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View Poll Results: Favorite Radiohead Album?
Pablo Honey 17 2.80%
The Bends 97 15.95%
OK Computer 218 35.86%
Kid A 129 21.22%
Amnesiac 30 4.93%
Hail to the Thief 30 4.93%
In Rainbows 85 13.98%
The King of Limbs 2 0.33%
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Old 06-12-2008, 06:49 PM   #691 (permalink)
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Sail To The Moon and several others are just very predictable, maybe filler isn't the right word. I don't really see much new territory covered, it's basically a rehash of their career. Amnesiac is much stronger songwise imo.
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Old 06-14-2008, 02:12 AM   #692 (permalink)
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Sail To The Moon and several others are just very predictable, maybe filler isn't the right word. I don't really see much new territory covered, it's basically a rehash of their career. Amnesiac is much stronger songwise imo.
I love it when people say that, since Amnesiac in turn also doesn't cover much new territory that wasn't scaled in Kid A. This is unsurprising since, as people still don't seem to acknowledge (though it's fact), most the recordings for Amnesiac were done in the same sessions as Kid A in 2000 and hence most of the songs could equally have appeared on Kid A, but didn't make the cut. Anyway, an Amnesiac vs Kid A argument is totally out of context here, but I have to point out that Amnesiac contains very little unchartered territory that was not on Kid A (and why should it? see above), so why should Hail To The Thief get any more criticism than Amnesiac for not being exactly earth shatteringly innovative?

HttT might be construed as a "rehash of their career" as you put it, but it's a rehash which blends ideas together, refines them, and throws them out in the overall more important format of well-conceived, strong, polished song-writing. And it's a winner.
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Old 06-14-2008, 11:09 AM   #693 (permalink)
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I'll get flamed for this but I think Hail To The Thief is more refined, channelled, and a better overall achievement
I completely agree, even the album cover has a higher level of magnitude to it.
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Old 06-15-2008, 07:12 PM   #694 (permalink)
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I love it when people say that, since Amnesiac in turn also doesn't cover much new territory that wasn't scaled in Kid A. This is unsurprising since, as people still don't seem to acknowledge (though it's fact), most the recordings for Amnesiac were done in the same sessions as Kid A in 2000 and hence most of the songs could equally have appeared on Kid A, but didn't make the cut. Anyway, an Amnesiac vs Kid A argument is totally out of context here, but I have to point out that Amnesiac contains very little unchartered territory that was not on Kid A (and why should it? see above), so why should Hail To The Thief get any more criticism than Amnesiac for not being exactly earth shatteringly innovative?
Uh, Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors doesn't cover new material? Life In A Glass House? Amnesiac is a collection of songs that weren't written to fit in with Kid A so were put on a seperate follow-up. It sounds nothing like Kid A (A few exceptions). Can you imagine all but 2 or 3 Amnesiac songs in the context of Kid A?
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Old 06-15-2008, 10:12 PM   #695 (permalink)
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Uh, Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors doesn't cover new material? Life In A Glass House? Amnesiac is a collection of songs that weren't written to fit in with Kid A so were put on a seperate follow-up. It sounds nothing like Kid A (A few exceptions). Can you imagine all but 2 or 3 Amnesiac songs in the context of Kid A?
Wrong, Kid A was intended to be a double album but Thom (and the rest agreed) that they just didn't fit together as two albums.
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Life In A Glass House?
One of (and possibly the only? idk) song that was recorded later than the Kid A sessions.

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It sounds nothing like Kid A (A few exceptions).
It plays pretty much like a more streamlined version of Kid A, probably because the songs that were ultimately deemed not to belong on Kid A turn out to be slightly simpler tracks particularly in terms of beats. Add to those cuts a few post-recording production techniques and some obvious electronica moves and you've got yourself Amnesiac.

Which is fine, I like Amnesiac and all. It's just not some standalone organic masterpiece in the vein of Kid A.
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Old 06-16-2008, 02:57 AM   #697 (permalink)
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Ive come to like Kid A a lot more than i did before.
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radiohead rule. end of story.

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One of (and possibly the only? idk) song that was recorded later than the Kid A sessions.

It plays pretty much like a more streamlined version of Kid A, probably because the songs that were ultimately deemed not to belong on Kid A turn out to be slightly simpler tracks particularly in terms of beats. Add to those cuts a few post-recording production techniques and some obvious electronica moves and you've got yourself Amnesiac.

Which is fine, I like Amnesiac and all. It's just not some standalone organic masterpiece in the vein of Kid A.
Seriously, have you even heard Amnesiac?
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Old 06-16-2008, 03:25 PM   #700 (permalink)
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I don't get it, why is Radiohead so famous, yet I've never heard them on the radio, nor tv, and neither my friends have heard any song of them :S

And I come here and its the most popular thread!

But worst of all is that they have the best songs I've ever heard!
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