Automatic purchase for me, too, even though my fandom for them has cooled more than considerably since 2003 or so. Loved In Rainbows...King of Limbs was a limp disappointment.
Over the last year I finally 'got' Kid A and their post Kid A work, having checked out after OK Computer back in the day. Been buying up the collectors edition for the b sides/live/EP tracks and enjoying the holy heck out of The Bends through King of Limbs (sorry Pablo Honey, still can't develop a taste for you). Eagerly anticipating the new album and a no brainer day 1 purchase here.
No hu-way! Have you heard/seen the live / basement version of KOL? I like it much better than the studio version, but it also makes me appreciate the nuances of studio version more.
However, I did not care for either their Spectre or Sam Smith's Spectre. The whole movie just seemed like a swansong for Daniel Craig, whom I enjoyed on prior movies. But... the new "Silent Spring and Desert Island Disk" I like!
That In the Basement with Portishead's drummer as an auxiliary member was absolutely astounding! Watching them layer all of that dense beepity clickity in a live setting was honestly mind-blowing.
Yes, I have. You're right that it blows the studio versions away but it didn't make me appreciate the album more...if anything, it made me like it less than the live versions!
I am listening to Thom Yorke's latest album of bleepity blops so I am will download Radiohead's new album of bleepity blops once they put it up. Hopefully they give us the choice to pay what we want again. Radiohead with guitars = $10, Radiohead with Atari game sounds = $2.
It's amazing how many people complain about a Radiohead album full of blips and bleeps, yet every album hits the Top-10, on both sides of the Atlantic, selling buttloads of copies, despite very little radioplay. Is it simple curiosity? Or is it because there is always a strong song beneath whatever clothes Radiohead decides to dress their music in? It's the latter. Fo sho!
If you look at the link, you can see what it originally said. Sometimes reading can be hard work too, I guess.
My apologies. I missed the antediluvian date of your original post. Thought this was all fresh and new. Deleted my jape.
I'm crabby today. Then I had to go and get the dictionary. Harrumph. Yes, this old thread, where I jumped the gun, is back to haunt me.
So, we could be getting the new album any day now? Wasn't The King Of Limbs released as a gift for Valentine's Day? I'm just saying, is all...
I just read this on Billboard.com: "According to a Primavera press release (via Rolling Stone) the festivities will include 'the presentation of the new album by the British band Radiohead.'"
From the little I've read about this new album, it seems as if they've gone in yet another direction from The King Of Limbs, which is a collection of songs that only translated into a live setting once a few had been drastically reworked (Feral in particular really lived up to its name, unlike the relatively tame studio version). Hopefully this means something that will please fans of their older guitar-based sound without feeling as if it's a compromise, as happened with Hail To The Thief and some of In Rainbows. I for one would love another Kid A or even TKOL, which I'm currently spinning in preparation of the imminent arrival... Just as The Magic Whip by Blur was an early gift that wasn't surpassed as my favourite release of 2015, I'm hoping Radiohead can do the same this year with their own early offering!
Part of the 'problem' we have is that Radiohead's last few albums have been announced & released in really short timeframes. We're going to be so disappointed if next week there's an announcement of a new album in, say, April or May...
I can't see them going back to the tired industry standard of announcing an album 3 ore more months in advance of release.
Radiohead to headline Japan's Summer Sonic Festival. My favorite fest - no buses, no camping, no porta-potties. Just a bunch of great bands playing in a venue 10 minutes from a train station. Perfect.
