A Moon Shaped Pool named #128th best album of the decade by Pitchfork Media

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King of Limbs would have been a better choice, but the ranking is pretty accurate at least.

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7 hours ago, yeuxclos said:

King of Limbs would have been a better choice

i'm confused, why would the inferior album be a better choice?

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Not inferior at all, but my passion for defending anything Radiohead related has waned so severely in recent years that I'll just leave it at that. I do think AMSP is a better album than In Rainbows. I also think you could make a highly credible list of music of the 21st century and include zero albums by Radiohead, especially for the 2010s. Jonny's soundtrack for Norwegian Wood is better than any of the band's or Thom's recent work.

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I'm surprised how low it is tbh, last decade iirc Kid A was number 1, or at least top ten. Still, happy to see Blonde at number 1 and Rihanna's ANTI and Mitski's Puberty 2 rank highly

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Yeah comparing Kid A's influence in the 2000s with AMSP this decade, AMSP was lucky to be anywhere in the list at all. Blonde probably wouldn't even exist in its present form without the influence of Kid A. Didn't Jonny also do some string arrangement for a song on Blonde? So technically a Radiohead member did end up being part of the P4K pick of three consecutive decades.

Other than unexpected oversights of Floral Shoppe, Quarantine, Me and Skeleton Tree, there wasn't too much wrong with this, it's lacking in plenty of my lesser known faves that I never expected to see in a list and in some Internet faves I hoped to see (Shura, Japanese Breakfast, The Internet, Matana Roberts), and it makes weird choices on rankings of certain artists' work (Lemonade being much, much lower than self titled is probably due to just how few black people work at Pitchfork), and despite being attacked in some quarters for abandoning rock, it manages to over-emphasize the most generic indie rock and emo in the lower parts of the list, and has too little electronic music and almost nothing non-US (even Canadian music is lacking, despite Pitchfork's writers being heavily Canadian; there's no Tanya Tagaq, Ought, Feist, etc).

But it feels okay in the top parts, with the exception of the most overrated album of the decade, Modern Vampires (VW has grown on me and while I prefer Rostam’s voice and songwriting, I do like a lot of the band’s recent work without him, but MVOTC just fails to gel in most of its lyrics and arrangements, it’s the typical situation of three great songs and a bunch of filler). Mitski should've been in that top ten position instead, and I would also swap out Fiona's excellent album for something (Vulnicura, LP1, New Amerykah, or even maybe bump up Rihanna or Grimes to top ten) that defined the actual decade rather than sounding like a throwback to mid 20th century. This list may be less white and less male than some past Pitchfork lists, but it's still dominated by middle aged people's tastes.

And putting NFR as the only Lana Del Rey album in the list is certainly a choice. The fact that Pitchfork was previously sleeping on her is no excuse to prop up such a filler-y album to top 20 while ignoring more succinct masterpieces Ultraviolence and Honeymoon.

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get a load of this guy... 6 posts in and his passion has already "waned" !

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You think anyone really new is going to show up in this ghost town? I've been a Radiohead fan since Kid A. But thanks for being so welcoming.

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Sorry, my passion for welcoming anyone Mortigi Tempo related has waned so severely in recent years that I'll just leave it at that.

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Nice little place you got here. 🙈

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yo close i was only yanking your chain

pulling your leg

ribbing your sides

fucking your father

 

what?

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Meet cute moms nearby

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Ghost Stories > AMSP

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but the double album will surely rule the roost!

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I'm not sure which is worse, the fact Radiohead ripped one of their most critically acclaimed songs (Daydreaming) off a lesser known song from an unjustly hated Blonde Redhead era (Defeatist Anthem) or the fact that several of Coldplay's best songs in their early career (High Speed, Brothers and Sisters) were stolen from Gustavo Cerati (Puente) and Soda Stereo (Millon Años Luz). At least Coldplay admitted their theft by doing Soda Stereo covers in Buenos Aires. Radiohead owes it to Kazu, Amadeo, Simone to do Blonde Redhead covers next time they're in New York. The funny thing is Kazu's Salty lives up to its title just a bit, by being even more like Daydreaming than Daydreamimg was like Defeatist Anthem, as if she's just daring their hypocritical asses to try to pull a Lana Del Rey on her.

It's also a lot better than Daydreaming tho,

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Defeatist anthem was released in 2014, a year before Daydreaming was even written.

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I used to like Eraser more than In Rainbows and I've now returned to that feeling. Listening the day after the UK election, it resonated as if it was just made. I forgot Thom was capable of that level of music, lyrics and commitment. Anima has virtually nothing to express, all I ever remember about it is Thom's pronunciation of moshi moshi which it sounds like he worked pretty hard on.

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Eraser stands up. Thom had things to say, needed to stretch. Anima is growing on me, but I treat it as a really good environmental album. Those synths remind me of Boards of Canada and my childhood so I'm a sucker.

As for AMSP being 128th... we've probably spent more time giving half a shit here than Radiohead have collectively.

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The Moon Rang Like a Bell

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Ok so I rewatched Totoro for the first time since 2007. It was the last movie I watched before the release of In Rainbows, so it already has a Radiohead association... and this time I noticed a resemblance between one music cue (the end of the track labeled as Not Afraid in the US soundtrack release that’s currently on streaming services) with the piano part of Daydreaming, and also with Defeatist Anthem. I think both artists were copying from Joe Hisaishi. The plot of the mom in the hospital resonates with what was going on in Thom and his kids’ life at the time too, so they may have been intentionally referencing that music. Then again, Hisaishi is also quoting from plenty of pre-existing music in his soundtracks. Basically copyright is stupid and Radiohead would’ve been fine if they just stopped suing other artists.