RA D IOHE_AD IN/RAINBOWS" continuing discussion thread part V

[LMP]

I think their best closing track, at least in context of the album if not outright.

Other than The Tourist closing OK Computer, definitely yeah.

Fitter Happier just popped up on iTunes, what a chilling song. Who knew Stephen Hawking could sing?

 

[Zoots]

I think their best closing track, at least in context of the album if not outright.

Street Spirit??? Tourist???

 

[xaviMF22]

I think their best closing track, at least in context of the album if not outright.

The Tourist

 

[LemonMelon]

Life In A Glasshouse couldn't be the best closer. It's a good song and everything out of context, but it just kind of sounds tossed in there within Amnesiac itself. Tourist and Street Spirit are superior.

BTW, people overlook Blow Out. That's clearly one of the standouts on Pablo Honey, and a good closer.

 

[lazarus]

Life In A Glasshouse couldn't be the best closer. It's a good song and everything out of context, but it just kind of sounds tossed in there within Amnesiac itself.

How is it out of context? The subject of domestic strife relates right to Morning Bell/Amnesiac, and the final lines "I'd like to sit around and chew the fat/only, only/there's someone listening in." implicates the audience and closes the album on a very meta note.

 

[LMP]

The horn section absolutely kills me every time. :xavidrool:

 

[Zoots]

:xavidrool:

I love ..Glass House depending on my mood. Sometimes it's too depressing for me.

 

[joyfulgirl]

My priorities are all screwed up. People's names, important facts, and words I've learned in other languages, I can't remember. People's opinions on music or CDs they've purchased on the other hand, I don't forget.

I hear you. I'm actually like that, too.

Originally posted by u2popmofo

For example, I think I remember you saying you didn't like the production on Loveless and wish they'd remaster it.

I've grown since then.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Pyramid is awesome but very melancholy. All I Need is just ecstatic!

Agreed. It may be too soon to declare All I Need my new favorite Radiohead song but it is certainly the favorite of the moment. I'm scared I'll burn out on it. But Pyramid is high on the favorites list as well.

Life in a Glass House

 

[LemonMelon]

How is it out of context? The subject of domestic strife relates right to Morning Bell/Amnesiac, and the final lines "I'd like to sit around and chew the fat/only, only/there's someone listening in." implicates the audience and closes the album on a very meta note.

You're grasping for straws a bit, IMO. For one thing, Morning Bell is a Kid A song. That you're trying to relate Glasshouse to an alternate version of an old song kind of says it all about Amnesiac. Besides, I wasn't referring to the lyrics, I was referring to the awful Like Spinning Plates--->LIAGH segue.

There have been some great alternate track listings for Amnesiac on the web, and I think LIAGH deserves a shot on the record, but it needs something else next to it.

 

[joyfulgirl]

I knew I was completely obsessed with Radiohead when I realized I thought Like Spinning Plates was beautiful and that that was probably weird.

 

[LemonMelon]

I knew I was completely obsessed with Radiohead when I realized I thought Like Spinning Plates was beautiful and that that was probably weird.

Like Spinning Plates live

 

[LMP]

Morning Bell / Amnesiac was the originally recorded version

 

[Zoots]

Like Spinning Plates live

Sometimes I think that piano version should've been on the album! Then again, the backwards looping album version is amazing!

 

[joyfulgirl]

Like Spinning Plates live

Listening now.

 

[lazarus]

LemonMelon=pwned by chronology.

And the Amnesiac version is more organic and better anyway.

 

[LemonMelon]

Morning Bell / Amnesiac was the originally recorded version

Kid A - 2000
Amnesiac - 2001

Amnesiac had the alternate version by default.

 

[LMP]

LemonMelon=pwned by chronology.

And the Amnesiac version is more organic and better anyway.

LemonMelon=pwned by chronology.

And the Amnesiac version is more organic and better anyway.

LemonMelon=pwned by chronology.

And the Amnesiac version is more organic and better anyway.

 

[LemonMelon]

= "Lalalalala I'm not listening!!!"

 

[cdisantis83]

Like Spinning Plates live

That version is absolutely exquisite, and haunting in the best sense of the term. The essay that I submitted with my graduate school applications was titled "Like Spinning Plates." I wonder how many professors understood the reference.

 

[joyfulgirl]

I wonder how many professors understood the reference.

Probably more than you'd think. I work with a lot of writers who teach and if they're under 40, or in some cases even 50, they know all the music I listen to and more. Especially if it's music that has good lyrics.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Okay, Lady with the Spinning Head just came on after Like Spinning Plates. Maybe I'm supposed to take a spinning class today.

 

[Lancemc]

Getting back to In Rainbows, I just put on the album again for the first time in several days.

The first thing I notice? I really really hate the percussion on this album.

 

[joyfulgirl]

The first thing I notice? I really really hate the percussion on this album.

Please tell me you don't hate the percussion opening Reckoner. Please?

 

[Lancemc]

I adore Reckoner. Best percussion on the album, and easily my favorite song on the album.

 

[LemonMelon]

Atoms For Peace has been stuck in my head since yesterday. I really love that song.

No more leaky holes in your brain, and no false starts

 

[joyfulgirl]

I adore Reckoner. Best percussion on the album, and easily my favorite song on the album.

Okay, we can still be friends.

 

[LemonMelon]

So we're discussing IR's percussion now? The only bit I dislike is the intro to Arpeggi. Too simple, and too dry. Other than that, I regularly air drum to that song.

 

[Lancemc]

I'm pretty sure this was Phil's kit for the In Rainbows sessions.

 

[LemonMelon]

If percussion is the only thing on IR worth complaining about, you know it's a great record.