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Artist:Radiohead
Title:The King Of Limbs
Label:  Ticker Tape Ltd.
Country:Europe
Date:2011
Catalogue:TICK001CD
Barcode:827565057665
Format:CD Album
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Community: 7 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
01RadioheadBloomRadiohead8.5  Rate
02RadioheadMorning Mr MagpieRadiohead6.5  Rate
03RadioheadLittle By LittleRadiohead7.0  Rate
04RadioheadFeralRadiohead6.5  Rate
05RadioheadLotus FlowerRadiohead9.0  Rate
06RadioheadCodexRadiohead8.0  Rate
07RadioheadGive Up The GhostRadiohead10.0  Rate
08RadioheadSeparatorRadiohead9.5  Rate


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Magic Marmalade
21st Jan 2017
 Incidentally, this one, even on CD seems to go for a couple of quid more than any of their other albums

(not brain bustingly so or anything, just about 7-8 pounds instead of £5 and under, for instance).

I think this may be because this was the time we were collectively at the pitch of our MP3, new technology cool-aid mania, or conversely, the nadir of our CD and physical format buying tendencies... and so there may be just a mite less of them about than the others, having not sold as many originally for market reasons.
 
 
Magic Marmalade
21st Jan 2017
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Half a great Radiohead album.

...and half a mediocre one.

Radiohead are perhaps the only band for me, who get me excited with a new release, as I genuinely don't know what I'm going to get with each new offering.

From the more grungy, indie-ish beginnings of Pablo Honey, they knocked it completely out of the park with The Bends, then made a very ambitious "concept" style album in OK computer...

(which I don't think personally is a patch on The Bends, but, well, you know, popular opinion says different)

...And they could have just settled into repetition of a then established winning formula, as many bands do... But instead, they completely knocked people (including me) sideways with the double tap of Kid A, and Amnesiac, which all but shed all previous notions of what to expect from their music, by being very commercially daring, and experimental, using squeaks, squggles, and other assorted syntho-tronica to create various abstract sounds, impressionistic music, and often more minimal affairs.

This side-stepping continued with a comparatively underwhelming release of Hail To The Thief, which actually has proven to be a real grower, piece by piece, over time, so as to be as good an album in it's own right as any of their others for me; And finally, thinking that anything approaching a more conventionally melodic sound and structure was a thing of Radiohead's past, they released In Rainbows, which is perhaps, song for song, their strongest collection of songs since The Bends (Albeit that Videotape, at the end of that one, is a complete dirge, that even a Radiohead fan like me finds pretty much unlistenable shit).

...And so it was that the latest one: A Moon Shaped Poo, was such a crushing disappointment to me... as I'd come to expect jagged edges, surprises, and other challenging parts in keeping with the Radiohead M.O. - But instead, they bottled it I think, and instead, delivered a "safe" album, of very average, paint by numbers Radiohead formula sludge... of course, your average fan may say its' very pleasant, and tuneful and all, but with the final capitulation of including an old song: True Love Waits indicating to me that they have finally run out of steam, and ideas, I have opted, after listening, not to buy that one...

Which caused me to go back to the one album missing form my previous Radiohead career review (Hooray, he got there eventually! :)...

The King Of Limbs.

...Which is quite an odd Radiohead experience, in that they open with perhaps one of their most experimental, and challenging listens: Bloom. A collection of random sounds, scrapes, and stumbling drum patterns, which creates a kind of surreal, trippy, abstract soundscape, and which would not have been out of place on Kid A.

Lovely so far!

but then, it's about turn for three of perhaps their most boring and mediocre tunes in a row.

Which, for anyone who is not a Radiohead fan, would have had them turning off at least by the second of those, after having had their brain pulled about a bit by the opening track.

And that's a shame, because the second half is Radiohead at their most brilliant, with four tunes in a row that could stand alongside any of the best songs they have done before:

Lotus Flower, Codex, The sublime: Give Up The Ghost, and The great: Separator are pure Thom Yorkery, Radiohead brilliance.

So Tend to listen to Bloom either by itself, or with tracks from Kid A and Amnesiac, the second half as a kind of mini-album, and skip the three in between.

And as for A Moon Shaped Poo... sorry lads... try harder. Or give up the ghost.

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Magic Marmalade
21st Aug 2016
 Well that's just bonkers!

I went to youtube to try and get a video for Give Up The Ghost, and all of the ones there are completely different versions to what's on the album... as are the vids for every single track on the album!

(some close, but ever so slightly differently mixed)
 

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