Comments on: Atoms For Peace: Amok

By: DWH

DWH — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:11:00 +0000

OKC may have been album of the decade, but Kid A/Amnesiac was the game changer, especially in the sense that nobody else to the best of my knowledge has even tied to ape Kid A, let alone released something as amazing in a similar vein.

By: Sue Egypt

Sue Egypt — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:57:00 +0000

I agree that OK Computer had an influence. It embedded a whining emo style that had terrible influence on music for a decade or more. Creating a slew of young bands that are portentous, conventional and dull, I saw Radiohead live just after they had put this out and they were OK (sic). But that album is unlistenable now – every track is 20% too long. The whining is unrelieved, and music is twee-pretty and pompous. It’s worse than anything Pink Floyd ever did.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:08:00 +0000

OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows. If you deny their importance, you are just trying to look ‘cool’ (and showing you know nothing about music).

BTW, about the review, I feel the same about Amok, I love it. I am ‘living’ that album, it is really good.

By: A-M

A-M — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:43:00 +0000

I really liked this review and can’t wait to hear the record which I am still waiting for (glaring at Sandbag, from whence I pre-ordered it in December). I have avoided listening to any of it on the net until I have the whole thing, but this review is making me more excited to hear it.
Incidentally re your comment on Limbs – the Limbs tunes fkn rocked live. I loved the album but love the tunes even more since the recent tour. Indescribable. And if the clips I’ve seen from the Atoms for Peace Eraser tour are anything to go by, these AMOK tunes played live are going to be mental.

By: Richard Falkner

Richard Falkner — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:51:00 +0000

“Please don’t say OK Computer”??? It is regularly named the most improtant album of the last decade, and rightly so. It’s a masterpiece of writing, performance and production. Perhaps you should have said “Please don’t say the albums that are regularly hailed by critics and listeners as masterpieces”?

By: Sue Egypt

Sue Egypt — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:38:00 +0000

“But Radiohead has released three game-changing albums – and a couple of other very good albums. They have, in that sense, done a lot more with their music than most bands. I really don’t think this can be argued against.”

Actually I would argue against this. What are these “game changing albums”? Please don’t say OK Computer. Or In Rainbows. The Bends was a ‘nice’ album in a Dunedin sound sort of way. The rest is prog dressed in Emo clothes, but without even the entertaining ludicrousness of prog.