Is A Moon Shaped Pool Radiohead's last album?
Вставка
- Опубліковано 30 тра 2022
- This video is sponsored by Adam & Eve. Go to AdamandEve.com and use Code: "Middle" for 50% Off 1 Item + Free Shipping in the US & Canada. Some exclusions apply.
A Moon Shaped Pool could very well be Radiohead’s last album.
Support the channel:
☕ Buy me a coffee on Kofi
ko-fi.com/middle8
💿 Middle 8 record brushes & pins
store.nebula.app/collections/...
✔️ Get your name in the credits on Patreon
/ middle8
Join the conversation:
🐦 Twitter
/ moremiddle8
📸 Instagram
/ moremiddle8
Listen to a podcast:
🎙️ PlayM8 Artist Interviews
open.spotify.com/show/0wLjck9...
💥 Middle 8 Madness
open.spotify.com/show/1WntmOI...
#Middle8 #Radiohead
Is A Moon Shaped Pool Radiohead's Last album?
AdamandEve.com were cool enough to sponsor this video. 20% of their profit goes to help fight the spread of HIV around the world. Show them and the channel some love -- use code "Middle" for 50% off 1 Item + free shipping in the US & Canada ✌
this video is such a banger Frank, muchas gracias
You DO know what Adam and Eve is, right?
@@dt_chun9168 Well this is a Radiohead video. Think he knows what audience it'll attract
@@dt_chun9168 that's really funny
@@dt_chun9168 are you kidding? You don’t think the person who got sponsored by them doesn’t know what they sell? Do you think he’s stupid? Lol
Would like to add as well a well-known fun fact:
A Moon Shaped Pool opened with "Stay" from Burn The Witch and ended with "Leave" from True Love Waits.
Depressingly poetic.
🥺
I never noticed that. Wow!
What's completely bonkers about this is the track listing on MSP is in alphabetical order.
@@Labyrinth1010 No it's not, but it comes bloody close!
@@filmscoffee3233 what am I missing here? Looks in order to me. How is it not (The Numbers can be classified as ‘N’ or ‘T’)?
My understanding is it was intentional because it just happened to work.
"Burn the Witch" - 3:40
"Daydreaming" - 6:24
"Decks Dark" - 4:41
"Desert Island Disk" - 3:44
"Ful Stop" - 6:07
"Glass Eyes" - 2:52
"Identikit" - 4:26
"The Numbers" - 5:45
"Present Tense" - 5:06
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief" - 5:03
"True Love Waits" - 4:43
"A Moon Shaped Pool" was like an amalgamation of everything they've worked on. It felt very confident and seems like a fitting end to the band.
Well said
@@Middle8 I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the future holds. We may have to accept the possibility that there could be No Suprises.
@@max4furious I see what you did there
@@Middle8 Thank you for the wonderful video! Really a great way to tie the bow. Also, would love to see a video tackling the Kid Amnesiac project (the art, old song releases, merch, game and all). Feel like what you said about them “clearing out the cupboards” could be applied to the project along with oknotok.
Exactly. After perfecting the Ok Computer/Kid A fusion on In Rainbows, they really had the chance to evolve and combine their individual influences through this mournful project
Edit: oops he said exactly that
true love waits being radioheads "last song" would be absolutely poetic knowing the context and time of birth of that song
what is the story behind the song?
What’s the context and time of birth?
Not sure what the context of the song is, but I agree that being the last song is super poetic since it is a song Radiohead fans love (it is my second favourite after let down) and we had been waiting for a studio version for ages... I think they hadn't been playing it live for a while when AMSP was released, so it was a nice surprise.
Also, I am grateful they did cause I got to hear it live during the AMSP tour, cried my eyes out lol.
They were trying to finish it for like 20 years
@@mc3ac1as He wrote it as a kind of hopeful (for Radiohead) love song about his then girlfriend and later wife but by the time it was recorded for the album over 20 years later, they had just divorced and she died of cancer within months of the album's release. Seems very much like the different contexts are reflected in the slightly more upbeat acoustic guitar version and the slower, sadder version from the record.
I got into Radiohead after King of Limbs came out, so I had to wait that five years for a new Radiohead masterpiece. And I was thankful that I was able to experience a moon shaped pool in 2016. The idea of it being the last Radiohead album makes me sad, but if it is, then what a perfect send off to a legendary catalogue of albums
Would be crushed if I never got to see them perform live one last time.
_King Of Limbs_ is such an incredible album! Especially with the b-sides included... was shocked to find out many Radiohead fans didn't even like it, and ranked it last in their discography.
My brother and I ranked it Number One among their albums.
I need one more good Radiohead live show… the only band I truly remember every second of every show
@@Jimmy1982Playlists I don't think the original album is bad. But the live version of King of limbs is incredible
At least you had 7 or 8 other albums to get into then.
If it is that’s ok! They made a huge impact and that’s all that matters
They've given us so many great albums and side projects. The Smile is pretty much a new Radiohead record.
@@Middle8 agreed. I’m actually really hoping The Smile continues. The new stuff they’re playing live is amazing too. But I’ve been a fan since ‘94, so I understand new comers being bummed. It’s just…. Not many bands have delivered the unbelievable amount of songwriting these guys have over thirty years, wether Radiohead, solo projects, The Smile, Atoms For Peace… I’m grateful AMSP was such a perfect bookend.
At least it’s always seemed that way to me.
I feel like The Smile is their way to overcome a creative block or something. It also doesn’t put a lot of responsibility to be innovative, they can just play whatever they feel like. Even Ed said, like you mentioned, that they’re on a new chapter, meaning they want to make a very different album. Just like it was with OK Computer - Kid A.
Or just Radiohead under pandemic restrictions? I feel they aren't trying to be radiohead but want to be a new band, a raw band....but maybe it was a period a RH album could have been- if not separated between US, UK, brazil? Or is it the next extension of 'thom yorke' solo, since it sounds half that way, and he set up atoms for peace which was pretty uniquely different.
very interesting, i hope this is the truth
As a die hard since 97, I was almost sure AMSP was their last after first listening to it. It felt like a final goodbye. I was quite sad back then, but with the release of The Smile album, I see at least Thom and Jonny still have a lot of inspiration and I am quite encouraged. Now I wouldn't be surprised we both got another The Smile album and another Radiohead album eventually. Either way, I am thankful to live in the same time as these fine artists. It's been a wonderful cathartic ride.
Hey, I’ve seen you requesting Radiohead on Brad & Lex streams.
I’ve also been a die hard fan since 97 too and I agree with your comment.
@@NoUA-camName1 I know brad but who's lex ?
@@kartikjoshi7206 there’s a music reaction channel called Brad & Lex - they have reacted to Paranoid Android, Karma Police, Fake Plastic Trees and of course Creep.
Their reactions can be quite interesting.
I find a lot of reactors to be unbearable but Brad & Lex can be good.
Saw the smile the other day and Thom said their second album's already finished
@@NoUA-camName1 Oh i thought brad was "brad taste in music". Will check out the other channel thanks.
Actually, it is not that rare, that they keep songs in their drawer. For example, the core of Nude was already written in the 90s and it was released in 2007 on In Rainbows. And now on The Smile album they released Skrting on the surface which they performed first during the early 10s. Nowadays they are playing live a song called Bodies laughing, which is from the In rainbows sessions
When they played it they said “we just wrote this yesterday.” Where did you see it was an IR session track?
@@RustinChole indeed, but at least the title was not new, because before In rainbows came out, they posted a blackboard. There were many many titles on it, and many of them made it to IR or IR disk 2, but that's not all. This was one of them. So maybe they had a very basic idea years ago, and now they are developing it into a song
Supposedly the idea for bodies laughing has actually been around since the late nineties
This album was one of the saddest things I've heard and at the same time, amusingly, comforting. It really got to me in a way that is hard to put into words, it is simply a masterpiece.
I know exactly what you mean.
I wish I could accurately describe the swell of love in my heart that almost explodes when I truly and honestly think about what this band has done for me
They are the most emotionally captivating band of all time
I feel the same way 💚
same
@@ninialintu great to hear :)
@@sundogsun great to hear :)
AMSP First word is stay, and the last one is leave
🤯
Radiohead, the greatest band of all time.
It's funny that Radiohead is almost my life discography, first listening to them as a kid due to my brother liking them and later keeping listening to their albums as I grow older. Moon Shaped Pool felt so fitting in the moment I was living too. However I don't think it feels like a final goodbye to the band, I think there's at least one more that could pull that feeling, or that is just me lingering and not letting the band go. Still, Radiohead had such positive impact on me, feels like a very long time friend.
first collection pfp heyy
I feel happy that I also had a brother who made Radiohead the soundtrack of my house, of my childhood and eventually of my life. But I'm happily afraid that this was his big and beautiful farewell
@@excelesia I've been using Nujabes - First Collection album cover since I first made this UA-cam account about 14+ years ago, it always makes me happy when someone recognizes hahahahah.
@@crybirb OG!!!
There is this weird synchronicity between radiohead album releases and my big personal break ups:
In Rainbow was the end of an 11 month manic relationship
King of Limbs was the end of my next long term relationship 2.5 years. the longest I had had to that point
Moon Shaped Pool was the end of the most intense 4.5 year relationship. I played "true love waits" to my GF after she came home from an affair she had been having, I knew something was wrong, we tried to get past it for months, then Radiohead dropped MSP and I got chills when I saw the album ended with "true love waits". shortly after we broke up officially.
I am married now with 2 kids, so I kind of hope Radiohead might be done making records cause I'd rather not loss my family. ;)
The interesting thing about this synchronicity is despite this strange occurrence, I don't emotionally connect radiohead with only breakups. I was listening to In rainbows this morning for the first time in years and it wasn't just heart break and nostalgia, radiohead has this strange way of always sounding new or maybe timeless, the themes are so much bigger and obscure than "heart break" or dare I say "melancholy". Radiohead songs are kind of like tarot card readings or Rorschach paintings they are whatever the listener needs them to be. I think it is part of their magic.
That analysis on the “half of my life” line was brilliant
A Moon Shaped Pool is my favourite Radiohead album personally maybe because I'm prone to melancholy. I got into Radiohead I would say in around 2019 where nearly Ill Wind just got released I would say. I've listened to all Radiohead albums and non intentionally in order which was somewhat coincidental but the point im trying to make is that perhaps A Moon Shaped Pool is the perfect conclusion to the discography of Radiohead.
It's somewhat right of Radiohead to use their old tracks like for example True Love Waits. This song has been waiting for it's right place (no pun intended) since it's debut. The song however never made sense until the era of A Moon Shaped Pool which strikes as a tragedy. To me it becomes really haunting and perhaps perfect.
I stated before in reddit "A moon shaped pool is probably my favourite Radiohead album because its so consistent and cold. I don't find Radioheads other albums depressing compared to this one. It has my favourite opener and I still remember hearing it for the first time (burn the witch). The album is so orchestral and cold. Even when its warm it just allows the atmosphere to be cold somehow. I can nearly taste winter with this album. I seriously love every song and the strings were a masterpiece here. Every song keeps you excited for the next one.
Whenever I listen to it I just imagine Thom walking around the city walking through people without staring hence the song glass eyes and daydreaming existence. Its like walking around somewhere you thought existed trying to find somewhere warm but you can't. It's like different stories into one album. Its like walking around without caring. Its like a beautiful walk around somewhere cold as I've actually experienced it.
If Radiohead ended with this being the final album I mean I seriously wouldn't mind as this is literally the perfect closure and ending. Its their old works all added to a new album. Its heartbreaking as what Thom went through. He lost his wife to cancer and songs like daydreaming and especially true love waits must've been hard to record. I really love the anticipation of true love waits for an actual place and especially a way to close the album. I personally love the true love waits (album version) more as it tells a different tale much more different than the live version. It was a song waiting for perfection and its time.
I'd honestly give this album a 10 and it definitely deserves it's S tier rank. This is definitely in my top 3 albums of all time and everytime I keep changing opinions but I truly believe ill stick with this being my favourite."
nahh don't tell me that I've just got into Radiohead a year ago 😭
Me too
Bro i literally discovered them a few weeks ago😭
Good thing you have two decades of amazing material to work with 😁
@@Reccyyee i only like 2 songs of radiohead. street spirit & creep ( i know)
I knew who they were since like 2014 but i only properly listened to them about a month ago
They definitely don't want their last album to be that sad.
The final album will be something of a hopeful or clean break or something to inspire the next generation I imagine. I anticipate they're going to go all out on it and the reason Thom is doing The Smile is to clear the air and get a certain creative spark running and to feel like fresh again
YES! I FULLY AGREE
Yep I'm with you on this
Let’s hope 🤞
Yeah Thom seems too happy nowadays to leave on AMSP
As much as I should want Radiohead to come back with a new album, A Moon Shaped Pool feels like a perfect ending in many ways, so I can't blame them if they decide they don't need to make any more studio albums. Also, Spectre at this point might be one of my Top 10 Radiohead Songs.
what about “Staircase” ? another great single track!!!
@@NealCaen Very good track. I admittedly am pretty bad at remembering to give compilation albums, deluxe tracks, b-sides and so forth more time. I honestly only really knew about Spectre because it was a rejected Bond theme.
@@harizonflamingice3167 Try listening to supercollider its an amazing track which was rejected on TKOL.
@@kartikjoshi7206 Good stuff! Glad you told me about it.
If it is their last, it is perhaps a very bittersweet way to go out.
The band made their most emotional, cinematic album. That’s (imo) the best way to go out.
One of my favorite albums of all time. I really need to see them live someday
Someday 🎶 someday 🎵
I am gonna grow wings
Do what you have to do. Make it happen 👍
I don’t think it will be their last but I would be fine if it was. They already have such a flawless discography. 👌
I wouldnt say flawless. 4 perfect albums, 3 ok albums and 2 kinda bad
I wouldn't mind if this were their last one, True Love Waits truly is the most poetic way to end
god but such a depressing note to end on
@@ajaces96 That's the most Radiohead way to go
I remember the minute Radiohead dropped the single for Burn The Witch. The internet was going crazy. I wasn't a big Radiohead fan back then, not like I am now. But I could feel it become a monumental moment. I kept relistening to the track, to the point of obsurd. I was loving the album before it was released. And when it finally did.. MAN, I was hooked. Ever since then, I've been a bigger fan as the years go by and as much as I don't want to believe they will end it here.. if it did, I can't be mad. They have such an impressive discography... And if they're happy with the side projects, who am I to tell em otherwise?
Anyway! Thanks for making this video in particular. I learned so much more about the reworks for these songs through this, so I appreciate you!
These Radiohead videos have been fantastic as I finally got into them just this year. I had heard random songs countless times for well over a decade, but it never "clicked" until I started listening to their albums as a whole. It's an incredibly feeling to find new favorites, and these dissections played no small part in helping me understand why I love them so much.
Maybe I'm being too hopeful but I have a feeling they will still do at least one more album. I'd bet on something new around 2024/2025. Thom has released a little something every year since the release of AMSP and idk if it's just my impression but he just seems to be too musically restless to just stop with the band, especially considering the members don't have any type of interpersonal drama (that we know of, of course) that would force them to quit. And they've already reached that point in their career where they don't have to rush anything new, so I think it's just a matter of time. However if they decided to quit now AMSP really is a good way to go.
Thom’s creativity and no bad blood between members is what keeps me hopeful
Wow, I just love your videos. Everytime you post something, the video lights a spark in me to listen the album once again with new enthusiasm and joy. It's like im hearing it for the first time again with a different approach or new knowledge. I dont know how you do it, but it happens to me everytime I watch your channel. Now excuse me, im going to descend into gloom and depression listening to A Moon Shaped Pool.
I love AMSP. I recently found the white vinyl randomly in my favorite shop and picked it up, since I had been looking for it. Great video. True Love Waits, has a special place for me. It is without a doubt their most depressing song, but also one of their most beautiful. I always interpreted it as, waiting for something/someone you love will hurt more than anything, but it is relentless and refuses to let go, like a small candle that is almost burnt out but keeps going. To wait means to suffer, but time is also limited in a way, cause one day, one way or another, the waiting will finally be over, the suffering will be gone, and only pure love has carried you all that way. The wait is finally over and we are reunited with that small piece we were missing that meant everything. True Love Waits.
The way you take me through these albums are mesmerizing
I was saving watching this video for a really long time. Finally saw it today. Such a well made, nicely put together video. Thanks for this, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Awesome! Your videos about Radiohead are the reason why I started listening to them and why they eventually became my favourite band!
However, I mostly listened to the albums from the Bends to in Rainbows, but apparently I've got another Album to check out.
Oh and in my opinion it's definitely the right choice they waited with burn the witch. I recently discovered it and was surprised by how good it was. Without the orchestra it would not have the same incredible feeling.
This is really good! Great how you put this altogether...one of your best videos man! Thank you!
So we had to wait a year and a half for this Radiohead video, which was longer than the previous wait for a Radiohead video.
I see what you did there and I appreciate it. Also, great video.
Imagine if they had already announced their retirement before they made this video
ive been hoping for the longest time for a video about a moon shaped pool, its by far my favourite of their albums, its just such a beautiful record front to back
I simmered at the end of the video when I realized that practically A Moon Shaped Pool was to finish the demos and that it could indeed be my last album .. I thought the title was click bait
This question burns my heart 😔
For me A Moon Shaped Pool is the best Radiohead album, I love this album so much.
Every time I listen to songs like Daydreaming and Glass Eyes it brings tears to my eyes, I've known the band since the end of 2020 and honestly this album has meant a lot to me and made me love the band even more.
This video gave me goosebumps. Never really thought about how much meaning is there on this album. Amazing
this video just made me love radiohead even more
thanks
As much as i love radiohead, i still feel like they have the creativity and the energy to make one more album. As a fan i really want more radiohead music but i can understand if this is their last project as a band. This album feels so personal, its soft, calm and very mellow. The sound they produced on this album is so much different from their other projects and it does feel like a perfect send off album to what has been an amazing discography. I dont mind if they take more time to release another album, they can retire and still be one of the greatest bands to bless us with their music.
Insane that it's been the longest gap between albums now, the wait from TKOL to AMSP felt much longer than the release of AMSP til now
4:37 My best friend died recently, and I would often bargain that I would be willing to give "half of my life" in exchange to see him one last time.
I recently had an amazing experience walking around The National Gallery in London for an entire day and listening to Radiohead the entire time. I heard The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesia, In Rainbows and capped it with A Moon Shaped Pool - all in chronological order. These aren't all their studio albums of course, but it's a big chunk of them, and certainly what I'd say is the essential Radiohead listening experience. I've heard all these albums before, but never this way, this close to each other, and with very little distraction other than looking at paintings.
I'm almost convinced that A Moon Shaped Pool is their final statement. Perhaps, more aptly, Thom's final statement with Radiohead. The quick listening means I was able to have the sounds of the various albums fresh in my mind, and A Moon Shaped Pool is where they synthesize every era of their trajectory into what I think is the 'most Radiohead' album of their catalog, if that makes any sense. There is no hesitation, no second-guessing with that album - it is the work of a supremely confident band. The fact that it ends with a reworked version of True Love Waits. a song that has existed since 1995 and therefore almost as old as the band itself, speaks volumes to me. Radiohead starts and ends with True Love Waits.
Hail to the thief is better than in rainbows on wards
havent even listened to this album in full but your videos are so damn good
True love waits is too fucking depressive ending for radiohead discography imo. So don't leave, radiohead, we need one more
Radiohead's music is so timeless as well as otherworldly. I can't wait for their next album someday, but their work is incredible. Do a video on the Kid A Anmeisa exhibition video game from Radiohead and Epic Games.
Production on these vids is SO good
Excellent upload.
I’m nearly 50. A huge Radiohead fan.
And this is brilliant. Very insightful. And genuine.
the thing is, does Radiohead *need* to put out another record? unless they really plan on doing something entirely different, I think that most of the band would say they're satisfied with their current output
nah I'm good. this was my least favorite album by them. In Rainbows was the peak IMO
Imagine if this really is the last album, though. Would be a beautiful album to end a career with.
I love the motion graphics here, very well done!
If this is really their last album I'd be fine with that, I just hope they do concerts in the future so I can finally see them
I love Radiohead. My mother and father listened to them while I was still in the womb and ever since. They've been there from the beginning for me. The songs resonate with me on a level nothing else in my life does. When I listen to their songs, I feel like myself, the music runs deep in my mind. So when I type this, I don't mean it lightly; I would be absolutely fine with A Moon Shaped Pool being the last album. The songs they've given us are so timeless and never get old, so I feel like it's all more than enough (atleast personally) The lads will probably never stop making music, I'm guessing, but honestly? I'm satisfied with everything they've given us. One day I'll listen to all they've made when it's all said and done, but I'm in no rush, I still listen to every song like it's the first time. Absolutely love this band.
Finally someone has done a video on this thought I’ve long had.
very cool video !!!! good job man. really enjoyed it. much love
I fuckin hope not
I love this album so much! It’s also my favourite Radiohead album. I was on a trip in Norway and listened this in it’s entirely. Really like the sound & theme. and stories are pretty interesting.
I've been invested in their back catalogue, so it's nice to hear takes from the more recent material, it'll make me focus on it more
Beautiful video. Fits delicate aesthetic of the album itself.
Surely my favorite album of all time, till 2017 it still keeps growing on me!
"Born of a light, one i didn't know, totally alive..."
Ayyy! Finally! My man you definitely gotta do a video on Mezzanine by Massive Attack. How that album came out in 1998 blows my mind, if it came out tomorrow it'd still sound so fresh and like the future, and the production is fucking godly, easily some of the best and most unique I've ever heard
They’ll probably still tour but I think it’s gonna be the last hurrah. Their music speaks for itself at this point and now we need to simply appreciate what these five geniuses from Oxfordshire have given us for the past 3 decades
This album is a masterpiece! Oh…and so is this video. Great job!
Phil has said more than once that they’re not done. I believe Ed has said that there has not been a conversation between them that has made it clear that it’s over. (Tbf, I think most of these statements were said after this video was made). They always take a while to put out a record, I think all this stuff about it being their last is in part because of just how melancholic amsp was. They’re all just doing their own thing and enjoying that, I’m not convinced it’s radically different between them (except perhaps for some personal growth).
Radiohead have released some of my all-time favourite albums, and A Moon Shaped Pool has been up there with their best for me. Obviously classics like In Rainbows and OK Computer will always be hard to beat. If they do release new music someday, I'm pretty sure it won't disappoint, but they've given us so much great music it's hard to be too disappointed if Moon Shaped Pool is their swansong.
A Moon Shaped Pool made its way deeper and deeper into my heart through the years, slowly becoming my favorite album (from my favorite band). So sad to think this could be the last, but it truly is a perfect end, as bittersweet as it is🥲
I listen to this album at least once a week ever since it’s release and it never gets old. It’s like a comforting place to go and just be.
Top level video as always. It would be a shame to never see them release something new again.
it probably won't be, radiohead had plans for a 2021 tour and are still active online, they will most likely tour again in 2023/2024, the smile just shows that johnny and tom are still full of ideas
A moon shaped pool marked a point of no return in my life, really love this album with my soul.
Your work is amazing!
This is my most favourite Radiohead album. The mastering quality is amazing!
I said to a mate it seems like it could be a fitting end. I think Yorke and Greenwood have such a well of creativity that they almost need all of their groups just to satisfy all their creative avenues that they want to explore. I guess with Radiohead, comes the expectation of massive 2 year long tours etc, and at this stage of the game given their age and they’ve done it for years could mean AMSP was their last album. Time will tell.
The excellent totally free and fun time Thom and Jonny had doing their work on the Smile album makes me think MORE so that LP10 IS COMING!!!! Ed did his solo album - Phil has always worked on his own stuff, Jonny has become THE go to movie music composer and upper echelon modern classical music writer, and none of us are sure what Colin does, but probably sit around love his amazing life and write ludicrously amazing basslines. The Smile is a really awesome piece of work, but Thom and Jonnny on their own - that does not foretell the end. Watch them play "You" acoustic, then they did a series of 2 man acoustic/electric shows promoting "Hail to the Thief" - amazing by the way for any RH listener who never heard them - their is an audio performance "Capital Records" and an astonishing live set from some French program - the version of "There, There" is my favorite moment in Radiohead history - then they did a bunch of stuff in 2018 to pre-covid here and there just having a blast with laptops, guitars, loopers and synths - Sisterio some venue in Italy - whole show is on YT - it is an obvious lead-up to The Smile. And Thom's solo and Atoms for Peace stuff and composing Suspirium - he has always been at it. I think with Nigel and Stanley and still very much in musical prime in their early to mid 50's, they have got to have a lot to bring together and my hope is the most recent side stuff like EOB and the obvious joy behind The Smile - it has got to have them wanting to go into collaboration mode again to see where they are at now. I can see a very dense and maybe like - it takes 3 years before it hits you type album - or an emphasis on fun and all of the incredible skills they have all acquired - who knows if they'd want to find out how this would end up with them all back together but 9 while a super cool number, 10 - the whole binary thing - is an old RH trope and I believe - people I believe!!! Late 2023 or early 2024. Oh and if you are as much of a mega fan as I am and have seen the mentioned sets, you are in for an absolute Radiohead treasure treat X100, please check them out! Support The Smile - it may be our best way to influence them back in. And tell PTA to take a few years off from films so we don't have Jonny distracted (actually he is a genius I don't want that - Jonny can do both).
@middle8, job well done on yet another well informed and delivered band release video! I predicted soon after fully absorbing this album back in 2016 that it would indeed be Radiohead's last. There is a sense on finality in it, tying up loose ends and paying homage to their fans in studio recording long awaited for previously shelved tracks. Upon hearing the recent release of Yorke/Greeenwood's side project The Smile (A Light for Attracting Attention), I am further convinced Radiohead is no more. AMSP, the perfect bookend to their illustrious discography.
I have fond memories of this and OK Computer. I was 16 when Moon came out and having a very hard time at school, with my friends, with a girl I loved and with my parents. It was both a time of low points and blissful youth. One year later I got into OK and I was a maturing into a different person, learning from what my life had forced me to learn until that point. I viewed those same people and situations in a different light. Its awesome how some music instantly takes us back to very specific times in our lives.
So grateful I got to see Radiohead live at Lollapalooza in 2016, amazing show, you can watch it on here still. One of the favorite concerts I was lucky enough to get to be present for.
We'll always need one more.
Great video. A Moon Shape Pool is a beautiful album and it does indeed sound like a final goodbye. But I do hope we will get more Radiohead still.
I saw them after the release of the album and it was a hauntingly beautiful live performance
As an old-new radiohead fan (my mom listened to their music when I was a baby and I discovered them later into my mid-20s), I really enjoyed this album after jumping all the way from Ok Computer! True Love Wait’s lyric “I’m not living, I’m just killing time” especially hits me hard despite me not especially relating to it, I sing that one sentence to myself all the time. I also love Decks Dark 🥰
The fact the closure "True Love Awaits" has been in development for over two decades makes me cry! Definitely the best way to say "farewell"!
It’s so interesting to me that MSP came up as the saddest Radiohead album. It doesn’t feel depressing to me. For whatever reason, a lot of the songs, especially True Love Waits, has a very warm and comforting effect on me. Hail to the Thief is usually the one that ends up bumming me out the most.
Me too! I think it's a very calming album. It's reflective rather than depressing.
Imagine they'll be doing Ska album for the new chapter.
I want to hear a ska radiohead song.
Cant wait for Radiohead's bluegrass era
When it came out, it didn’t immediately hit me like some others. I still saw them on that tour of course and the songs were amazing live. Since then, however, I’ve absolutely fallen in love with it. I think it’s perfect and it’s one of my favorites.
feels so long ago that i heard this for the first time, burn the witch & daydreaming were so beautiful i couldn't put it into words at the time
When I’m in a stable mental state then I’ll listen to this album
good idea:)
i had that thought that amsp might be radioheads last album since it was released over 6 years ago (omg i'm old lol). it just feels like a farewell to the band and that they've pretty much cleared the vault just makes this gut feeling stronger. and even if i may not like the fact that we're possibly never seeing another album again, i would much prefer amsp as their final album than some experimental album that didn't work out as planned (like tkol).
and of course, even if it might be their last album, that still doesn't mean that we won't get killer tracks from thom in the future, like on anima or on the 'the smile' album.
I honestly don't mind what they do next, like you said, this wouldn't be a bad ending to one of the greatest discographies of a band I've ever seen. But, me being a massive fan, I really hope they make more stuff. I don't think more music would take away from the impact that AMSP had, since, like Greenwood said, it was the end of a chapter.
that sponsorship was freaky
😏
I'm pretty sure that Ed said in a interview that Radiohead will make another alb,he just didn't know when
Though I won't be mad if this is Radioheads last album
I hope they keep doing it as long as they feel they can keep it not only fresh and creative but also as long as the bands rapport remains so positive.
Also I think that Thom is a creative force of nature, even if it's not with Radiohead, I feel he'll be writing music till the day he dies.
I think the current state of the world is either causing some inspiration or it's an area where they may not feel they're not wanting to release anything at the current moment.
Regardless, I geuss we'll just have to wait and see
Incredible vid!
I've been following Radiohead since Pablo Honey. Saw them live for the first time on the Amnesiac tour and many times since. I can't begin to wrap my head around a world where the band doesn't exist anymore. Having said that, I agree with the video and the comments: If this were the last album, it would not only make sense, but it would quite literally be the perfect final album.
I will say this: The last time I saw them (Moon Shaped Pool tour), they were as incredible and fresh as any other time I've seen them. They've never disappointed and it didn't feel like I was a watching a band that was done. The Smile proves that Thom and Jonny clearly have more to say. And while it's a fantastic album, it's not Radiohead. I'm going to hold onto hope that once this Smile tour is over, and Thom and Jonny have had a bit of a rest, the band will reconvene for a proper follow-up.
Something tells me they (as a 5-piece) have more stories to tell.
I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I agree that True Love Waits would be a perfectly fitting final song for the band, however Ed O'Brien said that a new album "will definitely happen" but he doesn't know when.
A very interesting thing that wasn't mentioned was Nigel's thoughts on the production of AMSP. He said he basically had to create the entire album through editing and splicing takes together because "thom doesn't write like he used to" Nigel made it seem like the band wasn't in the right headspace to actually make an album, resulting in a difficult production session but the final product is so good that any issues aren't really noticeable.
What's funny is that after that interview with Nigel came out, The Smile debuted so clearly Thom (and Jonny) can still write. I hope The Smile serves as a creative output for them so they can bring other ideas to Radiohead. I've been wanting them to do a more straightforward, guitar-centric album ever since In Rainbows and A Light for Attracting Attention fits that perfectly.
I can see a new Radiohead album coming in a year or two. Especially since they've said countless times that they want to stop making full albums yet they always come back with another one after some time.
I should count myself lucky that I saw most of this work live at the 2017 Coachella
Got into them after Moon Shaped Pool so I want to experience the release of at least one album.
I think they'll get together anytime in the next decade or so. There's no hurry, it's just timing. The Smile is fantastic and shows just how into it they still are! Always awesome.
not gonna lie. This is the only Radiohead album I've EVER actively listened to, and the strings and dreamlike feel in particular made me love this album. Sad I might have become a fan as soon as the tear-filled party might be over. Great breakdown of the album, now I gotta listen to it again!
OK Computer is like my fav album oat def check that one out