Why The King Of Limbs Is Radiohead’s Most Misunderstood Album

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As someone that used to prefer experimental and un-conventional things, i always loved The King of Limbs. On the contrary, i didn't like In Rainbows, that much, although i've be appreciating it a lot more, lately.
From the unique Bloom start, saying "open your mouth wide", letting you inside that planet… to the ending, that says "wake me up", and suggests this all might just be a dream, i've always felt immersed into that surreal and rythmical work of art. And with the phrase "if you think this is over, then you're wrong", and this being the last album for so many years, it let me questioning "isn't this really over? And if it is, does it means, that even if the band is over, all the things in their music are really beyond the music? Or does it mean that there is more dream after waking up?". IDK, that's the kind of feeling this album provoqued in me.
Luckily, we did have A Moon Shaped Pool after that, 'cause it's so good.

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Because it has many loops, is very repetitive, and the percussion practically drowns out the electronic elements, I don't think the album is as complex as people say. It may be subtle, but it's too subtle.

I wonder if the b-sides from TKOL and AMSP are the secret album too (Harry Patch, Twisted Words, Staircase, Daily Mail, Butcher, Supercollider, Ill Wind, and Spectre)! It’s 8 tracks, 4 “sides (released kinda 2 at a time), and the same length of 38 minutes! Also, for sure Wall of Eyes is related as it’s also 8 tracks and has lyrics found in the Newspapers editions

Oh my god. I started listening to Radiohead less then a year ago and I started from the bends, ok computer really analysing everything about them. And this album… when I first listened to it I felt like it’s something that huge and powerful that I can’t swallow it in one bite. But after like 3 months i went to the forest and put this album and became an absolute fan. Codex, Bloom, Separator(of course) are like a colourful dreams with no ending but with a hint that it will end. And it’s really another world that contains every other album of their imho. Cause it was going not from inside but from outside, like they took NATURE and just let it sound through their voices and instrument. I love this album

You gotta add "Staircase", "The Butcher", "Supercollider" and "The Daily Mail" back into this record to complete it. "IF U THINK THIS IS OVER THEN YER WRONG".

I was 16 when OK Computer came out, and I had Pablo Honey on tape around the same time but didn't listen to either that much. Years passed, and I kind of understood Radiohead was the next Pink Floyd from the bits I heard, but again I didn't pay that much attention.

Then, when living in the Netherlands in 2011, I downloaded (legally) In Rainbows and TKOL, and I have never looked back. I went deep down the Radiohead rabbit hole and I still haven't emerged. I think TKOL is a fabulous album.

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This would have been considered one of their best if they had released the album in the basement tape version.

But they wanted the studio record to sound a specific way and I’m not going to try to tell Radiohead how to approach their albums.

The King of limbs is an amazing album. While I could still do without Feral. The rest of the album is perfect to me. While it’s still not in my top 5 Radiohead. That’s only because those 5 are perfect.

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I feel like there's probably a listen one day when I finally get it, but in general, no. Kid A and Amnesiac are better mood albums.

Having said that, I do keep coming back to it. I'll put on the live in the basement version on Youtube whilst I'm working to see if the songs have woven gold from straw yet. So far it's still just straw.

Lol doomy. This is peak spiritual, God centered Radiohead.

It’s my favorite Radiohead album, Bloom is such a perfect song…

I think its a bit short. If they added song staircase it would be so good.

I wish they would have included supercollider and the butcher on the official album. I think these inclusions would have changed the entire general discourse on how good this record is. And failing that I’ll fight anyone who can’t see the argument for Codex/ Give Up the Ghost/ Separator being possibly the best three-song run they’ve ever had on any album.