Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood: C/D?

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Who cd say it has a peer? It is likely that any peers put forward wd be 1000 times less cooler.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha are you going to start threads on every new song?

I love it, obviously. The chords are so thick and viscous, so tangible, and remarkably, they are dark red even in my synaesthetic sense of the song (that a theme of a song and the colors and shapes I see actually synch up is a rare occurrence).
There is this terribly dramaturgic aspect to the song, and I adore it. The melody wants to be creepy and stretched out like a ghost over the song, and it is.

And the sped up passage 3/4 into the song is unusual. It's quite short, but very effective. And then everything after that just snaps, falls off, crumbles... You're just left with that guitar figure and his voice.

And the e-bow was a nice touch.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I have listened to it so many times, though, that I have to pitchshift it into munchkin territory to bring the magic back into the melody and chords.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be good to have a thread on each new song, but variety in the initiaters of said threads would also be more of an achievement.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Where are all the "Radiohead, we know you suck" digs?

― gazuga (gazuga), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It's very good but it's not quite at the level of their best new songs - Sail to the Moon, Scatterbrain, Wher I End and You Begin, There There and especially Wolf at the Door.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 12 February 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

When's new material 'officially' due then? What hole are they digging in now, musically? Is it progressive or regressive from Kid A/Amnesiac?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The poorly-recorded live material I've heard sounds more guitar-based than the last two (although that may change on the studio recordings), but not especially more accessible. It feels a bit faster, more jittery, and a bit jazzy in places. Also (and this is just an initial impression) it felt less derivative than Kid A or Amnesiac, like this was a style developing that would be Radiohead's own for the next couple of years. Certainly not a return to OK Computer or Bends territory at any rate.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm... Sounds interesting.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm.... Sounds terrible.

― chris sallis, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

*strokes beard*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop pawing Thom Yorke just because he hasn't shaved.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

For an awful moment I thought you were implying that Thom was Julio's beard.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Thom is always stroking Julio no doubt

― Michael B, Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

gwen stephani is now involved?!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

and the Strokes, apparently.

*rimshot*

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

This is the song on the album that I really *don't* like. Mournful, turgid piano, begonne! The only thing what is good is the handclaps. I'm always a sucker for handclaps.

There's always *one* on every RH album, isn't there?

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

But thank you for that mental image of Thom Yorke and beards... mmmm.... beards........

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

same for me, kate, this song is terrible. kitsch as kitsch can.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It's about time someone sampled those Mingus handclaps, they make me unreasonably happy every time I hear them. Handclaps among handclaps.

(I like the tune btw, and it seems like there's a little bit of tongue-in-cheekness to it)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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