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Radiohead has recorded new album, planning 2016 tour
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Think the last tour was between $80 and 100? Too rich for my then-broke blood.
DataStream
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Yeah, I have a dream that I'll see them play sometime and the encore will just be 15 minute versions of "The National Anthem" and "Dollars and Cents"
And TKOL live was amazing. Probably my favorite tour of theirs as it really showed off their musicianship and energy. The recorded material did not do those songs justice, even if I really like most of the record.
Jzero
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Still too much for me if stupid fees aren't included in the price.
I'd probably pay whatever to see them perform. They're my favorite band and I've never seen them, and who knows when that will no longer be a possibility (maybe soon, maybe decades, but you never know). I need to finally jump on that if/when they play around the Chicago area once and for all. Life's too short.
lastflowers
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Had 3rd row tickets to the Houston show for the In Rainbows tour, was awesome. Stayed up all night refreshing the page online because they didn't say when exactly it would go onsale. It ended up being like 8am? or 7 or something, so I wasted my time playing CS and listening to Vampire Weekend's debut all night. School was fun to sleep through all day.
Extra Sauce
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I take it back, The Mystique is intact.
Oh for sure. I put down $80ish on Atoms for Peace and stood on line for about 5 hours to get a front row spot along the rail. Then shoved a guy on his ass halfway through the show when he drunkenly tried to muscle in and started giving me a hard time over it. :lol
minor effort
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Last time I saw Radiohead was in 2000 during the Kid A tour. But I remember in 2008 they were playing in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco a couple blocks from where I was living, so I could at least hear the concert for the most part.
Banjotanooki
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I got mine for about $75 for the king of limbs tour. Worth the two hour drive to Tampa. Fucking amazing show though I was a bit disappointed they didn't play Kid A.... .
Hella Lugosi
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I dunno Hail To The Thief kinda felt like a weird compromise of their label/fans wanting them to go back to their roots and them wanting to do their bleep-bloop music
Poimandres
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If Stair Case, Butcher and Daily Mail were on the album it would have received a better reception.
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TKOL is in my regular rotation.
For me, of all post-Kid A albums, Hail To The Thief is the one that doesn't get a lot of play. I think even Radiohead has admitted that it ran a bit long, and they wish they had spent more time editing it.
It does kind of feel that way. Which is why it's one of the less-distinct Radiohead albums in my view.
OricWindstar
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It's still insane to me those aren't on the album proper. Staircase, especially the In The Basement version, is amazing.
Poimandres
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Yeah man, Staircase is a great track. My pick of the bunch for sure!
uncelestial
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I think they did good work during TKOL. But you could always play "swap the b-sides" with bands and improve their album based on your own preferences. It just doens't jibe with the bands' concept of what that album was.
My ideal TKOL (not in tracklist order):
1. Bloom (Basement arrangement)
2. Little By Little
3. Lotus Flower
4. Codex
5. Give Up the Ghost
6. Separator
7. Supercollider
8. The Butcher
9. Staircase
Leaving Feral, Morning Mr. Magpie, and The Daily Mail as b-sides.
That version of TKOL is a little longer and a lot more consistent, IMO, which were my problems with it. It was a short, slight, uneven work from a band that had been consistently epic for 15 years.
Similarly, I would've left "Morning Bell (reprise)," "Hunting Bears," "Life in a Glass House," and "Pulk/Pull" off of Amnesiac and included Cuttooth, Worrywort, Fog, and Kinetic. But that's just, like, my opinion, man. They wanted to spend "album time" setting some atmosphere and making those statements, and that's their right.
My ideal TKOL (not in tracklist order):
1. Bloom (Basement arrangement)
2. Little By Little
3. Lotus Flower
4. Codex
5. Give Up the Ghost
6. Separator
7. Supercollider
8. The Butcher
9. Staircase
Leaving Feral, Morning Mr. Magpie, and The Daily Mail as b-sides.
That version of TKOL is a little longer and a lot more consistent, IMO, which were my problems with it. It was a short, slight, uneven work from a band that had been consistently epic for 15 years.
Similarly, I would've left "Morning Bell (reprise)," "Hunting Bears," "Life in a Glass House," and "Pulk/Pull" off of Amnesiac and included Cuttooth, Worrywort, Fog, and Kinetic. But that's just, like, my opinion, man. They wanted to spend "album time" setting some atmosphere and making those statements, and that's their right.
robotzombie
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TKOL in the basement is one of the better radiohead albums. It completely replaces the regular TKOL album. Every song is better and the added songs are some of the best.
I used to feel that way about HttT, but it grew on me quite a bit: the opening three or four songs, Myxmatosis, and Punchup at a Wedding are favorites. It gets more play than TKoL nowadays.
Wtf man Life In a Glasshouse is one of my favorite songs off of Kid Amnesiac. You sonofabitch.
uncelestial
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Don't tase me bro! I just kinda... Skip that one. I don't like the horn arrangement and I feel like Thom is too warbly on it. It doesn't have much of that chill spacey atmospheric groove that I love from them. It's kinda, frowny... and tense, and atonal. Again, tase me not pls
Welcome to my ignore list.
j/k, that's the great thing about Radiohead, so much diversity in their music and different fans can have completely different tastes in their songs. It's honestly one of my favorites of theirs. I love the clarinet part in it (pretty sure it's a clarinet from what I remember) and the slow building of the horn section throughout the song. One of my favorites off of the album lyrically too. I loved hearing My Cocaine's character play it in Children of Men.
Banjotanooki
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Gotta agree with this, Life in a Glasshouse is just a weird addition to Amnesiac. Feels out of place with the whole album.
Wrong album.
And I think it fits fine on Amnesiac. It definitely would have been out of place on Kid A but it works with the more acoustic-instrument tracks on Amnesiac. It fits the tone of the album perfectly too.
lastflowers
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This song blew my mind as an 8th grader(?). Since I played trumpet at the time and was interested in jazz, the song structure and interplay did wonders for my musical development. My brother had Amnesiac and OK Computer, but I hadn't paid them that much attention until I heard the song. Absolutely legendary for me.
uncelestial
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See, I think the version you hear them working on in Meeting People is Easy would've fit better. The one on Amnesiac is kinda Woody Allen-ish.
In Rainbows is actually my favorite album of theirs.
Still remember watching this alone on New Years Eve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukythkK4EPQ (Potato quality compared to From the Basement, but I have a soft spot for it - I had no idea how they sounded "live". Was totally blown away.)
Absolutely beautiful.
And of course From the Basement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUbqNxcU8cY
I hope it's something along the lines of In Rainbows. The whole album is super cohesive to me and always puts me in a nice, relaxed place after listening.
Still remember watching this alone on New Years Eve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukythkK4EPQ (Potato quality compared to From the Basement, but I have a soft spot for it - I had no idea how they sounded "live". Was totally blown away.)
Absolutely beautiful.
And of course From the Basement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUbqNxcU8cY
I hope it's something along the lines of In Rainbows. The whole album is super cohesive to me and always puts me in a nice, relaxed place after listening.
RadioHeadAche
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I want more Hail to the Thief. :/
lastflowers
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The great thing about radiohead is there's pretty much no wrong answer. Except maybe Pablo honey
Sorry for the bump, but a couple of tracks from the album have been played by Thom (albeit on an acoustic guitar):
http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/thom-yorke-plays-new-songs.html
Thoughts? I think they sound great so far.
http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/thom-yorke-plays-new-songs.html
Thoughts? I think they sound great so far.
Me as well. For someone to say it doesn't click with them I get. But calling it "shit" is a little ridiculous, in my mind at least. It's wonderfully layered song writing, even if it isn't In Rainbows.
TkoL is more ambient that usual. I like that it sort of washes over you as an album but then you can begin to pick out moments.
The thing I enjoy about Radiohead as a band is that they always make what they feel. Not to be fashionable but because that's where they are as band at that moment in time.
The thing I enjoy about Radiohead as a band is that they always make what they feel. Not to be fashionable but because that's where they are as band at that moment in time.
TheExhaustedWalrus
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I agree. I also loved the arrangement of Bloom Thom did at that show, very haunting and beautiful. TKOL is such a different album live and when they change up the arrangements. Pretty much sours the studio versions.
Anyways, I cannot wait for the album and both of those songs sounded fantastic. The progression on Silent Spring reminds me a lot of a Zeppelin song. It also sounds a lot like the progression on Optimistic.
LordOfChaos
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Arthr2ShdsJcksn
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I saw Radiohead once at Alpine Valley right after Hail to the Thief. It was magic, especially since they played songs from their entire catalog. If they come around again, I would definitely pay to see them again. I hope their new album is good.
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Full Stop and Identikit or no sale, Greenwood
MrGreencastle
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Can't fucking wait. In Rainbows and Amnesiac >
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