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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
they focused on the songs instead of the sound and the songs like they usually do.
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Exactly what Everyneurotic said. I mean, take Amnesiac and the song "Like spinning plates". Album version of that song is horrid, with all the clicking and reversed sounds and stuff. Then you take the version of the same song that they did live for "I might be wrong EP" and a whole new universe just opens up in front of you.
This is why I was so pissed at my back-in-the-days former favourite band, that they were just ruining good tunes when it was not necessary (vast majority of "Amnesiac" was crap). And that is why i love In Rainbows. Yes, it might be polished and it might be dull and lacking experimentation, but then again, if I need experimental, I put on Autechre or something. Radiohead will always remain for me a band that can produce emotionally striking, strong music that can be a bit pretentious at times but can crush me into pieces like few other bands can.