Radiohead

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>TKOL
>bad
end this meme it's not even a good one

Bring Amnesiac and KOL to the top

amnesiac and httt are the only good ones though

Besides Pablo Honey, your taste in Radiohead albums is completely opposite to mine.

Radiohead, the most hyped and probably the most over-rated band of the decade, upped the ante for studio trickery. They had begun as third-rate disciples of the Smiths, and albums such as Pablo Honey (1993) and The Bends (1995) that were cauldrons of Brit-pop cliches. Then OK Computer (1997) happened and the word "chic" took on a new meaning. The album was a masterpiece of faux avantgarde (of pretending to be avantgarde while playing mellow pop music). It was, more properly, a new link in the chain of production artifices that changed the way pop music "sounds": the Beatles' Sgt Pepper, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Michael Jackson's Thriller. Despite the massive doses of magniloquent epos a` la U2 and of facile pathos a` la David Bowie, the album's mannerism led to the same excesses that detracted from late Pink Floyd's albums (lush textures, languid melodies, drowsy chanting). Since thee production aspects of music were beginning to prevail over the music itself, it was just about natural to make them "the" music. The sound of Kid A (2000) had decomposed and absorbed countless new perfumes, like a carcass in the woods. All sounds were processed and mixed, including the vocals. Radiohead moved as close to electronica as possible without actually endorsing it. Radiohead became masters of the artificial, masters of minimizing the emotional content of very complex structures. Amnesiac (2001) replaced "music" with a barrage of semi-mechanical loops, warped instruments and digital noises, while bending Thom Yorke's baritone to a subhuman register and stranding it in the midst of hostile arrangements, sounding more and more like an alienated psychopath. Their limit was that they were more form than content, more "hype" than message, more nothing than everything.

Get Pablo Honey out of bad and switch it with AMSP and we've got a deal.

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>TKOL
>bad
Fucking PLEB

>bad
>amnesiac
>when it's a better Kid A

lol didn't bother with the rest

>good
ok computer
amnesiac
in rainbows
HttT
the bends

>bad
Kid A
PH
AMSP

>Amnesiac
>bad

FTFY.

Only correct answer. HTTT is too much filler and the bends is not mind blowing either

Patrician tier
>The King of Limbs

Excellent tier
>Kid A
>A Moon Shaped Pool
>OK Computer

Great tier
>In Rainbows
>The Bends

Good tier
>Amensiac

Mediocre tier
>Hail to the Thief

Shit tier
>Pablo Honey

well aren't you just a ball of sunshine

>Good

The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail To The Thief
In Rainbows
The King of Limbs
A Moon Shaped Pool

>Mediocre

Pablo Honey

Not that hard, people.

You mean the band's last attempt to hold onto the existential angst they've become known for? Yeah, no. Fuck off.

>amsp
>good

>tkol
>bad

this

Not that user but what. TKOL was probably the most chill Radiohead album of them all. In Rainbows is the last-ditch effort at existential angst.

>asmp
>peaceful submission after a decade of angsty whining.

>tkol
>final stroke of the existential anxiety masturbation party

TKOL is a masterpiece.

Apart from TKOL i'm right there with you

In Rainbows demonstrated their capability for uncomplicated beauty. There aren't really any underlying themes or contentions.It's just... pretty. Same thing for MSP.

Haven't heard most of these, not to interested in radiohead.

it might be worth getting into it.
>The Bends
>Rock

>Kid A
>Electronic Rock

>A Moon Shaped Pool
>Experimental Electronic

try these

I like TKOL but AMSP took everything neat about TKOL and applied it in a more mature fashion to great textural effect. There's more loops and polyrhythms on TKOL but they use them better on AMSP. Songs like Daydreaming, Ful Stop, and The Numbers are very much a natural evolution of TKOL.

TKOL denialist faggots

>t. Thom

this guy gets it.

TKOL is patrician as fuck.

Plebs deny it because of "muh album length" and "muh 8 tracks only"

Listen to Supercollider/The Butcher as a coda to the album and call it a day faggots. Everything made during the TKOL era is fucking top tier Radiohead.

Dude, In Rainbows masks its anxieties with its pop songcraft. Most of that album is sad as fuck. Same with AMSP, except the tight songcraft gave way to more sprawling forms and the sadness wasn't even trying to be hidden. TKOL has its moments but it sounds like Radiohead zenning the fuck out to nature for most of its tracks. Morning Mr. Magpie, Little By Little and Give Up The Ghost have shades of that old Radiohead angst but that's about it.

>TKOL era
what time frame would you say that is?

see

>The Butcher

Funny way of spelling the best song from the TKOL sessions, Staircase.

2010-2012

And I'm saying TKOL is the last album that is guilty of precisely that. Radiohead have always been sadsacks but TKOL actually saw them kind of lighten up a little.

>great tier
Amnesiac

>good tier
AMSP
Kid A

>meh tier
their 90s releases

>shit tier
Hail to The Thief
The King of Limbs

The Butcher < Supercollider

Damn straight. Supercollider and Staircase are core album material, The Daily Mail sounds like it belongs on HTTT, and The Butcher is alright but the weakest of this particular lot.

any particular reason as to why neither SC or TB made it onto TKOL?

where would you guys slot those songs on TKOL just out of curiosity?

I would only add 2, for a total of ten tracks.

>implying amnesiac isn't the best radiohead album

You'd have to ask the band. My theory is that they rushed the release of the album and that those songs just weren't finished yet. Might also be why live renditions of the album tend to go over way better with people.

>implying it isn't the cum-dribble of Kid A and hasn't always been

the fact that they are included in the From the Basement setlist is telling also.

The in rainbows setlist from the basement is the same songs as the core album

In Rainbows didn't really have any particularly weak tracks, though. You can't really say the same for TKOL.

Bloom
Morning Mr. Magpie
Little By Little
Feral
Lotus Flower
Codex
Supercollider
Give Up The Ghost
Staircase
Seperator

Whichever one wins is always correct when they say it's the best radiohead album.


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Not my favorite album but Knives Out is my favorite Radiohead song.

Hardly. Amnesiac scaled back the EDM direction a bit, brought back the guitars a bit more, and gave the music a more explicit jazz and krautrock influence. It's noticeably different from Kid A if you look beyond their release dates and sharing the same creative session.

>For music to be good it has to be mind blowing

Wow you must really have a shitty time trying to find music you like

bump

yeah, like the twitching you get just after you blow a huge load. It was cathartic and half-assed.

HTTT is unironically my personal favorite so I have to say that one.

I said bring it to the top retard

>good
…

>bad
all of them

>implying radiohead is good

>your collective slander post was poised directly and exclusively towards me
come on, now

its not even good bait my dude

facts aren't bait

Interesting. Will give it a try.

>good
>bad
>facts
It keeps gettin' deeper, man. Jump out while you still can.

You mean opinions.

Wasn't Amnesiac supposed to be in a double album with Kid A but Thom decided it would be better as its own entity?

Where did this "Kid A B-Sides" meme come from?

>not recognizing Scaruffi's writing style

because that is almost literally what it is.
Kid A rejects.

yet it somehow is better than Kid A

so having a different opinion is bait? If you like radiohead I can guarantee that you are new to music

>is better
yes because that's how it is

So you're a sour, jaded oldfag, then? Get over yourself.

call me whatever you want, it won't make radiohead better

>amnesiac
>not their best

different folks, different strokes.

>amnesiac
>not Kid A's autistic little brother
kek

hail to the theif is pretty good imo, but otherwise i agree with you

>Good
Absolution
Black Holes & Revelations
Origin of Symmetry
The Resistance

>Bad
Everything else

I've never heard Pablo Honey because of the bad reviews. Is it really that bad? Am i missing out?

it's just generic

There's at least two good songs on there that aren't named Creep so it's worth a listen.

>Amnesiac's B sides are better than Amnesiac
>Amnesiac is just Kid A B sides
>Amnesiac is better than Kid A
really keeps the gears spinning

>Good
The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac
A Moon Shaped pool
the second half of The King of Limbs
In Rainbows

>Bad
Pablo Honey
Hail to the Thief (album version of most songs on this one suck desu)

best
>Amnesiac

good
>Kid A
>Ok Computer

decent
>all the rest

Hail to the thief is good

Will people who hate PH admit it has decent songs like Lurgee and Blow Out?

Fact: TKoL is their only good album
>you cannot disprove this

and You, Anyone Can Play Guitar, Stop Whispering

i really appreciate amnesiac but come on guys, no fucking way is it better than kid a! kid a is the apex of them. i could never call myself a radiohead fan, i could never call myself a fan of any band, because fans are so silly about their preferences. what kind of life do u lead where that sequence of songs doesn't pale in comparison to that sequence. not an argument - there is no arguing with you people.

the bends and in rainbows