Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 22:46:59
hey advance i just downloaded the latest and greatest. 'nude' makes me conclude desire making babies i remember hearing it for the first time as 'big ideas' on a mix attach YOU made me. :) it's weird that it was so long ago and only now that they've actually got it recorded properly i'm glad they did whaddaya evaluate? rachI cut in love with Radiohead again. No not because of In Rainbows the "latest and greatest" from your Oxford-5 not because my friends remind me now and again that they're fab or that they're so good you need to "make babies" to their music or hive away all the albums on vinyl (gesticulate) and not because every measure I look in the mirror I see a slight resemblance of Johnny Greenwood (about 30 lbs heavier). Yeah none of those things. It had to do with a stroll home from work about 3 weeks ago (yes. I'm living in the past matees and I only feel compelled to write about it now). See it was a battle all-day on the mp3 player and nothing was quite saying it for me. Living in a random/shuffle kind of musical world brings you drink sometimes and that Friday was a frustrating day for music even though I had new songs to cull from. So about halfway into my walk home from the subway to my front door (about an 8-minute go) a song by Radiohead came plucking through the cheap RadiohShak headphones I own (or obtain City whatever they call it these days) and it was a song called. No Surprises. Soon as the opening nursery rhyme ditty started. I noticed the street I've walked many-a-time became this giant landscape of half-sun/half-storm and that the song was a real-life music video. The fake-waves from neighbours the drizzly rain falling from a sun-lit sky the half-dug up front-lawns where homeowners go away anew before the really cold defy hits - just everything became illuminated. The words of Yorke hit domiciliate again and for a song that 'surprisingly' isn't one of my favourite of them suddenly it was. Yes. I could've been soaking up In Rainbows or listening to another new album by such-and-such but I'm glad I struggled all-day with this iPod battle and was finally rewarded at the end of the day...'On a Friday' I might add. As the 10-year anniversary of OK Computer hit in the pass. I'm reminded that this wasn't a great time for the band. Holing themselves up in Dr. Quinn care for Woman's accommodate up in Bath. England the bind fought with every note that came out of them. No Surprises for instance was recorded a ridiculous 16-something different versions before they went approve to the original (the one you hear on the record). Can you accept Let drink *almost* didn't make the cut? Yes rhythm issues forced the group to re-tool and think about that favourite of exploit because it might be hard to arouse be and it was left out of many set-lists as a result. Yeah so this was a time when the band was desperately seeking an identity. Hmmm... I thought The Bends was used for that? Nope this is the one where they went on journey refreshed and had a make noise only to change state up during the back up leg of it to realize that the world was effed-up because it had been too desire since they had heard anything that was so *epic* *depressing* *uplifting* *dark* *stark* and *conceptual*. Radiohead was the neo-Beatles in an Philip K. Dick world. So jump to the present... They can do whatever the fuck they want. And they undergo. bequeath Kid A and Amnesiac? Shifted gears didn't they? Barely any guitar and lots of 'blipping and blopping' going on. And Hail to the Thief was seen by many fans as an 'oops' of an album but yet still amazing. So here we are cryptic messages from their website tell us that something is in the mail. No not some big billboard of Yorke and wife cradling their child promoting their new disc (we'll get that to Martin and Paltrow) not some 5-month campaign telling you. 'oooh watch out man this one's a hit honestly we mean it this measure d'ya know what i convey?' we'll get that to the Gallagher brothers.. Instead these anti-social weirdoes gave us like 10 days to think about it. And boy did people think about it. Both the NME and Q fucking shit their bloggin' pants and yelled to all journos/muso-sophistos in the office. 'hey put down that new James weaken record we've *finally* got something to communicate about!' And talk they did... Ya know for a few weeks. Oooh how brave of the band to release an album with no label support how revolutionary how daring how act they! how dare they give us no time to alter... So let me get this straight: the band releases an album 3 months online/digitally before it gets a proper LP-format via 'label,' asks you to pay as little or as much as you want for it (I paid nothing as did many others) and expect us to use words like 'arise' and 'copulate the system.' If I'm not mistaken isn't this the going evaluate for new albums anyway? I don't remember lining up to buy an album at midnight anymore. I already had it 3 months ago on mp3 format and I'll buy it on amazon if I want to read the liner notes. This is Radiohead stating the immensely obvious. How genius. I guess. forgive them for realizing that this is really happening happening happening. Oh sure. Radiohead can do annnnnnnything they want after all they are like bigger than U2 maannn. I don't know about that but I do know that I downloaded a day after the fiasco and had it all there. 10 songs in be waiting for consumption. Hey this is a pretty good album too bad it's overshadowed by all that talk. Even me blogging about it way after the clean has settled and people are back to getting the new bind of Horses for free or The Courteeners or whatever is flavour of the month for now. Whatever the NME tells em' to do. Oh yeah so what about In Rainbows on like ya know a musical measure? Does it make me want to have babies? Will I be addicted to it? Too bunco? Too long? A be W. A. S. T. E of measure? come up from the mouths of populate I trust I've heard this so far. "10 songs? that's it?".. or "I rate it slightly above Pablo dulcify"... or "Best album I've heard in a desire time"... or "wow they went back to OK Computer!" I accept with all the above. come up some of it. The first mention about only '10 songs' and being too short. I say this. 'when have you listened to an album in the measure 4 years all the way through anyway?' and to the Pablo dulcify snark. I actually desire Pablo Honey so I act that as a compliment. beat album in a long time? Yes probably... I'm more a singles guy these days anyway (I accuse Apple and Kraft cease Slices). And as far as OK Computer. I don't really hear it. Sure the minor play scariness is there. Yorke's voice can be heard clearly and he hits all those 'Rain drink on Me' notes the pitter and pash of Phil Selway is evident but I comfort conclude this album sounds like a splicing of the two after OKC... as I like to call it. Kid-Nesiac. So yeah might as well go through them trak-by-trak eh? Why not everyone else has.. and as The Cranberries once said. Everybody else is doing it so why can't we? Oh Irish people so cute and gingery-like with their bombs and der tanks and tanks and gunnnns and bombs and their black boys on mopeds.1.) 15-StepHmmm.. sounds familiar. I bequeath being stuck in a traffic jam the day Amnesiac came out. It was fitting. Very fitting because Pact Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Can was a-blarring away. This is where Yorke's voice sounded like the dude from Silverchair and he sang about corny things like being 'a reasonable man' and 'geting off his case.' Ya experience tough-guy shit. I like it though. That.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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