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Old 10-10-2007, 16:36
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I think this is awful. These guys did OK Computer, The Bends and after that they decided to make complete crap. I am sure they are now just taking P in every way.

I must be rational. It is listenable, it is interesting, it's prog rocky but is it great? Is it fantastic?

IS IT THE BENDS?
IS IT OK COMPUTER?

No, not even close. Something wrong has happened.

I am going to bombard these guys to make another album like they did mid nineties because this is a complete waste!!!
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:38
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Havent downloaded it yet, but honestly a once-great band who disappeared up their own **** in 2001 and Kid A...

They have been self indulgent for nearly a decade now.
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:41
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Havent downloaded it yet, but honestly a once-great band who disappeared up their own **** in 2001 and Kid A...

They have been self indulgent for nearly a decade now.
I can't voice my true opinion here because I will be banned.

It goes something like this. They really need sorting out. How can a band do this and call it music?
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:41
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I'm going to get the 90s albums and relive some memories.
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:44
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I thought it was 'pay what you want' rather than free.

Haven't heard it though.
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:46
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I thought it was 'pay what you want' rather than free.

Haven't heard it though.
I paid 0.00.

I was going to buy the 40 pound box set thing but no way. I am going to write a complaint now.
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:47
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I paid 0.00.

I was going to buy the 40 pound box set thing but no way. I am going to write a complaint now.
About what? That the album was sh!t or that you nearly paid £40.00 for it
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:48
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About what? That the album was sh!t or that you nearly paid £40.00 for it
The album was complete and utter pile of unusable horse manure desecrating a beauty spot of an area of natural beauty which is a world heritage site.
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:50
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The album was complete and utter unusable horse manure desecrating a beauty spot of an area of natural beauty which is a world heritage site.
I'm sure they'll be impressed
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:54
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I've already paid £40 for the box and not heard any of it yet.
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Old 10-10-2007, 16:57
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I've already paid £40 for the box and not heard any of it yet.
There are two songs on the 40 pound boxset that are good. They are follow me around and another. I will just check and let you know. Last flowers till hospital. They are great songs.

Not on the 10 track free version though. Good Morning Mr.Magpie is good too.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:00
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It sounds shit to me so far.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:08
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Havent downloaded it yet, but honestly a once-great band who disappeared up their own **** in 2001 and Kid A...
Kid A is a superb album and "How to Disappear Completely" a masterpeice.

Downhill since then but still way above their contemporaries.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:11
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It sounds shit to me so far.
You should go on Mortigi Tempo. (forum off the site, greenplastic.com)_

They are like a Radiohead cult on there. They talk about the album like some spiritual awakening. Creepy.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:12
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O lawd, if I don't like it first time it's bound to be shit?!!


After listening to the studio album about 5 times (as well as about a year and a half of bootlegs of the songs), it's average. It's quite good, but at the same time it's not amazing. It's entertaining, but not on the same depth and level as the rest of the albums. However your comment about losing it after OK Computer holds as much weight as the BBC reviewer who said he didn't like the album, before admitting that Pablo Honey was his favorite album, therefore removing all credibility his review held. If you didn't like Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief (which are all better than The Bends and OK Computer, in my opinion), then why on earth did you feel so let down by this that you have to write a complaint?

Seems people here are confusing 'self indulgent' with experimental, expecting the band to keep repeating The Bends era until it gets stale, and not trying new things. Kid A was amazing for the fact that it sounded nothing like OK Computer, and was clearly a result of a group of outstanding musicians comfortable with their ability and wanting to push their ideas as far as possible, to see what the outcome would be. Which doesn't happen enough in the mainstream music scene. So what if it doesn't sound like The Bends? Go listen to The Bends then..
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:13
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Kid A is a superb album and "How to Disappear Completely" a masterpeice.

Downhill since then but still way above their contemporaries.
I have to agree that Kid A had some great great moments, like Everything in... How to... Morning Bell... In Limbo etc etc - great tunes.

Then it was Amnesiac, Great tunes, badly produced, all over the place at times. Hail to the thief had 4 great songs at the beginning, brilliant, but then I can't seem to understand why they made the songs after.

This is... oh dear...
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:18
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O lawd, if I don't like it first time it's bound to be shit?!!


After listening to the studio album about 5 times (as well as about a year and a half of bootlegs of the songs), it's average. It's quite good, but at the same time it's not amazing. It's entertaining, but not on the same depth and level as the rest of the albums. However your comment about losing it after OK Computer holds as much weight as the BBC reviewer who said he didn't like the album, before admitting that Pablo Honey was his favorite album, therefore removing all credibility his review held. If you didn't like Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief (which are all better than The Bends and OK Computer, in my opinion), then why on earth did you feel so let down by this that you have to write a complaint?

Seems people here are confusing 'self indulgent' with experimental, expecting the band to keep repeating The Bends era until it gets stale, and not trying new things. Kid A was amazing for the fact that it sounded nothing like OK Computer, and was clearly a result of a group of outstanding musicians comfortable with their ability and wanting to push their ideas as far as possible, to see what the outcome would be. Which doesn't happen enough in the mainstream music scene. So what if it doesn't sound like The Bends? Go listen to The Bends then..
We're not that bonkers. We just want an improvement and not an experiment.

All bands experiment. They have studios, maybe protools or cubase, play around and then release what is not an experiment. It is not an experiment because they are musicians and feel it is music.

Radiohead are far too experimental and maybe I would say, in a bubble.

I like Kid A but no way as close to OK Computer. In terms of brilliance, it's clearly..

OK Computer
The Bends
Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail to the thief
Pablo Honey

and this...

Like I said above, nobody expects a repeat, everybody wants Radiohead. If they stick to what they are good at they will improve, it's logical because they are a great great band.

I don't give bands a second chance. If I listen to or watch something repeatedly, you do find a comfort zone naturallyw ith the subject and you would like something of it because you're akin to it. I've had that in the past, but one shot and that's it. I should give that kind of respect to every album then and I don't have that much time, nobody does.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:20
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I paid 99p which is too much really as I'll probably never listen to it again. I saw a quote somewhere saying that it is like OK Computer. This is no OK Computer! That album contained several masterpieces, but there is nothing outstanding on this album.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:22
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I paid 99p which is too much really as I'll probably never listen to it again. I saw a quote somewhere saying that it is like OK Computer. This is no OK Computer! That album contained several masterpieces, but there is nothing outstanding on this album.
Like I said above go to Mortigi Tempo, the forum off Greenplastic.com.

THERE it is referred to as:

"The best Radiohead album Ever made!"
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:24
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The funny thing about Thom is, he uses an arpeggiator and calls the song "Arpeggi".

That is...

That for me is a band that have lost it.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:27
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I think people just have different ideas on what Radiohead are meant to sound like! Some people associate them with the more popular guitar sound of "paranoid android" and " Just", but I think other Radiohead fans associate them more with the music on this album... a bit more techno and chilled.

Personally, although this album isnt going to go down as anything amazing, I dont think its a bad album.
No song particulary stands out as of yet, but just to lay back and chill out to music in your room I think its fine!
And it only cost me £2 so im not terribly dissapointed!

I think you just have to remember that Radiohead are no longer a commercial band, and thanks to their slightly scary dedicated fanbase... theyll never need to be!
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:29
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Can I just say, if anyone even cares, that Furry Monkey is being an idiotic troll who probably hasn't even heard the album. Earlier he mentioned the tracks Follow Me Around and Good Morning Mr Magpie which aren't on this release in any shape or form.

Radiohead are in no way up their own arse. They are making the music they want to make and not bowing to people who pretend to like them when all they've ever heard is singles like No Surprises.

In Rainbows is a brilliant album for fans of intersting music. James Blunt fans be warned.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:32
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I think people just have different ideas on what Radiohead are meant to sound like! Some people associate them with the more popular guitar sound of "paranoid android" and " Just", but I think other Radiohead fans associate them more with the music on this album... a bit more techno and chilled.

Personally, although this album isnt going to go down as anything amazing, I dont think its a bad album.
No song particulary stands out as of yet, but just to lay back and chill out to music in your room I think its fine!
And it only cost me £2 so im not terribly dissapointed!

I think you just have to remember that Radiohead are no longer a commercial band, and thanks to their slightly scary dedicated fanbase... theyll never need to be!
I'm disappointed.

I met the band back in the day a couple of times during the bends and ok computer period and they appeared so guitar friendly, not in a major way like a rock band but in a very musically almost connossieur and expert level, which is what made them fascinating during OK Computer and The Bends.

Some people say this is because people want guitars, no, they want Radiohead playing music with guitars.

I paid nothing for it and that's it.

I agree it is ok for background music but I would never play Kid A, well any of their previous albums with some of the songs on their for background music.

I just got told to replay a couple of the songs on teh album and well... Reckoner and Faust Arp sound alright but nothing that I haven't heard by some experimental bands like Bats for Lashes and Maps and some stateside neo-folk bands. Nothing new unlike what Radiohead did in the past which was unique and amazing for many many people.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:33
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Can I just say, if anyone even cares, that Furry Monkey is being an idiotic troll who probably hasn't even heard the album. Earlier he mentioned the tracks Follow Me Around and Good Morning Mr Magpie which aren't on this release in any shape or form.

Radiohead are in no way up their own arse. They are making the music they want to make and not bowing to people who pretend to like them when all they've ever heard is singles like No Surprises.

In Rainbows is a brilliant album for fans of intersting music. James Blunt fans be warned.
If you read the post I referred they were on the boxset because it was a response to a question about the boxset.

Yes?

Get it?

You really need to read the posts properly. I don't think you even know Radiohead released two versions, one is the free 10 track and the other is over 2 discs, 40 pounds with extra tracks like the ones I mentioned.

I know more about the band than you do.
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Old 10-10-2007, 17:34
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If you read the post I referred they were on the boxset because it was a response to a question about the boxset.

Yes?

Get it?
But they are not on the bloody boxset. That's what I meant.
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