Rainard Jalen

I said those recordings didn't make the final cut of Kid A, which is the truth. I didn't describe them in the derogatory terms of being "leftovers". With that said, some of the Amnesiac songs could well be called leftovers, whereas others (like Pyramid Song) are the sort of tracks that were so good they would clearly have appeared on some later album even if Amnesiac was never made.

Or maybe I have listened enough and didn't like it as much as you do! Oh no, I forgot, that's impossible...

That is an unpopular opinion, though anybody who disagrees with it is clearly idiotic. And this has nothing to do with liking or hating Tool; it makes no sense from any standpoint to say that Aenima is in any way a superior piece to Lateralus.

Urban Hat€monger ?

Amnesiac is in no way a leftovers album.
Radiohead announced they were releasing 2 albums long before Kid A ever came out. They were always meant to be treated as two separate albums. The whole point was Kid A was to be the experimental album while Amnesiac was to be closer to what people expected to be a Radiohead album.

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Aenima is both more consistent and more grounded than Lateralus. Which is my favorite depends on what mood I'm in... but I could think of other reasons to prefer Aenima.

boo boo

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W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-why?

I'd say it is a pretty big gap. But I don't see how anyone can hate The Bends. I love Radioheads "rock" stuff.

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Rainard Jalen

And yet Amnesiac is in no way closer to what people expected to be a Radiohead album.

Kid A was the "experiment"; the follow-up would supposedly be a return to the more expected/desired Radiohead guitar rock. Though that promise was never fulfilled. Instead Amnesiac sounds pretty close to Kid A, and they are recordings done during the Kid A sessions.

Whether they are "leftovers" or not is debatable and is nothing I would commit to one way or the other. What is clear is that Amnesiac is almost as much an experimental album as was Kid A, is drawn from the same ideas, and is not the back-to-expectations Radiohead album that was promised. That one never happened.

Urban Hat€monger ?

Why not? Aphex Twin has been making a living from that type of stuff for 2 decades



It's not that different , Sure it has a little experimentation but it still has the singalong anthems that The Bends had , It had the Ballads like The Bends did , It had the riffs The Bends had.
Take out 2 or 3 of the more radical songs on OK Computer and you're left with The Bends pt 2.

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I've said it before, i'll say it again, Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors is brilliant. Its so heavy and the drumbeat is brilliant. They never really did anything like that, probably never will.

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Weezer: Maladroit was a good album.

Also, Weezer has evolved and I am glad they aren't trying to recapture the style of writing they had on The Blue Album or Pinkerton. Only complaint is 95% of the guitar solos on the Green Album are just the main melody line played on guitar (boring).

boo boo

I think HTTT and In Rainbows both have throwbacks to earlier Radiohead.

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As far as In Rainbows goes I think only Nude is a throwback, it predates OK Computer I think. Most of the songs are just 05/06 live tracks that have been shared amongst Radiohead fans for awhile.

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