Gar Veteran Member Posts:1676  
| 7/4/2006 5:27 PM |
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What do people think of this album?
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Pilchard Advanced Member Posts:699
| 7/4/2006 6:04 PM |
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its terrible, really dull and lifeless and awful.
ok, i'm not a radiohead fan but i did love "Kid A" and thought it would be something similar.
no such luck. just yorke moaning on over some rather dull beeps and bleeps. there are way, way better electronica albums out there than this. its getting "respectful" reviews because its Yorke but it just doesnt work at all.
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ctrlaltdelete Basic Member Posts:268
| 7/4/2006 7:00 PM |
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On first impressions it was really grim.
will give it some more spins when i'm feeling sufficiently depressed.
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Protein biscuitBasic Member Posts:364
| 7/5/2006 10:05 AM |
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Sheesh!
Steps on rake and shudders a la Sideshow Bob.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/5/2006 10:14 AM |
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it's bad
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/5/2006 10:48 AM |
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I really like it, I like a lot.
Not for everyone, but I'm a fan of minimal techno and Yorke straddles this
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PilchardAdvanced Member Posts:699
| 7/5/2006 10:59 AM |
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Originally posted by nerraw
I really like it, I like a lot.
Not for everyone, but I'm a fan of minimal techno and Yorke straddles this
i'm a fan of minimal techno too and this has nothing in common with that! lets get real here - its a dog of an album and it needs to be put down |
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/5/2006 11:09 AM |
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Pilchard, take your head from your ass.
I like the album, i think it compares to some of the minimal stuff out there. I didn't say it was minimal but similar.
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Protein biscuitBasic Member Posts:364
| 7/5/2006 11:11 AM |
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Siminimalar even!
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kavobagginsBasic Member Posts:199
| 7/6/2006 1:56 PM |
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Im getting in to it now despite some reservations at the start but the first track (The Eraser) is one of the best songs Ive heard in a long while.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/6/2006 2:31 PM |
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There are two good track on it: And It Rained All Night and Harrowdown Hill, everything else is total pap.
The pap just sounds like a really s**te Third Eye Foundation demo or something.
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kavobagginsBasic Member Posts:199
| 7/6/2006 3:41 PM |
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Originally posted by Una
There are two good track on it: And It Rained All Night and Harrowdown Hill, everything else is total pap.
The pap just sounds like a really s**te Third Eye Foundation demo or something.
If you say so then Una... |
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/6/2006 3:47 PM |
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Actually, I think the record would be better with no vocals. Yorke's voice is annoying when he lo-fis it.
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PilchardAdvanced Member Posts:699
| 7/6/2006 4:34 PM |
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Originally posted by nerraw
Pilchard, take your head from your ass.
I like the album, i think it compares to some of the minimal stuff out there. I didn't say it was minimal but similar.
dude, u said it "straddled" minimal techno so if u want to have a punch-up bout semantics, lets trade shots.
una is right - its yer man's whiney voice that brings the album down (down, deeper and down) |
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themire New Member Posts:44
| 7/6/2006 4:41 PM |
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I like it. Lots of voice on it which is a good thing.
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ctrlaltdeleteBasic Member Posts:268
| 7/6/2006 7:14 PM |
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I've changed my mind. I think it's pretty decent.
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PilchardAdvanced Member Posts:699
| 7/7/2006 10:54 AM |
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there was a great (well, scathing) review of this on Pet Sounds last night - i think yorke was refered to as a moany hole at one stage. vicious reviews can sometimes be great fun
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Protein biscuitBasic Member Posts:364
| 7/7/2006 11:08 AM |
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A good bad review of a sh*t album or movie can be very entertaining!
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/7/2006 11:35 AM |
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you should read the Da Vinci code review in the New Yorker. Absolute genius.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/7/2006 11:37 AM |
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Originally posted by Pilchard
there was a great (well, scathing) review of this on Pet Sounds last night - i think yorke was refered to as a moany hole at one stage.
It was quite funny but the day I take musical direction from Stuart Clarke is the day I stick a knitting needle in my ear because I'll no longer want to be able to hear. Poor Tom Dunne won't let the whole "Kid A is rubbish" thing go. Perhaps it's time to admit that he's lost that argument.
I'm a little bemused by the universal praise American V has been getting too. Not as good as the previous ones but I suppose it's hard to view it outside the context of Johnny's death so for that reason ...
Personally I thought American IV was the perfect epitaph to his career. |
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/7/2006 12:09 PM |
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unicron, going off topic and sticking with your johnny cash... i never bought any of the american recordings... the only cover i've heard from them is 'hurt' which is obviously fantastic... bearing in mind that that's from no.4, it is no.3 that interests me because of the 'i see a darkness' and 'mercy seat'covers... as good a starting place as any?
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
| 7/7/2006 12:18 PM |
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It defo is Palace. Cash's version of Nick Cave's 'The Mercy Seat' is one of the best cover versions of all time. I'd recommend the entire American Recordings series as well as the remastered version of 'Folsom Prison'.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/7/2006 12:36 PM |
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I think Gar covered it all there.
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
| 7/7/2006 12:42 PM |
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Sorry to butt in......but can't have people going out and picking up 'The Johnny Cash Children's Album' by mistake.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/7/2006 12:57 PM |
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Heaven forfend.
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ishrinkBasic Member Posts:195
| 7/7/2006 2:31 PM |
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Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Here’s a little bit of history, just in case you’re twelve years old or something: There once was a band called Radiohead who made two pop-rock albums, followed by a gigantic nerd opus called OK Computer that set the world’s population of dweebic collegiate brow-furrowers on fire like so many lighters at a Bon Jovi encore. After that, Thom Yorke had a stroke and forgot how to make words with his mouth, and Jonny Greenwood decided that he was too smart for tunes. Since then, they’ve been periodically plopping out bewildering hunks of semi-musical garbage which nerds pretend to enjoy in order to seem smart.
While Radiohead’s release schedule isn’t too regular, they are certainly prolific in one regard: the albums they occasionally do release are so jam-packed with stupid ideas that even the most voracious consumer of failure will be tided over for a good many years. However, within the constraints of a band so meticulous and perfectionist about giving each and every bad idea the mucous-shine of overwrought humorlessness, Thom Yorke found himself cooking up more bad ideas than could be accommodated by their plodding schedule. Nerds rejoice: Yorke’s po-faced pretension has finally burst the Radiohead dam, and a muddy tide of bad ideas is now spilling toward you like a tidal wave.
Unfettered by the musicality of his bandmates, Thom Yorke is now free to develop his music in whatever direction he sees fit. Judging by the prevailing sonic trends on The Eraser, that direction is “clicking and moaning.” While the record is comprised of approximately 45% clicks and 35% moans, Yorke puts his sonic genius on display by bunging the cracks with liberal smattering of beeps, bonks, shuffles, grating monotone loops, and a whirring cavalcade of sundry electronic nuisances.
Basically, imagine a Radiohead album with all the music removed and replaced by irritating, ticking bulls**t.
Oh, silly me, that’s what the last three and a half Radiohead albums have sounded like anyway. How about this: imagine that Radiohead had all their musical instruments stolen and yet were contractually obligated to deliver an album in one hour.
You know what? This is all too complicated for something so fundamentally simple. Just imagine that Thom Yorke made a really boring, dashed-off solo album cobbled together exclusively from the worst elements of Radiohead’s recent career and lacking entirely in redeeming features. Now imagine Pitchfork Media ejaculating out their fingertips and every nerd you know not shutting the f**k up about it, ever. This record is seriously terrible, and when I say “seriously,” don’t mean that I’m serious about the album being terrible, I mean that the album is serious about being terrible.
Addendum: 22% of the letters in Thom Yorke’s name are superfluous. f**k him.
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3888
I think that says it all really.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/7/2006 7:10 PM |
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So ... did that guy like it then?
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/9/2006 5:22 PM |
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I bought this today, am listening to it for the first time as I type and am on the final track. I really, really like it. I didn't expect to, or at least I thought that if I was going to like it then it'd be after repeated listening to get my head around it (cue nay-sayer with "there's not much there to get your head around" quip) but it's grabbed me straight away.
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MicklecticNew Member Posts:15
| 7/9/2006 9:48 PM |
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i really like it
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Rev JulesVeteran Member Posts:1041
| 7/9/2006 10:42 PM |
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Originally posted by ishrink
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Basically, imagine a Radiohead album with all the music removed
But thats every Radiohead album  |
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/10/2006 9:40 AM |
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i liked the one song i heard in a shop the other day... however, that's like enjoying a j-lo song while driving in to work... it could mean anything
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cometBasic Member Posts:485
| 7/20/2006 2:44 PM |
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The album has gone into the US billboard charts at No.2!
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benniAdvanced Member Posts:947
| 7/20/2006 2:45 PM |
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yea i saw that on nme - thats crazy! And deadly for a bit o variation of genre on the ole R n B / Sugar Pop dominated charts over there
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kavobagginsBasic Member Posts:199
| 7/20/2006 2:48 PM |
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well theyve done well enough over there recently. bit wierd then when you look back at the "Meeting People is Easy" documentry, they hated the place and the U.S harly warmed to them wither.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/20/2006 4:06 PM |
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Radiohead have always been really popular in the States. I even think Kid A was number one there - definately in the top 5.
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elmo95Basic Member Posts:156
| 7/20/2006 4:29 PM |
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Kid A did get to number 1 and hail to the thief went to number 3
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elmo95Basic Member Posts:156
| 7/21/2006 12:25 AM |
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Gave The Eraser a listen there earlier on and I must say that sounds like a telephone on cocaine. Has it grown on anybody or is it a simple case of appealing/appaling to certain people
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ctrlaltdeleteBasic Member Posts:268
| 7/21/2006 1:39 AM |
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Originally posted by elmo95
Gave The Eraser a listen there earlier on and I must say that sounds like a telephone on cocaine. Has it grown on anybody or is it a simple case of appealing/appaling to certain people
It's a grower. Give it time.
not worthy of a mercury nod though.
.....er, whatever that's worth. |
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BEAT CONNECTIONNew Member Posts:36
| 7/21/2006 9:25 AM |
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great album. worth it for aphex style keyboard in the first track alone
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kavobagginsBasic Member Posts:199
| 7/21/2006 10:09 AM |
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Originally posted by BEAT CONNECTION
great album. worth it for aphex style keyboard in the first track alone
First track is brilliant alright. |
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MullyAdvanced Member Posts:849
| 7/21/2006 10:17 AM |
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Originally posted by ctrlaltdelete
not worthy of a mercury nod though.
.....er, whatever that's worth.
Too good for it ? |
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/21/2006 11:34 AM |
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I just think the sounds are really old and boring. For someone who's meant to be so 'innovative' Yorke really doesn't make much of an effort - and when he does, he's just nicking ideas from other people. People give him too much credit because he's a rock musician being 'different'. I don't know why people would listen to average behind the times lo-fi electronica from him, when they can listen to progressive stuff. I don't know, it's like ordering a steak in Brassarie na Mara.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/21/2006 11:58 AM |
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If you're not familiar with lo-fi electronica though you won't know that it's behind the times, you'll just judge it on it's merits and not in the pantheon of the wider genre.
For the most part I can't stand the music made by Richard James under his various guises who some people have cited as an influence on Yorke but I like this.
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/21/2006 12:51 PM |
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For someone who likes Muse, who blatantly rip off Radiohead I'm somewhat puzzled accusing Yorke of ripping people off.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/21/2006 1:25 PM |
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Muse rip off Radiohead? Ha Ha!
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alamedaBasic Member Posts:121
| 7/21/2006 1:29 PM |
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It's definitely a grower, although tracks like 'analyse' and 'harrowdown hill' appeal straight from the off
for me, it's yorke's voice which lifts it out of the ordinary
was very surpised to see it amongst the mercury nominations though
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/21/2006 1:35 PM |
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Originally posted by Una
Muse rip off Radiohead? Ha Ha!
Unicron rip arms off Matt Bellemy so that he can't make music anymore? Only in my dreams. |
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
| 7/21/2006 3:40 PM |
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Originally posted by Unicron
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Originally posted by Una
Muse rip off Radiohead? Ha Ha!
Unicron rip arms off Matt Bellemy so that he can't make music anymore? Only in my dreams.
Seriously, everytime I heard the sreeching of Muse it just reminds me of Radiohead. Several friends have said the same. |
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/21/2006 4:31 PM |
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him. Well both bands feature people. so yes! they are the same.
The only similarity between them is probably that occasionally, they hit the same genre. Bellamy's voice is far superior to Yorke's recent slurring.
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alamedaBasic Member Posts:121
| 7/22/2006 5:10 PM |
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Bellamy has a great voice, no question and he hits some obscenely high notes but I prefer Yorke's vocals, there's an expressiveness there which very few other singers can match, even on The Eraser (after a few listens - seriously, it gets better!)
I've been listening to Radiohead's live album lately and Yorke's voice is just incredible, especially on the simpler tracks like the gorgeous acoustic 'True Love Waits'
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elmo95Basic Member Posts:156
| 7/24/2006 12:05 PM |
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Muse were compared to Radiohead when Showbiz came out but I thought they quickly escaped from that comparison especially when they started going in their prog direction with Origin of Symmetry (tracks like Space Dementia, Micro cuts and Citizen Erased are nothing like radiohead even in their most avante gard of attempts at being 'out there'). By now that comparison is a bit out dated if you ask me mostly because both bands sound nothing similar
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