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Post by Manualex on Jun 1, 2017 18:47:00 GMT -5
I Promise is like a sad march off to war. Can't wait to hear the rest. So nice of Radiohead to email everyone a link to the MP3 who bought the album earlier. It feels like they listen a lot of christmas music Back then isnt this a rewrite of Little drummer Boy?
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 1, 2017 19:16:18 GMT -5
It's so Radiohead to release the least hyped of the 3 unreleased tracks as a promotional single. Love it. I am curious, if the fans and record executives were convinced "Lift" was a bonafide classic smash hit, what would prevent it from being that way 20 years later? A good tune is a good tune plus they are a beloved band.
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Post by glider on Jun 2, 2017 0:30:34 GMT -5
Not too different from the live version of course but amazing song! Radiohead knows how to use strings properly!
Now, time for some Lift.
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Post by The Escapist on Jun 2, 2017 6:18:45 GMT -5
Didn't Bono once say Thom has the voice of a "wounded angel"? Perfect description of the vocals on I Promise.
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Post by Sternumman on Jun 2, 2017 7:05:44 GMT -5
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Post by groovychick on Jun 2, 2017 8:27:44 GMT -5
Thom Yorke cheated on his wife. He started the affair in 2012 and carried on while Rachel was being treated for cancer 3 times. It's why Rachel divorced him. There are pictures of Thom and Dajana together from several years on social media. And now his wife is gone and he can have fun with his new girlfriend legally.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 2, 2017 9:20:07 GMT -5
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 2, 2017 9:23:05 GMT -5
Thom Yorke cheated on his wife. He started the affair in 2012 and carried on while Rachel was being treated for cancer 3 times. It's why Rachel divorced him. There are pictures of Thom and Dajana together from several years on social media. And now his wife is gone and he can have fun with his new girlfriend legally. That is not what happened. Check your facts.
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Post by Jack on Jun 2, 2017 10:39:02 GMT -5
Thom Yorke cheated on his wife. He started the affair in 2012 and carried on while Rachel was being treated for cancer 3 times. It's why Rachel divorced him. There are pictures of Thom and Dajana together from several years on social media. And now his wife is gone and he can have fun with his new girlfriend legally. That is not what happened. Check your facts.[/quotel] Even if it did, cheating on your wife isn't illegal.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 2, 2017 10:42:57 GMT -5
That is not what happened. Check your facts.[/quotel] Even if it did, cheating on your wife isn't illegal. Also they were never married. Their relationship was strained years before the cancer diagnosis. They were headed in opposite directions. That is painful enough. 2 kids, 23 years of being together and now cancer. Tough and rough stuff.
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Post by mystoryisgory on Jun 2, 2017 11:03:26 GMT -5
I've never cared that much for I Promise but this recording is awesome. Loving the honesty of Thom's vocals.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 2, 2017 11:10:46 GMT -5
I've never cared that much for I Promise but this recording is awesome. Loving the honesty of Thom's vocals. Its interesting. It doesn't sound like Bends era Radiohead or Ok Computer Radiohead. Somewhere in-between. Maybe an awesome recorded b-side but its too good for that. So good it sat in the closet for over 20 years!
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Post by mystoryisgory on Jun 2, 2017 11:36:12 GMT -5
I've never cared that much for I Promise but this recording is awesome. Loving the honesty of Thom's vocals. Its interesting. It doesn't sound like Bends era Radiohead or Ok Computer Radiohead. Somewhere in-between. Maybe an awesome recorded b-side but its too good for that. So good it sat in the closet for over 20 years! Yeah, it occupies a weird limbo, doesn't it? In that way it's like Talk Show Host and Bishop's Robes, yet it doesn't sound like either of them. I bet I Promise would blend in more with the OK Computer songs if they'd kept electric guitar like in live performances.
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Post by matt on Jun 2, 2017 17:38:06 GMT -5
That Greenwood comment on prog-rock - exactly how I feel about the genre! All in all, a fascinating and very humble interview I thought.
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Post by matt on Jun 3, 2017 18:26:59 GMT -5
So the Glasto gig - any idea how this will pan out? Is it still part of 'A Moon Shaped Pool' tour? I've still yet to hear many of these songs live in a good audio quality, so I hope it can do justice to the album as their 1997 Glasto gig did for OK Computer.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 3, 2017 18:52:02 GMT -5
So the Glasto gig - any idea how this will pan out? Is it still part of 'A Moon Shaped Pool' tour? I've still yet to hear many of these songs live in a good audio quality, so I hope it can do justice to the album as their 1997 Glasto gig did for OK Computer. Oh yeah. It's all from that album cycle for sure. Maybe they'd throw us a huge bone and break out Lift or Man of War at Glastonbury to celebrate Ok Computer reissue but I doubt that. The new album translates extremely well live. Many good soundboard boots out there. My favorite is the one from Chicago last summer.
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Post by matt on Jun 4, 2017 7:10:09 GMT -5
So the Glasto gig - any idea how this will pan out? Is it still part of 'A Moon Shaped Pool' tour? I've still yet to hear many of these songs live in a good audio quality, so I hope it can do justice to the album as their 1997 Glasto gig did for OK Computer. Oh yeah. It's all from that album cycle for sure. Maybe they'd throw us a huge bone and break out Lift or Man of War at Glastonbury to celebrate Ok Computer reissue but I doubt that. The new album translates extremely well live. Many good soundboard boots out there. My favorite is the one from Chicago last summer. I'd love to see the album performed in its entirety with an orchestra. With Jonny Greenwood as the composer of the orchestral arrangements himself, it wouldn't be an issue to have an orchestra playing synchronised perfectly alongside Radiohead (some bands that play with orchestras can often come off as jarring in their different styles). That's what I really like about A Moon Shaped Pool - it feels cinematic without being melodramatic, and yet still feels like one of their most personal, insular and emotive albums yet despite its grand feel. I don't know everything about Radiohead, I only properly got into them two years ago after my twin brother forced me to listen to all the other albums he owned outside of The Bends and OK Computer, so I've yet to pick out all the nuances from most of the other albums (that will happen on time) but a year on since its release and I still hold it as one of my two favourites of theirs. Accessible without watering their music down - that's Radiohead at their best surely?
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 7, 2017 23:07:46 GMT -5
Radiohead bust out "I Promise" tonight. First time in 20 years.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 8, 2017 8:12:38 GMT -5
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 8, 2017 10:56:35 GMT -5
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 9, 2017 15:31:00 GMT -5
From Q Magazine:
Lift: "Resembling an amped-up Fake Plastic Trees, Lift is a mid-paced rock song with a soaring vocal and third person lyrics ("You've been stuck in a lift / We've been trying to reach you, Thom". It seemed like a shoo-in for inclusion on OK Computer but by the time they came to record it, it had gone down so well (only Radiohead could turn this into an "issue" on a support tour with Alanis Morrisette that it had put them off it. Ed O'Brien recently admitted that they may have dumped it because they were subconsciously worried it would be too successful. "We'd have probably sold a lot more records, if we'd done it right," he told BBC 6 Music. This take is slower than live performances from the era but the arrangement and instrumentation are exactly the same. The straightforward recording suggests that it never got past the first hurdle, but it's a solid enough interpretation to show that the band were right. Done properly, this would've been a hit to match Creep."
Man of War: "The most intriguing of the three tracks, Man Of War sounds like the song that's had the most contemporary tinkering. Meeting People Is Easy showed the band tearing their hair out as they attempted to record it at aborted sessions for what would eventually become Kid A, but this rendition resembles the slow-building, skulking rock version they played live. With dramatic strings and a reverb-drenched vocal, Man Of War is much further down the production line. There may be a good reason why, with its dramatic strings and atmospheric outro, it resembles the best Bond theme there never was. There's a rumour that the band revisited the track and submitted the finished song as their proposed Spectre theme tune before the Bond chiefs realised it was an old outtake and insisted they write a song from scratch instead. Radiohead went and did that, and then Sam Smith got the gig. Sometimes the world doesn't make sense."
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Post by matt on Jun 9, 2017 16:25:29 GMT -5
From Q Magazine: Lift: "Resembling an amped-up Fake Plastic Trees, Lift is a mid-paced rock song with a soaring vocal and third person lyrics ("You've been stuck in a lift / We've been trying to reach you, Thom". It seemed like a shoo-in for inclusion on OK Computer but by the time they came to record it, it had gone down so well (only Radiohead could turn this into an "issue" on a support tour with Alanis Morrisette that it had put them off it. Ed O'Brien recently admitted that they may have dumped it because they were subconsciously worried it would be too successful. "We'd have probably sold a lot more records, if we'd done it right," he told BBC 6 Music. This take is slower than live performances from the era but the arrangement and instrumentation are exactly the same. The straightforward recording suggests that it never got past the first hurdle, but it's a solid enough interpretation to show that the band were right. Done properly, this would've been a hit to match Creep."Man of War: "The most intriguing of the three tracks, Man Of War sounds like the song that's had the most contemporary tinkering. Meeting People Is Easy showed the band tearing their hair out as they attempted to record it at aborted sessions for what would eventually become Kid A, but this rendition resembles the slow-building, skulking rock version they played live. With dramatic strings and a reverb-drenched vocal, Man Of War is much further down the production line. There may be a good reason why, with its dramatic strings and atmospheric outro, it resembles the best Bond theme there never was. There's a rumour that the band revisited the track and submitted the finished song as their proposed Spectre theme tune before the Bond chiefs realised it was an old outtake and insisted they write a song from scratch instead. Radiohead went and did that, and then Sam Smith got the gig. Sometimes the world doesn't make sense." Man of War would have been an excellent Bond theme, better than Spectre in my opinion. Who cares if the song was old? Still mystified how that god awful Sam Smith song got it. Still, maybe for the next reboot in the series perhaps.
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Post by mystoryisgory on Jun 9, 2017 17:53:27 GMT -5
Ugh, the slower Lift? No thanks. I think the article means that the studio version we're gonna get is the same as the 1996 live version, except with a slower tempo. Not the godawful 2002 live version.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jun 9, 2017 18:04:12 GMT -5
Ugh, the slower Lift? No thanks. I think the article means that the studio version we're gonna get is the same as the 1996 live version, except with a slower tempo. Not the godawful 2002 live version. They never finished the song so it makes sense its not entirely 100%.
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Post by andybellwillring on Jun 10, 2017 9:28:00 GMT -5
Killer show in Stockholm yesterday, the band seemed in good spirits too (especially Ed, lovely man).
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