I'll defend A Moon Shaped Pool until I die. Probably prefer it to the Bends to be honest. It doesnt have any of the big highs like the Bends but maybe because I'm older I just want less noise :) it also feels like the most of its time album (after Pablo Honey) and I think that ages itStill listen to OK Computer and The Bends to this day.The only tracks i skip are Fitter Happier and Climbing Up The Walls.
Glastonbury when they headlined and did most of the stuff from OK and The Bends was an iconic set.
All downhill after bar There, There track from Hail to the Thief.
9/10.Poetry in motion
Sheesh man i absolutely love this song. It's kind of fragile but masculine at the same time - like a Russian man wearing a tutu atop an iceberg. I love the atmosphere of it. Yes it's contrived and constructed but it's made so wellI'm lactose intolerant.
But the pie order should be cancelled, because I just barely made it through "Exit Music (For A Film)" and recalled why I dislike this record so much.
Paul McCartney (along with his wife Linda) wrote "Live And Let Die", and he was in The Beatles, and they were both in Wings, not Radiohead, so I think a fact check is in order here.They even wrote the best James Bond theme tune
It's unbearably whingy, tuneless, hookless, slow, arid like a desert, pointless, ugly and vague.Sheesh man i absolutely love this song. It's kind of fragile but masculine at the same time - like a Russian man wearing a tutu atop an iceberg. I love the atmosphere of it. Yes it's contrived and constructed but it's made so well
How can a 9/10 record have songs you skip? You skip 17% of the tunes!Still listen to OK Computer and The Bends to this day.The only tracks i skip are Fitter Happier and Climbing Up The Walls.
Glastonbury when they headlined and did most of the stuff from OK and The Bends was an iconic set.
All downhill after bar There, There track from Hail to the Thief.
9/10.Poetry in motion
Brilliant commentary. I would guess my review and score will be somewhat more focused on the musical content now that you’ve articulated your feelings.We're not even a day into this pick and it's doing my head in. Not the album itself which has some merits if you park it's cynicism and lack of authenticity. But because I've been reminded of the absolute torrent of garbage that is written about it and the associated baggage that comes with it; such as unanswerable questions like why is Jonny Greenwood lauded to the heavens when someone like Dominic Miller is ignored? Why do people say the lyrics and themes are prescient or profound but when you ask them to explain a bit more they can't actually articulate any proper detail? Why can't Thom Yorke be arsed to follow an idea through to a cogent conclusion? When did absorbing a few influences and bringing them together sometimes successfully sometimes not, constitute "reinventing rock"? I don't hate this album (at least not for purely musical reasons) but I do hate all the arseholes with a 2:2 in English Lit from Keele or wherever, who wrote rainforests worth of total shite about it.
It's put me in a foul enough mood to score it now. If I was scoring this purely as a few pieces of music I'd probably give it a 6 maybe a 5 because theres some interesting ideas on it with some decent playing; but i've been told plenty of times this is in effect an important piece of art. So it's getting scored as such and it's getting compared in terms of it's intent and execution against the likes of Guernica. And on that basis it's getting 1/10 because it's devoid of any artistic integrity.
Gonna go and listen to the playlist as I really do need to chill out now.
We're not even a day into this pick and it's doing my head in. Not the album itself which has some merits if you park it's cynicism and lack of authenticity. But because I've been reminded of the absolute torrent of garbage that is written about it and the associated baggage that comes with it; such as unanswerable questions like why is Jonny Greenwood lauded to the heavens when someone like Dominic Miller is ignored? Why do people say the lyrics and themes are prescient or profound but when you ask them to explain a bit more they can't actually articulate any proper detail? Why can't Thom Yorke be arsed to follow an idea through to a cogent conclusion? When did absorbing a few influences and bringing them together sometimes successfully sometimes not, constitute "reinventing rock"? I don't hate this album (at least not for purely musical reasons) but I do hate all the arseholes with a 2:2 in English Lit from Keele or wherever, who wrote rainforests worth of total shite about it.
It's put me in a foul enough mood to score it now. If I was scoring this purely as a few pieces of music I'd probably give it a 6 maybe a 5 because theres some interesting ideas on it with some decent playing; but i've been told plenty of times this is in effect an important piece of art. So it's getting scored as such and it's getting compared in terms of it's intent and execution against the likes of Guernica. And on that basis it's getting 1/10 because it's devoid of any artistic integrity.
Gonna go and listen to the playlist as I really do need to chill out now.
I think the same thing almost every day when I look at the 5.27 average you lot dished out to King Swamp - an album on which Dominic Miller played some superb guitar :)why is Jonny Greenwood lauded to the heavens when someone like Dominic Miller is ignored?
I'm expected threespires to row back on this at some point, but we'll see. This week is already interesting. It seems my Two Tribes post is, so far, very apt.C’mon , whilst this is a very good Fog inspired rant 1/10 is disingenuous and ruins the average score. Play fair!