Entertainment For Lively Minds
Three months on....
Posted by Remote Control on 18 May 2011 - 12:32am.
... Has 'The King Of Limbs' grown on you? ... gathered dust? ... gone to Oxfam?
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welll.......
I've moved on, but I did immerse myself in it totally for about a fortnight, so yeah, worth it in that regard.
Still Trying
Not as immediate as In Rainbows, mood is very downbeat, but it's still getting played (later in the evening). Just got the newspaper edition with Vinyl yesterday which I haven't opened yet but am looking forward to!
Probably not music for going to work to.
Just got the box set
I might be wrong (geddit) but the Cd is such a higher quality than the download - feels like there is much more going non, more instrumentation, more depth.
Once I stopped focusing on what the vocals and the drums were doing, the whole thing seemed to reveal itself and now I reckon that the last 3-4 songs are up there with their best.
It's a grower!
They recommended I listen to it a few times...
...Here's what happened:
1st listen: It's dull
2nd listen: It's self-indulgent
3rd listen: It's okay, I suppose
4th listen: Why am I still listening to this?
5th listen: God, it's dull.
Any one with a computer can now make impressive-sounding electronica easily.
If Radiohead were to be the chance-taking mavericks everyone claims them to be then maybe they need to pull their fingers out, write some songs as good as those on The Bends and show the young whippersnappers how it's done.
I doubt they can do it any more but I'm happy to be proved wrong.
That's the one.
I really liked Lotus Flower the first couple of times I heard it, but much of that liking was caused by grinning at how much fun the frantic little gnome was having in the video. It's far too easy to listen with your eyes.
I've not played the album since the second week after buying it. It's really dull. They're just being perverse now: In Rainbows showed that their melodic gifts are still intact, so why the need to bury them under screeds of aural plop?
I still love it
Have listened to it about 8 or 9 times now. And in regards to ThePint, I've never associated Radiohead with being "chance-taking mavericks", even their most out-there record, "Kid A" was informedly influenced by their listening to Can, Autchre and Penderecki for much of the time before it got recorded. Even their first album was in a style trying to be others (i.e. Creep - "this is our Scott Walker song" or pretending to be REM in their jangly phase).
Radiohead are a band that make music. They have different ways of putting that music out and advertising it. Some may not like it. Some will. Ho hum. The world continues to turn.
Interestingly (or not, depending on your perspective), if you add in the two other tracks from this year, I find it becomes a much more rewarding album.
Tracklist TKOL (Expanded):
1. Bloom
2. Lotus Flower
3. The Butcher
4. Good Morning Mr Magpie
5. Little By Little
6. Codex
7. Give Up The Ghost
8. Seperator
9. Feral
10. Supercollider
Honestly, give it a try!