Who is still here excited for LP10?

[Skuj 2]

Y'all seem to be droning on as if AMSP was fuckin' Be Here Now or something. AMSP is fucking great, ok? Play it now. What other clues exist that RH is in steep decline? Did I miss something? Is Thom's new one terrible? 

LP10 will be made, and it will be monumental. 

Bitches. 

[Chevy's Chevy Chase 74]

I was under the impression this thread had more to do with MT's potential lethargy than any wrongdoings of Radiohead - i agree AMSP is great, tho i'm more liable to listen to individual tracks from it than the actual thing in full

[Naomi Whats 5]

Yeah AMSP is great I don't think anyone said otherwise

[Skuj 2]

Well, let's put it this way:

I'm very excited for LP10 because...well....AMSP.

 

[gnogghi 46]

With that new hair nothing can go wrong

He's gonna save tons of moolah on shampoo and drain de-clog services

[aiyish 10]

The hell MT and Radiohead are still alive. I will now go check Dead Air Spa....ouh....the boys are still gone.

[Skuj 2]

Well, it's Dead, innit?

Anyone care for a spin of AMSP? 

[Naomi Whats 5]

Real talk, now that a fair bit of time has passed, how likely are you to choose to listen to AMSP over other RH albums and why? Personally I love AMSP but I don't find it one I go back to often in part coz it ain't as snappy as In Rainbows and in part coz it's a very specific kind of sad I can't often deal with

[Skuj 2]

I often wonder about how one's age and circumstances play a role in hating/loving an album/film/book at release time. I adore AMSP. To my ears, it is the richest, most mature, most honest RH album, and when it came out I was a 54 year old motherfucker whose bullshit tolerance had gone down to zero. AMSP is the RH I play the most in these later days. OKC/Kid A etc are brilliant in their own way, but AMSP speaks most honestly and plainly to me now. 

[Happy Philistine 10]

For me it has slotted in behind In Rainbows, Kid A, and OKC in how much I listen. The mood is very specific alright, and isn’t good if you’re already feeling kind of untethered or maudlin.

[gnogghi 46]

I have not yet accepted AMSP as an entity as I feel what happened to present tense and true love waits doesn't work for me, and tinker tailor has suffered from it, although I like it.

I must be too young or too old.

The rest of the songs, fuck yeah. They all hit the spot.

[sleepy jack 9]

i like it it's ok. but generally, i don't agree with them for musically going in such a softer direction.

if it had more songs like ful stop then yes. and i even like the numbers for the jazzy piano. 

but if they'e not gonna rock out or play jazz then *yawn* soft adult contemporary rock is boring.

glass eyes can smd.

[babydoctor 48]

they did a good job with it and everything, but to me it's the first legit depressing radiohead album. i just don't really want to voluntarily enter that headspace most of the time. i guess fortunately or unfortunately i was cripplingly sad when it was released so i was grateful for it at the time.

i also think the songs just aren't fundamentally as strong at their core. the king of limbs was kind of the same in that regard. both have great styles and arrangements, but those strengths are propping a lot of the songs up rather than cranking them up to 11. not to say they're bad necessarily. they have no business still making music this good 9 albums into their career. but the number of songs i'm truly in love with from top to bottom off the last two albums is like 5 on amsp and 3 on tkol. it's literally every song on in rainbows and all but maybe 3 on httt

[Chevy's Chevy Chase 74]

On 8/9/2019 at 7:55 PM, Naomi Whats said:

Real talk, now that a fair bit of time has passed, how likely are you to choose to listen to AMSP over other RH albums and why? Personally I love AMSP but I don't find it one I go back to often in part coz it ain't as snappy as In Rainbows and in part coz it's a very specific kind of sad I can't often deal with

i don't know if i'll ever revisit as a full album in its delivered tracklisting, actually, but i'm pretty damn likely to revisit individual tracks (especially the two bonuses) except for TLW, which the IMBW version is still my go-to.

[Chevy's Chevy Chase 74]

i've actually been spinning The Bends more than usual lately.  i mean i've always liked it & whatnot but damn on a track by track basis it has some of what i'd still consider to be top-notch RH material

Just in particular has some of my favorite recorded Jonny guitarwork on it but it was usually overlooked by me cos that one was just "the big single" or whatev

[babydoctor 48]

 

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[Naomi Whats 5]

On 8/16/2019 at 2:12 AM, babydoctor said:

they did a good job with it and everything, but to me it's the first legit depressing radiohead album. i just don't really want to voluntarily enter that headspace most of the time. i guess fortunately or unfortunately i was cripplingly sad when it was released so i was grateful for it at the time.

i also think the songs just aren't fundamentally as strong at their core. the king of limbs was kind of the same in that regard. both have great styles and arrangements, but those strengths are propping a lot of the songs up rather than cranking them up to 11. not to say they're bad necessarily. they have no business still making music this good 9 albums into their career. but the number of songs i'm truly in love with from top to bottom off the last two albums is like 5 on amsp and 3 on tkol. it's literally every song on in rainbows and all but maybe 3 on httt

I generally agree with this I think. There are definitely songs where the production and arrangement elevate them to that 11 tier for me, like Daydreaming and Glass Eyes, and I think Present Tense is just great anyway. But it's definitely a mood album rather than an album of great songs, and that mood is extremely sad. It doesn't help that it came out at a very difficult point in my life that I'm still not over so going back to it can genuinely be quite painful

[Chevy's Chevy Chase 74]

i'd even go so far as to say it's depressingness is what makes it damn-near impossible for me to listen to as a whole album.  not to say it's bad or anything but the first time i listened to this as a whole, I was driving and the level of mood drop i experienced when Burn the Witch turned to Daydream & didn't let up until track 5 can probably be described with the following gif

[Chevy's Chevy Chase 74]

like we've had so many years of stuff like Kid A & OKC which people would try & call depressing but it was simply super-introspective and moody.  this thing legit made me want to drive off the road or call up a presciption of prozak or some shit

[Chevy's Chevy Chase 74]

fuckin' solid tracks tho!

[yung midoriya 13]

I can only listen to like five songs off of AMSP, although to be fair I don't listen to any album of Radiohead's all the way through anymore, probably played them too much in my spring chicken years

[gnogghi 46]

On 8/15/2019 at 5:16 AM, sleepy jack said:

glass eyes can smd.

🤔

[punkbass 13]

I think AMSP is easily their worst since OKC, but then I think TKOL is great so don't listen to me

[gnogghi 46]

... I thought KID A was a bit weird

[Tim77 0]

I was listening to AMSP this weekend and thinking that if LP10 is more of the same, I'd be happy...