Great bump
I always wondered if the cheering sample on 15 step was from rollercoaster tycoon
Vaguely remember reading at the time that they went to a school to record a childrenâs choir singing a part for another track that they ended up not using but they got them to shout HEY for 15 Step while they were there
AMSP is decent tbh. 7.4/10
I should sue whoever changed the thread title (I wrote âwasnât very goodâ but it got changed years ago)
Will I change it back? I thought it had been edited alright.
Love this album
Still shocked thatâs the arrangement of âTrue Love Waitsâ they decided was good enough to release
True Love Waits is my 2nd favourite Radiohead song after How To Disappear⌠i always liked the live version but holy shit i was not prepared. Supposedly one of the reasons they finally finished it was to get Godrich to shut up about it; he hated the live version and always thought they should do it proper.
makes sense that the version on the album ended up sounding a lot like the version they often played as a live intro to Everything in its Right Place, but then surprising that they barely played it at all on the album tour (and started doing EIIRP on a different keyboard so they couldnât even do it as an intro anymore). if memory serves they ended up reverting to the acoustic version eventually
i quite like the album version even if it took a bit of getting used to, but i was still pretty surprised they bothered re-doing it - unlike the other famous unreleased tracks iâd always considered them putting it on the live record to be drawing a line under it and that counting as it being finished and released.
AMSP is a good 8/10 record really. Probably a couple of tracks too long and Iâm reliably informed that I have a wrong oppinion about one of the tracks I would remove.
Really like the version of TLW as a coda for an album about heartbreak, sounds broken in all the right ways, but doesnât sound like a definitive âbig Radiohead songâ. Maybe they never saw it that way though. I think there is some merit to having the lovely plaintive wide-eyed acoustic version and the regretful broken version from different points in their relationship.
Love the cruelty of this
Would you believe Iâve never listened to it? And with Kid A being the Radiohead album on the HGIIR list weâre never going to know for sure
Unlike all other Radiohead albums I find I only listen to A Moon Shaped Pool on headphones. Itâs not an album I can listen to in the car or have on in the background because itâs so subtle.
AMSP would have been better without Burn The Witch at the start. Just keep that track as a single.
Surely we can make a special allowance to find the answer to this thread?
I guess a number rating poll could just be posted in here
Glass Eyes is one of my favourite radiohead tunes