I know absolutely everyone on here loves them 😀
Available [url= http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/DIGBP.htm ]here.[/url]
tick
Can I slit my wrists now to save time?
yes drac, please do
yes drac, please do
😆
Ok!
😆 @ iDave
Ta very much...download and vinyl ordered...will run the hot water tap now.
Excellent, I prefer them as "Radiohead", that stuff when they pretended to be another band called "Muse" was all a bit samey 😉
Damn this instant gratification world! I want it now!
£6 - Bargain.
Did anyone get a confirmation page / email? When I clicked 'pay now' it just took me back to the ordering page...?
I paid PayPal and got a confirmation.
Worked second time round, weird... hope I don't get charged twice!
Cheers 🙂
I think it's 'the radiohead' as in "I love the radiohead,I do".
well then.
I'm so happy about this - let's have some tour dates too so I've got something to look forward to after Saturday.
I'm so happy about this
Shhh 🙂
That Radiohead band sure know how to market themselves 0 this was on the national news! That Radiohead are releasing their next album as a download! A download wow! They must be the only band doing that eh?
Nice bit of publicity for the struggling new guys.
I think the news was more about it being such a well kept secret.
PLEASE let it be as good as they used to be 😉
A 'preview' compiled from various sources:
http://soundcloud.com/onethirtybpm/sets/radiohead-the-king-of-limbs/
Bloody hell, you can really get excited about [i]that[/i]?
My sympathies.
DezB has spoken. He doesn't like it. Bodes well then.
I didn't say I didn't like it. It sounds ok.
Just seems to me that the excitement is down to the secrecy, not the music.
I do apologise for offering an opinion!
That's ok matey, anytime. 😉
if you ordered it, you can download it now 😀
drac, you'd best run a warm bath.....
Just got it. Listening now.
RIP Drac 😉
It's been nice reading your sweary Mod posts Drac. Arrivederci.
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Vice mag review...
Good news for robots who are scared of crossing the road and catching Spanish flu; your poets laureate have returned. Yesterday Radiohead announced they were releasing their new album, The King of Limbs on Saturday. Of course it’ll be heralded as a triumph, but no-one has actually heard it yet. No-one except us that is.
Vice are extraordinarily lucky; thanks to Ed O’Brien’s abiding fondness for our Behind The Music column, the Oxford quintet have agreed to offer us sole, unprecedented access to the record–access obtained deep within the bowels of XL’s Ladbroke Grove headquarters, where the only existing promo copy is presently under firm lock and key.
Below, we’ve written up a complete track-by-track guide to give you a foretaste of this most salivated-over cultural obelisk.
1. INTRO 1
Johnny Greenwood’s lush orchestral opener contains virtually no words, except for a brief refrain at the end, where Thom intones over and over in his most morose vocal: “War. Killed. Me. I. Died. In. A. Big. War.”
2. INTRO 2 (INTO THE BATTERY FARM)
“Babies’ eyes/Babies’ eyes/cancer, flies, thyroid pies,” laments Thom, on this beastly overture, reminiscent of “The National Anthem”, or perhaps “Killer Cars”, while Johnny Greenwood plays a timpani with a zither as though the planet’s alternative fuel options depended on it.
3. P£T£R P£PP£R
The first of the tracks that Radiohead composed by riffing over whatever was playing on Fearne Cotton’s Live Lounge during that day then erasing the original track, “P£T£R P£PP£R” is Thom’s deeply personal reaction to the events of the banking crisis. It is an angry rant at the 12% per annum depreciation in the value of his Oxford mansion over the past three years, for which he holds Sir Fred Goodwin personally responsible, juxtaposing the dramatic collapse of RBS and a local tableau of his house-selling circumstances.
Key lyric: “Cardboard boxes/Files for the shredder/Did Foxtons call, hon?/End of my tether.”
4. THE OBSERVER
Where would the ‘world’s first newspaper album’ be without the ‘world’s first newspaper song’? An interlude similar to “Fitter, Happier…” in which Victoria Coren’s Observer columns are read chronologically by the late WWI Tommy, Harry Patch, over a nine minute slice of “Bieber 800%”.
5. TAILBACK ON THE LUNAR EXPRESS
Radiohead’s most challenging composition yet. Consisting in its totality of a single note on an acoustic guitar played in a metronomic four beats to the bar, it reputedly took the group two years just to build the studio set-up that would allow them to create the perfect take, during which time Nigel Godrich had three nervous breakdowns and began hallucinating that he was a tick on the rump of Aztec king Montezuma.
6. RAPE ALARM
Like “Nude” on In Rainbows, this is Radiohead stripped bare: a song that will send goose-shivers up your spine, down your aorta, straight into your left ventricle, killing you. Only play if you’re on statins and have a BMI of less than 25.
7. CREEP II
A Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps-style updating of the material that first won them fame, “Creep II” is a tender ballad that finds the same character approaching middle-age, reflecting on his traumatic unrequited love, looking her up on Facebook, then expressing a high degree of schadenfreude in finding out that she’s fat, newly divorced from her jock asshole high school sweetheart, working in a call center for EDF Energy in Stratford, and lists Amy McDonald and The Beatles as her favorite musicians.
8. CALLS WILL COST £1 PLUS STANDARD RATE. CALLS FROM MOBILES MAY BE CONSIDERABLY MORE
A hurricane scree of “Idioteque” electronic noise and acid jazz with a bassline sampled from the Fat Albert theme-tune and replayed on a baguette, over which Thom spits his most barbed lyrical darts yet.
Key lyric: “Louis/Liar. Cheryl/Chernobyl. Dannii/Dachau. Simon/Srebrenica. Pouty face/Cross face. Backstory/Sob story. Red tops/Top off. Best bits/Montage. Black one/Gay one/Old one/Comedy one. Vote me off/Lead me on/Put. Me. Down.”
9. FML
A clear marker that the Oxford quintet have been keeping pace with the most cutting-edge music of the 20th Century, this is a gloopy, ethereal noisespace that sounds like Burial jamming with M. Ward in a nightbus at the bottom of the Thames on a mixing desk made of ennui and marmalade. Lyrically, the Iraq Inquiry comes under Thom’s microscope as he contrasts Tony Blair’s testimony with the sex scenes glimpsed in his memoir, A Journey, and directly addresses Cheri Blair.
Key lyric: “Mrs, how did your huge mouth kiss his lips that lied?/Did you moan as the Iraqi children cried?”
10. OUTRO II (INTRO)
As a stuttering, almost tango beat builds from wafts of diaphanous electronic noise in the background, three minor chords ring out insistently on a grand piano, and a single cello etches a heartbreakingly rich, redolent tattoo of warm, regretful passions, over which Thom Yorke sings about how much he loves pussy.
Key lyric: “Pussy. Pussy. Pussy/Slurp. Slurp. Slurp.
Slap dat, lick dat, split dat, spit dat.
Girl your coochie get so moist/I ain’t got no other choice.
Big ones small ones fat ones thin ones/Don’t give a ****/Long as I’m in one.”
Instant verdict?
Another classic: one that marries the taut electronica of Pablo Honey with the anthemic Britpop belters of Kid A and the complex prog of The Bends. A radical reinvention that fuses timeless langour with post-modern darkness over towering ziggurat electronica. It is a quantum leap; in the sense that it transplants you inside the body of a West Virginia stripper in 1967 who has to solve her brother’s murder with the help of a computer called Ziggy. Innovative use of physical product… saving record industry… blah… reluctant stars… contrarians… pioneers… Godrich, their fifth Beatle… still ahead of the curve… blah shellfish… Glastonbury… picnic… shoes… bus… car crashes… Global warning… more than just an album… etc.
GAVIN HAYNES
Feral is the stand out track for me so far.
...and Codex is the one Drac will want to soundtrack his passing.
Vice mag review...
Problem with that is Vice Mag is a hipster orientated douche fest.
😀
Father Ted...
Are you sure that review wasn't written by Nathan Barley for Sugar Ape?
GAVIN HAYNES
...needs to work on his "funny" thing 🙂
😆
Just listened to this and Im fairly Impressed , Standouts for me are .
Track 2 Morning Mr Magpie
Track 3 little by little
Track 5 Lotus Flower
Track 6 Codex 🙂
Track 7 Give up the Ghost
Not as Instant as album as In Rainbows but very good and miles better than anything else released recently. Though I do have a soft spot for Chase and Status new album.
Long live the King ....
and miles better than anything else released recently
Dunno about that.
Horses for courses though.
Sublime.
I like it. I saw them at Hammersmith Apollo, they were astonishingly good.
heh heh
Inspired! 😀
Already available on pirate sites. At just 30 minutes long even £6 seems a bit expensive.
It's nearer 38 mins. Is that enough to persuade one not to rip it off?
Well, is it better than [i]In Rainbows[/i]?
No, it's different from In Rainbows
So it's probably worth a listen then 🙂
I really liked "In Rainbows", and I think this one is terrible. So, make of that what you will 🙂
My favourite Radiohead album has always been 'The Bends' and I think like many others I've been a little disappointed they haven't done more stuff like that, but it's understandable. Do we really want them to turn in to Oasis or U2?
After one listen I really like this album, certainly more than I liked 'In Rainbows' when I first listened. There's something going on in this album which is very different to anything they've done before.