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Community => Entertainment => Topic started by: ren on Monday, February 14, 2011, 01:31:44 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Limbs
Digital download available on Saturday followed by a cd release in March and a special edition in May.
I'm excited. Every album they blow me away with a different sound. Hopefully this one continues the pattern.
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Awesome news, I've been looking forward to this one as well.
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I saw an ad for it the other day, I'll definitely be checking it out at some point.
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet
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First review is up:
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/02/15/new-radiohead-album-the-first-review/
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Anybody listen to it? I didn't feel strongly about it in any direction upon first listen. That was a bad sign since I usually either love or hate Radiohead albums and then eventually they all grown on me.
This one I like to have on when I'm studying because it's not bad but it's not good enough to distract me from what I'm doing.
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I heard that Radiohead released this album directly, without a record label! If that's true, that's frickin' fantastic!
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Radiohead had a six-record contract with EMI. In Rainbows was their seventh album so that was released independently as well. That's how they pulled off that whole pay what you want scheme.
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Yeah, that was a decent album too.
I think Radiohead are spearheading a new campaign of artist/fan appreciation, cutting out the middleman (record companies).
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I would move it up from decent Radiohead album to my favourite Radiohead album.
Also, this Radiohead-Dave Brubeck mashup (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYa7furgQsA) needs to be seen.
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Ha! Great juxtaposition. 5/4 time was had by all. :)
I'm getting to like the new Radiohead album too. I've been playing it fairly often.
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I am saddened that no one commented on the review I posted...
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I don't listen to radiohead.
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So I've listened to the new album a couple of times and I am enjoying it. Really digging the first track "Bloom".
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I am saddened that no one commented on the review I posted...
I read it, and it left me cold. All that wordy analysis is meaningless to me. Music affects me at an emotional level, as a whole work, to the point where the lyrics of most songs alone don't stay with me. It's hard to describe. When I think about a song, it plays in my head as beats, melodies and harmonies, where voice is only one part in the mix--and another instrument, not language. The memory is very different from that of, say, a poem, which would make me remember the words and their implications.
Anyway, I did read it. But I didn't get enough out of it to post about it.
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You realize that whole review is a joke right?
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Not until this moment. I'll have to go read it again.
Edit: OK, sure it's obvious now. I didn't even catch the made-up song titles before. I didn't even see the outrageous stuff in the sidebar until now. Ah well. Satire missed gets egg on anyone's face. I need to go wash . . .
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It's part of the joke. I seriously didn't realize it was satire until they wrote about Thom's love of pussy.
Sort of underlines how pompous Radiohead reviews (and perhaps the band) have gotten.
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I am saddened that no one commented on the review I posted...
I didn't read it simply because I wanted to listen to the album and figure out how I feel about it before reading somebody else's thoughts.
On the pompousness, I tend to dislike anything I've ever heard Thom Yorke say. Radiohead is awesome but I don't need to know anything about them beyond their music.