Album Rating: 3.5
I'm honestly nit-picking, but this album might be the worst (read lowest) 4-4.5 I give all year. Take that how you will. It is still growing on me, mind you. Only 3 tracks stood out to me a few days ago, now I'must on board with at least half of them.
Tinker is growing on me, too.
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Album Rating: 2.0
what i'm mostly hearing here is reverb-y acoustic instruments transforming really unremarkable songs into something profound sounding, like a Beatles-level orchestral upgrade. musically the weird clipped vocals on Ful Stop are the only new development
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Album Rating: 4.5
'New development'
The new development is this has a unique overall vibe in their discog, same ingredients but used to create a totally different brew
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Album Rating: 2.0
kinda
guess you could say it has more influence from non-rock, non-electronic genres this time, a lot of the cuts are so folky and with less on teh nose drumlines. love Identikit's vague reggae backing really
im skeptical that the strings help anything though, makes me recall the era where the Super Furry Animals just savaged all their music with crappy violin VSTs or something
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Album Rating: 4.5
I see what you're saying and the strings are better in some songs than others, Glass Eyes and Tinker Tailor the strings are legit incredible though
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He actually wrote True Love Waits in 1994/1994 for Rachel Owen (his partner at the time and 23-year companion, they announced their separation last year), and so I get why the lyrics seem so childish (he was 22/23 when he wrote those, not 47). Listening to this sadder version of True Love Waits is like this old man with nothing left to lose revisiting the happy times of the relationship he had with the woman of his life, and it is simply heart-breaking. And it's the freaking closing track. It's so intense. I also find it curious that Thom Yorke was able to draw a brand new and totally opposite meaning from this old song without changing a single lyric, but taking a different approach to it. Whereas the live version was a spontaneously-sung love song to somebody with whom the narrator hoped for a bright future, this new version is completely hopeless. That person is absolutely gone and there's no bright light at the end of the tunnel, only the pain that makes Thom and all of us human.
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Album Rating: 3.5
True Love Waits can be dislikable for a few reasons but it's also one of the most overtly honest things I've ever heard from them
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ok, so this could eventually sneak its way up to 3.5. Daydreaming, Decks Dark (especially), Ful Stop and Glass Eyes have the most qualities of what I want in a Radiohead song.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Don't be in such a rush to dismiss the rest...
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Album Rating: 4.0
Not in a rush at all, it's just those which stand out the most atm. I mean, I even like Burn the Witch. Probably giving it a spin later again.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Looking at your other Radiohead ratings I think you'll eventually 4 this
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Album Rating: 4.5
Also, does anyone know when the 2016 Chart kicks off? Would be nice to see this, Blackstar and the Vektor duking it out in the 4+ range
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I'm pretty sure that it won't happen until 2017 :/
I've been experimenting with different track listings, and found one that's worked pretty well for me:
1. Burn the Witch
2. Spectre
3. Desert Island Disk
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief
5. Decks Dark
6. Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
7. Identikit
8. The Numbers
9. Daydreaming
10. Present Tense
11. Glassy Eyes
12. Ful Stop
13. True Love Waits
I'm a little biased in that I saved my favorites, Daydreaming and Ful Stop, for the end.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Don't think Decks Dark and Desert Island Disk should be separated. They perfectly blend in to each other.
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Yeah, Decks / Desert Island and Tinker Tailor / True Love Waits blend perfectly.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I made those changes and you're right, Spectre leads into Decks Dark really well too.
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Never tried a different tracklist. Maybe someday I will!
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Album Rating: 3.0
Spectre is one of the most boring songs they've ever written
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Btw, what is Harry Patch doing there?
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Spectre is awesome, bruh.
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