Radiohead Discussion Thread Part II

[BoMac]

am i the only one who keeps thinking of king of birds when i see the title?

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The King of Limbs is a reference to an oak tree in Wiltshire, England's Savernake Forest. Thought to be more than 1,000 years old, the ancient tree and Savernake Forest are located close to Tottenham House, where Radiohead recorded part of In Rainbows.

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[U2Fanatic4ever]

^wow.. cool info on the title..

thanks BoMac!

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Well, THAT was pretty damn quick. Cool news. Cool news, indeed . May have to look into ordering this myself.

Angela

 

[u2popmofo]

None of that stops me from thinking of King of Birds.

Speaking of which, REM have a lot of "King Of" titled songs.

 

[Imperor]

And now we've got a chance for both the best and worst albums of the year to have four word titles beginning with "The King."

 

[PhilsFan]

Impy was not a fan of The Decemberists' new album, The King Is Zed.

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

 

[u2popmofo]

I think The Decemberists album is great, so he must be expecting nothing from Radiohead.

 

[Imperor]

I've been let down too many times by the Radio Heads.

 

[PhilsFan]

I don't have a well formed opinion on the Decemberists' album because I've only listened to it once.

 

[Imperor]

What? You can't form true impressions on an album after only one listen? I'm glad I was sitting down when I read that. Shocking stuff, Peeferoni. You're a different breed.

 

[nirniva]

Newspaper Edition pre-order, you will be mine once I get home from school today.

 

[u2popmofo]

Excuse me if I'm an idiot for a moment, but what the hell does this actually have to do with the newspaper? Is it just that it's releasing on the weekend (Sunday morning in the UK, I assume)?

 

[Jive Turkey]

I can't wait for all the 'toilet paper edition' jokes

 

[Imperor]

Your guess is as good as anyone else's, Scumby. I'm assuming it has everything to do with the packaging of the LP.

I can't wait for all the 'toilet paper edition' jokes

Lance is already drafting some variation of a "newspaper album" joke which includes a budgie and a birdcage.

 

[lazarus]

More like The King of Litter!


(different thread, different joke)

 

[PhilsFan]

What? You can't form true impressions on an album after only one listen? I'm glad I was sitting down when I read that. Shocking stuff, Peeferoni. You're a different breed.

Should I have spoiler'd that? I should have spoiler'd that. I apologize.

 

[Lancemc]

More like The King of Dim(wit)s, spiritual successor to Mehre Mehre (The Droney King of Blowhere).



Eh...

 

[Imperor]

Should I have spoiler'd that? I should have spoiler'd that. I apologize.

It's fine, it's just the idea that someone can possibly abstain from posting a review online after listening to an album a single time weeks before its release does my head in.

 

[Danny Boy]

Newspaper Edition pre-order, you will be mine once I get home from school today.

I just ordered the WAV files. Don't know what I'd do with all that other stuff. I did the same thing with In Rainbows; just ordered the album in FLAC and them got the second disc in MP3 when they offered it later.

 

[Lancemc]

I'm not paying 15 bucks for a handful of WAVs. I'm sure I'll be having a good old time with megaupload come saturday. Then probably I'll buy the album on vinyl eventually. Not for $50 though.

 

[Imperor]

The record box was so much cooler than the IR 12" that it's worth it in my eyes.

 

[Lancemc]

I paid 80 bucks or whatever it was for the In Rainbows box, and we all know how I feel about that now.

 

[barlowdog]

new Radiohead! I'm looking forward to overrating or underrating this.

 

[lazarus]

Charging that much more for the .wav files versus the mp3s is a little ridiculous. What's their extra overhead on that?

 

[Lancemc]

Charging that much more for the .wav files versus the mp3s is a little ridiculous. What's their extra overhead on that?

Exactly. Charge a flat rate, and let people download the file type they prefer/their system can handle.

 

[Danny Boy]

Dunno, but I'll be able to burn a CD from a lossless source on Saturday. Worth it to me.

They must be selling a few copies because it looks like the site crashed. The server timed out on me twice and then I finally got to a "Service Temporarily Unavailable" page.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Who are the King of Limbs???? And why the fuck did their album just win a Grammy?!?!?!?

 

[corianderstem]

Dang, the site wouldn't take either of my credit cards. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'll try again later, and maybe I'll go the PayPal route instead.

 

[Danny Boy]

Yeah, both my VISA and my VISA debit card were declined, but the PayPal transaction went through.

 

[corianderstem]

I'm glad it wasn't just me! I tried a Visa and a Mastercard.