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Well, up until the release of A Moon Shaped Pool, the IMBW live version was the only official version of the song. So... you probably do remember, because it was 2016.  |
I don't want to be 'that girl', but...I've only really been into them since about 2017.
I'm not that old...
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Originally Posted by Severian
[a bunch of words about Amnesiac]
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As of a few weeks ago, my ranking of the songs on Amnesiac:
1. I Might Be Wrong
2. Pyramid Song
x. the live version of Like Spinning Plates
3. You and Whose Army?
4. Life in a Glasshouse
5. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
6. Dollars and Cents
7. Knives Out
8. Like Spinning Plates
9. Hunting Bears
10. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
11. Morning Bell/Amnesiac
I agree with you on stuff like Sardines, Morning Bell, and Whose Army?, but Pyramid Song is magnificent and Life in a Glasshouse is great. And, while Spinning Plates is a good song, the backwards piano studio version seems like a bit of style over substance. The live version destroys it.
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Blur’s “13” kicks the living shit out of “Amnesiac” and that’s the truth.
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Not disagreeing. You know my Blur opinions though.
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NOW... In Rainbows has some nice tracks.
“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” is one of the band’s all-time best songs. No question. And “Videotape” is great and weird. And “All I Need” is like a grown-up version of “Climbing up the Walls.”
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Those are good ones. The issue is, when songs from IR come on shuffle, I skip over them usually.
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But what REALLY disappointed me about that album is this:
Every other Radiohead album after The Bends had one song that just seemed to blow the world apart and stand as a document in and of itself, pointing to the future — or to some weirdass other plane, never to be spoken of again — and away from the rest of the album. But In Rainbows has no such song.
Sure, you could argue “Videotape” but that’s not it.
On OKC it was “Electioneering” (or fucking “Paranoid Android,” for that matter, but I say “Electioneering” because it stood out, and people didn’t like it, but it rocked like hell and was almost preternaturally predictive of the political landscape 20 years later.
On Kid A it was “Idiotqeue”
On Amnesiac it was “I Might Be Wrong”
On Hail to the Thief it was the motherfucking KING of the bonkers Radiohead album outliers, “Myxomatosis,” which, to this day, is my single favorite Radiohead song because WHAT THE FUCK.
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All of those outliers are great. Myxomatosis probably makes my top ten RH songs, but please don't make me come up with a list because I couldn't.