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The most important thing these complainers about the lack of guitarness need to realize:
These guys can do this live and sound just as good, if not better. They are a god damned band. And they stay relevant. They keep it fresh and exciting. If these guys still sounded like they did on OK Computer, they'd be a vague memory on VH1 by now.
@GeoMcEvan With a turntable that has a usb jack, I'm guessing. The point being that modern vinyl recording tend to have different mix/masterings for a number of reasons (vinyls don't handle uber-compressed, loud recordings so well), and that these mix/masterings may be more delicately constructed, as the type of people who buy vinyl are likely to be bitchy about a shit mastering job. At least, that's my hypothesis atm.
If Radiohead just stuck to the basic guitar-band format, you wouldn't have The National Anthem, Idioteque, The Gloaming, The Amazing Sounds of Orgy, Like Spinning Plates, Videotape and a whole host of other classics..people really need to stop whining about why think one of the greatest bands in the world should be writing music with one instrument..
@hijjiku Or OK Computer. I love the album as much as the next fan, but jesus, it's NOT 1998 anymore. They DO have other AMAZING and BETTER songs, y'know?
I disgree with a lot of these comments, this is better than anything on King of Limbs. Love the Butcher too. Rest of the album kinda sucks if you ask me. Codex is cool, but you have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to it.
I don't understand people's hard-ons for the guitar. Why should any band limit the number of great instruments they use? If they find a synthesizer more versatile and effective than a guitar, or a drum sequencer more appropriate and layer-friendly than physical drums, why shouldn't they use them?
If any band can get license to use whatever instrument they damn well please, it's Radiohead. They shouldn't stick to guitar just because that's the only instrument you know how to play and appreciate.
but if i wasn't like that it wouldn't be radiohead. i mean even from their beginnings, pablo honey and the bends they had a little bit of that distant random electronic vibe which was awsome then and grew into something that now is just radiohead. i creative zone no one can touch thats there's. and its seems like at least three of them are playing something in this song if they give everyone a part
I wish they would write more direct songs. I don't really know what I mean by that...it's just...I feel like so much of their new music is meandering, electronic blips and hard to understand words. It's all meh to me. Like for the new album, I loved "Codex," "Give Up the Ghost" and "Lotus Flower." They all had "something" that the other ones didn't.
Anyone who says that Radiohead have made they're first rubbish album needs to just give it a few more listens and stop chatting rubbish every song is pretty much a highlight, I can't fathom how anybody could listen to give up the ghost or seporator and have the cheek to say its disappoint. Yes it may not be a departure but why's that an issue? It upsets me how people crave for re inventions of sound. Just sit back, shut the fuck up and treasure what you have the privilege to be listening to.
this is actually my favourite track from the TKOL sessions... it's a shame it didn't make it onto the album. actually, i'm kind of disappointed in radiohead...
@Mrhellsy yea, its fine if they have an opinion, but everyones comparing it to their older work and trying to be super critical. they should stop and enjoy radioheads music. this CD is amazing...
This song is pretty good, I like it more than anything on TKOL (with the exception of Separator) it would be good if they changed it up a bit more but then again, why change a good thing?
This album is a minimal sounding effort in tone and theme (this song and butcher, released later also included), which is off putting at first when compared to some of their previous efforts. That is, until it engulfs you in it's numbing heart-felt emotion that just come straight from the soul. No surprises.
I'm also a bit disapointed about these two new release and TKOL. But after In Rainbows it's probably hard to surprise me in a positive way. It's just the best album ever in my opinion.
@javiereduardo222 Unfortunately its kind of hard thing to do.....but i would recommend thome yorke s solo album or portishead Dummy or Dj Shadow Endtroducing (if you are looking for more electronic stuff...)
and if like rock radiohead , Muse are famous for sounding like radiohead (not that good of course :D) plus sigur Ros (for more post-rock sound)....and certainly R.E.M
honestly i like this song more than most on the initial release of the album. just b/c it's not "chorus/verse/chorus/verse" it's still a good song. not every song has to follow the same formula, and that's why radiohead is one of the best. because they don't write music to a formula, they write music from their heart and soul
This song reminds me a lot of LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends." Repeating riff that lasts for 7 minutes while gorgeous layers of sound unravel above it.
@SMUGBASTARDALERT I agree wholeheartedly. The King of Limbs was pretty cool, but if they keep at this way I will be bored in no time. I doubt this is their permanent direction, however, because who could imagine Radiohead going constant? They are the most unstable band I know of.
@SMUGBASTARDALERT you have no idea how many thumbs up's you deserve for your comment. after listening to "Trans -Atlantic Drawl", i'm disappointed with The King Of Limbs.
@SMUGBASTARDALERT Five of them, actually. But guitar music can only get you so far: electronic music is more exciting with infinite possibilities. I don't blame them.
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Attack me but in my opinion this is the most disappointing track from radiohead in years.....it is just like an endless chores to me. nothings changes in music from the beginning to the start. i think the live piano version of the song is much better ( and fortunately shorter) .....
im not going to be pleased by a pretty ordinary track even if its from my favorite band of all time....
@TheWastedDude The piano is awesome! But i think this is a more minimalist take on the song - the melody builds up and you have to listen to it with headphones for the sounds to be clearer. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but do try to listen with headphones and think of it as a definitely minimalist, incremental and very subtle song :)
@TheWastedDude Well , somehow this track reminds me of something from "Kid A" or "Amnesiac". At least something that would fit right in , when those two releases came out. And actually this might be my favorite track from TKOL. I guess i would prefer the whole album to have this kind of vibe you know?
@TheWastedDude Completely agree! I almost cried with excitement when I heard this was coming out. I'd been listening to the piano version for months and it got the hairs standing up on the back of my neck every time. When this came out it was such an anticlimax. The emotion had gone from the song.
I completely disagree. To me this is best track of king of limbs...and the fact that's released after the album is pure genius...is the most melodic and the lyrics are stunning...as always
@TheWastedDude try thinking outside the box. if you're expecting catchy rythms you just made a big mistake clicking on this video. Radiohead is everything! this is the kind of song that when you listen to it your brain just explode of happiness. 7 minutes of happiness! NO DOUBT!
@jose2992 Trust me im not looking for catchy rythms or anything like that.......but i think giving Thumps Up to any decent record just because its from radiohead is not "thinking outside the box".... plus i think good music is everything ; not radiohead ( although they are my fave)....and for me its not 7 min of happiness , its 7 min of judging and disappointment..... No Offence :)
@etejuanete3 Listen to my first comment. I said I still listen to it with uttermost joy, despite the fact that they really fed us easily-made bullshit. Radiohead has that effect on me.
@aaronwilliams4w Perhaps not, but you did notice that I said I'll "listen to it in uttermost joy!" right? The song is awesome and I was just trying to be ironic.
I'm afraid I still don't get it. Although my "playing-by-ear"-ability does suck, even I can make out that it's just the same chord pattern over and over, simple time signature, with some other background sounds coming and going. Even for Radiohead I think this is a really simple song, so calling it "the most complex music you'll ever find" doesn't seem justified at all. It may be complex if you compare it to mainstream music (i think that's what you meant by "music nowadays")...
@alsa005 sorry man , but if you think this has just one chord pattern then your hearing ability DOES suck
it is ONE of the most complex songs, of course there're sooo many complex songs, but this is compared to the " mainstream" music ( prettey general concept)
and by the way, when you said "even for Radiohead" it seems like you think Radiohead's music is simple, and you think so, you're an idiot and it's pointless to discuss about music with you, (i might be gettin you wrong, if so, sorry)
You're getting it wrong, I didn't mean to say that RH are simple, but there are many band much much more complex (I hate to repeat this word over and over) than RH and "even" for RH this is a pretty simple song (which means that RH has much more complex songs that this one). I still don't see anything particularly complex in this song.
And yeah, there's maybe more than one chord pattern (not sure), but that alone doesn't make this song complex. They are my fav band btw...
@gorgolyt oh shut up okay, is not just about the chord progression, is about everything: lyrics, musical atmosphere and experimental sounds, is for sure not their best or most complex song but is a real good one
i see what etejuanete3 is saying--it may not be articulated in the best musical interpretation (not dissing) but the general idea is its a simple, long repeating song, with a break for a few-then back to the song. Personally it could have been the same as live, at 4 minutes, and with SOME repetitive drum pattern and it would have been a ok.. I dont understanding RH these days oversimplying certain old to new songs, like MMM (which is still likable btw) FPABH, and this..I miss the musicianship.
@etejuanete3 i'm not debating that. some, probably most even, of the greatest contemporary songs ever have simple chord patterns. most of the content is in the melody, lyrics, timbres, etcetera. just don't feel the need to defend things by making stuff up about them.
... but personally I don't like to compare RH to mainstream and pop-music (just cause they happen to be famous), because they're a whole different league. So yeah, in comparison to most of todays popular music, this may be quite intricate. But you should listen to some other "real" bands like Dream Theater, that's one of the most complex music you'll ever find (musically/ technically). So there are lots of bands at least as complex as RH, just not many who are as well-known.
@alsa005 well I DO know dream theatre, not my favourite music, but quiet respectable, no doubt and I wouldn't call Radiohead "well-known" or least not as well-known as they should be, in the UK artists like lily allen dominate the music, and that sucks
I live in Switzerland and nobody seems to know them there, but I heard many call them "one of the biggest bands today" and so on, even MTV broadcasted they Live from the Basement performance a few days ago and probably is still doing. And the "Problem" with Dream Theatre imho is that they loose themselves sometimes in their own complexity, but when they find the balance theyre awesome.
@alsa005 well is completely understandable that the music culture there is different, Dream theatre is a great band, but I definitely still prefer some other musical styles, the from the Basement performances are totally awesome, and MTV broadcasting Radiohead is uncommon nowadays.
I like Blur and Albarn. Gorillaz as an oddball, fun aside not withstanding. But we're never going to be on the same page if you think he's ahead of Yorke. Think Tank is sometimes compared to Kid A, but has nothing quite on it. Or on King of Limbs, really.
I've tried several times to catch the Arcade Fire boat. It leaves me standing on the peer. I find them listenable, not remarkable.
@Ahha3289 If you really loved Radiohead as much as you say you love them , you would have known you don't "get" the songs on the first listen. But strangely I knew this song was fantastic the moment he said supercollider. Aahhhhh, bliss :)
@DevN9007 the butcher is so much better, minimalistic is the right word but you could re-phrase that and say it goes absolutely nowhere this song. I'll always love radiohead anyway
@Hzqi Yeah I know, I liked there newest album, Seperator, codex, lotus flower were great but they at least had some musical change or tempo change and this one just felt like it missed something.
Some of their arrangements are simple, but this one misfires a bit for me too. I like the chord pattern pronounced in it. I understand that they're trying to evoke a rigid kind of Kraftwerky flavour. But it doesn't have a charisma to match the song. A more direct rendition would have FLOWN on the new album.
@koalajones88 u must be absolutely mental!!!! While I respect anyone who makes music (there are only two types, good and bad) Damon Albarn comes absolutely nowhere near Thom Yorke in either ability or creativity...
if you look back at Radiohead's output it's pretty stupid to sound the death knell after a mediocre album. Pablo Honey - quite good. The Bends - quite good. OK Computer - great. Kid A - Great. Amnesiac - mediocre. Hail to the Thief - poor. In Rainbows - great. King of Limbs - mediocre. Chartist logic suggests the next album will be amazing, or a pile of shit. Or mediocre. Or I could just be talking complete bollocks, like everyone else.
@ribot80 Your opinion is SHIT. The only mediocre album in that list is Pablo Honey. Radiohead continues to hone their craft.. Though I do wish Jonny would pick up the guitar more often.
These 2 tracks really interest me. To me, Supercollider is one of the brightest, optimistic tracks Radiohead has released, while The Butcher is one of the darkest tracks. To release them in the way they did-- as a pair-- really adds to the songs, I think.
Strange isn't strange by context. All you're expressing is the idea that the majority of music released is simple minded, and the majority of music consumers are ignorant. All of which is true. Oh, and the main reason I say it doesn't have strange signiture"S" is because it only has ONE somewhat odd signiture. 7/8. The rest of the song is in 4/4.
If you'd consider such a daring and evocative group "just awful", hey, I'm all ears. Recommend something.
@DamienVice for me, bloom epitomises king of limbs. it sums up the album in its first 30 seconds. awe inspiring. this is a pretty interesting track too. people who dont understand this obviously dont understand stuff like garage or 2 step
@koalajones888 ... Where are you getting your information from? How do you know this? Are you every Radiohead fan? No. You're not. Just because it didn't get high on the charts, doesn't mean their fans have given up on them. That's dumb. You're dumb. There is no way for you to know that Radiohead's fans have "given up on them", manly because you are not multiple people. You are you, and you have your own opinion. Now, please, shut the fuck up and let us have ours. Thank you, and good night.
@koalajones88 Oh, yes, because we all know that the highest chart position a band attains is SUCH a good unit of measure for the quality of their material.
I love Radiohead fans, because whenever they get into arguments with each other over the band, at least they're educated and type with proper grammar; compare that to Justin Bieber fans fighting with the trolls...
@Tfrne totally different kinds of people, i for one feel sorry for the bieber and gaga fans, hopefully they'll pull they're heads out of the gutter soon
@Tfrne i think you are trolling for positive attention, you should go please yourself on another of many websites and leave bieber out of what could have been an original space for thought
supercollider, dust in a moment. particles scatter, coming out from the soup. swimming upstream before the heavens cracked open. thin pixelations coming up from the dust. in the blue light. in a green light. in a half life. in a love light. i'm a b spin, flip flopping. i'm a poor slave, outstepping. i put the shadows back into the boxes. i am open. i am welcome. for a fraction of a second. i have jettisoned my illusions. i have dislodged my impression. i put the shadows back into...
@Koalajones88 Yeah... You're wrong. Yes, Paranoid Android was a brilliant song, but saying that their recent stuff is uninspired, and they took the easy way out? No. Sure, TKOL isn't as good as their other stuff (though I do like it better than Hail To The Thief, Amnesiac and Pablo Honey), it's still a great album. And if you say that they can't write songs anymore, just listen to anything off Kid A. It's recent, but you say that anything after their first 3 records wasn't written well, so...
@koalajones88 But you are agreeing they were at one point a very good band, right? That is all that is necessary, I too lose interest in bands after a while. Fortunately, I have only been listening to them for a little over a year and still have much magic coursing through me at some of these songs. I agree, King of Limbs was pretty much an easy way through, but In Rainbows seems like it took a lot of efforts.
You speak as though the work they have produced in recently years would benefit from being MORE LIKE Paranoid Android, when you could just go and listen to that song. You're right when you say Experimentation isn't an excuse for poor writing. Which has what to do with them? Album after album since OK Computer is positively bloated with imaginative nuggets of inspired writing.
Complete horseshit on every level. Paranoid Android does not have "strange time signitures". It's got a little depth dropping into and out of 7/8. The 4/4 on Pyramid Song just for example is notably stranger, and the song is significantly more experimental, while oddly simpler. You make many false correlations within the tight frame of a few sentences. RADIOHEAD has gradually turned towards structural economy of late, but that of itself doesn't allude to any matter of excellence.
@koalajones88 Radiohead is really quite an experimental band. If you say there is absolutely nothing notable, then your music choice must be incredibly narrowminded. They have tackled a great difference between these past years, and crossed many overlooked genres. I love them, you don't have to like them. Just don't complain, because they set a neat little path for themselves in history.
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This would've fit right in between "Ghost" and "Separator". "Feral" should've been the b-side instead.
mrhumpydumpyable 5 days ago 2
youtube should have a button that automatically repeats the video when its done, over and over...
jordiejonny 2 weeks ago
I always love parts where Thom doesn't sing. Because I can sing along to the music.
norfnorfnorf1 1 month ago
WHat is that format where you rip music in entrely uncompressed and it shows as wav files? there is name for it but i cannot remember it. Is there any loss of quality vs the original cd even from copying to the pc.
210482fmj 1 month ago
vinyl does sound better. :)
wtfisasnuggie1 5 months ago
@wtfisasnuggie1 I hope you're talking about actually listening to vinyl, not vinyl transcodes on youtube lololololol
TehSlothman 5 months ago
ok computer was good.. but this song is on a completely different level of brilliance
ish333ish 7 months ago
The most important thing these complainers about the lack of guitarness need to realize:
These guys can do this live and sound just as good, if not better. They are a god damned band. And they stay relevant. They keep it fresh and exciting. If these guys still sounded like they did on OK Computer, they'd be a vague memory on VH1 by now.
yasseford 7 months ago 9
How in the hell do you rip from a vinyl O.o
GeoMcEvan 8 months ago
@GeoMcEvan Google it.
MrDaale 7 months ago
@MrDaale thank you very much. I had not thought of that.
GeoMcEvan 7 months ago
@GeoMcEvan With a turntable that has a usb jack, I'm guessing. The point being that modern vinyl recording tend to have different mix/masterings for a number of reasons (vinyls don't handle uber-compressed, loud recordings so well), and that these mix/masterings may be more delicately constructed, as the type of people who buy vinyl are likely to be bitchy about a shit mastering job. At least, that's my hypothesis atm.
sandysnowbeard 6 months ago
@sandysnowbeard thanks man
GeoMcEvan 6 months ago
All those people fucking about Radiohead, and they don't like it anymore. I think it shows how expanded their talent is!
Bartbecx 8 months ago
If Radiohead just stuck to the basic guitar-band format, you wouldn't have The National Anthem, Idioteque, The Gloaming, The Amazing Sounds of Orgy, Like Spinning Plates, Videotape and a whole host of other classics..people really need to stop whining about why think one of the greatest bands in the world should be writing music with one instrument..
hijjiku 8 months ago 27
@hijjiku: I totally agree with you.
dpriola 5 months ago
@hijjiku Or OK Computer. I love the album as much as the next fan, but jesus, it's NOT 1998 anymore. They DO have other AMAZING and BETTER songs, y'know?
RandomHero5677 5 months ago
@hijjiku just tagging your comment
can you reply so i can have this stored for future reference please :)
FlakeyFreakout 2 months ago
I disgree with a lot of these comments, this is better than anything on King of Limbs. Love the Butcher too. Rest of the album kinda sucks if you ask me. Codex is cool, but you have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to it.
gurn73 8 months ago
I don't understand people's hard-ons for the guitar. Why should any band limit the number of great instruments they use? If they find a synthesizer more versatile and effective than a guitar, or a drum sequencer more appropriate and layer-friendly than physical drums, why shouldn't they use them?
If any band can get license to use whatever instrument they damn well please, it's Radiohead. They shouldn't stick to guitar just because that's the only instrument you know how to play and appreciate.
majicodemejico 8 months ago
I've never liked a song so much on my first listen. Need more than 7 minutes I say!
cathysteria 8 months ago
but if i wasn't like that it wouldn't be radiohead. i mean even from their beginnings, pablo honey and the bends they had a little bit of that distant random electronic vibe which was awsome then and grew into something that now is just radiohead. i creative zone no one can touch thats there's. and its seems like at least three of them are playing something in this song if they give everyone a part
festeseo 8 months ago
I wish they would write more direct songs. I don't really know what I mean by that...it's just...I feel like so much of their new music is meandering, electronic blips and hard to understand words. It's all meh to me. Like for the new album, I loved "Codex," "Give Up the Ghost" and "Lotus Flower." They all had "something" that the other ones didn't.
IDK what it is, but something is missing here.
I still <3 Radiohead though, forever and ever :)
kmacmuzikmafia27 8 months ago
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great song.
b0yvoid 9 months ago
great song.
b0yvoid 9 months ago
@b0yvoid
easy Mozart ...
fame777 8 months ago
Anyone who says that Radiohead have made they're first rubbish album needs to just give it a few more listens and stop chatting rubbish every song is pretty much a highlight, I can't fathom how anybody could listen to give up the ghost or seporator and have the cheek to say its disappoint. Yes it may not be a departure but why's that an issue? It upsets me how people crave for re inventions of sound. Just sit back, shut the fuck up and treasure what you have the privilege to be listening to.
MuseandRadiohead 9 months ago
this is actually my favourite track from the TKOL sessions... it's a shame it didn't make it onto the album. actually, i'm kind of disappointed in radiohead...
Gazonkie 9 months ago
That drone is so fucking amazing i don't care if it last 7min. This is the song i enjoyed the most since IR, this sound is so ...
LucidDreamOfficial 9 months ago
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AJProductionisms 9 months ago
haha watching your reactions remind me of when Kid A came out
oh well, theres always gonna be that
smokelakes 9 months ago
@smokelakes Agreed, they were the same about eraser and kid a, fuck them is what i say!
Mrhellsy 9 months ago
@Mrhellsy yea, its fine if they have an opinion, but everyones comparing it to their older work and trying to be super critical. they should stop and enjoy radioheads music. this CD is amazing...
smokelakes 9 months ago
TKOL is not a great album. This song is better than some songs on the album.
glosoly 9 months ago
This really doesn't need to be 7-minutes long...
WCBmusic 9 months ago
i absolutely love the drums in this track :D theyre so different and ingenius
NOSFERATUalu 9 months ago 4
This song is pretty good, I like it more than anything on TKOL (with the exception of Separator) it would be good if they changed it up a bit more but then again, why change a good thing?
Cgrrp 9 months ago
I hate how everyone hates TKOL...
It's deep, genious and inventive. And I love it.
illusiveSpin 9 months ago 5
This album is a minimal sounding effort in tone and theme (this song and butcher, released later also included), which is off putting at first when compared to some of their previous efforts. That is, until it engulfs you in it's numbing heart-felt emotion that just come straight from the soul. No surprises.
OxbowisaMstie 9 months ago
This is another great product from RH
kurtkobler 9 months ago
genuinely absolutely love this track.
MisterMonsterful 9 months ago
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Thom's really diggin' the minimal techno, apparently.
Great track BTW.
vaguelyhumanoid 9 months ago
Thom's really diggin' the minimal techno, apparently.
Great track BTW
vaguelyhumanoid 9 months ago
I'm also a bit disapointed about these two new release and TKOL. But after In Rainbows it's probably hard to surprise me in a positive way. It's just the best album ever in my opinion.
waaromzomoeilijk 9 months ago
@waaromzomoeilijk -I agree - In Rainbows is truly awesome. My go to album if ever I need a Radiohead fix:)
comedypatmac 9 months ago
@waaromzomoeilijk i agree in rainbows is number one , but TKOL is not far off.
And this track is amazing
xxpoisonxgrrlxx 9 months ago
please anybody can recomend me artists with this kind of sound
javiereduardo222 9 months ago
@javiereduardo222 Unfortunately its kind of hard thing to do.....but i would recommend thome yorke s solo album or portishead Dummy or Dj Shadow Endtroducing (if you are looking for more electronic stuff...)
and if like rock radiohead , Muse are famous for sounding like radiohead (not that good of course :D) plus sigur Ros (for more post-rock sound)....and certainly R.E.M
TheWastedDude 9 months ago
This is great, it inspires me to paint...
RyanMurphyTube 9 months ago
@RyanMurphyTube word, me too
ShakeNbaekk 9 months ago
Can't fucking WAIT for the TKOL in the Basement!
XePhi0 9 months ago
@XePhi0 AMEN! are they doing it for sure??
Gazonkie 9 months ago
@Gazonkie They'll be releasing it 1th of July. Hopefully a bit earlier
XePhi0 9 months ago
I guess if you grew up with electronic music your more likely to enjoy this facet of Radiohead. Lovely piece of music imo.
Sektion9 9 months ago
Even though TKOL is already an amazing album, if this and the butcher were also included it would've been perfection.
ekmclive 9 months ago
@ekmclive yup.......
Gazonkie 9 months ago
the beginning reminds me of the gloaming (if u dont know, yes it's by radiohead)
cressnaar 9 months ago
God, Radiohead is such an amazing combination of rhythm and emotion. Not a song by them that I dislike.
ImanShahid 9 months ago
trust me...if you're in the right mood for this song, then this song hits home
wobblywunk 9 months ago
honestly i like this song more than most on the initial release of the album. just b/c it's not "chorus/verse/chorus/verse" it's still a good song. not every song has to follow the same formula, and that's why radiohead is one of the best. because they don't write music to a formula, they write music from their heart and soul
wobblywunk 9 months ago
I love radiohead but this is a bit bland for them.
zoticus1 9 months ago
Almost as long as a Tool song.
robo3007 9 months ago
"I hid Phil's drums from him 12 years ago and the poor bastard still hasn't found 'em" ~ Thom Yorke
JakeSteel0121 9 months ago 46
@JakeSteel0121 i dont understand. Sorry, i´m from another country. What does this means?
gregorioster 8 months ago
The music may be "boring" but listen to thoms voice in this, brilliant in my opinion
thehailtothetheif 9 months ago
boring as fuck & i love radiohead.
muteculture 9 months ago
This song reminds me a lot of LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends." Repeating riff that lasts for 7 minutes while gorgeous layers of sound unravel above it.
iamthegreatest1234 9 months ago
Am I the only one that thoroughly enjoys this?
RallizesDenudes 9 months ago 5
@RallizesDenudes I do too.
Kinda reminds me of Hail to the Thief. And I LOVED that album.
Hoooray4Kade 9 months ago
it's good. Should have been on album.
PhantomCosmonaut 9 months ago
don't get me wrong i like this but i think Radiohead forgot THREE of them can play guitars.
SMUGBASTARDALERT 9 months ago 10
@SMUGBASTARDALERT yeah i know greenwood such an amazing guitarist
downrodeo2112 9 months ago
@SMUGBASTARDALERT I think Radiohead's listeners forgot they know how to play more instruments than just guitars.
TheSchimmi 9 months ago 4
@SMUGBASTARDALERT I agree wholeheartedly. The King of Limbs was pretty cool, but if they keep at this way I will be bored in no time. I doubt this is their permanent direction, however, because who could imagine Radiohead going constant? They are the most unstable band I know of.
NIN99Koala 9 months ago
@SMUGBASTARDALERT you have no idea how many thumbs up's you deserve for your comment. after listening to "Trans -Atlantic Drawl", i'm disappointed with The King Of Limbs.
HeWhoBearsTheMark666 8 months ago
@SMUGBASTARDALERT Five of them, actually. But guitar music can only get you so far: electronic music is more exciting with infinite possibilities. I don't blame them.
percyswatchingyou 8 months ago 2
@SMUGBASTARDALERT
Actullay, Phil and Colin can play guitar too.... XD
liavch1 7 months ago
I really liked this. It unfurls slowly like a lotus flower and all that. Beautiful music.
buckleygeneration 9 months ago
SUPPAHCOLLEYDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
VegetableHero 9 months ago
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Attack me but in my opinion this is the most disappointing track from radiohead in years.....it is just like an endless chores to me. nothings changes in music from the beginning to the start. i think the live piano version of the song is much better ( and fortunately shorter) .....
im not going to be pleased by a pretty ordinary track even if its from my favorite band of all time....
TheWastedDude 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude true this
rkotm 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude The piano is awesome! But i think this is a more minimalist take on the song - the melody builds up and you have to listen to it with headphones for the sounds to be clearer. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but do try to listen with headphones and think of it as a definitely minimalist, incremental and very subtle song :)
DarshanaMo 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude Well , somehow this track reminds me of something from "Kid A" or "Amnesiac". At least something that would fit right in , when those two releases came out. And actually this might be my favorite track from TKOL. I guess i would prefer the whole album to have this kind of vibe you know?
GqFq 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude wow, as dissapointing as bodysnatchers? jeeze...
12345l6789 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude Completely agree! I almost cried with excitement when I heard this was coming out. I'd been listening to the piano version for months and it got the hairs standing up on the back of my neck every time. When this came out it was such an anticlimax. The emotion had gone from the song.
Jiffiler 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude
I completely disagree. To me this is best track of king of limbs...and the fact that's released after the album is pure genius...is the most melodic and the lyrics are stunning...as always
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stefanobrandini 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude i like it the bass line changes, but i guess i do have a 13 in sub!
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@TheWastedDude try thinking outside the box. if you're expecting catchy rythms you just made a big mistake clicking on this video. Radiohead is everything! this is the kind of song that when you listen to it your brain just explode of happiness. 7 minutes of happiness! NO DOUBT!
jose2992 9 months ago
@jose2992 Trust me im not looking for catchy rythms or anything like that.......but i think giving Thumps Up to any decent record just because its from radiohead is not "thinking outside the box".... plus i think good music is everything ; not radiohead ( although they are my fave)....and for me its not 7 min of happiness , its 7 min of judging and disappointment..... No Offence :)
TheWastedDude 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude i disagree man... this is my favourite track from the TKOL sessions
Gazonkie 9 months ago
@TheWastedDude
people like you aren't pleased about anything. get a fucking job man.
BarbadosSlim100 8 months ago
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TheWastedDude 8 months ago
@TheWastedDude
agreed.
kmacmuzikmafia27 8 months ago
its funny how Radiohead fans see masterpiece in every creepy haunting song... but this song is cool
davemorphine 9 months ago
this is Radiohead's cutest song ever
ElGrandeOutrageous 9 months ago
Good very cute Song!*
crush234mar 9 months ago
can't stop replaying ...
fame777 9 months ago
Damn it radiohead, you guys can throw me some of the cheapest, easily-made shit like this and I'll still listen to it with uttermost joy!
NIN99Koala 10 months ago
@NIN99Koala
hey this is not "cheap easaly-made shit"
this is one of the most musicaly-complex music you'll ever find
the composers are genius
and the ones who enjoy it are wise people
etejuanete3 10 months ago
@etejuanete3 This really isn't much, man. Not hard at all.
NIN99Koala 10 months ago
@etejuanete3 This really isn't much, man. Not hard at all. For a band of four or five, this is pretty easy.
NIN99Koala 10 months ago
@NIN99Koala
man this is brillant music, just because you don't aprecciate it doesn't mean is easy.
they have harder songs, is true, but this one is pretty cool itself.
not 'shit' like you said before
etejuanete3 10 months ago
@etejuanete3 Listen to my first comment. I said I still listen to it with uttermost joy, despite the fact that they really fed us easily-made bullshit. Radiohead has that effect on me.
NIN99Koala 10 months ago
@NIN99Koala Easy to play, maybe. But not easy to think of, write, or record.
aaronwilliams4w 9 months ago
@aaronwilliams4w Perhaps not, but you did notice that I said I'll "listen to it in uttermost joy!" right? The song is awesome and I was just trying to be ironic.
NIN99Koala 9 months ago
@etejuanete3
sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about ^^ In what way is this song complex? It's literally the same repeating patterns etc. for 7 minutes...
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etejuanete3 9 months ago
@etejuanete3
I'm afraid I still don't get it. Although my "playing-by-ear"-ability does suck, even I can make out that it's just the same chord pattern over and over, simple time signature, with some other background sounds coming and going. Even for Radiohead I think this is a really simple song, so calling it "the most complex music you'll ever find" doesn't seem justified at all. It may be complex if you compare it to mainstream music (i think that's what you meant by "music nowadays")...
alsa005 9 months ago
@alsa005 sorry man , but if you think this has just one chord pattern then your hearing ability DOES suck
it is ONE of the most complex songs, of course there're sooo many complex songs, but this is compared to the " mainstream" music ( prettey general concept)
and by the way, when you said "even for Radiohead" it seems like you think Radiohead's music is simple, and you think so, you're an idiot and it's pointless to discuss about music with you, (i might be gettin you wrong, if so, sorry)
etejuanete3 9 months ago
@etejuanete3
You're getting it wrong, I didn't mean to say that RH are simple, but there are many band much much more complex (I hate to repeat this word over and over) than RH and "even" for RH this is a pretty simple song (which means that RH has much more complex songs that this one). I still don't see anything particularly complex in this song.
And yeah, there's maybe more than one chord pattern (not sure), but that alone doesn't make this song complex. They are my fav band btw...
alsa005 9 months ago
@etejuanete3 the chords to this song are simple, stop talking out of yer ass.
gorgolyt 9 months ago
@gorgolyt oh shut up okay, is not just about the chord progression, is about everything: lyrics, musical atmosphere and experimental sounds, is for sure not their best or most complex song but is a real good one
etejuanete3 9 months ago
i see what etejuanete3 is saying--it may not be articulated in the best musical interpretation (not dissing) but the general idea is its a simple, long repeating song, with a break for a few-then back to the song. Personally it could have been the same as live, at 4 minutes, and with SOME repetitive drum pattern and it would have been a ok.. I dont understanding RH these days oversimplying certain old to new songs, like MMM (which is still likable btw) FPABH, and this..I miss the musicianship.
rkotm 9 months ago
@etejuanete3 i'm not debating that. some, probably most even, of the greatest contemporary songs ever have simple chord patterns. most of the content is in the melody, lyrics, timbres, etcetera. just don't feel the need to defend things by making stuff up about them.
gorgolyt 9 months ago
@etejuanete3
... but personally I don't like to compare RH to mainstream and pop-music (just cause they happen to be famous), because they're a whole different league. So yeah, in comparison to most of todays popular music, this may be quite intricate. But you should listen to some other "real" bands like Dream Theater, that's one of the most complex music you'll ever find (musically/ technically). So there are lots of bands at least as complex as RH, just not many who are as well-known.
alsa005 9 months ago
@alsa005 well I DO know dream theatre, not my favourite music, but quiet respectable, no doubt and I wouldn't call Radiohead "well-known" or least not as well-known as they should be, in the UK artists like lily allen dominate the music, and that sucks
etejuanete3 9 months ago
@etejuanete3
I live in Switzerland and nobody seems to know them there, but I heard many call them "one of the biggest bands today" and so on, even MTV broadcasted they Live from the Basement performance a few days ago and probably is still doing. And the "Problem" with Dream Theatre imho is that they loose themselves sometimes in their own complexity, but when they find the balance theyre awesome.
alsa005 9 months ago
@alsa005 well is completely understandable that the music culture there is different, Dream theatre is a great band, but I definitely still prefer some other musical styles, the from the Basement performances are totally awesome, and MTV broadcasting Radiohead is uncommon nowadays.
etejuanete3 9 months ago
@alsa005 in a musical way, you just listen and compare this to the tour version and you'll see what i'm talking about
etejuanete3 9 months ago
@koalajones88
I like Blur and Albarn. Gorillaz as an oddball, fun aside not withstanding. But we're never going to be on the same page if you think he's ahead of Yorke. Think Tank is sometimes compared to Kid A, but has nothing quite on it. Or on King of Limbs, really.
I've tried several times to catch the Arcade Fire boat. It leaves me standing on the peer. I find them listenable, not remarkable.
Hzqi 10 months ago
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so pure, clean, minimalistic and brilliant..
inoxinbox 10 months ago
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so pure, clean, minimalistic and brilliant..
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so pure, clean, minimalistic and brilliant..
inoxinbox 10 months ago
so pure, clean, minimalistic and brilliant..
inoxinbox 10 months ago
I love Radiohead but cmon, can someone tell me how this song was good?
Ahha3289 10 months ago
@Ahha3289 If you really loved Radiohead as much as you say you love them , you would have known you don't "get" the songs on the first listen. But strangely I knew this song was fantastic the moment he said supercollider. Aahhhhh, bliss :)
DevN9007 10 months ago
@DevN9007 the butcher is so much better, minimalistic is the right word but you could re-phrase that and say it goes absolutely nowhere this song. I'll always love radiohead anyway
Tommanc1 10 months ago
@Ahha3289
I can't get behind some of these renditions. Listen to it played live and acoustically. Listen to Lotus Flower the same way. You'll be surprised.
Hzqi 10 months ago
@Hzqi Yeah I know, I liked there newest album, Seperator, codex, lotus flower were great but they at least had some musical change or tempo change and this one just felt like it missed something.
Ahha3289 10 months ago
@Ahha3289
Some of their arrangements are simple, but this one misfires a bit for me too. I like the chord pattern pronounced in it. I understand that they're trying to evoke a rigid kind of Kraftwerky flavour. But it doesn't have a charisma to match the song. A more direct rendition would have FLOWN on the new album.
Hzqi 10 months ago
@Hzqi yeah exactly agree
Ahha3289 10 months ago
@koalajones88 u must be absolutely mental!!!! While I respect anyone who makes music (there are only two types, good and bad) Damon Albarn comes absolutely nowhere near Thom Yorke in either ability or creativity...
Sort your shit out...
memoryman1984 10 months ago
if you look back at Radiohead's output it's pretty stupid to sound the death knell after a mediocre album. Pablo Honey - quite good. The Bends - quite good. OK Computer - great. Kid A - Great. Amnesiac - mediocre. Hail to the Thief - poor. In Rainbows - great. King of Limbs - mediocre. Chartist logic suggests the next album will be amazing, or a pile of shit. Or mediocre. Or I could just be talking complete bollocks, like everyone else.
ribot80 10 months ago
@ribot80 Your opinion is SHIT. The only mediocre album in that list is Pablo Honey. Radiohead continues to hone their craft.. Though I do wish Jonny would pick up the guitar more often.
JTNugget 10 months ago
@JTNugget I think you may have missed my point
ribot80 10 months ago
@ribot80 Oh no, I got your point. I am just taking issue with the order you rank the albums. :P
JTNugget 9 months ago
These 2 tracks really interest me. To me, Supercollider is one of the brightest, optimistic tracks Radiohead has released, while The Butcher is one of the darkest tracks. To release them in the way they did-- as a pair-- really adds to the songs, I think.
Geefunker 10 months ago
@koalajones88
Strange isn't strange by context. All you're expressing is the idea that the majority of music released is simple minded, and the majority of music consumers are ignorant. All of which is true. Oh, and the main reason I say it doesn't have strange signiture"S" is because it only has ONE somewhat odd signiture. 7/8. The rest of the song is in 4/4.
If you'd consider such a daring and evocative group "just awful", hey, I'm all ears. Recommend something.
Hzqi 10 months ago
@koalajones88 I can't say I agree with you, but I can say you're well spoken, and you're not a troll, so thank you for expressing your opinions.
Tfrne 10 months ago
much a better opener for king of limbs than bloom
DamienVice 10 months ago 3
@DamienVice for me, bloom epitomises king of limbs. it sums up the album in its first 30 seconds. awe inspiring. this is a pretty interesting track too. people who dont understand this obviously dont understand stuff like garage or 2 step
12345l6789 9 months ago
@koalajones888 ... Where are you getting your information from? How do you know this? Are you every Radiohead fan? No. You're not. Just because it didn't get high on the charts, doesn't mean their fans have given up on them. That's dumb. You're dumb. There is no way for you to know that Radiohead's fans have "given up on them", manly because you are not multiple people. You are you, and you have your own opinion. Now, please, shut the fuck up and let us have ours. Thank you, and good night.
aaron5436 10 months ago
@koalajones88
Very long time? In Rainbows was a #1 charter. And that was after being available online for any price.
jngrow 10 months ago
@koalajones88 Oh, yes, because we all know that the highest chart position a band attains is SUCH a good unit of measure for the quality of their material.
Tfrne 10 months ago
I love Radiohead fans, because whenever they get into arguments with each other over the band, at least they're educated and type with proper grammar; compare that to Justin Bieber fans fighting with the trolls...
Tfrne 10 months ago 26
@Tfrne totally different kinds of people, i for one feel sorry for the bieber and gaga fans, hopefully they'll pull they're heads out of the gutter soon
sorry if i have bad grammar, I'm from Romania.
exarady 10 months ago
@Tfrne hahahah!! couldnt say it any better
rupman27isback 10 months ago
@Tfrne Your a dick.
Ciaranmch 9 months ago
@Tfrne i think you are trolling for positive attention, you should go please yourself on another of many websites and leave bieber out of what could have been an original space for thought
WINFIELD32750 9 months ago
@WINFIELD32750 If I'm trolling, then you're trolling the troll. Who's worse, the troll, or the troll who trolls the troll?
Tfrne 9 months ago
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supercollider, dust in a moment. particles scatter, coming out from the soup. swimming upstream before the heavens cracked open. thin pixelations coming up from the dust. in the blue light. in a green light. in a half life. in a love light. i'm a b spin, flip flopping. i'm a poor slave, outstepping. i put the shadows back into the boxes. i am open. i am welcome. for a fraction of a second. i have jettisoned my illusions. i have dislodged my impression. i put the shadows back into...
0rstutzman0 10 months ago
this is a fantastic track... i wonder how and why people cant shut up and listen to the brilliance it exudes
sharcfrancis 10 months ago 3
*It's NOT recent. That's what I meant to say, Kid A isn't recent. Sorry 'bout that.
aaron5436 10 months ago
@Koalajones88 Yeah... You're wrong. Yes, Paranoid Android was a brilliant song, but saying that their recent stuff is uninspired, and they took the easy way out? No. Sure, TKOL isn't as good as their other stuff (though I do like it better than Hail To The Thief, Amnesiac and Pablo Honey), it's still a great album. And if you say that they can't write songs anymore, just listen to anything off Kid A. It's recent, but you say that anything after their first 3 records wasn't written well, so...
aaron5436 10 months ago
@koalajones88 But you are agreeing they were at one point a very good band, right? That is all that is necessary, I too lose interest in bands after a while. Fortunately, I have only been listening to them for a little over a year and still have much magic coursing through me at some of these songs. I agree, King of Limbs was pretty much an easy way through, but In Rainbows seems like it took a lot of efforts.
NIN99Koala 10 months ago
@koalajones88
You speak as though the work they have produced in recently years would benefit from being MORE LIKE Paranoid Android, when you could just go and listen to that song. You're right when you say Experimentation isn't an excuse for poor writing. Which has what to do with them? Album after album since OK Computer is positively bloated with imaginative nuggets of inspired writing.
Hzqi 10 months ago
@koalajones88
Complete horseshit on every level. Paranoid Android does not have "strange time signitures". It's got a little depth dropping into and out of 7/8. The 4/4 on Pyramid Song just for example is notably stranger, and the song is significantly more experimental, while oddly simpler. You make many false correlations within the tight frame of a few sentences. RADIOHEAD has gradually turned towards structural economy of late, but that of itself doesn't allude to any matter of excellence.
Hzqi 10 months ago
amazing
BLURCEG 10 months ago
@koalajones88 Radiohead is really quite an experimental band. If you say there is absolutely nothing notable, then your music choice must be incredibly narrowminded. They have tackled a great difference between these past years, and crossed many overlooked genres. I love them, you don't have to like them. Just don't complain, because they set a neat little path for themselves in history.
NIN99Koala 10 months ago
its no secret now he puts the shadows back into boxes
parchment52 10 months ago
oh my god this is amazing
RAHAproductions 10 months ago
Fuck Radiohead.
Fuck their motherfucking perfection.
I mean, seriously, HOW do they do it??
Ozmega11 10 months ago
@Ozmega11 I don't know if I should thumbs down you for saying "Fuck Radiohead" or thumbs you up for saying that they're motherfucking perfection...
Zeneph13 10 months ago
I've listened to this so many times on my vinyl copy and I NEVER would have thought it was as long as 7 minutes.
LevelFire 10 months ago