I like it, too (much more than the "punk" of the first single). Wasn't saying Yorke heard Sault as an insult.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 29 January 2022 04:19 (two years ago) link
Watching the stream for the second show and whoa. There’s some amazing songs there. Particularly loving “open the floodgates” so far.
This is by far the best Radiohead side project so far. I don’t see how several of these couldn’t have made it for an actual Radiohead album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
phil and ed and colin were sacked
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
Lol next song I think is “free in the knowledge” sounds like a distant cousin to “karma police”… has a very distinct OK Computer flavor to it.
I’m feeling bad for the sacked members, specially Ed. These are the sort of songs he’s been wanting Radiohead to play since Kid A.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
don't feel bad for them. ed is part of the beatles touring band now, phil's working on sanding down every rough edge he ever had, and colin is focusing on lucrative bass solo for runway gigs
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
Hmm, that means one of them is a “masked singer” then.
― Mark G, Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
These are the sort of songs he’s been wanting Radiohead to play since Kid A.
not at all? the mood here is largely an extension of the jammiest parts of the last two rh albums, not anywhere near three minute guitar pop songs.
not really feeling this material in general
― ufo, Monday, 31 January 2022 05:11 (two years ago) link
i like "we don't know what tomorrow brings" and then "free in the knowledge", "open the floodgates" and "you will never work in television again" are alright.
― ufo, Monday, 31 January 2022 06:57 (two years ago) link
The two songs I've heard so far are really lacklustre
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2022 08:18 (two years ago) link
the smile stuff is great
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 31 January 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
with ufo and dog latin here tbh
― imago, Monday, 31 January 2022 13:17 (two years ago) link
literally not surprised by which board members feel this doesn't do enough
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 31 January 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
in the spirit of reciprocation, i am not surprised by those who do ;)
save us fooorks
― imago, Monday, 31 January 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
I don’t know if I’d consider OK Computer an album of three minute guitar pop songs.
For starters most of the songs in OKC are over 4 minutes.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 31 January 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
idk what you're talking about then bc the sentiment ed expressed a few times around kid a to httt was along the lines of wanting to make thtee minute guitar pop songs
and this is material is largely as far away from pop as rh have ever been and in the way i find least compelling
― ufo, Monday, 31 January 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
Did it leak? Or are we talking about the two singles and the webcasts?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
sorry, i learned how to google
also, more evidence for ed being sacked, phil as well
Their many devoted sleuths may suspect that, in the long tradition of stratospherically successful, decade-spanning rock groups, the guys just don’t love hanging out together anymore. (When Ed O’Brien released his solo album last year, he admitted that only the drummer Phil Selway had asked to hear it.) It was heartening, then, to see Yorke and Greenwood, the core songwriting duo, derive such palpable joy from their live debut as the Smile on a Glastonbury livestream last May. They enlisted Tom Skinner, the fidgety jazz drummer of Sons of Kemet, as their high-energy Selway substitute.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
His songwriting aspirations go back to 1996, when Radiohead embarked on OK Computer. He planned to propose some material of his own, before self-doubt – and deference to Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood – got the better of him. Making Earth, “I kept asking: what would they think?” he says. “But that was stopping me stepping fully into me.” Has Yorke heard the album? “No. Philip [Selway, drummer] asked, so I sent it to him. But I wouldn’t want to do the U2 thing” – smuggling music unbidden into people’s phones. He smiles evenly. “If they want to hear it, that’s great. And if they don’t: whatever.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/09/radioheads-ed-obrien-humanity-has-only-really-learned-from-disaster
― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
surprised that i like this ("the smoke")
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 31 January 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link
I want to break down that riff from 'The Smoke' at some point, it's in 4/4 but they slide the phrases around so that it feels odd/awkward at certain points.
And the drumming is fantastic, deceptively simple but keeping those 16ths going at that tempo is Funky Drummer shit.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 31 January 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
the arrangement is really nice too, sophisticated but light. the radiohead mode i like the most fwiw, tom barely there and in falsetto more a mood board than anything. restrained-funky rhythm section a la can. and a lot of almost-substantial clouds in the arrangement.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 31 January 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
to me this sounds like the I get a little bit genghis khan song or like modern adult contempo dangermouse stuff, pretty dismal
― Bongo Jongus, Monday, 31 January 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
haha i like the adult contemporary aspect of it
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 31 January 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
I can guarantee I'll forget about this song and hear it in some diff context and be like oh yeah this is pretty nice
― Bongo Jongus, Monday, 31 January 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
isn't it so weird how that works? tho i probably won't hear it in a different context anytime soon!
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 31 January 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Oof I wasn’t aware of the rest of the band - besides Phil - not being supportive or even interested at all of EOB’s solo album. That’s fucked up. Even if they don’t think it’s their cup of tea, it’s basic human decency to at least ask what he’s up to. They’ve been co-workers for three decades ffs.
Maybe AMSP is actually the last Radiohead album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 31 January 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
Colin Newman said, "never ask a band member what they thought of their other band member's solo album!"
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 31 January 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
LOL damn thats cold. I feel politely obligated to listen to my musical coworkers' albums, and our job isnt even "being in a band together" ffs
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 31 January 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
Yeah this is one of the coolest things about that track. Sounds like there's a 3 against 4 thing going on. The main bass line also strongly recalls "A Punch Up At A Wedding." I think both Smile tracks so far are really strong.
The Ed situation makes me sad though...
― J. Sam, Monday, 31 January 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
if you read the rest of that guardian link (a march 2020 piece on EOB) it kind of makes it clear that the weirdness has gone on for a long time between them
― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
i feel bad because i want to root for all the radioheads, but that solo album was a barf sandwich. even in the hype article for it, he kind of accidentally mentions how Flood thought his songs were bad but he just shrugged it off and kept going. :(
― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
jonnythomcolinphiled
― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
and if i'm being honest, that was always the ranking since day 1
I mean it’s clear Jonny and Thom have always been the creative force behind Radiohead. And yeah, in a way I agree with that ranking, Jonny is actually their MVP. The least replaceable after them might be Nigel.
Colin and Phil are the rhythmic background and while really good at it, they could be easily replaced if we’re being honest. Hell listening to that The Smile concert I think the highlight of the whole thing for me is actually Skinner.
Ed does provide some interesting textures from time to time but judging from that article, it feels like he himself is aware that his contributions are likely the result of them inviting him to the big boys table, but not something that idk Johnny couldn’t come up with.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 31 January 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
It's actually crazy that Thom & Jonny ended up in the same band
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 31 January 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
It’s kind of a Lennon/McCartney, Waters/Gilmour, Gene/Dean thing.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 31 January 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
i'm talking about the two singles and the webcast yeah
― ufo, Monday, 31 January 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
they're doing/did those 3 concerts just the last few days, i'm sure they're out there on the torrents and whatnot, i'm just so lazy that I want it to be on youtube
― Karl Malone, Monday, 31 January 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQvMhzM2B8 joe jackson
― fpsa, Monday, 31 January 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
ed has the best job in RH, gets to be handsome and just play with pedals
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 31 January 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
the smile tour datesTickets go on General Sale this Friday 4th February at 10am GMT, more shows for The Smile will be announced in due course. The dates are:16/05/22 - Zagreb - Hala17/05/22 - Vienna - Gasometer19/05/22 - Prague - Forum Karlin20/05/22 - Berlin - Tempodrom23/05/22 - Stockholm - Cirkus24/05/22 - Oslo - Sentrum Scene27/05/22 - Amsterdam - Paradiso29/05/22 - London - Roundhouse30/05/22 - London - Roundhouse01/06/22 - Edinburgh - Usher Hall02/06/22 - Manchester - Albert Hall04/06/22 - Lille - L’Aéronef06/06/22 - Paris - Philarmonie de Paris07/06/22 - Paris - Philarmonie de Paris08/06/22 - Lyon - Les Nuits de Fourvière10/06/22 - Barcelona - Primavera Sound Festival12/06/22 - Dijon - Festival VYV Les Solidarites24/06/22 - Reims - La Magnifique Society25/06/22 - Werchter - TW Classic festival27/06/22 - Luxembourg - The Neumünster Abbaye29/06/22 - Gdynia - Open’er Festival05/07/22 - Barcelona - Poble Espanyol06/07/22 - Madrid - Noches del Botánico08/07/22 - Lisbon - Lisbon Coliseum11/07/22 - Nîmes - Festival de Nimes12/07/22 - Montreux - Montreux Jazz Festival14/07/22 - Milan - Fabrique Milano15/07/22 - Padua/Padova - Villa Contarini17/07/22 - Macerata MC - Arena Sferisterio18/07/22 - Cavea - Auditorium Parco della Musica20/07/22 - Taormina - Teatro Antico di Taormina
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 11:26 (two years ago) link
there were reports the album is 'out in a few months' so i guess it'll be early may then
― ufo, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 11:28 (two years ago) link
watched a stream - wasn't immediately blown away. didn't skip or turn it off either. is it headlining-those-kinds-of-venues good though? mmm
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
and going "EEEEEEEEEEED"
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
Radioh- EEEEEEEED
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 14:47 (two years ago) link
shoutout to transphobic jonny greenwood and his shitty ass antivax wife ❤️❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/ejhIqiiQc7— ellie (@pigonantibiotic) April 27, 2022
― nxd, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
Being the prettiest Radiohead is not a bad gig, methinks.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
i did not need to know this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
Not very rad of him
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:25 (two years ago) link
He’s saying he clicked like by mistake…