As the mighty tribal drums thump in like Tho(m)r pounding across a desolate wasteland, and a Peter Buck-esque guitar line chimes out, we can pull out our pipes, and sit back and relax in the splendour of The Most Important Band In Britain tm. Because, for the first time in six years, Radiohead have signalled their return with a tune of gut-wrenching quality.
Thom Yorke duets with himself gorgeously over a series of sumptuous call-and-refrains and the guitars ring out to a shiver-inducing climax about four minutes in, reminding you that Jonny Greenwood is probably the best rock guitarist in the world when he’s he not pissing on your electronic chips. The song also reminds you that Radiohead can write a thematically impenetrable tune in a manner more chilling than anyone else. Perhaps having spent themselves on this tune (stories are abound of Yorke bursting into tears upon its completion due to its apparent qualities), they offer a selection of electro-sleaze symphonies, indelibly marked by scattershot beats and heavy muttering, which are equally impenetrable as the lead track but only half as delectable.
“There's always a siren/singing you to shipwreck”, wails the small and angry one. Indeed there is young man – and it’s you.
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Amnesiac's full of 'em: 'Knives Out,' 'Pakt Like Sardines,' 'Life in a Glasshouse,' 'Pyramid Song'....... it's like a pop album. The only difference is that they don't douse their songs in the same old angsty wailing, saccharine chord changes and dull-as-fuck arrangements anymore. Let's face it, they're never going to write another 'Creep.' Which is a good thing.
That said, I did think 'There There' was a bit of an anti-climax...
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Thom just sounds like a depressed cat being slowly strangled to death - whiny and without any substance. It's all arty arty pretentious shit bollocks. Radiohead haven't had a decent tune since The Bends. OK Computer was bearable but one of the most overrated albums of our time.
In fact, I think the real Radiohead were kidnapped after the Bends and turned into puppets by martians to record this god-awful dirgy dirgy dirge. I imagine that will most likely be the "story" behind their next album. Wankers.
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Other way round for me
as I still think the Bends is their masterpiece, and do tend to agree with the view that OK Computer was slightly overrated. But I can still see merits in all of their musical incarnations. I try not to limit myself...
Those two songs
are just amazing. I can't stop listening to them. Which pretty much shows that while my personal favourite may be the bends, they have done fantastic stuff since.
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Or perhaps it makes them people who decide to be a bit more than your average bollocks Placebo-esque rock band who are happy to tread water until they drown in their own sea of self-obsessed mediocrity.
Placebo - Brixton Academy
Shed Seven - The Monarch
Radiohead - Earls Court
says it all, really.
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Just listening to the "leaked" mix of 'There, There'. I really like it, but I have to agree with the NME to some degree - it doesn't really make sense as a single. But then, nor did 'Paranoid Android'. The build up at the end is nice, but not as scrote-grippingly gorgeous as older trax.
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not sure about this, not the best of the album, i'd be had pressed to say what would work as a single tho
just go AOR style, it befits them
ollie.
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One Krafwerk fan
with a room full of Beatles records.
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