Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Five songs where Radiohead reinvented themselves

The hare jumped yesterday in a completely unexpected with the announcement of The King of Limbs, the new Radiohead album to be released this Saturday. Despite this unexpected blow, no one was surprised such a move by the British, as their history is full of unusual situations and completely away from the conventions of the music industry.

During this week we will talk a lot of Radiohead for the premiere of his new album, to see if we can make the wait a little more bearable. We began today with five songs which were reinvented themselves, five expressions of this constant struggle not to be creative never quit on the spot.

Many groups manage to make a significant leap in quality from first to second album, but Radiohead was simply stratospheric. The Bends succeeded in making his predecessor a shy hint of the true potential locked up the band, and only really began to break out in songs like 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)'.

Pablo Honey impossible to find a subject that is close minimally at depth, emotion, intensity and purity that distills this simple and poignant composition. Bella to start the tear. A quote from Thom Yorke: Video | YouTube find the right key with The Bends, it's time to aspire to the highest, to get to touch the sky with his fingertips.

OK Computer put the note in bold that he lacked his predecessor, without any fear entering the field from the wild, making it possible for the rock sound like never before done. The laboratory was set up and experiments like 'Climbing Up the Walls' came to light to the surprise of everyone.

They had played God with music and had won. They bet everything they had and they came out with the highest card. Had broken the rules of the game and still wanted more. Another chilling performance by Yorke: Video | YouTube Kid A was the beginning of a new era for Radiohead and music in general.

Not invented anything yet changed everything. Not respect anything and was pure classic. I will have heard hundreds, thousands of times in the last ten years, and I never know what I'm going to find around countless corners. 'The National Anthem', like the rest of the album, is a different song every time I hear it is the same story is repeated but never tells me the same thing twice.

Chaos is done accurately and sanity ruled by madness. Jonny Greenwood explains the experience of recording the wind ensemble for this song: Video | YouTube Amnesiac continues the deconstruction of the sound path initiated by Kid A, but somehow it does trying to remember what it was before the Radiohead album.

In a way, it would be the missing link between OK Computer and Kid A, the commitment to maintaining high sound abstract, but recovering the guitar as leitmotif. Songs like 'Knives Out' are able to sound as hypnotic as any of its predecessor, but adds to the mix the vigor and energy of rock that seemed lost on the road.

Video | YouTube "Radiohead able to sound optimistic and relaxed again? How natural again be masters of their own destiny, rather than poor souls lost in a bottomless whirlpool of music? '15 Step 'surprises every time you started to hear In Rainbows, it exudes a freshness that many had given it up for lost on the British.

Time was down bombast records almost level with Pablo Honey, and here they learned to be master. One way to remember what they were when they started, but without resorting to the classic order to recover the sound of their beginnings. A nod to the past, but only aims at the future. Video | YouTube

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