Radiohead (Official Thread)

[METALPRIEST]

 

[LordJohn]

My favorite band. They've touched on so many things and they're not capable of making a filler song

Albums-
Classics
1.The Bends
2. Ok Computer

Very, very, good
3.Hail to the Thief
4.In Rainbows
5.Kid A

Good
6.The King of Limbs
7.Amnesiac

Bad-
8. Pablo Honey

 

[Syd]

In my opinion Pablo Honey kicks Amnesiac's and King Of Limbs' asses.

 

[LordJohn]

In my opinion Pablo Honey kicks Amnesiac's and King Of Limbs' asses.

Creep and Blow Out are the only songs from PH I listen to regularly. Outside of that there are a couple solid Post-Grunge songs typical of the era, but the rest of it is actually pretty bad IMHO.

It took me a few listen to get into TKOL. I don't understand why so many people call it difficult, Lotus Flower, Codex, and Give Up the Ghost are just pretty straight forward Alt. Rock ballads, and all three are great. I didn't really get Codex at first, but on my third or fourth listen to it something clicked in my mind and all the chaos of it became beautiful. Seperator, Mr. Magpie and Little by Little are all solid and I'd listen to them any time. I can't stand Feral. The main problem I have with it is that it's a song too short.

I never understand why people say Amnesiac is a "collection of songs." To me, none of the songs are that great on their own, save for Living in a Glass House, but together they all become so much greater than the sum of their parts and it becomes a little magical. It's such a great early morning album.

 

[Tray73]

Radiohead have donated 14 songs from their back catalogue for the soundtrack of a new documentary about the effect of climate change on the Maldives. Entitled 'The Island President', songs will include Kid A, Idioteque, Everything In Its Right Place, How To Disappear Completely, Reckoner and House Of Cards (full list of songs here THE ISLAND PRESIDENT). Thom posted the following message on their website: "'The Island President' is a film about the Maldives, and the struggle of President Nasheed to get the voice of a small nation heard in the climate change debate. Unless something is done to stop rising sea levels they will lose everything. The country will be under water. Some of our music was used to help tell the story."

Radiohead's involvement will I'm sure give the documentary an extra boost so good on 'em

 

[LG]

^^The Maldives is such a low lying archipelago they will be among the first visible casualties of the effect of rising sea levels. The veritable canary in the coal mine for people that think this is a figment of our imagination.

That is a nice gesture on Radiohead's behalf and hope it does generate some discussion and awareness of this impending climactic shift.

Reminds me of an ongoing argument with a friend in California a few years ago, he steadfastly refused to admit global warming, and called it "weather".

I told him I saw the beginning of the climate shift in the late 70's for myself, when the ski hill I had enjoyed for 7 years no longer got snow and hasn't to this day except for the very tip of the mountain. It's a mountain bike course now and a place for tourists to take the chairlift to the top for a nice view of the Island.

Also the Rocky Mountain glaciers on the continental divide are shrinking so fast it's scary, when I was a kid a couple of them were right down to the roads, now they are kilometers up the mountainsides. It's a combination of natural events and our own contributions of greenhouse gasses, but to deny global warming is totally absurd now.

 

[Tray73]

I've come across people who don't believe there's any problem, even a few who flippantly say if it means hotter summers, bring it on You'll notice the effects more in your neck of the woods than where we are, and yes it is scary.

 

[Aktivator]

Good for them
I've hiked the mountains of the world for the past 35+ years you don't have to convince me about climate change. I went to Jasper National Park this summer and I was at the icefields in 1981 amazing how much is gone. They have it mapped out there but I've seen it it some many places let alone the reefs that are gone under the sea. Seems to be picking up too in lots of weird ways. Yeah the Maldives are mighty low.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Re: Radiohead

i like a few of their songs, with this one being my fave

Been diggin' this track lately

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

I love "Fake Plastic Trees" too, Priest. Thom delivers his vocals on that song in such a unique way that makes it so hard or people to cover this song (and oh do people ever cover this song) but it's just one of those ones that I think people should leave alone.