amnesiac is their best.

I wish Jonny Greenwood would do more solo stuff or rock the fuck out more.

He's one of my guitar heroes.

btw new single + video (sorry if it's been posted before):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

That's the thing, Radiohead clearly has talented, amazing, interesting musicians in their ranks, too bad they often make boring music.

thanks for posting that video, I posted a video response and am expecting a billion views in 5 seconds.

as for the single itself, I think it's about as mediocre as you can get, but for some reason it sounds better than all of IN RAINBOWS combined.

the organ thing that starts at 2:09 is quite awesome. the main beat gets old very quickly though.

All in all, it just sounds so glossy, weird studio production instant-songwriting that IN RAINBOWS had, where it has this real minimal feel to it, like the songs were based on just bass and drums or something and they just piled on different sounds, instead of having prewritten songs that flow from part to part like they did on HAIL TO THE THIEF and stuff. I mean, it's not as bad as ST. ANGER or something, where the songs are obviously just random riffs over Lars drumming to whatever, but ... how did they get from "Paranoid Android" to this? It's SO nauseatingly repetetive... Still the best thing they've done in like 6 years.

just downloaded the album. it was a nice surprise this morning seeing that the album had been released. i'm more than halfway into listening and i think it's very different than In Rainbows. it's more like Amnesiac Part 2 so far. I dig it but I kind of wish they played actual rock with real instruments. It's really nice to hear alternative electronic Amnesiac type chill music but so far it seems that's all the album offers. I had a better reaction to In Rainbows. I wonder what this material would sound like live.

Also, it's a shame that they turned Good Morning Mr.Magpie into an electronica type song. I liked the acoustic guitar demo better.

it's already out, you can download it...

look two posts above you haha.

perfect synopsis. when I got hail to thief I was initially worried, i hadn't heard any of it yet and all the rock magazine talking heads were complaining that it was flat and not guitar oriented enough. How could they say that? HTT was perhaps the most guitar oriented radiohead album aside from pablo honey (but instead was a good record)..

in_rainbows had some nice guitar work as well, but it definitely sounded gutted production-wise, it didn't have the craft that amensiac/kid a had. I like the progression by the way, bands should change and evolve and not just make two decades of the exact same album, BUT, they should stick with some elemental formulas that work best, and what always impressed me most about radiohead was that they kept a live drummer and some good guitar work, even for songs that were almost entirely electronic, and so they need to keep that. I have not heard this album yet, I am going to download it later today, but I am excited either way..

I think Greenwood does most of the music?

I think Greenwood does the decorations rather than the central chord structures. I'm basing this solely on having listened to his 'classical' stuff.

Thom Yorke writes most of it.

Ah, what the hell, might as well download the album now...

i'm holding off listening to this until tomorrow. there's some rumors circulating around the internet that this isn't the completed version or possibly isn't the album at all.

Considering that the circulating copies came straight from Radiohead's website, i'd say those rumors are bollocks.

This was posted by Ed O'Brien on Radiohead's facemook page:

It's Friday... It's almost the weekend...It's a full moon....
You can download 'The King of Limbs' now if you so wish!
Thank you good people for waiting ... Have a great weekend wherever you are....
- Ed

Besides, it doesn't sound likely that they would give you access to a fake or incomplete version of the album, especially if you had to paid for it, does it?

but that could be a FAKE ED O'BRIEN....
this album's fake. fuck it

But the audio files didn't come from Radiohead's (potentially fake to you) facebook page. They came from Radiohead's official server.

Whatever.

idk. maybe i'm getting swept up into the whole "if you think this is over, then you're wrong" hysteria that apparently abruptly ends the last track (i haven't heard it yet.) maybe "incomplete" was poor wording, but i don't think it's totally crazy that there would be a second part to it.

Sequels have not been available for free in recent times, in terms of entertainment. To me it's obvious that this is the whole thing they're offering for now. If there is a follow-up to this shit already in the works, i could bet you would have to give another 14 bucks or whatever when they make it available, possibly a few years in the future. Is the album really short, or something? I still need to give it a proper listen, i've only heard a few tracks so far even though i have both the mp3s and wav files already on my computer's hard drive.

Now, considering the possibility that this is only a fragment of the album, it would be really lame that they would give you only a teaser for 14 dollars, don't you think?

i don't think they'd charge anyone anything extra if any other tracks were to appear tomorrow, but whatever. i'm probably making something out of nothing and this is the album. :7P

Why would extra tracks have to appear tomorrow while a supposed fraction of the album appeared today?

If you were paying for the complete album as they offered it, why would they not give you the whole thing for your money, regardless of what day you are getting hold of your copy?

It's just logical to think this is the whole record, because it was officially announced by them and the tracks come from their server directly, and not from a leaked copy (this kind of speculation is common regarding leaked copies, right?), otherwise it would just be fair if they won't charge you the total price of the album if they were giving you bits and pieces of the damn thing only. What's your reasoning behind this? That they could have saved the best for last, or what?

Definitely Radiohead is dead for me Since In Rainbows i hate these new style of melodic electronic songs for girls, it's a shame i loved this band... and please don't compare this whit Amnesiac, Amnesiac had a very psychodelic style that tooked you in trance, not comporable whit Kings of the limbs that is just a soft album.

Those arguments about the lyrics and the song title also seem a bit too "overthought" (in lack of a better word) to me, the only thing that actually makes me think this could be only half of the album is the fact that the physical edition comes with a 2xLP - isn't that too many vinyl sides for a 37 minute album?

it's two 10" LPs, so 37 minutes is fitting.

and yeah, i'm just going to retract my last few posts. i guess it is kind of ridiculous there would be more. just some wishful thinking on my part, i guess.

anyway, giving it a first listen now.

Is it not two 10"s though?

edit: fuck u supercreep

Oh, didn't see that, thanks. Now I definitely don't believe there will be a second part.

"Melodic electronic songs for girls". That's kind of funny, but i don't see how it is accurate. I sort of liked "Lotus Flowers" (the song, i think the video is awful), "Bloom" is a nice track, "Morning Mr. Magpie" really convinced me to stop listening to this album in my computer's speakers, it really reminded me of some elements that i like on "Amnesiac" especially (ha!), and i thought it'd be a good idea to devote it some time to give it a proper attentive listen on my headphones, which i plan to do later tonight. I guess if i end up liking this record, that might just mean i'm actually a girl, albeit trapped in the body of a hairy man.

are people liking the production on this? i can't say i'm a fan...

Nigel Godrich is again responsible for it, as he has been for the longest part of Radiohead's career. I expect that his involvement would mean the album is full of elements instantly recognizable as part of Radiohead's music, i've liked his work in the past, more so on "OK Computer" and "Kid A", also on "Amnesiac", but my appreciation of those has had more to do with the music itself, i mean all elements of the songs, including both lyrics and performance in addition to the producer's work. I expect a work well done by him in this new album, unless he somehow has been losing his craft. Innovation in that expect is hardly expected, from my point of view, so i can kind of see why that would bug someone.

Kinda waiting for others' opinions to have some idea how it actually turned out this time. People who have actually listened to the record might think i'm full of bullshit.