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Radiohead - 'A Moon Shaped Pool'

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    #212
    Vinculus
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭Vinculus


    I always felt each album improved on the one before and on and on it went up until TKOL which I originally thought it was disappointing but over the last week I've started listening to again and I'm now completely blown away by it.
    Bloom is an incredible opening track.
    To me, this is like Kid A part 2.


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    #213
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,138 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    I remember being 14 and buying OK Computer in an Airport shop before heading off with my family on a holiday to Spain. That first listen on headphones, hearing Airbag for the first time. Man. Maybe we grow used to it as we've heard it so many times since then or heard so much varied music since then - but the first two tracks on OK Computer blew the ****ing head off your shoulders on first listen imo. There was a landscape of British music at the time that OKC stood apart from.

    The documentary about the OKC tour really rammed home the point about how even the most exciting pieces of music can become stale the more you hear / play them with its repeated shots of the Paranoid Android guitar sections in a myriad of different venues.


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    #214
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    I remember being 14 and buying OK Computer in an Airport shop before heading off with my family on a holiday to Spain. That first listen on headphones, hearing Airbag for the first time. Man. Maybe we grow used to it as we've heard it so many times since then or heard so much varied music since then - but the first two tracks on OK Computer blew the ****ing head off your shoulders on first listen imo. There was a landscape of British music at the time that OKC stood apart from.

    The documentary about the OKC tour really rammed home the point about how even the most exciting pieces of music can become stale the more you hear / play them with its repeated shots of the Paranoid Android guitar sections in a myriad of different venues.

    I first heard Paranoid Android on Atlantic 252 and from then on I knew the type of path I would follow.


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    #215
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,668 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    OKC is a rather fitting album to listen to a plane. Or maybe not. I share Thom's fear of transportation so that album really spoke to me at the time. I still have nightmares of cars or buses flying out of control. Being hit by a car last year didn't help.

    The live version of Killer Cars on Itch is brilliant!


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    #216
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    I used to think Thom was a bit of a negative person, hence the lyrical content, but now I think he might have some mental issues (who doesn't?) like depression and anxiety. Not just singing about those issues from afar but actually feeling them and living with them. As someone who occasionally suffers from those issues it makes me warm to him even more.


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    #217
    Grayditch
    Registered Users Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    Quirky little video, posted there. EDIT: On their Facebook and Instagram, cant link it.


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    #218
    Sad Professor
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    https://www.instagram.com/p/BFobIUWKyu2/

    Appears to be another vignette.


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    #219
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,453 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    They played Creep in Paris last night (the first time live in 7 years as far as I know).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cctMmb1G9I


    Edit: No Surprises too... :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vZpwHdARg


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    #220
    Sad Professor
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    You can see it better from this angle, but Thom forgets the lyrics to the outro and has to ask Ed. Pretty funny.

    I listened to the bootlegs from the first two gigs in Amsterdam and there was a guy yelling "creep!" between practically every song. I'm amazed people still do this. I can understand why this was so annoying for the band early in their career.


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    #221
    Grayditch
    Registered Users Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    I can't stand people who go to gigs knowing only one song and proceed to shout it for the whole gig. At Peter Gabriel there was a donkey next to me shouting Sledgehammer, despite the fact that Peter Gabriel had come out and told the crowd they'd play the So album in it's entirety during the third section of the gig.


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    #222
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users Posts: 9,354 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    Nice to see that they're mixing things up.

    Airbag and Climbing up the Walls already played tonight.

    If they play Let Down at one of their London dates after I failed to get tickets then I'll forever hold a grudge.


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    #223
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,668 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    I love Let Down. It seems to be a really hard song for them to play live, though.


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    #224
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users Posts: 9,354 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    I know, all the more reason for me wanting to hear it live.

    I've seen 9 out of my favourite 10 songs played live so Let Down has become my 'holy grail'.

    If the difference between me hearing it live or not comes down to my inability to get my hands on tickets for these shows then I'll be super pissed.

    Has there been any feedback on how strict venues have been at the door with regards to the card holder being present?


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    #225
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    Has there been any feedback on how strict venues have been at the door with regards to the card holder being present?

    I was checked twice in Amsterdam; 2 sets of checks and both required photo ID matching the name on the ticket.


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    #226
    Billy Mays
    Registered Users Posts: 3,186 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    I know, all the more reason for me wanting to hear it live.

    I've seen 9 out of my favourite 10 songs played live so Let Down has become my 'holy grail'.

    If the difference between me hearing it live or not comes down to my inability to get my hands on tickets for these shows then I'll be super pissed.

    Has there been any feedback on how strict venues have been at the door with regards to the card holder being present?
    Was at the Amsterdam show on Friday, got asked for id twice on the way in


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    #227
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users Posts: 9,354 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    Well that's good to hear. Looks like it's not enough to circumvent the touting here in the UK.

    I could fly to Lollapalooza in Germany, get a ticket for the Sunday, stay for a few nights for the cheapest ticket available on the second hand market at the moment.

    Hmmmm, maybe I'll do that.


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    #228
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,138 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Pretty good lick at Let Down here:

    https://youtu.be/yCloiyewBCQ

    And their bag of tricks is a lot more impressive these days than it was during the OKC tour...


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    #229
    johnpatrick81
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    I liked this album at first, I absolutely adore it a couple of weeks later. It's a real grower, so many layers. The guitar work is fantastic.


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    #230
    budgemook
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    johnpatrick81 wrote: »
    I liked this album at first, I absolutely adore it a couple of weeks later. It's a real grower, so many layers. The guitar work is fantastic.

    Agree with this. The best albums are always this way.


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    #231
    Achasanai
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    budgemook wrote: »
    Agree with this. The best albums are always this way.

    Also agree. Haven't got into it quite yet, but pretty sure it's going to be one of those that I won't be getting sick of.


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    #232
    loyatemu
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    this is the definitive version of Let Down for me now:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXBamm5XqO8


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    #233
    IamtheWalrus
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    Achasanai wrote: »
    Also agree. Haven't got into it quite yet, but pretty sure it's going to be one of those that I won't be getting sick of.

    It's probably the first album (not pop) that I've 'gotten' on first listen. This initially concerned me because the best albums require many listens but so far this one is still rewarding my obsessive amount of listens.


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    #234
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    OK, I've given it a few weeks now. I still don't like it, and I still think TKOL is better.

    It feels like a album with no direction, to me.

    I give up.


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    #235
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users Posts: 9,354 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    loyatemu wrote: »
    this is the definitive version of Let Down for me now:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXBamm5XqO8
    I like that easy all stars album, a lot, and that version of Let Down works really well but everything that makes the original song transcend similar anthemic songs is missing from the ESA version.


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    #236
    Grayditch
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    That's by far the standout track on Radiodread.


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    #237
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    Saipanne wrote: »
    OK, I've given it a few weeks now. I still don't like it, and I still think TKOL is better.

    It feels like a album with no direction, to me.

    I give up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc


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    #238
    mosstin
    Registered Users Posts: 6,118 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Right then, weeks of listening later.......I like it a lot. I don't love it. I love aspects about it. I love 'Burn the Witch, 'Daydreaming' and Identikit'. I really enjoy listening to it as a whole but I couldn't say that I love it.
    If this is a period they're moving in to though - late period, reflective - I'm all for it. It's about a 7/10 for me.


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    #239
    Table Top Joe
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    loyatemu wrote: »
    this is the definitive version of Let Down for me now:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXBamm5XqO8




    Thats fantastic! have the album on Spotify now


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    #240
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    I see "In Rainbows" has now appeared on Spotify for the first time. I assume AMSP will appear in due course.


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    #241
    EGriff
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    loyatemu wrote: »
    I see "In Rainbows" has now appeared on Spotify for the first time. I assume AMSP will appear in due course.

    June 17th according to the verge. Weird they don't have it yet, it's been on Google music since day 1 pretty much, don't know about apple.


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