Radiohead - 2+2=5

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An amazing opener. I love how the tension builds up. And when the song explodes and mutes into some kind of metal. And those jangly guitars in the second half which make me think of Unrest. A universe of a song with all the highs and lows, ups and downs, calm and noisy bits. And this perfect sudden end.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, followed by 13 tracks of nothing remotely as dynamic...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Easily my favorite track on the album ("There, There" being a close second).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

um didnt someone already start 12 repetetive threads on each song from this album a few months ago?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i have been looking for them, jess. of the 14 songs i only found 7.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, followed by 13 tracks of nothing remotely as dynamic...

maybe not in the loud-soft way, but i think myxomatosis is more terrifyingly intense than anything radiohead's done yet.

actually ... come to think of it i find 2+2=5 pretty uninspired. the guitar playing is a real "radiohead format" throwback.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

this is a good opening track. nice dynamics, reminds me of pavement's embassy row.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it might be like a deliberate 'Look, we've gone back to proper songs with guitars!' bait-and-switch pisstake. I still sort of hope it is.

(I was sort of ashamed of how pleased I was at the gratuitous powerchord bit in the middle, and impressed at how ashamed I was)

― Ferg (Ferg), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I was sort of ashamed of how pleased I was at the gratuitous powerchord bit in the middle

Why be ashamed? Embrace rockism, and it will manfully embrace you back.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I was standing at the bus-stop with it on headphones after I'd bought it and within seconds of that bit I mentally chided myself as a 'rockist' and also felt ashamed of that. I'm damned either way.

― Ferg (Ferg), Friday, 13 June 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I would say that anyone who would label something as "rockist" is damned.

Anyone buying an album by a rock band and then chiding themselves for "rockism" is double damned.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Snivel.

― Ferg (Ferg), Saturday, 14 June 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Somehow Thom's vocals here remind me of Eddie Vedder.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 16 June 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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