In Rainbows

[panoramic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcLE1v4Msns&t=2384s
i hate the king of limbs record but i love every live version of it, the songs are AWESOME, the recording is not friendly at all

[mediocreplayer]

I like In Raibows. Like someone said, it sounds warm and pleasant. House of Cards is a good example of this mellow warmth.

I was the right age when Radiohead came out and saw them on The Bends tour opening for...Alanis Morissette Yet they never clicked for me and especially OK C. I sometimes feel bad that I find such a revered album almost unlistenable. A big part of it is Thom's whiny voice, but I don't really find the songs unusually interesting to begin with.

[rumfoord]

i hate the king of limbs record but i love every live version of it, the songs are AWESOME, the recording is not friendly at all

I totally know what you mean. I can't listen to it right this second, so I'm only 90% sure Bloom is the song I'm thinking of...but I never felt like I got what they were trying to do until I listened to the live version. This is even somewhat surprising because the timing on polyrhythm they have going (I think I recall) is slightly off on the live version but only tight on the album version.

It felt like the King of Limbs era, but maybe it was halfway between In Rainbows and King of Limbs---I really loved the single These Are My Twisted Words.

[Singlebladepickup]

I do like the KoL basement recording linked above. I know Thom is a fan of Fela Kuti, and it definitely shows in some of the tracks.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

I just watched the From The Basement version of King Of Limbs and agree that it generally does a better job than the album. Still, I'm not really feeling it, as a whole. The live version of The Daily Mail is excellent though. The stand out track for me.

EDIT - Apparently this is the only version too. The downloadable track is just a recording of this live take. I obviously didn't know enough about The King Of Limbs to realise it wasn't included on the album.

[Pepe Silvia]

I like Pablo Honey, sure it's not like other Radiohead albums but it is a good album. Way better than whatever this new album is of Thom whining for an hour.

[dezb1]

lol you and whose army? is my fav on amnesiac.

Pyramid song and I might be wrong are my favorite on amnesiac... an album I've always preferred to Kid A

[BoringPostcards]

lol you and whose army? is my fav on amnesiac.

Pyramid song and I might be wrong are my favorite on amnesiac... an album I've always preferred to Kid A

I'm with you on those two tracks. I also really like You and Whose Army, mostly because my old band used to do a sweet cover of it.
Can't put Amnesiac above Kid A though, no matter how I juggle it in my mind. I think that album is nigh on perfect. Everything is in the perfect order. Flows like few albums do. I always compare it to Dark Side of the Moon.
My favourite tracks on Kid A are Everything in its Right Place and Idiotheque.

[dezb1]

lol you and whose army? is my fav on amnesiac.

Pyramid song and I might be wrong are my favorite on amnesiac... an album I've always preferred to Kid A

I'm with you on those two tracks. I also really like You and Whose Army, mostly because my old band used to do a sweet cover of it.
Can't put Amnesiac above Kid A though, no matter how I juggle it in my mind. I think that album is nigh on perfect. Everything is in the perfect order. Flows like few albums do. I always compare it to Dark Side of the Moon.
My favourite tracks on Kid A are Everything in its Right Place and Idiotheque.

Kid A was / is the album that dissapionted me the most... I wanted to like it but I just don't.

[BoringPostcards]

Pyramid song and I might be wrong are my favorite on amnesiac... an album I've always preferred to Kid A

I'm with you on those two tracks. I also really like You and Whose Army, mostly because my old band used to do a sweet cover of it.
Can't put Amnesiac above Kid A though, no matter how I juggle it in my mind. I think that album is nigh on perfect. Everything is in the perfect order. Flows like few albums do. I always compare it to Dark Side of the Moon.
My favourite tracks on Kid A are Everything in its Right Place and Idiotheque.

Kid A was / is the album that dissapionted me the most... I wanted to like it but I just don't.

Honestly the first time I heard it I felt like I was waiting the whole time for it kick in and get going. I was expecting more OK Comp. It didn't click for me until I spent an evening laying in the dark listening to it.
Have you tried revisiting it?

[PorkyPrimeCut]

I'm pretty sure the majority of Radiohead fans felt this way. Hell, even members of the band had a hard time dealing with the change of direction.
Still, being as they are now, with the diversity of sound they introduce to their recordings, I'd say it'd be much easier going back to records like Amnesiac & Kid A than it was listening to them first time around.

The live version of Idioteque on I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings is great. The drumming puts it on a completely different level to the album version.

[dezb1]

I'm pretty sure the majority of Radiohead fans felt this way. Hell, even members of the band had a hard time dealing with the change of direction.
Still, being as they are now, with the diversity of sound they introduce to their recordings, I'd say it'd be much easier going back to records like Amnesiac & Kid A than it was listening to them first time around.

The live version of Idioteque on I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings is great. The drumming puts it on a completely different level to the album version.

I haven't listened to it in a few years, I'm generally more of a fan of electronic music rather than rock I love all the Warp label stuff Thom was supposedly listening to around that time but Kid A just misses the mark for me loved Amnesiac when it came out - Kid A started off on a bad foot as I went to see them live on Glasgow green just before the album came out (at the time when the band didn't seem to be fully behind it) and they played the album pretty much from start to finish but no one new or had even heard the tunes before and it just bored the life out of me...

[Singlebladepickup]

Not trying to derail the thread since it's about Radiohead, and specifically one of their albums, but it made me want to check out this Thom Yorke solo album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes. It's pretty good, as a whole I probably like it more than the Eraser

[danbind]

I LOVE the live-in-the-studio version of "Bodysnatchers" on YouTube. Worth a listen.

[dezb1]

I know what you mean about live versions I far prefer this to the album version

https://youtu.be/Ti6qhk3tX2s