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Radiohead appreciation thread

Not Radiohead, but part of the lineage



One of the things that really impresses me about Radiohead is how they can perform material that sounds like it needs to be constructed in a studio live, with all the interesting effects & intricacies.
 
doctoremmet said:
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Whilst we're at this, we should at least mention Suede - Saturday Night. Produced by none other than our own @ed buller I believe



That was one of my favourite 90s indie rock albums, right up there with Definitely Maybe and Ocean Colour Scene's B-Sides, Freerides and Sea-sides. The latter is a corker of an album, if you haven't heard it:

 
method1 said:
One of the things that really impresses me about Radiohead is how they can perform material that sounds like it needs to be constructed in a studio live, with all the interesting effects & intricacies.
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Although... the only Radiohead gig I left early was the Rainbows tour at the big outside gig in London (2008 I think?)... they basically were playing so identically to the album version, it was kinda boring... I much prefer it when they re-imagine tracks with whole new arrangements for live performance. There's so many versions of true love waits for instance... I was kinda disappointed with the eventual studio version, all the live versions arrangements were superior I felt.
 
Paul@Sydney said:
Although... the only Radiohead gig I left early was the Rainbows tour at the big outside gig in London (2008 I think?)... they basically were playing so identically to the album version, it was kinda boring... I much prefer it when they re-imagine tracks with whole new arrangements for live performance. There's so many versions of true love waits for instance... I was kinda disappointed with the eventual studio version, all the live versions arrangements were superior I felt.
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Yea, that's a fair point. Still impressive though ;)
 
Paul@Sydney said:
Whilst we're at this, we should at least mention Suede - Saturday Night. Produced by none other than our own @ed buller I believe



That was one of my favourite 90s indie rock albums, right up there with Definitely Maybe and Ocean Colour Scene's B-Sides, Freerides and Sea-sides. The latter is a corker of an album, if you haven't heard it:

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Suede for sure, Dog Man Star is one of my favorite albums of all times, I drove 1.5 hours around the backside of Pikes Peak to Colorado Springs to buy it the week it released in America. It is timeless, yet way ahead of its time. Almost 30 years later it gets a spin several times a year. Cheers @ed buller it is a complete work of art, imho!!!
 
OK Computer changed everything. Radiohead changed everything. Probably justified to use the word 'genius' in their case.
I will add another artist in the same ilk. Elizabeth Fraser. I only heard her new work with Massive Attacks's Damon Reece recently..it's pretty special:

 
The time signature of Idioteque is so cool. The drum pattern is in 3/4 I think, but when Thom's vocals come in the whole song changes to 4/4. But after the first chorus, in the "ice age coming" section (around 1:51) the drums keep that 3/4 pattern and the vocals are in 4/4 IT'S SO COOL OMG!!

I absolutely LOVE these polyrhythms (is that the right word?)!
 
Bara Matahari Pagi said:
The time signature of Idioteque is so cool. The drum pattern is in 3/4 I think, but when Thom's vocals come in the whole song changes to 4/4. But after the first chorus, in the "ice age coming" section (around 1:51) the drums keep that 3/4 pattern and the vocals are in 4/4 IT'S SO COOL OMG!!

I absolutely LOVE these polyrhythms (is that the right word?)!
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It’s also their best song!!
 
Bara Matahari Pagi said:
The time signature of Idioteque is so cool. The drum pattern is in 3/4 I think, but when Thom's vocals come in the whole song changes to 4/4. But after the first chorus, in the "ice age coming" section (around 1:51) the drums keep that 3/4 pattern and the vocals are in 4/4 IT'S SO COOL OMG!!

I absolutely LOVE these polyrhythms (is that the right word?)!
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Guitars 3/4 over a 4/4 drum beat, every chord progression interwoven yet different resolutions :)
 
Paul@Sydney said:
Although... the only Radiohead gig I left early was the Rainbows tour at the big outside gig in London (2008 I think?)... they basically were playing so identically to the album version, it was kinda boring...
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I've only seen Radiohead 14 times (including The Smile and Thom solo a couple of times), but the idea of leaving a RH gig early... I don't have words. I cannot comprehend. Possibly a gunshot wound or explosive diarrhea would make me leave a RH show, but otherwise I can't even imagine.
 
MaxOctane said:
I've only seen Radiohead 14 times (including The Smile and Thom solo a couple of times), but the idea of leaving a RH gig early... I don't have words. I cannot comprehend. Possibly a gunshot wound or explosive diarrhea would make me leave a RH show, but otherwise I can't even imagine.
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Hah, yeah, I think I'd just gotten to the end of my going-to-live-gigs time... I recently went to a Tinlicker gig here in Sydney, I havent' been a live gig in 13 years, and left 10 mins after they came on, I'd already had my fill of loud noise and crowds during the excellent support act. Plus, whoever was on the desk shoved the PA up 20db for Tinlicker, and it just turned into a hot mess of distortion and too loud.
 
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