http://www.waste.uk.com/Store/waste-radiohead-twisted+words.html
Get it now akudood;
It's pretty good, sounds more like something from Kid A/Amnesiac than it does In Rainbows.
The guitar starts tight, then gets surprisingly not-tight. It loosens the In-Rainbows-esque tightness, but it leaves me feeling confused. I'll be over it in a few playthroughs....the interplay between bass and guitar provides most if the interest here, and I'm not very interested...this is probably because of my speakers. I'll repost once I get my phones, but my impressions are: intrigued in the abstractifying of In Rainbows-like material, but put off by the lack of growth and bold statements in the song. It's subtle, which take a bit to get used to.
Edit 1: Strange. Despite the quickness and crispness of the drums, it's a song that takes a lot of slowing down to listen to. The slow breakdown of the guitar becomes hypnotic, aware, and then when the bass line evens out and the guitar plucks away, we can finally regularize ourselves within this twisted universe, itself bolstered by twisted words.
Edit 2: Checked out the lyrics:
QuoteThese are my twisted words
When I feel you still walking
I know I should not look down
But Iââ,¬â,,¢m so sick of just talking
When are you coming back?
I just canââ,¬â,,¢t handle it
When are you coming back?
I just canââ,¬â,,¢t handle it
When are you coming back?
I just canââ,¬â,,¢t stand it
I just canââ,¬â,,¢t handle it
Suicide, mostly. Or a lack of ability to handle the circumstances, the circumstances being awful (a high bridge to look down from). Either way, a sense of entrapment. This feeling mirrors the way that the song loses noise while building complexity, creating a tunnel-like effect we are sucked into. There is change in the way we see this scene which Yorke has set up for us, but in reality, there's no change in this world. This world is just really broken, and Yorke can't handle it. Hence, the song ends abrubtly with a snare hit, probably suicide, or at least the breaking point, or maybe it ends because there's nothing more to say. Everything's been said about this fucking world.
Edit 3: Started listening to it like classical music, with unfolding tonalities and self-references building a web of musical integrity. There are enough switches in dynamic to keep it interesting, but the subtle creation of tonalities and nice non-scary chords with the guitar is a wonderful thing. Of course the vocals ruin all the major-keyed hope we could want.
Geeze, you're getting into this aren't you akudood;
Quote from: Hïro on August 21, 2009, 09:42:43 PM
Geeze, you're getting into this aren't you akudood;
I'm pretending to be optimistic.
Quote from: Hïro on August 21, 2009, 10:01:36 PM
..okay?
Oh, you know him as Houdini.
Also, headphones.
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on August 21, 2009, 10:03:53 PM
Oh, you know him as Houdini.
Also, headphones.
I have no idea what you're talking about doodhuh;
Quote from: Hïro on August 21, 2009, 10:04:21 PM
I have no idea what you're talking about doodhuh;
I need scissors. 61.
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on August 21, 2009, 10:08:40 PM
I need scissors. 61.
Well quite surely the foxes have arrived at their stations by now, or did your grandmother paint the walrus sculpture blue?
Quote from: Hïro on August 21, 2009, 10:13:45 PM
Well quite surely the foxes have arrived at their stations by now, or did your grandmother paint the walrus sculpture blue?
I hate pointless absurdism. Proper absurdism is the act of creating noise and randomness which sketches or echoes things that are actually funny.
YOU'RE JUST PICKING STRANGE WORDS wariodood;
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on August 21, 2009, 10:24:14 PM
I hate pointless absurdism. Proper absurdism is the act of creating noise and randomness which sketches or echoes things that are actually funny.
YOU'RE JUST PICKING STRANGE WORDS wariodood;
akudood;
also hiro.
On Outsider "Houdini", our mod, used the name "Optimistic" if that is what you were confused about.
Quote from: JMV on August 21, 2009, 11:05:23 PM
also hiro.
On Outsider "Houdini", our mod, used the name "Optimistic" if that is what you were confused about.
Ah. I kind of guessed that, and I know who Houdini is. baddood;
I think the lyrics are about people wanting new radiohead.
I like it.
Good stuff. It'll take more listens to really get into it, but I already like it.
By the way, for a "leak," it seems awfully official, what with coming with all the artwork and such. I just have to wonder what the hell this song says about what Radiohead's doing right now...apparently the band has yet to comment at all on this song being leaked.
Wait, nevermind, what I was reading was a bit outdated, seems Radiohead themselves did this leak. n_u
Supposedly they're focusing on releasing a few EPs before a major release, but the next one is supposedly The Wall of Ice, supposedly. That's just conjecture, supposedly.
Supposedly.
I'm honestly disappointed with These Are My Twisted Words. I think it's awful.
It's way too drawn-out and bland as hell compared to all their other stuff.
Quote from: Selkie on August 26, 2009, 07:04:47 PM
I'm honestly disappointed with These Are My Twisted Words. I think it's awful.
It's way too drawn-out and bland as hell compared to all their other stuff.
Listen to it more than twice. This isn't breaking any ground.