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I remember Pablo Honey in the "New Releases" selection of the one electronics store we had in the small town where I grew up. It was at that time I bought my first CD: Nirvana's In Utero. This was the beginning of music for me. I had never liked anything other than classical music until I heard Offspring's Smash and Nirvana's Nevermind. I was raised in the 1980's and had a general dislike for music. Then I became a teenager and heavy rock was in. I can still recall the first albums I bought on CD… Foo Fighters, The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Silverchair's Frogstomp, and a compilation CD featuring three of what became my favorite songs at the time: White Zombie's 'More Human than Human' Filter's 'Hey Man, Nice Shot' and Radiohead's 'Creep.'
The Bends came out not too soon after and a friend I were walking home from school. He had just bought the album. He invited me over to listen to it and it was the first time I went over to a friend's house and just sat back, listening to an album. I didn't much care for the first two songs but by 'Nice Dream' and 'Just,' I started to really like what I was hearing. I remember 'Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was' moved me and how the album ended with Thom singing; "Just like your dad, you'll never change." I left thinking I had heard the entire album. My tastes then were much more on the dark and heavy side, being a rebellious teenager, but I could appreciate the album for what it was: good music. Sadly, I didn't care whether I was listening to good music or not, I wanted to be listening to what my mom would call "satanic."
I'll never forget the feeling left with me after seeing the music video for ‘Just.’ The mystery, I loved it! The video for 'High and Dry' was as good as the feature Hollywood films that were being produced at the time.
Still though, Radiohead remained just another band that I liked. Nothing more.
I'll never forget the moment Radiohead hit me... I was over at a girl friend's house and we were doing homework together on her bedroom floor. She told me to pick out a CD to put on play. There was only one listenable CD in her collection and it was The Bends. We talked more than we listened to the album until ‘Bullet Proof’ played and I told her to just listen to the song with me. It was still as beautiful as the first time I had heard it. She agreed, never have listened to the entire album. We then sat quiet as mice listening to the rest of the album. Soon ‘Street Spirit’ began to play. I had a panic attack-like sensation. It sounded like a song from one of my nightmares. I could see these images... slow motion black and white images of a horse and a man bleeding from his head. I remember seeing the girl's reaction to my state and knowing whatever was happening, she found it attractive. I made her play the song again and I focused all my energy on trying to remember where these feelings and dream-like memories first came from. Only before had this happened with David Lynch films, never with music. Haunting and beautiful. I had tears running down my face by the end of the song the second time through. She let me keep the album.
A couple months later I saw the music video for ‘Street Spirit’ and knew it wasn't my first time.
I could only figure that I must have been half asleep, watching Much Music, and they played the video, engraving it's images into my subconscious.
I bought OK Computer when it came out and it was not too soon after that I knew Radiohead was not only one of my favorite bands, but possibly the most advanced music of it's time. I still enjoy every track, a flawless album.
In 2000, KID A came out and though after the first listening I thought the band had maybe done a little too much LSD, trying to be like The Beatles, yet I couldn't stop listening to the album. "There's gotta be more to this." - I was convinced KID A was not a complete album. It wasn't soon after that I heard rumors that KID A was suppose to be a double CD. Then, finally hearing official news that Amnesiac, another album, was going to be released in 2001, I wasn't surprised. I knew there had to be more and first hearing Amnesiac, I fell in-love. Amnesiac was everything I wanted to hear.
Hail to the Thief I thought would be their best to date, especially since it was going to be fourteen tracks and the video for 'There There' was one of their best yet.
It started strong with ‘2+2=5’ but then ‘Sit Down. Stand Up.’ was a little too repetitive and ‘Sail to the Moon’ was one of the saddest, darkest piano pieces I had ever heard with Thom singing some of his most uplifting lyrics, it never sat right with me. I loved ‘Backdrifts,’ ‘Go to Sleep,’ ‘Where I End and You Begin’ but ‘We Suck Young Blood’ I thought was so creepy it wasn’t enjoyably to listen to. Hail to the Thief felt messy. Very hit and miss.
Out of nowhere, came In Rainbows and it was as if all other albums of the past had been tests, "Here you go, here's 10 perfect songs." Radiohead had found a place they knew we wanted to dwell and what a fitting name: In Rainbows. They had read our minds. Something thought to be an impossible task, Radiohead had out-done themselves.
It's now over two weeks since the release of The King of Limbs and the album is not sitting right with me. It feels like KID A all over again... where's the rest of the album?
1. Bloom - A piano echoes in delays, reminiscent to 'MK2' and when the drums come in, it sounds very much like this song follows 'Videotape.' The song begins In Rainbows and by the end has taken us back to those tight drum beats first heard on KID A.
2. Morning Mr. Magpie - Insanity. First heard the song on Radiohead TV's "The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time." The song had one of the most beautiful acoustic guitar riffs I had ever heard. Then, changing time, becoming creepy, Thom sang "Good morning Mr. Magpie, how are we today?" This was seven years ago. Now, what we have here, is an all out attack of glitched noises to over-load the senses and leave you listening closely, wondering if Radiohead has finally achieved in making you go crazy.
3. Little By Little - Again, another over-load. Seems like a song that would have fit perfectly on 'Amnesiac' between 'Knives Out' and 'Dollars & Cents' (instead of the bad remix of Morning Bell). Instead here, as a third song to a new album, it leaves you hoping for a brilliant song to follow it.
4. Feral - Yes, now it is official! Not only has Radiohead been exposed for really trying to drive their audience insane with this song but if you are like me, and enjoy this track, I'm afraid they have succeeded.
5. Lotus Flower - Ah, that's better!
6. Codex - Sounds like a prequel to 'Pyramid Song.' Suddenly this album has become brilliant.
7. Give Up the Ghost - Yes, yes, this is bliss!
8. Separator - Now, what do we have here? This is NOT a proper closing track. Not that any part of this album has a "proper" feel to it. It just feels wrong to end it here. Where's the rest of the album? Thom is even singing: "If you think this is over then you're wrong."
The Bends came out not too soon after and a friend I were walking home from school. He had just bought the album. He invited me over to listen to it and it was the first time I went over to a friend's house and just sat back, listening to an album. I didn't much care for the first two songs but by 'Nice Dream' and 'Just,' I started to really like what I was hearing. I remember 'Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was' moved me and how the album ended with Thom singing; "Just like your dad, you'll never change." I left thinking I had heard the entire album. My tastes then were much more on the dark and heavy side, being a rebellious teenager, but I could appreciate the album for what it was: good music. Sadly, I didn't care whether I was listening to good music or not, I wanted to be listening to what my mom would call "satanic."
I'll never forget the feeling left with me after seeing the music video for ‘Just.’ The mystery, I loved it! The video for 'High and Dry' was as good as the feature Hollywood films that were being produced at the time.
Still though, Radiohead remained just another band that I liked. Nothing more.
I'll never forget the moment Radiohead hit me... I was over at a girl friend's house and we were doing homework together on her bedroom floor. She told me to pick out a CD to put on play. There was only one listenable CD in her collection and it was The Bends. We talked more than we listened to the album until ‘Bullet Proof’ played and I told her to just listen to the song with me. It was still as beautiful as the first time I had heard it. She agreed, never have listened to the entire album. We then sat quiet as mice listening to the rest of the album. Soon ‘Street Spirit’ began to play. I had a panic attack-like sensation. It sounded like a song from one of my nightmares. I could see these images... slow motion black and white images of a horse and a man bleeding from his head. I remember seeing the girl's reaction to my state and knowing whatever was happening, she found it attractive. I made her play the song again and I focused all my energy on trying to remember where these feelings and dream-like memories first came from. Only before had this happened with David Lynch films, never with music. Haunting and beautiful. I had tears running down my face by the end of the song the second time through. She let me keep the album.
A couple months later I saw the music video for ‘Street Spirit’ and knew it wasn't my first time.
I could only figure that I must have been half asleep, watching Much Music, and they played the video, engraving it's images into my subconscious.
I bought OK Computer when it came out and it was not too soon after that I knew Radiohead was not only one of my favorite bands, but possibly the most advanced music of it's time. I still enjoy every track, a flawless album.
In 2000, KID A came out and though after the first listening I thought the band had maybe done a little too much LSD, trying to be like The Beatles, yet I couldn't stop listening to the album. "There's gotta be more to this." - I was convinced KID A was not a complete album. It wasn't soon after that I heard rumors that KID A was suppose to be a double CD. Then, finally hearing official news that Amnesiac, another album, was going to be released in 2001, I wasn't surprised. I knew there had to be more and first hearing Amnesiac, I fell in-love. Amnesiac was everything I wanted to hear.
Hail to the Thief I thought would be their best to date, especially since it was going to be fourteen tracks and the video for 'There There' was one of their best yet.
It started strong with ‘2+2=5’ but then ‘Sit Down. Stand Up.’ was a little too repetitive and ‘Sail to the Moon’ was one of the saddest, darkest piano pieces I had ever heard with Thom singing some of his most uplifting lyrics, it never sat right with me. I loved ‘Backdrifts,’ ‘Go to Sleep,’ ‘Where I End and You Begin’ but ‘We Suck Young Blood’ I thought was so creepy it wasn’t enjoyably to listen to. Hail to the Thief felt messy. Very hit and miss.
Out of nowhere, came In Rainbows and it was as if all other albums of the past had been tests, "Here you go, here's 10 perfect songs." Radiohead had found a place they knew we wanted to dwell and what a fitting name: In Rainbows. They had read our minds. Something thought to be an impossible task, Radiohead had out-done themselves.
It's now over two weeks since the release of The King of Limbs and the album is not sitting right with me. It feels like KID A all over again... where's the rest of the album?
1. Bloom - A piano echoes in delays, reminiscent to 'MK2' and when the drums come in, it sounds very much like this song follows 'Videotape.' The song begins In Rainbows and by the end has taken us back to those tight drum beats first heard on KID A.
2. Morning Mr. Magpie - Insanity. First heard the song on Radiohead TV's "The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time." The song had one of the most beautiful acoustic guitar riffs I had ever heard. Then, changing time, becoming creepy, Thom sang "Good morning Mr. Magpie, how are we today?" This was seven years ago. Now, what we have here, is an all out attack of glitched noises to over-load the senses and leave you listening closely, wondering if Radiohead has finally achieved in making you go crazy.
3. Little By Little - Again, another over-load. Seems like a song that would have fit perfectly on 'Amnesiac' between 'Knives Out' and 'Dollars & Cents' (instead of the bad remix of Morning Bell). Instead here, as a third song to a new album, it leaves you hoping for a brilliant song to follow it.
4. Feral - Yes, now it is official! Not only has Radiohead been exposed for really trying to drive their audience insane with this song but if you are like me, and enjoy this track, I'm afraid they have succeeded.
5. Lotus Flower - Ah, that's better!
6. Codex - Sounds like a prequel to 'Pyramid Song.' Suddenly this album has become brilliant.
7. Give Up the Ghost - Yes, yes, this is bliss!
8. Separator - Now, what do we have here? This is NOT a proper closing track. Not that any part of this album has a "proper" feel to it. It just feels wrong to end it here. Where's the rest of the album? Thom is even singing: "If you think this is over then you're wrong."
Posted by The Missing Patient at 3/5/2011 11:33 PM 
Categories: Music
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Categories: Music
Tags: radiohead The King of Limbs the king of limbs Radiohead
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