The Syndicate

The entire second half of The King of Limbs is perhaps the most pleasant-sounding stretch of songs I've ever heard on an album.

nutella wrote:Huh, I love Tinker Tailor, I think it's beautiful and is either my favorite or second only to Identikit.

"The ones you light your fires to keep away" always sends chills down my spine.

While we're talking about Radiohead, I could never sympathize with the opinion that King of Limbs was a disappointment, but I definitely can't agree with it now that I've listened to Lotus Flower a couple hundred times. That's on my shortlist of greatest songs all-time. Let's listen to it now.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I listened to A Moon Shaped Pool once or twice and then forgot about it. I did quite like it, but I became distracted by life. I should give it another go soon. If I don't forget.

Now that I've listened to it enough to be just another Radiohead album instead of The New Radiohead Album, I think I would rank it as my third favorite album of theirs.

1. OK Computer
2. In Rainbows
3. A Moon Shaped Pool

I assume Kid A occupies one of those three spots for most other people and I will never argue against that.

It's been far and away my most played album since it came out. Perfect album for running to, it turns out.

Tinker Tailor... is the only song I've not fallen in love with on the album, but even that has some very cool moments. I've found True Love Waits to be an excellent closers. I think it fits well in a theme with most of the other mellow songs on the album (Daydreaming, Desert Island Disk, Glass Eyes, Present Tense). All of them seem to deal with love and isolation in some capacity and they've all started to tie together nicely in my head.

I knew I remembered someone else around here listening to Radical Face.

If I'd kept tracking myself in the gap between scrobbles, Radiohead would probably have overtaken The White Stripes as my top artist, and Radical Face would probably also be vying for a top spot. I've been in a nothing-but-Radiohead mood since the summer (Hence this thing I'vd been working on).

Sloonei wrote:I've not scrobbled in ages, but my name is Sloonei.

I just saw this thread again and redownloaded the scrobbler. The website has changed mightily since last I used it.

https://www.last.fm/user/Sloonei

I've not scrobbled in ages, but my name is Sloonei.