A stupid "how'd they do it" thread...

[captions87]

Scriabin, that's pretty cool! I knew something was very strange about that track but I could never put my finger on it. I personally prefer the nice live version that's floating around though, it's a great piano piece.

It's always funny to read anti-radiohead comments; not that I didn't expect them from this group. Bad lyrics is the funniest...not enough phat rhymes I guess. Oh well

VotaIdiota, I though Amnesiac was kind of all over the place too for a while, but now I think it's definately the natural evolution for them. To me Kid A is a very scattered album with mostly experimental stuff...cool, but I don't listen to it a ton anymore. I think that Amnesiac, on the other hand, is considerably more practiced from a sound perspective, and more thought was put into the songs themselves. There are some fantastic passages in there that stand up with moments from some of the greatest albums. I heard somewhere that they tracked Amnesiac at the same time they did Kid A, but I'm not sure I buy that.

Slackmaster 2000

the weird thing is that every single kid a and amnesiac song (along with the respective b-sides), were all recorded at the same time. the string orchestra that was used in "how to disappear completely" was the same orchestra used in either "pyramid song" or "you and whose army?", and if memory serves me correct, those songs were both recorded the same day too.

 

[Dogbreath]

there are synths, but it's a choir/vocal sound that Jonny Greenwood plays, he doesn't play much electric guitar on that song, those duties fall more on Ed O'Brien in that track.

(psssst.....that post was 8 years ago. )

peace-n-shit.

 

[captions87]

yeahh i realized that, but i was doing a forum search of nigel godrich and this was one of the threads that popped up. besides, good info is priceless, although this seems to have turned from a "how'd they do it" to a "hate vs. love" radiothread. personally, i love radiohead, in fact i'd consider them my favorite band. and one of the reasons why i love them so much is because they never make the same album twice. every album sounds like radiohead, but each one seems to sound like a different side of radiohead that you hadn't previously heard. as far as their recent works, i loved in rainbows. weird fishes is probably my second favorite RH song of all time behind "knives out". and hail to the chief is very underrated as a radiohead album. there are not only some really cool sounding songs, but some cool little things they did to the recordings. perfect example, listen to the subtle effects they sneak in the vocals throughout "scatterbrain."