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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #855 on: March 26, 2011, 03:18:17 pm »
Paul, i thought you might enjoy this if you haven't seen it yet:
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #856 on: March 26, 2011, 05:18:09 pm »
Nice!
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #857 on: March 30, 2011, 09:34:11 pm »
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #858 on: March 31, 2011, 06:23:58 am »
Inev, if you ain't already get Arthur by the Kinks on the go, has some of their best tracks. Stuff like Shangri-La and Victoria, truly superlative ditties.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #859 on: March 31, 2011, 06:58:45 am »
I just downloaded that! As well as a bunch of other Kinks album listed on the "favorite albums" page of this book I am reading about Pavement.

Yeah!
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #860 on: March 31, 2011, 07:34:12 am »
Seriously man, that one is the shit.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #861 on: March 31, 2011, 07:18:19 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on March 26, 2011, 03:18:17 pm
Paul, i thought you might enjoy this if you haven't seen it yet:
[king of limbs flier]

The King of Limbs is my favorite Radiohead album.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #862 on: March 31, 2011, 07:29:29 pm »
Quote from: *****_god on March 31, 2011, 07:18:19 pm
The King of Limbs is my favorite Radiohead album.

I can never tell if you are fuck*ng with me.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #863 on: April 01, 2011, 09:21:04 am »
Quote from: Drygioni on March 31, 2011, 06:23:58 am
Shangri-La and Victoria

I was always a fan of the Kinks even though I didn't have any of their records.  They have a lot of great hits.  Then I started buying their records and the songs on the records are even better than the hits.  Love both of those songs.  Never heard either one of them until about 10 years ago.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #864 on: April 01, 2011, 10:10:08 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on March 31, 2011, 07:29:29 pm
I can never tell if you are fuck*ng with me.

The album is beautiful, genius.  Every Radiohead album is all about, "ugh, society is bringing u down," and all the usual stupid shit.  It's all great music

but King of Limbs goes a totally different direction.  It's about nature.  It's about a tree and the album is a group of songs that personify the "thoughts" of a tree as it goes through a season.  The awakening and the fight to survive.  The emergence of self and sexuality.  It describes a love story between the tree and its leaves which culminates in letting them go.  So real, so surreal.  Such a simple concept and so beautiful that I must call it genius.

The observations can shed insight onto one's own life, and one's relationship with nature and the universe.

Meanwhile the band releases their most musically mature album.  It's hypnotic, the lushest textures the band has woven yet can get you lost so deep your ego may evaporate.  The melodies are teasing, they coax you out of a trance only to trail away in walls of sound that send you back into space.  Best ever use of reverb turns  vocal lines into beautiful chords.  Granted, it's not a new concept to the band, which seems to be an argument of the album's detractors (not innovative enough).  But that is  nonsense.  The album has deeper texture than I've ever heard.

The album is challenging in multiple ways yet still very accessible.  Yet it has many detractors.  I feel most of them are just disappointed not to hear telecaster strings snapping around with the treble completely maxed out, crash cymbals ringing throughout a two hour album.  No: The King of Limbs is a whisper.  A ghost.

A quiet request to join the universe on a new plane of existence.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #865 on: April 01, 2011, 02:36:32 pm »
Quote from: *****_god on April 01, 2011, 10:10:08 am
King of Limbs review
That's worth a can. I don't know why I don't listen to music in that fashion anymore. I guess I just got too busy.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #866 on: April 01, 2011, 03:29:46 pm »
I mean, shit, I don't care for no Raidohead but I'm half convinced.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #867 on: April 01, 2011, 04:23:41 pm »
Quote from: Doc on April 01, 2011, 03:29:46 pm
I mean, shit, I don't care for no Raidohead but I'm half convinced.

I'm so convinced by that review that I might take RG's advice on guitars.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #868 on: April 01, 2011, 07:21:54 pm »
So much new music has come my way lately that King of Limbs kinda got lost in the shuffle.  My first impression was meh...  I definitely need to give it a second chance.  I do love Radiohead.

And look, here's a picture of Thom Yorke playing an SG.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #869 on: April 01, 2011, 08:07:13 pm »
That has to be pre-KOL though.

I really like the new album, too.
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