Seriously, I love this album! When you start to feel it, I mean really feel it-- shut your eyes and open your mind-- it takes you somewhere out of this world...yet strangely familiar at the same time. Haunting.
This is sort of strange, but does this song have anything to do with oral sex? Like, Bloom -> erection, "open your mouth wide, a universal sigh"? And the opening introduction the vibrations of the erection? And the song builds up to an orgasmic climax?
It's actually mental. At first, the whole album was just a bunch of noise I couldn't really decipher. Then after a few months, it all came together and all the noises began to make sense, and it was beautiful. Music that is uncomfortable to listen to at first always becomes the most interesting and enjoyable.
Just listened to the first 3 songs on this album at the same time. If I was willing to open more windows I would've done the whole album. IT MIXES SO WELL, TRY IT. Also try listening to "House of Cards" at the same time as Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams."
Radiohead are musical geniouses. they've never worried about being classified in a certain genre, technically they are known as an indie rock band but hey've always has a minimalistic electro presence in their songs. they just utlise all the sounds avaliable to them..
Can someone help me out here? I'm a huge RH fan, and I was wondering if the drums in this album are synthetic or if Phil is doing all of it. Because I can't tell the difference
Between this and the live from the basement video.
@mwhight it's a mix of phil, other seperate drum parts and a drum machine. like at the beginning of 15 step, except now they did the entire album that way.
After my first listens of TKOL and this song in particular I was disappointed. I thought that Thom Yorke was just toying with those loops he carried with him from Eraser.But later on (probably after the in Basement version) Bloom became my favorite.For me this song presents the definition of life ever since,I can feel it in every single note
I've been listening to this track daily. Finally could listen to it on roomies and although my language could never put these godly vibrations to justice i have to say: It sounds like the great ocean of energy blooming to life. Made me appreciate the fact that we are here and here only to love others and bask in the beautiful milk-light of existence as Kerouac would say.
Their music needs patience to enjoy - at first you're like "wtf?" but then later you realise "oh...wow"
On the other hand, pop music is impatient. Although it's instantly likeable, MOST pop nowadays just gets old in a few weeks, but Radiohead seems to last forever.
It just doesn't sound like a jumbled mess like it did initially. It sounds complete now. Other than that I can't really explain - you have to get it yourself I guess.
@dandaily4 lol yeah any song from this album is like that. you dont care first and say lets listen to paranoid android, and later you say, there is a strange good melody in my head, what was it
Every time I listen to In Rainbows or The King of Limbs I get a feeling I'm a victim of some global conspiracy trying to convince me this is actually a good music. For me it's just a bunch of weird, annoying, repetitive sounds along with random off-tempo drum patterns. I guess I'll go back to OK Computer then...
@facecheek "interesting" but isnt that the purpose of all music? it annoys me when music is obscure for the sake of being obscure so some how magically it is cool to enjoy "different" music when initially this "taste" is developed solely for a social status
@omghai2u No thanks, I was in a bad mood. I personally think though that not all music is meant to be 'interesting,' what about the pathos? Plus, this music isnt what I call obscure.
@facecheek thats what i mean the interesting part more often appeals to the pathos (if you meant that like the greek word). i tend to find some of the more wacky idm stuff like aphex twin and squarepusher to be as close to "logos" music as i can find elsewhere
@omghai2u i dont know where you developed it but you have this sense that you are right about everything and everyone else is wrong. while i can't speak for other matters i can speak for this one. music is about taste, you can't have bad taste, because everyone has different tastes. so whats wrong here? why are you so up in arms if people happen to like radiohead (and yes, even if you cant comprehend it, people do ACTUALLY like radiohead). why does it matter? get a life.
@omghai2u That's fine if you don't like the track, or any other work Radiohead has done. Just don't call them out because that will lead to unnecessary arguments that no one wants to hear. We're here for the music that us fans like and want to hear. No need for the negativity. Thanks, bye.
When these songs play I forget they are on. I start to think about something else. I go onto something else and then realize the song is distracting me from what I got distracted from when I first started the song.
In my opinion this version is poor because they messed up on the EQ also you can't hear the bass that much along with the bass drum, they needed a compressor on the bass. You guys should had viewed the video radio head uploaded for a limited time named Radiohead From The Basement. The version of the song Bloom totally rocks comparing to this one. My first impression of this version was " What song is this one, Wow the engineer must of had been ear tricked, then I thought were they drunk?" Lol
@pelonelcojedor I disagree. In many ways I consider the Basement version, and this version, two different songs. This version is much more atmospheric and subtle (yet chaotic), and I'm sure that's intended. This version takes me to a place far away. The FTB version gets my body moving. :)
@pelonelcojedor Well, yeah I just thought you were referring to how different it is. But judging from your comment, you know a lot more about mixing and stuff, than me:)
To my virgin ear this version sucks, you should see the video they took off it was for a limited time. The video is called Radiohead From The Basement the song bloom was perfect how it sounded. This one is missing EQ The snare is too high and also you need more support for the bass along with the Bass Drum. They should also had added a compressor on the bass. I swear if you seen the video Radiohead From The Basement which was for a lmited time well you should had liked it.
Radiohead is just fascinating. Once you're really into their music, it's just like a wonderful journey through notes, lyrics and sounds, which somehow add perfectly, to a perfect song. you never get tired of their songs, cause everytime you listen to a song, you might hear stuff you haven't heard like that before and you find whole new ways to look at the song and to feel it. a song doesn't need a catchy refrain or sth to be epic. and that makes thom yorke a genius. i ♥ radiohead!
I heard that Thom comes up with most of these songs while he takes a shit. I would love to sample some of that shit. Its a piece of history. It's a piece of shit history. On another note do you think Thom prefers a Blumpkin or a cleveland steamer?
i found the live from the basement and this song is A LOT better live. people are asking for more gitar albums but radiohead has changed. they use guitar but not like they did in the bends,ok computer,and so on. i guess people cant except the change. if you watch and lissen to the live version, u will like the recorded version a lot more..
They're not so much of an electronic band, as they are an expirimental/ alternative band... actually, they sort of defy description, having produced so many different types of musical sounds. They're amazing.
I'm watching making of this album on Palladia right now, and this track sounds so much more aggressive----this version seems sped up. I still like this album though.
@hotdrumchick And a pretty darn amazing one too. I didn't think they would be able to perform much of this album, without all the beats and stuff on playback. I think I forgot this was Radiohead.
some people don't really appreciate this album enough, and for their own reasons, but when you listen to it (this song is a great example), just think about how hard it must have been to write a song like this, and polishing it and thinking of all those clever little sounds that appear throughout. it takes true intelligence and talent to make music like this...
@iLikeeTuurtles uh... i don't know how... but i posted that comment to the needle drop's review for the king of limbs and it somehow got transported here. :S
The piano freezing, giving way to percussion, giving way to bass, and then combining them with vocals that question the very essence of our existence, is enough to make me question why anyone would consider any other song on this album superior to this.
Could this be interpreted completely in 3/4? The flashes of high notes at 2:28 and throughout are haunting...I am consistently in awe at the level of detail this band exerts, especially within such grand concepts. They haven't written anything as effective as this since In Limbo. It's a musical gyroscope.
I'm interested to see how they're going to do these new tracks as a 5 piece band considering that it's all looping... Basically everyone except for Thom is going to play the same thing over and over again ad nauseum.
a little desperate for artistic feedback- please excuse me- but please check out my brand new tune 'diving Bells (make believes)' - radiohead are my favourite band of all time.
The reason why i love radiohead is that they are ever changeing and always creative at what they do. not to mention thom yorke's amazingly fucking awesome voice :)
This is really the only good song on this album... Don't worry, I'm not gonna be a dick and say "Well thithh ithh their wortht albumm!!!!", it's not at all. I mean I can see why people like it, it just sounds like In Rainbows to me, and I didn't like In Rainbows. I wasn't really a big fan of their alternative days either, before Ok Computer. Everything between The Bends and In Rainbows are fucking classics if you ask me. I used to love Optimistic, until I heard Myxomatosis. Oh... man.
Mr poponit: Yes of course the album is done only by loops. Not mention melody and harmony (this album has some pretty intresting musical solution) and the minimalism in comnposition that there's BEHIND the loops . Obvious.
radiohead just stop making records if you can't put your heart in it. this whole album is trash. loop loop loop haunting lyric loop loop loop haunting lyric. it's played out dudes. radiohead is obviously burnt out, they put every stupid loop they could put together to press....lazy..weak. just stop before you ruin your rep completely. my 5 yr old kid makes better loops than this crap. put some effort into it....damn!! At least with Kid A and Amnesiac it made weird sense..was easy to listen to.
@MrPooponit you have clearly lost your edge debbie downer. often times people who grow up with a particular band can't progress WITH the band through time and blame their inability to "get it" on the band falling off creatively. this album is different yes, but in a great way. TKOL is their version of a free moving abstract "jazz" album. listen to bloom and you will hear this totally original miles davis meets rock and roll sound that is completely different AND better than anything out there.
This album makes you say " Oh this is my favorite song out of the album" until you go to the next track and say " no this is my favorite song" It's a never ending cycle!
Like a flowing river, swirling, crashing, rising. The sun shimmering - Bouncing on the surface. The trees whispering, swaying with the melody. Plunge yourself into the sound, immerse yourself, lose yourself.
This Album is best on the drive home from a sleepless night of playing poker in Atlantic City. The sun is coming up, you're tired and groggy from all the pain killers you took the night before. All your other cds make you groan because they'd just be too much for you to handle in this fragile state.
You only have one option my frend, TKOL, and you won't regret it.
@streetice00 And for one brief moment during the drive (after which you immediately go into complete denial for the 1,000th time), you realize "Holy shit, I am a dope headed pill-popping fuck-up."
• this album rocks, if you want to hear bands make the same tired, beaten down tunes , go bit torrent a Muse album or cry to some coldplay in your room.
p.s. if you consider yourself Avant-garde enough to give criticism, understand that you never made Kid A, you never made OK cpu, you never made jack shit.
with that said... let this shit fuck your ear pussy until their next album, and maybe it will meet your standards then bitche
@anonymousQ45 sure i wont argue that, I use them as examples because they are the common comparison. But I think radiohead makes the effort to break new ground (maybe not in the grand scheme but for their own sake) and I enjoy and respect them for that, sorry to come accross as sophmoric. with that said i have enjoyed muse and coldplay, but hold them to lower standards because of my personal views. Tits boobs penis fart, it wouldnt be youtube if i couldnt add some color commentary
@eweseloh you do know that cpu stands for Central Processing Unit, and not computer... right? lol if you're gonna be all srs bsns about something, sometimes it's hard to take it seriously when you word things wrong lol
@eweseloh my apologies, Hey everyone attention, your attention please. AquaGoHax has made is clear that 'CPU' does not replace 'computer'. They are NOT interchangable. Dont even try, cause your gonna get an ear full. My lapse in judgment made it impossible for anyone to understand what i was reffering to. Please take the time to re-read my comment, but this time replace "cpu" with computer. I only hope God will have mercy on my soul for such a phopaux. Im cleary incabale of articulating myself.
I've always been a Radiohead fan, I even went to a couple of concerts. But I have to admit that I was a sucker for The Bends back in the 90's, I still listen to that album after 15 years. So this is kind of weird for me, maybe I'm old fashion or I got old hahaa, but I like the roar of the guitar and the sound of the drums to fill my car, this is just...not it I guess. Well there is music for everybody.
What's happened to music? we have all this technology and still can't get it right, there is a reason why song's recorded in the 50s and 60s are considered masterpieces and hold true today. When it comes to music i believe less is always more simple doesn't have to mean there's no artistic merit. Seems like today musicians are pushing away from that with all this electronic crap and over intellectual bullshit give me a break.
@tickntimebombfun Music is an evolutionary process! Embrace the old and the new. Never shy away from anything unknown. It makes makes music 10000000x more fun
@tickntimebombfun Well, you have to ask yourself what is music? the answer will be different to everyone. music is inspiration, its a friend when you need one, it doesn't matter how its made. as long as you get something from it. go listen to the 50's and 60's if thats what inspires you the most. Radiohead makes me feel less alone in the world. so i'll continue listening to this.
First hated this song, now listening to it again, I love it!
Radiohead <3
MariaHamsterLover 1 day ago
Sitting in a lightning powered field, smelling the electric flowers......
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Seriously, I love this album! When you start to feel it, I mean really feel it-- shut your eyes and open your mind-- it takes you somewhere out of this world...yet strangely familiar at the same time. Haunting.
Folieadeux2637 5 days ago
it's a grower
1005MYBABY 1 week ago
This is sort of strange, but does this song have anything to do with oral sex? Like, Bloom -> erection, "open your mouth wide, a universal sigh"? And the opening introduction the vibrations of the erection? And the song builds up to an orgasmic climax?
OnlyATireSwing 1 week ago
Radiohead is an acquired taste. I have to listen to their songs countless times in order for it to "click". That being said, they're brilliant.
iMoMio 1 week ago
It's actually mental. At first, the whole album was just a bunch of noise I couldn't really decipher. Then after a few months, it all came together and all the noises began to make sense, and it was beautiful. Music that is uncomfortable to listen to at first always becomes the most interesting and enjoyable.
Pruane35Forever 1 week ago
Thom Yorke is THE BEST singer of his generation, period.
poetgrande08 3 weeks ago 2
@poetgrande08
Bob Pollard is great too
skulleton 1 week ago
Just listened to the first 3 songs on this album at the same time. If I was willing to open more windows I would've done the whole album. IT MIXES SO WELL, TRY IT. Also try listening to "House of Cards" at the same time as Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams."
kjuyhfklujhkuyf 1 month ago
@buceintoronto Kind of frustrates me how dark they are about their music.
southsidesman 1 month ago
Radiohead are musical geniouses. they've never worried about being classified in a certain genre, technically they are known as an indie rock band but hey've always has a minimalistic electro presence in their songs. they just utlise all the sounds avaliable to them..
futuredatarecords 1 month ago 4
@mwhight Phill does it look at the From The Basement clips of TKOL
jimmyportilloiscool 1 month ago
Can someone help me out here? I'm a huge RH fan, and I was wondering if the drums in this album are synthetic or if Phil is doing all of it. Because I can't tell the difference
Between this and the live from the basement video.
mwhight 1 month ago
@mwhight it's a mix of phil, other seperate drum parts and a drum machine. like at the beginning of 15 step, except now they did the entire album that way.
keepyoureyespeeled1 1 month ago
@mwhight Phil and another drummer do it. RH got two drummers for The King of Limbs... i forgot the new guys name though, I will go look that up now.
AllergicToApplesauce 3 weeks ago
@AllergicToApplesauce he's the drummer from Portishead
cruzfernie 2 weeks ago
Who said Radiohead was entry-level underground music?
huliheaden 1 month ago
This song is so artistic, its like going into a world where everything is backwards, and beautiful at the same time.
Zetofumaster 1 month ago
No debate about it. This is my favorite song. Period.
dannyk140 1 month ago 2
funny thing is this song couldn't make Pitchfork's 100 tracks of the year.
Lashakalandadze1 1 month ago
I just realized, is this Radiohead's attempt at modal music? Seems so. Hey.
wishfulthinking360 1 month ago
Only rock song that I actually think is good. Really good.
Btw, go listen to Acknowledgement by John Coltrane. If this is hard to get, that's from another universe. In fact, I think it really is.
GutoKonrad 2 months ago
@GutoKonrad I definatly wouldn't call this rock. More electronic-glitch-jazz if that is a genre
starofcctv94 1 month ago
After my first listens of TKOL and this song in particular I was disappointed. I thought that Thom Yorke was just toying with those loops he carried with him from Eraser.But later on (probably after the in Basement version) Bloom became my favorite.For me this song presents the definition of life ever since,I can feel it in every single note
MrFreedomGotAnAK 3 months ago
I don't understand this song intention and mean , maybe it's all because am not as genius as Thom Yorke
nyanyanyunyu 3 months ago
30 June 2011, Radiohead at Rome, I'LL BE THERE!!
gidusdavide 3 months ago
@gidusdavide Good luck building that time machine, my friend ;)
MrVulgaris 3 months ago 5
@MrVulgaris 2012 xD ahahahah
gidusdavide 3 months ago
I seriously just love this song with my whole heart, my heart blooms when i listen to this masterpiece by Radiohead.
Jesuuusss123 3 months ago 3
Radiohead is what keeps me alive.
DCMite 3 months ago 20
Oh nature, why art thou so far away, strange, yet attractive to me?
ThinkerSociety 4 months ago
Train music
davidnmichelle61 4 months ago 6
I've been listening to this track daily. Finally could listen to it on roomies and although my language could never put these godly vibrations to justice i have to say: It sounds like the great ocean of energy blooming to life. Made me appreciate the fact that we are here and here only to love others and bask in the beautiful milk-light of existence as Kerouac would say.
chaosauzi 4 months ago 2
to me the repetitive sounds are hypnotizing
lildeezyeattle1 4 months ago
I prefer the live version
sprkal129 4 months ago 3
Why is the album cover creeping toward me?
JayLaneLane 4 months ago 5
I just didn't get it (Bloom) at first.
3-4 months later I still didn't get it.
I get it now.
How'd they do that?
buceintoronto 4 months ago 49
@buceintoronto
That's just how Radiohead works!
Their music needs patience to enjoy - at first you're like "wtf?" but then later you realise "oh...wow"
On the other hand, pop music is impatient. Although it's instantly likeable, MOST pop nowadays just gets old in a few weeks, but Radiohead seems to last forever.
thehoodatron 2 months ago 2
@thehoodatron try coheed and cambria out i bet you will like them
redvrszach2009 2 months ago
@redvrszach2009 they are shit.
MrHydrogoon 1 month ago
@buceintoronto I don't get it, explain this to me.
MarkBTW 1 month ago
@MarkBTW
It just doesn't sound like a jumbled mess like it did initially. It sounds complete now. Other than that I can't really explain - you have to get it yourself I guess.
buceintoronto 1 month ago
@buceintoronto Wow, that's pretty interesting. It does sound like a complete cluster-fuck right now. I guess it's an acquired taste?
MarkBTW 1 month ago
@MarkBTW Yeah, you'll get it later. One day you'll wake up and have this stuck in your head. It's pretty incredible.
dandaily4 1 week ago
@dandaily4 lol yeah any song from this album is like that. you dont care first and say lets listen to paranoid android, and later you say, there is a strange good melody in my head, what was it
Braxium1 3 days ago
@Braxium1 Oh yeah. :) That's happened to me at least 3 or 4 times.
dandaily4 3 days ago
@buceintoronto Some are late Bloomers.
gonzolious 1 week ago
@buceintoronto Dats jor brejn
xHefpioTx 6 days ago
Radiohead knows my mind ...
abhikoolblue 4 months ago
This has to be playing when we're marching in to war with machines, or aliens
DuttyBatch 4 months ago 5
this music explains exactly how i feel without expreessing words.
Thank you for your existence Radiohead :)
astrobollox 4 months ago 3
@astrobollox - Treefingers does the same thing for me.
CNorrisBiggestFan 2 months ago
@CNorrisBiggestFan aha! Me too!! That song is like heavenly or something. I can't describe it.
dramaticpickles 2 months ago
Every time I listen to In Rainbows or The King of Limbs I get a feeling I'm a victim of some global conspiracy trying to convince me this is actually a good music. For me it's just a bunch of weird, annoying, repetitive sounds along with random off-tempo drum patterns. I guess I'll go back to OK Computer then...
keoism 5 months ago
@keoism It's not that way once you realize how intricate these songs are.
mysticrubberchicken 5 months ago
@keoism You don't hear the subtle but beautiful melody? Listen again, closely. It took me a while to get into Radiohead too, but it was worth it.
DoubleO711 5 months ago
@keoism haha you're a nutcase. sorry, just the global conspiracy thing is funny. no offense
facecheek 4 months ago
I think...this song is a commentary on the precariousness of humanity.
GloriousBrilliance 5 months ago
@GloriousBrilliance I think... you're high.
modashiangel 5 months ago
,love this song
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fastesteasiestsys 5 months ago
still think this is the best on TKOL, first time i heard it, i was hooked, even better live
LandonDonavon10 5 months ago
how do you hipsters pretend to enjoy this stuff. that drum beat is worthless whos the idiot who said lets repeat it the whole track?
omghai2u 5 months ago
@omghai2u the drumbeat is supposed to be 'interesting'-sounding, i think its awesome, actually it does change a little.
facecheek 5 months ago
@facecheek "interesting" but isnt that the purpose of all music? it annoys me when music is obscure for the sake of being obscure so some how magically it is cool to enjoy "different" music when initially this "taste" is developed solely for a social status
omghai2u 5 months ago
@omghai2u to ME, this music is GOOD, I do not CARE if it is fucking DIFFERENT, I LIKE IT. I LIKE IT. do you dig?
facecheek 5 months ago
@facecheek cool post youre good at arguing
omghai2u 5 months ago
@omghai2u No thanks, I was in a bad mood. I personally think though that not all music is meant to be 'interesting,' what about the pathos? Plus, this music isnt what I call obscure.
facecheek 5 months ago
@facecheek thats what i mean the interesting part more often appeals to the pathos (if you meant that like the greek word). i tend to find some of the more wacky idm stuff like aphex twin and squarepusher to be as close to "logos" music as i can find elsewhere
omghai2u 5 months ago
@omghai2u LOL @ calling all Radiohead fans hipsters, nice try. Most hipsters are too pretentious to love a band so "mainstream" as Radiohead.
ccleary2 5 months ago
@omghai2u i dont know where you developed it but you have this sense that you are right about everything and everyone else is wrong. while i can't speak for other matters i can speak for this one. music is about taste, you can't have bad taste, because everyone has different tastes. so whats wrong here? why are you so up in arms if people happen to like radiohead (and yes, even if you cant comprehend it, people do ACTUALLY like radiohead). why does it matter? get a life.
i69hate69you 5 months ago
@i69hate69you you have this thing where you speak as if you are right and other people are wrong. great argument
omghai2u 5 months ago
@omghai2u That's fine if you don't like the track, or any other work Radiohead has done. Just don't call them out because that will lead to unnecessary arguments that no one wants to hear. We're here for the music that us fans like and want to hear. No need for the negativity. Thanks, bye.
PDCLegit 5 months ago
@omghai2u how old ur ? 5 old year ? fucking ignorant
TheRazecah 4 months ago
@TheRazecah im 5 old year how are old you
omghai2u 4 months ago
This song is actually the most played in my iTunes.
xKiDFRESHH 5 months ago
I consider every Radiohead album like a planet. TKOL is really, really far away. and the only thing we can hear is a beautiful and mystical whisper
etejuanete3 5 months ago 2
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MrSdhization 5 months ago 3
@etejuanete3 shut it and listen
MrSdhization 5 months ago
@MrSdhization yeah, as if I hadn't listened to this song a hundred times before.
etejuanete3 5 months ago
At first I didn't like this song much, but I've grown to love it. It sounds so organic yet so digital at the same time. It's really beautiful.
Unnamed0909 5 months ago
When these songs play I forget they are on. I start to think about something else. I go onto something else and then realize the song is distracting me from what I got distracted from when I first started the song.
Outrjs 5 months ago 52
@Outrjs Yes. Just...yes.
nariko914 4 months ago
@nariko914 Couldn't have said it better myself.
SuperCicatriz 3 months ago
@Outrjs Sounds like you have the mind of a giften musician.
Museisneat1234 3 months ago
@Outrjs what!
sethsquatch420 2 months ago
@Outrjs Haha the exact samething just happened to me...brilliant isnt it?
ElChubbaChubba 2 months ago
@ElChubbaChubba Oh yes. yes it is.
Outrjs 2 months ago
like standing on top of a skyscraper on a stormy night and letting the winds carry you off into the sky.
whiskeytransfusion1 5 months ago
it's what keeps me alive
WickedLiquid 5 months ago
In my opinion this version is poor because they messed up on the EQ also you can't hear the bass that much along with the bass drum, they needed a compressor on the bass. You guys should had viewed the video radio head uploaded for a limited time named Radiohead From The Basement. The version of the song Bloom totally rocks comparing to this one. My first impression of this version was " What song is this one, Wow the engineer must of had been ear tricked, then I thought were they drunk?" Lol
pelonelcojedor 5 months ago
@pelonelcojedor I disagree. In many ways I consider the Basement version, and this version, two different songs. This version is much more atmospheric and subtle (yet chaotic), and I'm sure that's intended. This version takes me to a place far away. The FTB version gets my body moving. :)
huliheaden 5 months ago
@huliheaden you don't hear the quantize some are missing by milliseconds. But he two different opinions I respect yours.
pelonelcojedor 5 months ago
@pelonelcojedor Well, yeah I just thought you were referring to how different it is. But judging from your comment, you know a lot more about mixing and stuff, than me:)
huliheaden 5 months ago
To my virgin ear this version sucks, you should see the video they took off it was for a limited time. The video is called Radiohead From The Basement the song bloom was perfect how it sounded. This one is missing EQ The snare is too high and also you need more support for the bass along with the Bass Drum. They should also had added a compressor on the bass. I swear if you seen the video Radiohead From The Basement which was for a lmited time well you should had liked it.
pelonelcojedor 5 months ago
Radiohead is just fascinating. Once you're really into their music, it's just like a wonderful journey through notes, lyrics and sounds, which somehow add perfectly, to a perfect song. you never get tired of their songs, cause everytime you listen to a song, you might hear stuff you haven't heard like that before and you find whole new ways to look at the song and to feel it. a song doesn't need a catchy refrain or sth to be epic. and that makes thom yorke a genius. i ♥ radiohead!
PeachyOrangeplum 6 months ago 5
I heard that Thom comes up with most of these songs while he takes a shit. I would love to sample some of that shit. Its a piece of history. It's a piece of shit history. On another note do you think Thom prefers a Blumpkin or a cleveland steamer?
latesq1 6 months ago
This song must be named: "How to become a sage"
dannup1 6 months ago
Look up "While The City Sleeps - Rooftop Dreamers", kind of similar industrial triphop techtures yet huge emotional crescendos.
KoiChannel 6 months ago
In the words of Thom himself: melody is dead; rhythm is king.
...but I'm glad he chose not to neglect harmony. This track gives me goosebumps.
Aecaiz 6 months ago 3
RHD no es de este mundo.
traql 6 months ago
@traql said, "Radiohead is not of this world." worth translating, I'd say
Breaker8nine 6 months ago
I think I just saw my Neighbour dancing on the Balcony.
This song is just the best.
KilledByTheRadioStar 6 months ago
i found the live from the basement and this song is A LOT better live. people are asking for more gitar albums but radiohead has changed. they use guitar but not like they did in the bends,ok computer,and so on. i guess people cant except the change. if you watch and lissen to the live version, u will like the recorded version a lot more..
standardtele 6 months ago
They're not so much of an electronic band, as they are an expirimental/ alternative band... actually, they sort of defy description, having produced so many different types of musical sounds. They're amazing.
KingGigity 7 months ago
This amazing song got me into electronic music. I'm so happy that I'm now open to another huge genre of music. Thank you Radiohead.
KingofFunk412 7 months ago
This is now in the band's Top 10 for me. Which, when you consider the band in question is Radiohead, is some fucking achievement.
5AU5AGEROLL 7 months ago
this song feels like the universe is exploding into a billion colours
Sm3gH3adx 7 months ago 49
@Sm3gH3adx
I think this song talks about the Big Bang
Naacaisu 5 months ago
I'm watching making of this album on Palladia right now, and this track sounds so much more aggressive----this version seems sped up. I still like this album though.
hotdrumchick 7 months ago
@hotdrumchick That's not the making of this album, that's a live performance of this album :)
huliheaden 6 months ago
@huliheaden I stand corrected......Thanks :-)
hotdrumchick 6 months ago
@hotdrumchick And a pretty darn amazing one too. I didn't think they would be able to perform much of this album, without all the beats and stuff on playback. I think I forgot this was Radiohead.
huliheaden 6 months ago
some people don't really appreciate this album enough, and for their own reasons, but when you listen to it (this song is a great example), just think about how hard it must have been to write a song like this, and polishing it and thinking of all those clever little sounds that appear throughout. it takes true intelligence and talent to make music like this...
NimbusToast18 7 months ago 3
@NimbusToast18 Agreed 100%
CMloveify 7 months ago
This song has more groove if you slow it down from 45rpm to 33 while listening to in on vinyl ;{P
joeb094 7 months ago
Check out "fall away" (YouTube)
new Radiohed song?? from the basement??
It s sooo gooood ... !!!!!!!!!!
sandresressand 7 months ago
Best song of 2011? I think so.
5AU5AGEROLL 7 months ago
2:17-2:45 favorite part....that part is a dream
jryuwah 7 months ago
Oh god... that bassline... <3
Zedetnik 7 months ago 3
@iLikeeTuurtles uh... i don't know how... but i posted that comment to the needle drop's review for the king of limbs and it somehow got transported here. :S
rhymeswithgabriel 8 months ago
I just keep re-listening to this album and loving it.
I really don't know what I found so bad about it in the first place, lol.
kmacmuzikmafia27 8 months ago
ID FUCK THSI SONG IF I COULD OH GODOODDDODODOODD
mysfarbror 8 months ago 3
the /mu/ shout out kills me. just completely out of the blue
rhymeswithgabriel 8 months ago
New album kinda sucks.
And while listening to this particular song I hear only that one - /watch?v=PZu3FROFXqk
Damalycus 8 months ago
Like the bass so funny 0:47 :)
FrenchBowe 8 months ago
The piano freezing, giving way to percussion, giving way to bass, and then combining them with vocals that question the very essence of our existence, is enough to make me question why anyone would consider any other song on this album superior to this.
davecom3 8 months ago
Could this be interpreted completely in 3/4? The flashes of high notes at 2:28 and throughout are haunting...I am consistently in awe at the level of detail this band exerts, especially within such grand concepts. They haven't written anything as effective as this since In Limbo. It's a musical gyroscope.
everythingithink 8 months ago
I don't care what anyone else says. "The King of Limbs" fucking RULES!!!!
It's my second favorite Radiohead album (first is "The Bends") They'll never make a "bad" album, just a different approach or philosophy.
ambskater97 8 months ago
this song is about environmental hypoxia.
doplay011 8 months ago 3
I'm interested to see how they're going to do these new tracks as a 5 piece band considering that it's all looping... Basically everyone except for Thom is going to play the same thing over and over again ad nauseum.
coasterman16 8 months ago
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a little desperate for artistic feedback- please excuse me- but please check out my brand new tune 'diving Bells (make believes)' - radiohead are my favourite band of all time.
saxengee2 8 months ago
The reason why i love radiohead is that they are ever changeing and always creative at what they do. not to mention thom yorke's amazingly fucking awesome voice :)
Arvon211 9 months ago
come on raidohead.....Its pure headache
heynowsaywhat 9 months ago
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OrrYossarian 9 months ago
This is really the only good song on this album... Don't worry, I'm not gonna be a dick and say "Well thithh ithh their wortht albumm!!!!", it's not at all. I mean I can see why people like it, it just sounds like In Rainbows to me, and I didn't like In Rainbows. I wasn't really a big fan of their alternative days either, before Ok Computer. Everything between The Bends and In Rainbows are fucking classics if you ask me. I used to love Optimistic, until I heard Myxomatosis. Oh... man.
jayslobb793 9 months ago
Mr poponit: Yes of course the album is done only by loops. Not mention melody and harmony (this album has some pretty intresting musical solution) and the minimalism in comnposition that there's BEHIND the loops . Obvious.
Jysti 9 months ago
radiohead just stop making records if you can't put your heart in it. this whole album is trash. loop loop loop haunting lyric loop loop loop haunting lyric. it's played out dudes. radiohead is obviously burnt out, they put every stupid loop they could put together to press....lazy..weak. just stop before you ruin your rep completely. my 5 yr old kid makes better loops than this crap. put some effort into it....damn!! At least with Kid A and Amnesiac it made weird sense..was easy to listen to.
MrPooponit 9 months ago
@MrPooponit wow... that was so stupid in sooo many ways
etejuanete3 9 months ago
@MrPooponit you have clearly lost your edge debbie downer. often times people who grow up with a particular band can't progress WITH the band through time and blame their inability to "get it" on the band falling off creatively. this album is different yes, but in a great way. TKOL is their version of a free moving abstract "jazz" album. listen to bloom and you will hear this totally original miles davis meets rock and roll sound that is completely different AND better than anything out there.
lwesterman34 8 months ago
This album makes you say " Oh this is my favorite song out of the album" until you go to the next track and say " no this is my favorite song" It's a never ending cycle!
93steven 9 months ago 2
@93steven that's because it all sounds the same
nbluth08 9 months ago
Like a flowing river, swirling, crashing, rising. The sun shimmering - Bouncing on the surface. The trees whispering, swaying with the melody. Plunge yourself into the sound, immerse yourself, lose yourself.
MrDaale 9 months ago
@firedevotion
Ur not alone --
TheMoek1 9 months ago
Why such famous band records something like this? Its pure headache
bjgrimoari 9 months ago
0:18 -bloom 0:20 -bloom 0:22 -bloom 0:24 -bloom 0:26 -bloom ..
Gsigma90 9 months ago
Anyone who thought that this was their worst album is full of shit.
Is it me, or is it that I REALLY want to see a music video for this song?
firedevotion 9 months ago 3
Open your mouth wide
The universal sigh
And while the ocean blooms
It's what keeps me alive
So why does it still hurt?
Don't blow your mind with why
I'm moving out of orbit
Turning in somersaults
I dive into those eyes
Jellyfish swim by
ftasic 9 months ago
This definitely still sounds like radiohead to me.
BlotBlackInk 9 months ago
This is just amazing.
MegaBicycles 9 months ago 2
This Album is best on the drive home from a sleepless night of playing poker in Atlantic City. The sun is coming up, you're tired and groggy from all the pain killers you took the night before. All your other cds make you groan because they'd just be too much for you to handle in this fragile state.
You only have one option my frend, TKOL, and you won't regret it.
streetice00 9 months ago 73
@streetice00 LOL... Dynamite analysis
YoMamaBeenLurkin 9 months ago
@streetice00 my GOD that is a perfect explanation. For those early morning drives, it's even better than Kid A
krazjazzfan 8 months ago
@streetice00 And for one brief moment during the drive (after which you immediately go into complete denial for the 1,000th time), you realize "Holy shit, I am a dope headed pill-popping fuck-up."
mikper7 7 months ago
@streetice00Add Super Collider to your list.
totomorris 7 months ago
• this album rocks, if you want to hear bands make the same tired, beaten down tunes , go bit torrent a Muse album or cry to some coldplay in your room.
p.s. if you consider yourself Avant-garde enough to give criticism, understand that you never made Kid A, you never made OK cpu, you never made jack shit.
with that said... let this shit fuck your ear pussy until their next album, and maybe it will meet your standards then bitche
eweseloh 9 months ago
@eweseloh you are why radiohead fans are so pleasant to be around.
veryhighsamurai 9 months ago
@veryhighsamurai ------ words
eweseloh 9 months ago
@eweseloh nothing wrong with Muse or Coldplay
anonymousQ45 8 months ago
@anonymousQ45 sure i wont argue that, I use them as examples because they are the common comparison. But I think radiohead makes the effort to break new ground (maybe not in the grand scheme but for their own sake) and I enjoy and respect them for that, sorry to come accross as sophmoric. with that said i have enjoyed muse and coldplay, but hold them to lower standards because of my personal views. Tits boobs penis fart, it wouldnt be youtube if i couldnt add some color commentary
eweseloh 8 months ago
@eweseloh you do know that cpu stands for Central Processing Unit, and not computer... right? lol if you're gonna be all srs bsns about something, sometimes it's hard to take it seriously when you word things wrong lol
AquaGotHax 8 months ago
@eweseloh my apologies, Hey everyone attention, your attention please. AquaGoHax has made is clear that 'CPU' does not replace 'computer'. They are NOT interchangable. Dont even try, cause your gonna get an ear full. My lapse in judgment made it impossible for anyone to understand what i was reffering to. Please take the time to re-read my comment, but this time replace "cpu" with computer. I only hope God will have mercy on my soul for such a phopaux. Im cleary incabale of articulating myself.
eweseloh 8 months ago
I've always been a Radiohead fan, I even went to a couple of concerts. But I have to admit that I was a sucker for The Bends back in the 90's, I still listen to that album after 15 years. So this is kind of weird for me, maybe I'm old fashion or I got old hahaa, but I like the roar of the guitar and the sound of the drums to fill my car, this is just...not it I guess. Well there is music for everybody.
domingasan 9 months ago
LISTEN TO LIFE LIKE THIS
THREE TIMES
mgberg7 9 months ago
What's happened to music? we have all this technology and still can't get it right, there is a reason why song's recorded in the 50s and 60s are considered masterpieces and hold true today. When it comes to music i believe less is always more simple doesn't have to mean there's no artistic merit. Seems like today musicians are pushing away from that with all this electronic crap and over intellectual bullshit give me a break.
tickntimebombfun 9 months ago
@tickntimebombfun I WANT THE BREAK
mgberg7 9 months ago
@tickntimebombfun Music is an evolutionary process! Embrace the old and the new. Never shy away from anything unknown. It makes makes music 10000000x more fun
jayinater 9 months ago
@jayinater not after I've heard this album 50 times...come on dude...it was a let down from In Rainbows...
SirGeorge8600 9 months ago
@tickntimebombfun Well, you have to ask yourself what is music? the answer will be different to everyone. music is inspiration, its a friend when you need one, it doesn't matter how its made. as long as you get something from it. go listen to the 50's and 60's if thats what inspires you the most. Radiohead makes me feel less alone in the world. so i'll continue listening to this.
Stevenlarge66 9 months ago