the consensus by this point.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Monday, 15 November 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
it's not about the quality or the composition, it's that it was a very early circulated radiohead bootleg, the highest quality one of an unreleased song. everyone listened to it for years and years before the studio version was released
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 November 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
i think i was afraid that would happen to me with "pyramid song" bc i listened to the bootleg from the tibetan freedom concert that's just thom on piano like, over and over again for a solid year before amnesiac came out. the studio version was better though
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 15 November 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
The KID A MNESIA exhibition / game is astounding. Makes up for how mildly disappointing the physical release for the anniversary was.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 18 November 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
it's pretty good yeah
― ufo, Friday, 19 November 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
people are currently working on extracting all the audio from it, there's a lot of interesting stuff found already. looking forward to digging through that
― ufo, Friday, 19 November 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
there's a 7 minute "pulk/pull" with the chords from the "true love waits" version but the "pulk/pull" vocals
― ufo, Friday, 19 November 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
where do i see / hear / experience this exactly?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 19 November 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
https://kida-mnesia.com/https://www.epicgames.com/store/p/kid-a-mnesia-exhibition
& someone's dumping some of the stems & oddities as they go through them here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10FpF2mwKf9ESb8F0OIXOjUplKkOJa49q
but it's very incomplete at the moment, there should be a better collection up within a few days. some of this stuff isn't anywhere (that i could tell anyway) to be found in the exhibition either
― ufo, Friday, 19 November 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12lJ23Bobg6qt00Z35vbxf1Fwo3Ez48T-
oh this is apparently all the audio files but there's hundreds of them & they're unlabelled
― ufo, Friday, 19 November 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
nice!
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 19 November 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
this was the hope. Sweet. Can't wait to get into this. Mailed my vinyl back to Toronto. Kid A was a mess!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 19 November 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
I find it hard to listen to scuzzy bootlegs of *any* artist tbh.But bootleg audio aside, that version is pretty uninteresting compared to the album version. No cross-rhythm with the bassline, boring strummy guitar, no strings. Meh.
― raven, Friday, 19 November 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
The most interesting ones I heard were the vocals from pulk/pull without fx that makes Thom sound like a soulless salesman and an 8 bit optimistic.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 19 November 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
the "8 bit optimistic" was just an organ track that must have been absolutely buried in the original version or something
― ufo, Friday, 19 November 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
I don't know what I expected but this is all surprisingly expensive imho - https://merch.kida-mnesia.com/
― StanM, Monday, 29 November 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
It is. It's cute that QR codes leading to products are scattered around the game... when i exited a place there were bears holding up a sign with a code... leading to their cookies. The bears are aggressive salesmen. 25 quid though, and probably as much again in postage...nuh uh.The free game is great though.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 29 November 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Kudos to the @LandsEnd designer who got this past corporate. pic.twitter.com/2shIx5fMT5— Sam Van Hallgren (@samvanhallgren) December 10, 2021
― birdistheword, Friday, 10 December 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
Reminds me of this all-time great ILM thread:
Photoshop/MS Paint Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers
Sadly, most of them are gone forever.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 12 December 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link