a new level of pretentiousness has been reached

WHY

holy shit thats a long ass song, nobody's gonna be able to listen to ALL of this

It's probably just a loop.

why wouldn't you just play the song over and over again instead of packaging it as an 18-day long loop? or just divide the sections? or do something else to avoid this massive annoyance?

Every Radiohead song ever combined is still only like a little over 9 days in length lol

is this wayne's fault

what the fuck?

"It’s a tragedy, listening helplessly as the glorious genres of yesterday waste away. We’ve heard catastrophes like this before..."

-acad

What level of depression does one have to hit in order to think this was a good idea?

what, asking thom yorke to do a musical accompaniment to any kind of exhibit or making an 18-day song?

Yawn.

Man this is pretentious.

"It's probably just a loop."
nope actually isn't according to The Independent

song will never get scrobbled

I wonder if anyone is stupid enough to listen to it in full.

I was stupid enough to listen to all of the 24-hour Flaming Lips song once
and just to put it in perspective that's one 18/th of effort

I came for some reason

cos you ctrl+f'd "Rowan5215" and there were two results

admit it judio

Yeah I've jammed this a few times already

Can't deny it, Rowan. Between you commenting and Thom yorke making an 18 day long song, I just couldn't help myself ;]

One word to describe this: ugh

ACUTALLY stanley donwood has created artwork for alll radiohead releases scine 1994's 'My Iron Long EP', omg ur such a pleb do u even radiohed

Thought it was just a joke title and he made a song named '18 days long' or something.

Who even has the time and patience to listen to a 18 day long song with forced breaks to sleep/eat/shit

plot twist its actually every single song thom york has ever made mixed into one long track

18 days of pure twaddle.

people calling this pretentious:

its an 18 day exhibit. he made 18 days worth of music for it. its probably just a loop but that is dedication to the art project at hand. not every single little thing that upsets your delicate sensibilities is pretentious just because you don't like the idea of it. stop throwing that word around to wantonly criticize everything that mildly offends or intimidates you.

well said Pots

An 18 day musical piece to accompany an exhibit comes off as a blatant piss take in my eyes.

or maybe he is just making an 18 day musical piece to an accompany an exhibit at the request of the artist and not making an 18 day musical piece that he expects you to sit down and listen to

music isn't always intended to be digested as an album in a casual sitting, music is made for many other purposes, get over it.

There will undoubtedly be a subtle 'ooooooohhh ooooooohhh you're looking at total fucking shit you morons' sprinkled in there somewhere.

goddamn dude is everyone in the uk as obsessed with excreta and so verbally inept as u

Erm. I'd say the big lot of em are.

i guess i could have answered that for myself just by watching your tv shows and movies tbh

but the question still remains: will this song be better than all of tomorrows modern boxes?

Just the mere fact that this exists make it entirely better than modern boxes tbh

i liked modern boxes

Good thing last.fm automatically scrobbles after 5 minutes

Anyway, this sounds interesting/wondrous.

man imagine how much gigabites this would be if it was converted to mp3

that's pretty stupid

Can't wait for the 50 disc vinyl release

And then ripped to FLAC

this definitely wouldnt fit in my 16GB iPod nano I just bought

yeah and imagine the extra gigs it would take up if it also had the artwork

Can't wait for the limited edition 430 vinyl LP box set.

no individual would put this kind of work into something unless their intentions were pretentious or in hope of being overly recognized for doing something like this, which is kinda pretentious itself.

Pretentious or not, Thom Yorke is a God!

No Facade, this is what people who participate in art call a project. Projects can have different goals. Surely one of them is not to please your perception.

bull of heaven is still longer

In early 2014, the band released a fan-made compilation of love songs, 300: Songs for Girls, followed by 301: Weed Problem II-V, and another extremely lengthy piece, 302: It is Part of Space and Time, which runs for at least 86,370,000,000 years

Whatever man, this is irrelevant to my perception it is of my opinion, and besides, people will fight tooth and nail to defend the name of art and that defeats the purpose of even enjoying it. There is nothing worse than insecure pretentious "frontiers" of art.

I don't believe Yorke would do anything out of insecurity at this point. Everything starts off pretentious before it reaches the masses.

Wonder if he'll post a 6 hour clip on youtube to wet fans' appetites

This'll make Robert Rich look like a grindcore band

None of it will be worth listening to

"Whatever man, this is irrelevant to my perception it is of my opinion"

And perception fuels opinion. As for the rest of what you say it's the same bs generalizations I read everywhere and I'm glad people'll fight and take risks to piss you off in the art world (not that Thom York is taking any kind of risk here; he's just designing a soundscape to accompany the exhibition of one of his longtime collaborators; this isn't really a "song" you fuckers)

"This'll make Robert Rich look like a grindcore band"

lol

this is fckn ridiculous

dismissing any form of music/literature/film etc because it is "pretentious" is stupid

"which runs for at least 86,370,000,000 years"
uhm
"almost as long as a swans album"
best reich comment in years

I just put in 3 weeks vacation to listen to this

lol

But you won't be able to rate it after that, sowing. You need to listen a second time and then a third to let the hype chill down. Better quit your job

The future wife probably won't understand, but art isn't logical. Time to put in my notice. This is what Thom Yorke would have wanted.

@collectivefacade you sound pretentious yourself just saying that pretentious shut what now ya snootweasel

lamo

Extraordinarily long songs are such a dumb concept since there's no way to make a song that long and maintain quality. The majority of the song will be garbage filler / mindless wankery or droning

its just a fucking exhibition piece not a fucking rock ballad

Wayne Coyne just shat himself. Almost three weeks of Thom. There's no possible way you could recover from the clinical depression if you listened to the whole thing.

watching nerds get mad about drone is the best thing ever