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I've been trying to think of mine after you typed this and I'm 99% sure it was Mellon Collie. I did buy The White Album in high school, but later as my mom owned a copy and I'd just borrow all her Beatles albums usually. I don't think I can come up with one I'd have bought before Mellon Collie. Hmm. |
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Hey. I have a trivial but genuine note for you and it is this: You should start using paragraphs. Break up your writing with appropriate markers denoting the start and end point of your thoughts. I say this becaus I really enjoy reading your little write-ups, even when I don't like the band or the album in question — they provide a nice little window into an alternative (and usually far more forgiving and optimistic) perspective than my own. However, when I scroll through the thread and I see just one huge lump of text, my impulse as a reader is to avoid it. In fact, I sometimes find myself reading the first and last sentences and then starting to reply or moving on before even realizing it, and having to go back. I don't want to do you like that bro, so maybe you could humor me here, and put some miles on the old "return" key for your buddy Severian. :) Since the format of this forum doesn't lend itself to standard paragraphs (no quick indentations), you might even consider leaving a full line between some of the bigger blocks. I know, it's picky, but I like your posts, and it will make them much easier on the ol' eyeballs. |
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Hey fuck you, buddy. |
haha.
Truthfully, the one-big-paragraph thing is totally intentional for these little write-ups. I have my own weird little OCD reasons. I do think that the blocks of text look much bigger than the are to you because you're often reading them on your phone, though. Maybe. |
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True. I've maybe logged into this website twice in the past two years on a laptop or desktop or anything other than an iPhone or iPad. Still... even if you don't use full line breaks between graphs, throw me a bone and hit "enter/return" every once in a while!!! |
![]() Radiohead Kid A 2000, I spent the three years between Ok Computer and its follow-up obsessing over Radiohead's every move. I had so many bootlegs from that period that even I thought I could imagine what their next record would sound like. But I was wrong. From the moment I heard the soothing opening synth notes of "Everything In Its Right Place," I knew that Radiohead had destroyed their own music in order to create it anew. It was astounding in 2000 to hear a new Radiohead album... one that barely had any guitars. While familiar bootleg tune "How To Disappear" survived only mostly unscathed, the acoustic ballad "Motion Picture Soundtrack" was almost unrecognizable. The title track had vocals - I just couldn't understand them. "Treefingers" was three and a half minutes of ambience. "Idioteque" is like almost really club music. In hindsight none of this was all that weird: their last album opened with a tribute to DJ Shadow, while its b-sides collaborated with Zero 7 and a remix by Fila Brazillia. This new sound was also grounded a bit by the urgent acoustic guitars strums of "Optimistic" and the absolutely rocking bassline of "National Anthem." Kid A was a brave record, but one that makes sense in hindsight. There's no way the band could have made a proper follow-up to OK Computer. So why not just reinvent the band? |
tl;dr fuck you
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Seriously didn't read.
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well, i would've been interested in your feedback, and find it kind of odd that some arbitrary spacing would make you read it. Again - must be a cellphone thing because it's not even that long.
Does this help? Radiohead Kid A 2000, I spent the three years between Ok Computer and its follow-up obsessing over Radiohead's every move. I had so many bootlegs from that period that even I thought I could imagine what their next record would sound like. But I was wrong. From the moment I heard the soothing opening synth notes of "Everything In Its Right Place," I knew that Radiohead had destroyed their own music in order to create it anew. It was astounding in 2000 to hear a new Radiohead album... one that barely had any guitars. While familiar bootleg tune "How To Disappear" survived only mostly unscathed, the acoustic ballad "Motion Picture Soundtrack" was almost unrecognizable. The title track had vocals - I just couldn't understand them. "Treefingers" was three and a half minutes of ambience. "Idioteque" is like almost really club music. In hindsight none of this was all that weird: their last album opened with a tribute to DJ Shadow, while its b-sides collaborated with Zero 7 and a remix by Fila Brazillia. This new sound was also grounded a bit by the urgent acoustic guitars strums of "Optimistic" and the absolutely rocking bassline of "National Anthem." Kid A was a brave record, but one that makes sense in hindsight. There's no way the band could have made a proper follow-up to OK Computer. So why not just reinvent the band? |
Nope. You're breaking up sentences for no reason. I'm just asking you to hit enter every once in a while, after a period of course.
Why would this look any better to anyone than the other way ? |
I guess I don't know why it bothers you so much. Your first paragraph of your latest reply in the movie thread is 203 words. This Radiohead paragraph is 227. It's not a giant stretch really is it?
The main thing is, I listen to albums and jot down my thoughts without planning them out or formatting them or even re-reading them. It's literally just an initial thought so it comes out in one un-broken thought. And I keep these (for myself) in a word doc as a listening journal. And I happen to share them here if anyone feels like discussing those albums. What you're asking me to do is go back and re-read them and format them differently than how I actually jot them down. I can almost understand the block of text being a turnoff on a phone or whatever, except some of these blocks of text are the same-size-ish-ness of one paragraph of a longer post of yours. No? |
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I read it. Just cos you have the internet age attention span of a ADHD gnat doesn't mean we all do. |
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Fixed! See? Anyway, of course I agree with everything you're saying, and I too remember my first listening experience with Kid A. I sat at my computer with it playing through headphones and frantically AIMd my friend (who hadn't purchased it yet) with updates. I messaged him the lyrics as they played, like "Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon" followed by many question marks, and I tried to explain what the album was like. I failed, but I did say at one point, "this almost sounds like Aphex Twin," which was probably my most on-point comment on the album. Yeah. I mean, if you can't keep building, at some point you need to burn the fucker down. Kid A is far less experimental sonically than it sounded at the time, but for a #1 record it still shocks me that it hit so big. |
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I'm not asking you to go through all your reviews and reformat. What? I'm just saying hit enter sometimes. Or don't. I'm cranky. And yes, I type massive paragraphs too, but paragraph is the operative word. I'll type one, hit enter, type another, and usually write a shit ton of blah, but not in one big square. The shorter it is, he more it stands out if it's just one paragraph. That's all. Anyway, I'm cranky as fucking fuck right now. So... don't mind me. |
"sounds like AFX" sounds about right. Especially in 2000.
I guess I should have mentioned too that UNKLE's first album could have predicted this a bit as well, with the "Rabbit In Your Headlights" single that Thom was on of course. I guess even "Talk Show Host" would have hinted at this direction many years earlier. |
I'm going through some shit. Some real, honest-to-god, emotional goddamn torture. Maybe I'm wiping it off on unsuspecting surfaces, so to speak.
Do your thing man. |
it's all good dude. Not upset. Just explaining why there's no thought to format or whatever.
Anyway. Radiohead! |
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For me they are more of an acquired taste. I used to hang out with a bunch of metal kids in my teens who had a (mostly) metal band. A couple of members who eventually I became very close to were into them to the extent one of them even got the nickname of Krokus from the rest of the band. |
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