I prefer Cymbal Rush more than this. But, still quite good.

Great set.

laptopdown wrote: i'm w/ parrothead.

parrothead wrote: what you write is a perfect example that you just need fingers to write opinions and not opinions too... thom yorke re-wrote colours and shapes of music... respect. thom yorke not just re-wrote colours and shapes of music... he has a great voice too... bye. lptpdn

Some skeptics out there, but I've already found two gems on this effort and this is one of them...I'm sure I'll find more...

parrothead wrote: Your comment is a good example that you don't have to hear to be a listener.

Zep wrote: Straight up.

jah_blessed wrote: If you really feel that way, then you should look at the music catalogue. Not all of it is dark. Dickens was largely "dark" as well...yet he is 'somehow' still considered one of the greatest authors of all time.

Fecking brilliant.

Thistle wrote: OK, since when is the desire to elevate one's mood inane? Of course, music could be genuinely expressing the sadder or darker elements of human nature, but I daresay Thom Yorke and Radiohead simply have no other mode of communication. They take themselves so seriously that the effect becomes farcical, rather than genuine.

dorkmeister wrote: I don't think RP listeners are very PC. I find myself torn with respect to Radiohead. Some of music I find refreshing while some of it is merely grating and/or annoying. Thom Yorke is the distinctive voice of Radiohead, so a solo album shouldn't be much different, yet it is. Somehow the negative qualities of his voice, when he reaches for the higher notes, seem to be magnified on this CD, and I don't like it very much. But I can't fully explain why.

Is there some sort of political correctness rearing its ugly head amongst the eclectic listnership? Did Thom Yorke do something to fall out of favor that elicits such vitriol? Y'all bes crazy.

parrothead wrote: well....thom was a good singer until ok computer and I used to love his voice and his way of singing...then, I don't know why he decided to destroy his way of singing.... ? well....after an album like ok computer...how can you do to impress people?.....

This song and Radiohead stuff is a good example that you don't have to be a good singer to be a successful singer..

Deee-pressive! It gets you down, all right.

It really gets me down that they keep playing it..

Make it stop.

luminousjune wrote: AGREED!!

thatch wrote: Gee... too bad not every song can elevate your mood -- then again, it is a good thing the greatest composers of all time didn't have the same INANE desire. Otherwise all music would be the same wearisome dreck I hear in mainstream music.

love it. keep it. the end.

Please read the editorial piece in Slate (click here) I'm not a fan either but this is an interesting view of why some might be...

It's so bad...it gets me down...Grating, dull, monotonous, etc. Why play so much Radiohead/Thom Yorke?

I am having a hard time distinguishing this from previous Radiohead albums. I like it, in a certain moody sort of way, but that's how i feel about radio head.

Time will be the judge if any of you are right. I am betting against you. I think this is brilliant.

If it wasn't from Mr. Radiohead, it wouldn't have made the playlist.

prairiedogj wrote: You're being too kind. A firm 1. This is the reason why Radiohead sucks. Take Thom out, and Radiohead might even be very enjoyable.

A N N O Y I N G

I dunno. Why didn't he record this with Radiohead? His lads could have played this much better. It's the same question as why did Mike Scott do a solo album without the Waterboys? I don't get it.

Only a couple songs off the album are good-- this one and Harrowdown Hill, otherwise its a hodgepodge of electronica.

mkd wrote: impossible.

Brilliant. I am buying this asap.

rather mesmeric like the album cover

too much radiohead taste...