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Sigur Ros - Takk vs. The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band Radiohead - Kid A vs. Coldplay - A Rush of blood to the head

I love Black Swan.. The Eraser, Analyse and Cymbal Rush are great too. and I like Modeselektor's Skip Divided remix.

sorry about that, I made a new thread because I didn't find a Phoenix thread in Briggins' index..

Phoenix! I fell in love with this band's new EP after watching them on SNL last month. They're French, they're cute, and all of their music is quite brilliant and puts me in a great mood :P

Ooh I've had loads of dreams about them, i don't remember many of my dreams though. In one of them.... I was sitting at home on a saturday morning and I get a call from Thom Yorke, he says Radiohead were supposed to play that night but Jonny got sick, so he called my guitar teacher (who he's apparently good friends with) but she was booked for the night so she said "oh yeah I know this amazing guitarist, Anna, a student of mine, you should totally call her" so I came and played with them in this park-type venue.... it was so cool! And there was another one where I was in a restaurant and the whole band and their wives and children were sitting at the table next to me, which was pretty epic already, and then I walked outside through this garden type thing to get to the restaurant's bathroom, and I see this little boy wandering around crying for his mom... and he says to me "I'm lost, help me!!" and I say "what's your mom and daddy's name?" and he says "Rachel and Thom!" so i'm like ahh it's Noel!! So i bring him back inside and by this time the band's already looking for him and I say "Hi, is this your son? He was lost outside" so they were really relieved and invited me to sit down with them! :D

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zwKH4g2xE&feature=related]YouTube - Thom Yorke - Paranoid Android (Acoustic)[/ame] Just found this yesterday..... it's mind blowing. My friend and I are thinking of doing a cover soon.

ooh that is really bizarre actually

Favorite Song.. tough.. 15 Step Least Favorite Song ..don't have one! Most Listened to Song (iTunes/Last.fm) 15 Step Least Listened to song (itunes/last.fm) Faust Arp Favorite song musically Bodysnatchers Favorite song lyrically Videotape Favorite line of the album "How come I end up where I started? How come I end up where I went wrong?" "You are my center when I spin away, out of control on videotape." Most overrated song Reckoner Most underrated song Bodysnatchers Current Favorite 15 step Favorite when you first listened to the song 15 step What song best exemplifies each of the members off the album Thom- Videotape Jonny- 15 Step Ed- Jigsaw Falling Into Place Phil- Reckoner Colin- Nude

Haha Briggins, I remember your Radiohead fast. I was going to do it with you but gave up after a few days. I remember the night it was announced, I was about to go to bed after a particularly frustrating session of trying to decode that worm buffet stuff, and i accidentally refreshed DAS one last time to see that post.... and I just flipped out completely. I remember being the first to post in the Radiohead thread and everyone else didn't seem half as excited as I was... I woke up super early to download it almost as soon as it was available, and you're right, it was 100x better than christmas morning! :P Videotape also took me longest to get into, after Reckoner which I couldn't understand the hype about. But I have to say the whole album is excellent live and the tour was just brilliant.

Yep we've listed all (I think) haha

..amazing sounds of orgy!

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Let Down by Radiohead ....always always get me.

Mm cuttooth... fog.. kinetic...

yeah I remember Briggins posting that, cool site. PS. are you in NYC?

Ohh. clueless as usual.

What about amnesiac? thanks! yeah i never realized about those songs that haven't been played live either. That's really cool about colin and True Love waits, I never knew. but wasn't true love waits after Amnesiac? well I guess it could have been recorded before/ at the same time. grazie. ....Amnesiac also has the best set of B-sides!

oh and The National Anthem is my favorite live song!! it's mindblowing!!

PS. I'm kind of loving your sig, MK

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Ah, Amnesiac - in my opinion the coolest Radiohead album by far. Released in June 2001, it has at times been labeled Kid A's jazzier twin. It's also been condescendingly referred to as a collection of out-takes from the Kid A sessions, but Thom himself declares this untrue: "The gnostics believe when we are born we are forced to forget where we have come from in order to deal with the trauma of arriving in this life. i thought this was really fascinating. its like the river of forgetfulness. it may have been recorded at same time as Kid A but it comes from a different place i think. i used to listen to it on my laptop on tour supposedly trying to find a running order but really because i was so happy to have something we had done that nobody else had heard and was our secret. it sounds like finding an old chest in someones attic with all these notes and maps and drawings and descriptions of going to a place you cannot remember. thats what i think anyway" Tracklisting. Packt like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box Quite un-Radioheadesque at first listen, but that is the beauty of Radiohead itself. Twas written in a park in Paris, watching young children and old people passing by. Interesting effects on Thom's vocals. Pyramid Song The first single in many countries. Used to be called Egyptian song, written in Copenhagen in 1999 after Thom went to an exhibition of Egyptian art. Jonny's favourite song on the album : "Pyramid Song is probably our best ever - not that I'm so cocky as to think we're that great or anything - just relieved it's out and we recorded it well enough." Thom has called it "a song about past lives". In an interview once he said "That song literally took five minutes to write, but yet it came from all these mad places. It's something I never thought I could actually get across in a song and lyrically. But I managed it and that was really, really tough. Stephen Hawking talks about the theory that time is another force. It's a fourth dimension and he talks about the idea that time is completely cyclical, it's always doing this [spins finger]. It's a factor, like gravity. It's something that I found in Buddhism as well. That's what "Pyramid Song" is about, the fact that everything is going in circles." Pulk/ Pull Revolving Doors Famous for being the only (correct me if I'm wrong) Radiohead song never played live. Bizarre? Yes. Flows well with the album? Yes. Brilliant? Yes. You and whose army? Allegedly dedicated to former British prime minister Tony Blair, but it can be interpreted many other different ways. Thom commented that this is one of his favourite songs on the album, "cause it was fun to play, totally relaxed. The song wrote itself. And I love colin's double bass on it." I Might Be Wrong Simply brilliant. Also excellent live. Knives Out Radiohead's best music video. Thom once said about the meaning of the song: "It's partly the idea of the businessman walking out on his wife and kids and never coming back. It's also the thousand yard stare when you look at someone close to you and you know they're gonna die. It's like a shadow over them, or the way they look straight through you. The shine goes out of their eyes." What a crazy yet brilliant man. Morning Bell/ Amnesiac Unfortunately this is the one Radiohead song I genuinely do not enjoy. Say what you will, but I ALWAYS skip it. Ruins Morning Bell from Kid A for me, which I adore. Dollars & Cents Thom's anti-capitalist lyrics, Jonny's fabulous string arrangements. Hunting Bears Two minutes of Jonny Greenwood's mad electric guitar skills. It has no lyrics, but Thom once posted in the depths of the website this short snippet: bears
giant bears
they will eat me and you
run back to the house before they catch us
wee hee hee cant catch me
were going on a bear hunt. Like Spinning Plates Possibly my favorite track off the album though I don't listen to it all that often. First time I heard it was in the middle of the night on a high-speed, pitch black train speeding across Germany in the middle of nowhere. Everybody was asleep...and I was just transported to another world. I love the sound at the end that sounds like a motorcycle speeding away in the distance... you can only hear it when you're listening to the song in silence. Thom has said "I'm so proud of 'Spinning Plates' because it was the most skew-whiff way of ever writing a song you could possibly imagine. Basically it was fragments of another song ['I Will'] spun backwards - rewriting the melody that's backwards and having to change it. It was great, that's the sort of stuff I get off on. Still at the end of the day it's a song, and I think coherent." Cool stuff. I like the lyrics too. while you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds you feed me to the lions a delicate balance when this just feels like spinning plates I'm living in cloud cuckoo land and this just feels like spinning plates our bodies floating down the muddy river Listen to the live version as well!!! Life In A Glasshouse Beautiful closer with mind blowing instrumental arrangements. The full version is amazing as well. So if you haven't heard the album, listen to it! If you haven't listened to the I Might Be Wrong Live Recordings you are missing out as well. Feel free to discuss.... favorite songs, favorite lines, first impressions...

^Haha nice... yes the booklet is hanging up above my desk as is the OKC one.. they're nice looking.

1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins....

censor? :P :P :P

Oasis comment: ouch. Everybody I know (Coldplayers aside) who owns Oasis albums owns The Bends. But maybe that's because I have only one musically literate friend.... and I made her get every Radiohead album. *sulk*

Haha, exact opposite of what i think :P