#102

Optical didnā€™t transfer track info on my one. I actually labelled a mixtape for a mate using that twist control on the headphones, letter by letter. Took bloody ages.

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#103

I think I did this once

Minidiscs were great, basically cassettes with much better quality

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#104

Info depended on the CD having text and your CD player IIRC but I meant that it definitely put the track markers in on tracks with no 2 second silence between them :slightly_smiling_face:

#105

I think I first heard Idioteque at one of those Nesh nights. Thought it was Thom Yorke featuring on a track by Aphex of someone.

Radiohead have always been about the whole package for me. Enjoyed a lot of the music on Kid A but it had way more than that - insane videos and visuals at shows, great covers, amazing ideas. These guys were in the year above me at university and I remember being blown away by the stuff they were doingā€¦

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#106

i only actually listened to this the whole way through for the first time last night, despite having had it on my iTunes library for a decade, and had definitely started listening to it a dozen times or soā€¦ so uh i guess that says something.

but, anyway. itā€™s fine. 7/10, would be an 8 or maybe even a 9 without the vocals

(i am really craving a BOC thread in the HGATR/HGIIR series)

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#107

Good call! @anon19035908 are Boards of Canada on the list at all?

#108

Went for an 8, because like many others, while I really like the majority of the album itā€™s very rarely something I reach for. I also think the live versions of almost all of the Kid A tracks are significantly better than the recorded ones.

A more generic Radiohead thought: I kind of feel that while they introduced all these new instruments/tech to their music, they still seem to write the majority of the songs as either piano or guitar-led tracks, then spend an eternity fucking around with them in order to make them less ā€œobviousā€. Most of the time, I kind of wish they wouldnā€™t botherā€¦

Edit to add - I once read an article saying that Kid A was electronic music produced like loudness wars rock, which I havenā€™t been able to get out fo my head since. A good few of these songs feel a bit neutered and flat.

#109

When I first got into them around the time HTTT came out I consciously avoided Kid A and Amnesiac for ages as Iā€™d heard so much about them being shit and weird. Think it was another 2 or 3 years before I got round to them, even though HTTT had grown on me pretty quickly. started getting into live versions of the tracks first so eventually got the studio albums, the Kid A stuff in particularly felt a bit muted at first on the record compared to how they sounded live but the chilly atmosphere grew on me a lot. The Bends had been my favourite album of all time for a couple of years but I was wearing it out so Kid A was primed to take its place once I finally got into it (always liked OK Computer of course but itā€™s never been my favourite)

quite hard to pick between Kid A and In Rainbows for the top spot now, both very good at creating a mood, although the Kid A stuff will always be their best live material. controversially HTTT is probably my overall favourite these days if we can separate ā€˜favouriteā€™ from ā€˜bestā€™

#110

Donā€™t Fear The Reaper and Godzilla are both absolute tunes tbf.
Not so familiar with anything else though.

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#111

man, get agents of fortune on right now!

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#112

This is the one Alan Partridge recommends tbf :grinning:
I will give it a go!

#113

well worth picking up the LP for 99p in your local oxfam

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#114

okay so i was totally thinking ā€˜boards of canadaā€™ not ā€˜blue oyster cultā€™ when it came to the boc acronym

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But if someone said BOC on a music board my mind goes to Blue Oyster Cult first.

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#116

boards of who?

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#120

Well, this is unexpected. After 20 years I think Iā€™m finally beginning to like this album. No idea how to rate it yet though. Iā€™m definitely noticing more things about it than before. All I can remember of my first experience was ā€œcold soulless electronic noisesā€ but itā€™s surprising this time around how much more Iā€™m discovering.

How to Disappear Completely currently doing the most for me, but finding idiotequeā€™s lyrics quite chilling. (That was the one song that I always did like though.)

Thereā€™s a live album primarily of songs from Kid A on Spotify which also helped a little.

Seems like In Rainbows might be pretty good as well.

Not for the first time in my life, seems like I was totally wrong all this time.

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#121

I genuinely despised this album when it came out. I loved the Bends and OK Computer and at the time this just felt flat by comparison.

Listening now I like it a lot more but itā€™s not an album I often reach for.

7/10