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Ugh. So bummed I missed this. Me, my sister, and her boyfriend all tried to get tickets on separate computers and failed.

 

Maybe it's something? Maybe not.
Probably just fan hype.

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I've finally listened to Hail To The Thief and The King Of Limbs recently. Really into the former, although it peters off a bit in the last third for me. Wasn't into TKOL much on first listen, but it wasn't bad

 

HTTF is probably my favorite from them. I love that album

Amnesiac is finally clicking for me. For the longest time, it was one of the lower tiered albums for me but it's finally clicking on all cylinders for me. It's an amazing album

 

It took me awhile to accept it, but I do not think TKOL is that good of an album. Feels like a collection of b-sides.

 

Ha I just got into a argument about whether or not TKoL is the worst of the 8 albums (Pablo Honey doesn't count :) )

I believe it's their worst output. I think the songs translate phenomenally live but album just doesn't hit home for me. I said that about Amnesiac before a week ago as well so may change my mind on that one in the future!

 

Yeah, it's like half great and at least one of its bsides (Supercollider) is better than most of it. Like HTTT (sorry!) it feels half realized in a way that everything else doesn't. Some of it is way better live, too. Mr Magpie is so sick from the basement and a notch above decent on record.

 

2+2=5, Sit Down Stand Up, Size of the Moon, Backdrifts, The Gloaming, There There, and Myxomatosis were all songs I found myself really enjoying.

While I think the album drags a bit after There There, despite my enjoyment for Myxomatosis, the only song that I don't like on the album is We Suck Young Blood.

 

I couldn't agree more with all of this. TKoL is clearly their weakest effort (I think I recall an interview where Thom practically admitted they just didn't have it in them to be ambitious at the time, following the In Rainbows sessions). But I've always felt similarly about HTTT being somewhat haphazard and unfocused, like the band were stuck in neutral, just kind of throwing out disparate ideas to see what stuck. It's my second least favorite of the post-Pablo era, even though there are no doubt some great moments on it.

 

Amnesiac still hasn't clicked for me. There are songs on it that I love but overall I don't find it to be that solid. Maybe I just need to listen to it more.

I'd probably rank them as such but it's all subject to change:

In Rainbows>Kid A>Moon Shaped Pool>HTTF>OK Computer>Amnesiac>The Bends>TKOL>Pablo Honey

I know a lot of people hail OK Computer as their favorite, which I totally understand, I just listened to it too late I think. When I was a kid I would listen to The Bends but then I didn't listen to Radiohead again until In Rainbows came out and sort it worked my way backwards.

 

Kid A & In Rainbows & Amnesiac

Hail to the Thief

TKOL & OK Computer & A Moon Shaped Pool

Bends

 

Ooooo man - end of that album is great. I absolutely love Scatterbrain

 

Ha Amnesiac is such a pleasant surprise. Listen to the live version of Spinning Plates

I also just found out last night that Like Spinning Plates is I Will backwards - which was trippy as shit:

Spinning Plates has just hit me harder than anything I've listened to in a while out of nowhere and gave me a greater appreciation for the rest of the album. Plates into Glasshouse is outstanding.

I don't even know how to rank anymore. OKC is definitely up there as one of my all time favorites. The first 6 tracks are so goddamn outstanding. Exit Music into Let Down into Karma Police is just too overwhelmingly amazing

Hail To The Thief
OK Computer
Kid A
In Rainbows
A Moon Shaped Pool
Amnesiac
The Bends
King of Limbs
Pablo Honey

First 5 on that list is pretty interchangeable depending on my mood though lol

 

wowie I really like The King of Limbs. I think it's a numbed record, it feels distant and shrouded in darkness, but that's why I like it. The instrumentation is absolutely beautiful and the songs tend to blossom in a dream-becoming-awake kind of way. I remember they put out a poetry pamphlet to go along with the record awhile back and the images Thom evoked fit perfectly with the album. I gotta go back and check that ish out

 

All I know is that OK Computer is my favorite. Not ready to rank the others

 

Yeah, they both suffer from what feels like a lack of ambition. In the case of KoL, there just weren't enough good songs ready yet. A shame, because I think the record as a whole gets unfairly maligned for that when in reality its direction was fucking sweet even in its incompleteness. In the case of HTTT, I think there's a lot of great songwriting, but the studio is used least effectively of any non PH Radiohead album. It's so lifeless compared to the other albums and totally does feel like they threw a bunch of shit at the wall and were satisfied when it all kind of stuck.

 

I didn't realize this thread existed until yesterday so I'm sure this has been posted before but, good god, this live version of Present Tense is perfect. When I first saw I couldn't help but watch like ten times a day haha.

 

If you don't count PH I don't really think this band has bad records. I love all of them, so my least favorite from them would be my absolute favorite from most bands.

 

Yeah, for the most part it's a matter of the bar being super high. Even Pablo Honey I think has some value. Blow Out, You, Creep, Prove Yourself...definite hints of what was to come.

 

I maintained for a long time that I just couldn't listen to them because they didn't click for me, but recently I've been listening to them every now and then. Good to see I still have room to change my musical tastes as I get older.

 

I've just been getting into them more recently and they've really clicked for me in a big way. So far I've listened to OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows and A Moon Shaped Pool.

 

Yeah, PH isn't completely disposable the way it's often made out to be. "Blow Out" and "Ripcord" are absolutely infectious and really lay an early blueprint for The Bends.

This may be blasphemous, but I might enjoy listening through PH as much as TKoL, or at least it's not too far off.

 

KoL, at its very best moments, is super inspired artistically. It's a more admirable album for it than most of AMSP imo.

 

Kid A
In Rainbows
Amnesiac
OK Computer
The Bends
The King of Limbs
Hail to the Thief
A Moon Shaped Pool
Pablo Honey

 

Pablo Honey is whatever, its fine, literally all the rest impressed me a whole lot in very disparate ways. I genuinely loved most moments on the other 7 records. Ok Computer and Amnesiac tied at the top, King of Limbs in third with Kid A close after, Hail and Rainbows a little lower somewhere, then the newest, then Pablo.