Radiohead Discussion Topic

Originally posted by RUMMY:I am quite sure OKC and IR weren't recorded at the same time but there's a good chance that many, if not all of the IR tracks were conceived in 1997. The most obvious case is "Nude" (aka "Big Ideas") which can be heared in the documentary Meeting People Is Easy.

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

Yes, Nude was certainly written/recorded FOR OK Computer, but it was not used. Most of the IR songs were, as you put it, conceived in 97. Not really recorded, and perhaps not even completely written 100%, but the ideas were there and the double-album is clearly intentional.

Originally posted by Macphistfly:[..]

Which is probably why some of it sounded good.
Hipsters killed Radiohead.

Originally posted by RUMMY:[..]

Not a fan of Kid A?

Originally posted by Macphistfly:[..]

I am and I'm not.

On one hand it has 'Idioteque' (hasn't been out of my head for the past week) and 'Everything' two songs I really like, but on the other hand its the album that effectively killed Jonny Greenwood (imho one of the most amazing guitarists in history) from letting loose, and it's started the path to this recent album which is an unintelligible piece of scratches and loops.

Originally posted by Macphistfly:[..]

I am and I'm not.

On one hand it has 'Idioteque' (hasn't been out of my head for the past week) and 'Everything' two songs I really like, but on the other hand its the album that effectively killed Jonny Greenwood (imho one of the most amazing guitarists in history) from letting loose, and it's started the path to this recent album which is an unintelligible piece of scratches and loops.

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

Yes, Nude was certainly written/recorded FOR OK Computer, but it was not used. Most of the IR songs were, as you put it, conceived in 97. Not really recorded, and perhaps not even completely written 100%, but the ideas were there and the double-album is clearly intentional.

Originally posted by bobplaysthedrums:[..]

OK, just one song. ollseyes: If they were all mostly written in 1997, then why did it take them over 2 years for them to record the album? If they were all written in 1997 it wouldn't have taken that long, unless they were really, really lazy. And if the double-album was ever planned or intentional you would have heard about it from someone from Radiohead land and/or a music critic.

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

When someone put all of Thom Yorke's intentional clues together, and posted about it on the internet, he replied with a message that in so many words said "I can't believe it took you this long"...

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

Update: Just found the info I was looking for. Puddlegum (some music blog) wrote an article about this back in about 07, after which Thom Yorke had Puddlegum contacted to talk to them about it, saying he was having fun watching people have no clue what he had done, congratulating them on putting together "what he had left right in front of their faces"...and, another quote from Puddlegum, about their correspondence with Yorke, that seems to help solidify this, "It seems to annoy him that no one ‘gets it’ yet, given the mountain of clues.”

Originally posted by jofice:I think clues about being Christ would be a bit obvious.. Curing blindness, leprosy, walking on water. Shouldn't take too long to spot you.