The Album Review Club - Christmas Break Until 8th January

[GornikDaze]

Anyone that scored Manchester Orchestra low will be scoring this one lower i predict.

I won’t be scoring this as low MO - I think it’s a great album

 

[RobMCFC]

Radiohead off to a flyer - currently sitting at the top of the "live" table.

 

[LGWIO]

I find Joe Pasquale's voice better than Thomas Yorke's

 

[threespires]

Just spent an entire afternoon arguing with, cajoling and threatening a registrar and then a consultant about my brother's medical care. Stressful but got the right outcome for him. I thought thank goodness, now for a quiet evening. Then I logged back on to here!!!

Yippee Ki Yah mofos, let's have at it!!!

 

[youngbob]

It's on my version, what's the score young shaver me lad?

Oh, sorry. 10/10.

 

[threespires]

My biggest challenge with scoring this is going to be disassociating the oceans of completely hyperbolic horseshit that music journalists have written about it/them both at it's release and over the years. At the end of the day it's not Radiohead's fault that Jocasta Pseud-Witteringarse of UpItself Music Monthly went over the top. Or is it?

 

[BlueHammer85]

My biggest challenge with scoring this is going to be disassociating the oceans of completely hyperbolic horseshit that music journalists have written about it/them both at it's release and over the years. At the end of the day it's not Radiohead's fault that Jocasta Pseud-Witteringarse of UpItself Music Monthly went over the top. Or is it?

Very good point. Why is it a bands fault if journalists laud over there music ? Likewise when I hear a band is ‘pretentious’ - which to me makes no sense - a band plays music however it wants too and to cater to whoever they want.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

My biggest challenge with scoring this is going to be disassociating the oceans of completely hyperbolic horseshit that music journalists have written about it/them both at its release and over the years. At the end of the day it's not Radiohead's fault that Jocasta Pseud-Witteringarse of UpItself Music Monthly went over the top. Or is it?

That’s an interesting discussion.

Let’s begin with “how record companies operate”, then in a parallel discussion, move onto “how often does the average morose middle-class white teenager get high?”

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Very good point. Why is it a bands fault if journalists laud over there music ? Likewise when I hear a band is ‘pretentious’ - which to me makes no sense - a band plays music however it wants too and to cater to whoever they want.

Agree about catering to the audience — particularly in this case by the way — but to not blame some musicians (or some artists generally) for sometimes being pretentious would be to absolve all humans of blame for such.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Incidentally, so far, this is better than I remembered.

I’ve only listened to 87 seconds of “Airbag” though.