Radiohead : The Best Of (house, albums, tracks, show, quote)

[sleepy jack]

Radiohead - Best Of

Just
Paranoid Android
Karma Police
Creep
No Surprises
High and Dry
My Iron Lung
There There
Lucky
Fake Plastic Trees
Idioteque
2+2=5
The Bends
Pyramid Song
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Everything In Its Right Place
Airbag
I Might Be Wrong
Go to Sleep
Let Down
Planet Telex
Exit Music (For a Film)
The National Anthem
Knives Out
Talk Show Host
You
Anyone Can Play Guitar
How to Disappear Completely
True Love Waits

[sleepy jack]

Okay the politics of this album aside Radiohead is one of those bands best experienced in album form, not compilation form. However I can't honestly rate an album with Exit Music (For a Film), Knives Out, The National Anthem, Lucky, There There, Idioteque, How to Disappear Completely, okay you know what fuck it. If you put on The Tourist, Optimistic, Life in a Glasshouse, and just more Amnesiac in general all my favorite Radiohead songs would be on here. So honestly how can I rate this poorly?

It's only fault is some of the tracks are weaker than others and it's lack of cohesion. So counting in those I give it a very good. It's such a clumsy compilation and I have a hard time listening to something that's 30 songs regardless of who it is.

[TheBig3]

what about cohesion matter than much to you?

[sleepy jack]

Huh?

[ProggyMan]

He's saying cohesion is overrated.

[sleepy jack]

Well whatever, I lack my albums to flow it helps me enjoy them more. This doesn't at all. You go from a really amazing track to a subpar one (for Radiohead) or two that are just completely different styles plus 30 songs is alot to listen to which doesn't help.

[Piss Me Off]

Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Well whatever, I lack my albums to flow it helps me enjoy them more. This doesn't at all. You go from a really amazing track to a subpar one (for Radiohead) or two that are just completely different styles plus 30 songs is alot to listen to which doesn't help.

It is 2 discs though, the second only intended as an extra. I'm glad they did go with 2 discs though, you can't really justify only having a 1 disc Radiohead best of, there's always something brilliant thats going to be left off.
A bit of a difficult task and they did alright with it.

[TheBig3]

Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Huh?

Originally Posted by ProggyMan

He's saying cohesion is overrated.

Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Well whatever, I lack my albums to flow it helps me enjoy them more. This doesn't at all. You go from a really amazing track to a subpar one (for Radiohead) or two that are just completely different styles plus 30 songs is alot to listen to which doesn't help.

Well at no point did I say it was overrated, but it was nice of you to put words in my mouth. Next time I'm interested in giving an opinon, I think I might just do it myself. No hard feelings or anything, just good buisness.

Ethan, With regard to "huh", I might ask you the same question in regard to your first sentence. I left a letter out, lets take it down a notch.

The reason I asked about cohesion is because I'm wondering what it offers to you. I realize its a subjective thing, but does it make individual songs better for you?

I ask becuase I thought, even a grouping of disjointed Radiohead tracks would have more similarities than a mixed CD, or a Rhino release from a particualr decade. So theres a level of cohesion that exists, if but in much less capacity than you'd see from say, In Rainbows.

So if I'm going to go ahead and make the assertion that cohesion exists on the album, what we're really talking about now is a level of cohesion...thats where my question comes in.

How much do you need, and what does that much do for you, as an artist listening to art?

[ProggyMan]

Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Well at no point did I say it was overrated, but it was nice of you to put words in my mouth. Next time I'm interested in giving an opinon, I think I might just do it myself. No hard feelings or anything, just good buisness.

I wasn't using overrated in a literal sense.

[Miltamec Soundsquinaez]

I was a little let down that Let Down wasn't on there; and Black Star......
a couple of my favorite songs by them, and apparently they didn't like In Rainbows too much, since a total of none of those songs made it on there.