Testing new songs in a live environment is nothing new. The songs that aren't "new" have been reworked and tinkered with for years to get them just right. These tracks are anything but B-side songs.
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Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool |OT| A Moon Shaped Poo
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Nicktendo86
Member
Ummm sounds interesting, thanks. Can't wait to hear it.
chicko1983
Member
So I'm pretty certain now after a couple of listens that daydreaming is supposed to be played in the normal direction and then followed immediately in the reverse direction and in an infinite loop.
It's too much of a coincidence that it can be played backwards (with the track jump sound matching perfectly in forwards and reverse and the background vocals being backwards in the normal direction).
I'm sure he says something like "half of my life, half of my love" when he wakes up at the fire at the beginning of playing the song in reverse, which is actually also about halfway in the song if you play them back to back.
What do you think?
Normal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAU7lLDZYU
Reverse
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjhZYkKvyRg
It's too much of a coincidence that it can be played backwards (with the track jump sound matching perfectly in forwards and reverse and the background vocals being backwards in the normal direction).
I'm sure he says something like "half of my life, half of my love" when he wakes up at the fire at the beginning of playing the song in reverse, which is actually also about halfway in the song if you play them back to back.
What do you think?
Normal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAU7lLDZYU
Reverse
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjhZYkKvyRg
Nicktendo86
Member
it's also piano/atmosphere based instead of acoustic guitar. Just so you know
I liked the piano version on the live album (what was it called... I might be wrong I think?) so this might be up my street. The song has always been special for the vocals for me really
Just my personal luck, but so far Apple Music has managed to get the albums I care most about online right away.
In Rainbows is on Apple Music last I checked.
Radiohead has a history of premiering many in-progress tracks in live capacity, sometimes years before the tracks are actually complete. They eventually get worked into a studio capacity if it suits the record.
chicko1983
Member
Yep, isn't nude recorded on two albums as well iirc
SomedayTheFire
Member
i dont' think so. it was meant to be on ok computer but they weren't happy with it.
Was also going to be on Kid A in yet another reworked fashion but then the sound of the album changed completely and it was also dropped from live rotation around that time.
chicko1983
Member
Yeah, I wasn't sure, couldn't remember if it was in the bends or not. I know it was an old one though, and they performed it for years before recording it.
chicko1983
Member
Has anyone given my normal/reverse daydream a listen? Anyone got any idea of what he is saying at the end?
People think it sounds like "half of my life" when played in reverse. I then Read that thom broke up with this wife, whom he had known for about half of his life.
People think it sounds like "half of my life" when played in reverse. I then Read that thom broke up with this wife, whom he had known for about half of his life.
infiniteloop
Member
link?
Lé Blade Runner
Member
Mind frickin' blown. And if you watch the video, he closes all those doors he opened before. And the sound is still cohesive, albeit chaotic. I mean... Holy shit!
chicko1983
Member
Post 903 above
The strings on The Numbers just hit me.
Also, does anyone think the strings toward the end of Tinker Tailor sound like Shadow of the Colossus? Jonny's a gamer and I know he said he loved ICO, so I wouldn't be surprised.
It occurred to me listening to it this morning that Thom probably wrote this song around the time he and his partner first got together. The lyrics are definitely very Bends-y, but as one of the few leftover tracks from that era (that we know of at least) and given Thom's break up last year, bringing it back as the closer here feels right.
Also, does anyone think the strings toward the end of Tinker Tailor sound like Shadow of the Colossus? Jonny's a gamer and I know he said he loved ICO, so I wouldn't be surprised.
It occurred to me listening to it this morning that Thom probably wrote this song around the time he and his partner first got together. The lyrics are definitely very Bends-y, but as one of the few leftover tracks from that era (that we know of at least) and given Thom's break up last year, bringing it back as the closer here feels right.
chicko1983
Member
Lé Blade Runner;202998841 said:
Yep, I was thinking that the clip seemed a bit...boring when I first watched it. Then the taking at the end had me interested.
I went to YouTube and found someone else had reversed the ending. That's where I thought he said "half of my life". Then I saw someone else had reversed the whole clip.
I put two and two together and it works, chaotically, but almost too good to be true. The start of the normal clip then becomes like thom has died at the end of the reverse clip, walking into the light.
And the editing of doors and when he looks at the camera in the reverse is too deliberate for it not be purposefully done imo.
Yep, glad they waited. One of my faves in In Rainbows
Don't get any big ideas
They are not going to happen
Too good!!
Yeah I can't get it out of my head
wesleyshark
Banned
This damn album. It's an instant classic but also a grower... It just keeps getting better and better even though I already love it.
Favorite tracks:
Burn the Witch
Daydreaming
Decks Dark
Desert Island Disk
Identitkit
The Numbers
I'm just going to say that Daydreaming, Decks Dark, and The Numbers are easily three of the best songs they've ever written. Period.
Favorite tracks:
Burn the Witch
Daydreaming
Decks Dark
Desert Island Disk
Identitkit
The Numbers
I'm just going to say that Daydreaming, Decks Dark, and The Numbers are easily three of the best songs they've ever written. Period.
What's the 01/10 thing?
Davey Cakes
Member
True Love Waits got the "Videotape Treatment."
I do feel like the album is a massive step up from a lot of the King of Limbs era material. Not that TKOL was bad (it's probably underrated if anything) but I'll admit I appreciate the sound they're going for with AMSP much more overall.
I do feel like the album is a massive step up from a lot of the King of Limbs era material. Not that TKOL was bad (it's probably underrated if anything) but I'll admit I appreciate the sound they're going for with AMSP much more overall.
Daria Morgendorffer
Member
I'm so happy Radiohead released such a good album in fucking 2016.
Seriously blows my mind
Seriously blows my mind
NealMcCauley
Member
http://www.greenplastic.com/2010/12/17/the-lost-radiohead-album/
Very neat to listen to. Be sure to set the playlist or player with 10 seconds of crossfade so the tracks blend together.
Videotape was a much bigger song that got stripped down for the album. True Love Waits was always a pretty simple song to begin with.
lol, OK. Well I guess you could make a mega 001/010/100 album out of those two plus this one
DiddysKongQuest
Member
Not for me (Sweden) it ain't
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Jeez, the lyrics to The Numbers are nearly ruining that song for me. "We call upon the people / People have this power!" *dramatic string section* - ugggghghgh come on guys. Radiohead are often on the nose but that is just way too over the top cornball.
Anyways. That's my main pet peeve on this album, overall I'm in awe
Anyways. That's my main pet peeve on this album, overall I'm in awe
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
Decks Dark is sounding even better this morning. One of my faves from the album now.
Nothing in Japan, but I suppose that's a good sign that it's coming.
uncelestial
Member
I think this reminds me most of much more mature, and subtle (i.e. Radioheadish) versions of Bjork's Vespertine and Beck's Sea Change. Icy, shimmering, unafraid to be quiet, and full of just the right details in just the right places. I know they made some sort of change to their process and that this one took longer, but there is such obvious care behind everything, whereas TKOL just didn't grow on repeat listens in the same way. I hope they've figured out a way of working that they can sustain because they're so clearly still full of amazing ideas.
In my lifetime I haven't seen a band evolve the way these particular musicians have. It's always so interesting to hear what they're up to next. I didn't live through the Beatles, this is what my generation has. And I love it.
In my lifetime I haven't seen a band evolve the way these particular musicians have. It's always so interesting to hear what they're up to next. I didn't live through the Beatles, this is what my generation has. And I love it.
The Widget
Neo Member
I've read this as well. Devastating, if true. "Daydreaming" is a heavy enough song as is.
theignoramus
Member
I feel like I could listen to the album a dozen times and get pull something unique from each separate listening session. Those reviews that hit the net 4 hours after release, what a joke. It doesnt work like that with any album, let alone an album as dense and multi-layered as this. Its borderline disrespectful to the artists for the New York Times and Guardian to pull that clickbait shit.
Yeah reviewing this four hours after release is whack. Telegraph's 4/5 review they posted yesterday got changed into a 5/5 today.
Yeah it's ridiculous. I highly doubt anyone had this album in advance. You can't list to this album (or any album really) twice and then fart out a review.
So I wasn't just seeing things...
Apparently they also changed the headline from "A work of total self-assurance" to "You'll love it more with every listen".
You'd think music critics would have learned by now not to snap judge a Radiohead album.
Davey Cakes
Member
Indeed.
I'd even go so far as to call it "transcendental."
While I enjoyed TKOL overall, that era for the band was a bit uneven for me. But this new album is something else. It's the band truly at their best.
Never felt the need to adjust the spacing for this to work for me.
crooked spin
Member
Hm. Having a hard time pulling anything redeeming from Tinker Tailor... Dull progression, dull melody, then... strings. Not seeing any payoff.