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New Radiohead Is Go. "King of Limbs" Digital: 2/19/2011, Vinyl in May
Durin:
Oh Amnesiac definitely feels like its own album and is distinct from Kid A in a lot of ways. Furthermore, it's still a good album. I just feel like the others are better. Not including Pablo Honey. I never even listened to Pablo Honey.
tricia kidd:
Have they ever actually said Amnesiac was "the b-sides of Kid A"? If they did, I think they're lying or exaggerating. Either way, Amnesiac is by far my favorite, and after several listens I think King of Limbs is right behind it. There's just something haunting and great about it that I felt was missing from Hail and Rainbows.
Pablo Honey really does have some good songs on it, there's no reason to completely avoid it. "Stop Whispering" is as good as the best songs on The Bends, easy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECnzN8P6KQ
Ctharlhie94:
--- Quote from: tricia kidd on 19 Feb 2011, 16:18 ---Have they ever actually said Amnesiac was "the b-sides of Kid A"? If they did, I think they're lying or exaggerating. Either way, Amnesiac is by far my favorite, and after several listens I think King of Limbs is right behind it. There's just something haunting and great about it that I felt was missing from Hail and Rainbows.
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I don't know if you haven't listened to them enough to appreciate them or whether you've listened to them and have your opinions (which I won't knock even though I disagree :P ) but Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows certainly have their haunting moments; songs like 'Stand up, Sit Down', 'Sail to the Moon', 'Where I End and You Begin', 'Wolf at the Door' from HTTT and 'Reckoner', 'Weird Fishes', 'All I Need' and 'Videotape' from In Rainbows always have a profound effect on me and boast a level of more human emotion that is strangely absent from some parts of Kid A and Amnesiac, however more artistic and experimental they may be (though 'How to Disappear Completely' always gets me).
Amnesiac isn't b sides as such, but I remember reading the songs are leftovers from the Kid A sessions (and damn fine leftovers they are, too), the alternate version of Morning Bell seems to support this.
tricia kidd:
--- Quote from: Ctharlhie94 on 19 Feb 2011, 16:42 ---I don't know if you haven't listened to them enough to appreciate them
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I've been listening to Radiohead since I was 5 or 6, when my father took me to see them open for REM after Pablo Honey had just come out.
Hail and Rainbows have songs that could be described as "haunting", I agree, but not in the way that Amnesiac and King of Limbs are in my opinion.
nufan:
Leftovers or B-Sides seem to me to be the wrong words. The band have said that the songs on Amnesiac didn't really fit onto Kid A, which I can completely understand; I can't see any of the songs from Amnesiac working on Kid A, it would just completely break the mood of both albums. I think of Amnesiac as something of an oddity in the Radiohead discography. It contains some of my favourite radiohead songs (Life in a Glass House, Pyramid Song, Packt Like Sardines) and some of my least (Pulk/Pull, the alternate version of Morning Bell), but both have their own mood separate from each other.
Also, the person who said that the songs form Kid A/Amnesiac lack human emotion: I can't think of more emotional songs than Pyramid Song or Motion Picture Soundtrack. They will soundtrack my funeral.
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