palace Basic Member Posts:392  
| 7/7/2006 12:09 PM |
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unicron, going off topic and sticking with your johnny cash... i never bought any of the american recordings... the only cover i've heard from them is 'hurt' which is obviously fantastic... bearing in mind that that's from no.4, it is no.3 that interests me because of the 'i see a darkness' and 'mercy seat'covers... as good a starting place as any?
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Gar Veteran Member Posts:1676
| 7/7/2006 12:18 PM |
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It defo is Palace. Cash's version of Nick Cave's 'The Mercy Seat' is one of the best cover versions of all time. I'd recommend the entire American Recordings series as well as the remastered version of 'Folsom Prison'.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/7/2006 12:36 PM |
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I think Gar covered it all there.
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
| 7/7/2006 12:42 PM |
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Sorry to butt in......but can't have people going out and picking up 'The Johnny Cash Children's Album' by mistake.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/7/2006 12:57 PM |
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Heaven forfend.
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ishrinkBasic Member Posts:195
| 7/7/2006 2:31 PM |
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Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Here’s a little bit of history, just in case you’re twelve years old or something: There once was a band called Radiohead who made two pop-rock albums, followed by a gigantic nerd opus called OK Computer that set the world’s population of dweebic collegiate brow-furrowers on fire like so many lighters at a Bon Jovi encore. After that, Thom Yorke had a stroke and forgot how to make words with his mouth, and Jonny Greenwood decided that he was too smart for tunes. Since then, they’ve been periodically plopping out bewildering hunks of semi-musical garbage which nerds pretend to enjoy in order to seem smart.
While Radiohead’s release schedule isn’t too regular, they are certainly prolific in one regard: the albums they occasionally do release are so jam-packed with stupid ideas that even the most voracious consumer of failure will be tided over for a good many years. However, within the constraints of a band so meticulous and perfectionist about giving each and every bad idea the mucous-shine of overwrought humorlessness, Thom Yorke found himself cooking up more bad ideas than could be accommodated by their plodding schedule. Nerds rejoice: Yorke’s po-faced pretension has finally burst the Radiohead dam, and a muddy tide of bad ideas is now spilling toward you like a tidal wave.
Unfettered by the musicality of his bandmates, Thom Yorke is now free to develop his music in whatever direction he sees fit. Judging by the prevailing sonic trends on The Eraser, that direction is “clicking and moaning.” While the record is comprised of approximately 45% clicks and 35% moans, Yorke puts his sonic genius on display by bunging the cracks with liberal smattering of beeps, bonks, shuffles, grating monotone loops, and a whirring cavalcade of sundry electronic nuisances.
Basically, imagine a Radiohead album with all the music removed and replaced by irritating, ticking bulls**t.
Oh, silly me, that’s what the last three and a half Radiohead albums have sounded like anyway. How about this: imagine that Radiohead had all their musical instruments stolen and yet were contractually obligated to deliver an album in one hour.
You know what? This is all too complicated for something so fundamentally simple. Just imagine that Thom Yorke made a really boring, dashed-off solo album cobbled together exclusively from the worst elements of Radiohead’s recent career and lacking entirely in redeeming features. Now imagine Pitchfork Media ejaculating out their fingertips and every nerd you know not shutting the f**k up about it, ever. This record is seriously terrible, and when I say “seriously,” don’t mean that I’m serious about the album being terrible, I mean that the album is serious about being terrible.
Addendum: 22% of the letters in Thom Yorke’s name are superfluous. f**k him.
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3888
I think that says it all really.
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/7/2006 7:10 PM |
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So ... did that guy like it then?
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 7/9/2006 5:22 PM |
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I bought this today, am listening to it for the first time as I type and am on the final track. I really, really like it. I didn't expect to, or at least I thought that if I was going to like it then it'd be after repeated listening to get my head around it (cue nay-sayer with "there's not much there to get your head around" quip) but it's grabbed me straight away.
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Micklectic New Member Posts:15
| 7/9/2006 9:48 PM |
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i really like it
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Rev JulesVeteran Member Posts:1041
| 7/9/2006 10:42 PM |
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Originally posted by ishrink
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Basically, imagine a Radiohead album with all the music removed
But thats every Radiohead album  |
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palaceBasic Member Posts:392
| 7/10/2006 9:40 AM |
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i liked the one song i heard in a shop the other day... however, that's like enjoying a j-lo song while driving in to work... it could mean anything
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cometBasic Member Posts:485
| 7/20/2006 2:44 PM |
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The album has gone into the US billboard charts at No.2!
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benni Advanced Member Posts:947
| 7/20/2006 2:45 PM |
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yea i saw that on nme - thats crazy! And deadly for a bit o variation of genre on the ole R n B / Sugar Pop dominated charts over there
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kavobagginsBasic Member Posts:199
| 7/20/2006 2:48 PM |
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well theyve done well enough over there recently. bit wierd then when you look back at the "Meeting People is Easy" documentry, they hated the place and the U.S harly warmed to them wither.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 7/20/2006 4:06 PM |
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Radiohead have always been really popular in the States. I even think Kid A was number one there - definately in the top 5.
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elmo95Basic Member Posts:156
| 7/20/2006 4:29 PM |
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Kid A did get to number 1 and hail to the thief went to number 3
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elmo95Basic Member Posts:156
| 7/21/2006 12:25 AM |
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Gave The Eraser a listen there earlier on and I must say that sounds like a telephone on cocaine. Has it grown on anybody or is it a simple case of appealing/appaling to certain people
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ctrlaltdeleteBasic Member Posts:268
| 7/21/2006 1:39 AM |
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Originally posted by elmo95
Gave The Eraser a listen there earlier on and I must say that sounds like a telephone on cocaine. Has it grown on anybody or is it a simple case of appealing/appaling to certain people
It's a grower. Give it time.
not worthy of a mercury nod though.
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BEAT CONNECTIONNew Member Posts:36
| 7/21/2006 9:25 AM |
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great album. worth it for aphex style keyboard in the first track alone
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kavobagginsBasic Member Posts:199
| 7/21/2006 10:09 AM |
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Originally posted by BEAT CONNECTION
great album. worth it for aphex style keyboard in the first track alone
First track is brilliant alright. |
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