March 21, 201115 yr I still don't really see it as an album. Exactly. I see it as an EP instead. :| what? its 8 songs and 38mins. it is very well produced and they've been working on this for quite some time. what about it doesn't make it an album? why can't we just accept that it isn't their best work and end this constant denial.
March 21, 201115 yr Author what? its 8 songs and 38mins. it is very well produced and they've been working on this for quite some time. what about it doesn't make it an album? why can't we just accept that it isn't their best work and end this constant denial. The album itself is very short and doesn't flow well or have really much of a theme to me. I still feel the album is split into 2 parts. The first part is jazzy electronica (Bloom-Lotus Flower), and then the 2nd part is just completely different and goes for an acoustic or stripped down sound. I mean I guess of course it's officially an album, but it doesn't feel full. Like I don't know about you but most albums that I've listened to tend to feel complete, but this one doesn't. Of course part of this frustration has to do with me feeling it's some of their weakest work, and also that 3.5 years after IR we just get an 8 song album. To be honest I think I might like the song These Are My Twisted Words more than all of TKOL. edit: also who voted this album to be their 2nd best? I'm really interested to see why or how they think that
March 21, 201115 yr damn TKOL, invading on late-January-noob's ability to properly catch up on all their previous work oooh ooh, I know my rankings are... In Rainbows 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pablo Honey TKOL is somewhere in there genius, huh
March 21, 201115 yr I don't know yet :bigcry: noob needs to devote more time to back catalog than she has up to this point noob needs to remove TKOL from cd player in car edit: and noob needs to stop listening to the same song on repeat on iPod
March 22, 201115 yr The album itself is very short and doesn't flow well or have really much of a theme to me. I still feel the album is split into 2 parts. The first part is jazzy electronica (Bloom-Lotus Flower), and then the 2nd part is just completely different and goes for an acoustic or stripped down sound. I mean I guess of course it's officially an album, but it doesn't feel full. Like I don't know about you but most albums that I've listened to tend to feel complete, but this one doesn't. Of course part of this frustration has to do with me feeling it's some of their weakest work, and also that 3.5 years after IR we just get an 8 song album. To be honest I think I might like the song These Are My Twisted Words more than all of TKOL. edit: also who voted this album to be their 2nd best? I'm really interested to see why or how they think that yeah i understand what you guys mean. but doesn't that indicate that it isn't a good album rather than not an album at all. a good album should feel complete and coherent. and i don't see why the length is such an issue. i have countless very very good albums that are less than 38mins long. These Are My Twisted Words is probably one of my favourite radiohead songs, its the type of music that i really really love. i think most bands would feel the urge to throw a song of that quality on to their album but radiohead realised that it wouldn't fit with the rest.
March 22, 201115 yr In Rainbows OK Computer Hail to the Thief Kid A The King of Limbs The Bends Amnesiac Pablo Honey
March 22, 201115 yr 5th. In Rainbows Kid A / OK Computer The Bends The King of Limbs Hail To The Thief Amnesiac Pablo Honey
March 22, 201115 yr damn TKOL, invading on late-January-noob's ability to properly catch up on all their previous work oooh ooh, I know my rankings are... In Rainbows 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pablo Honey TKOL is somewhere in there genius, huh i second that
March 22, 201115 yr 1 to 5 - All those not mentioned below (interchanging due to ultimate awesomeness in full album form) 6 - KOL (awesomeness, but technically only a little longer than half a traditional album) 7 - The Bends (Half an album) 8 - Pablo Honey (A few tracks)
March 22, 201115 yr 1 to 5 - All those not mentioned below (interchanging due to ultimate awesomeness in full album form) 6 - KOL (awesomeness, but technically only a little longer than half a traditional album) 7 - The Bends (Half an album) 8 - Pablo Honey (A few tracks) IR is 4 minutes longer than king of limbs!! only 4 freken minutes. is that also a half album? sorry but all the fuss over the length of it is really annoying me. (thats what she said :p )
March 23, 201115 yr Author IR is 4 minutes longer than king of limbs!! only 4 freken minutes. is that also a half album? sorry but all the fuss over the length of it is really annoying me. (thats what she said :p ) True but also it has 10 songs. That makes it feel longer too. I think it's the overall feel of an album too that makes it seem if it's long enough or not. For me it's a combination of the length of the album in runtime and also the amount of songs. Like it's funny but for Beck I often forget that his last album was Modern Guilt. It's not as if I don't like it because I really do but it's so short that it doesn't fully feel like an album. But it's weird because although it's 5 minutes shorter than TKOL I'd consider it more of an album than that. I guess I feel that 8 songs is way too short for an album. Yes bands like Pink Floyd and Yes released albums that were only 3-5 songs but the songs were so long (often 10-20 mins each) that it felt like an album.
March 23, 201115 yr wellp from worst to best pablo honey (we don't even talk about that album) the bends tkol ok computer (except tkol may be better than ok computer... I've outgrown that album a lot...) hail to the thief amnesiac in rainbows kid a
March 23, 201115 yr For me uh.... :\ 1. Kid A/In Rainbows/OK Computer 4. Amnesiac/The Bends/King of Limbs 7. Hail to the Thief v v v 8. Pablo Honey So about a very honourable 4 to 6? :inquisitive: I voted 5 before I worked it out in writing. But then many days I actually like Amnesiac more than Kid A, so... it's all subjective I guess. (Actually I usually shuffle Kid A and Amnesiac together into a single superalbum these days.) Anyway, I still love it very much and play it frequently. And is it just me, or is Separator the SINGLE HAPPIEST SONG Thom has ever written? :pleased: It feels like a bright, sunny morning after it's been raining for a week. There's a warm breeze in your hair and sun on your face and it's like for a single shining moment anything is possible. And for once, the lyrics seem to say pretty much the same thing the music is: "Like I'm falling out of bed from a long and weary dream Finally I'm free of all the weight I've been carrying" Can't get enough of that one. :nice: I don't know yet :bigcry: noob needs to devote more time to back catalog than she has up to this point noob needs to remove TKOL from cd player in car edit: and noob needs to stop listening to the same song on repeat on iPod:dozey: Don't let them hurry you up, that's the best way to get into one of their albums. Eventually you will wear it out and then start a new one. It's slower, but much more thorough. IR is 4 minutes longer than king of limbs!! only 4 freken minutes. is that also a half album?But 4 minutes is about how much it's too short by. Even one minute might have been enough. It's like when someone doesn't play the last notes in a tune or say the last bit of a sentence and you're left there hanging, waiting for that tiny little bit more.
March 23, 201115 yr Kid A In Rainbows Ok Computer Hail to the Thief The Bends The King of Limbs Amnesiac Pablo Honey
March 23, 201115 yr And is it just me, or is Separator the SINGLE HAPPIEST SONG Thom has ever written? :pleased: It feels like a bright, sunny morning after it's been raining for a week. There's a warm breeze in your hair and sun on your face and it's like for a single shining moment anything is possible. And for once, the lyrics seem to say pretty much the same thing the music is: eh no i dont think so
March 23, 201115 yr IR is 4 minutes longer than king of limbs!! only 4 freken minutes. is that also a half album? sorry but all the fuss over the length of it is really annoying me. (thats what she said :p ) They do more with their time on IR. For example there is no random bird noises and notable breaks in the flow that detract away from the music. The length is short.
March 23, 201115 yr personally i don't have an issue with the number of minutes or the number of songs. the downfall for tkol has been the fact that similar sounding albums have been released in the last couple years and they've almost all been far superior to tkol. and also because i'm a fan of their guitar driven stuff far more than the rest.
March 23, 201115 yr And is it just me, or is Separator the SINGLE HAPPIEST SONG Thom has ever written? :pleased: It feels like a bright, sunny morning after it's been raining for a week. There's a warm breeze in your hair and sun on your face and it's like for a single shining moment anything is possible. And for once, the lyrics seem to say pretty much the same thing the music is. No, it's not just you. Separator does the same for me, first time I felt that this actually is a very happy Radiohead song.
March 23, 201115 yr damn TKOL, invading on late-January-noob's ability to properly catch up on all their previous work oooh ooh, I know my rankings are... In Rainbows 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pablo Honey TKOL is somewhere in there genius, huhwell where is it in there? being #2-7 is a bit general :P First run of rankings for me. This could change quickly though. In Rainbows OK Computer Hail to the Thief Amnesiac The King of Limbs Kid A The Bends Pablo Honey I know I'm gonna get ripped on for my placement of Amnesiac, but I don't really care.
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