Dizzy's Turbo Walrus: Radiohead Edition - Page 4

As I mentioned I chose Lift because I thought it is one of their most traditionally structured songs and probably one of the easiest for a newb to get their arms around.

Interestingly it was never released on a proper album in spite of it being one of their best songs

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02-12-2019 , 04:22 PM

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Musically, this was very nice. The instruments sounded more coordinated than in the previous entries. I felt like I was floating around, but not going anywhere, which can be nice sometimes.

have you agreed with all of my rankings so far? If so - interested to see if that stays consistent as I close it out.

Would be pretty interesting if 2 people who had never heard the band but were from much different generations felt similarly about the submitted songs.

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02-12-2019 , 04:25 PM

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Maybe I would switch a couple here or there, but it sounds like you might do that, also. In general, we have them in the same track.

Our biggest disagreements will probably come at the ends.

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02-12-2019 , 04:29 PM

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in 4th place

This was a interesting "game theory" submission by [redacted], and I loved his comment when submitting:

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Here you go. This is by far their most famous and best song, so I'm sure all the Radiohead fanbois will be too cool to submit it.

Well, he was right and successfully faded the duplicate DQ. On to the song, man this one was close - just barely missing the podium. I went back and forth on it.

FINALLY we get some heaver sounding guitar/music which I like a lot. On the other hand the non-chorus parts just don't do it for me...and even parts of the chorus are mono-tone.

Overall there are more good parts than bad. I again got a really strong Muse connection at the part on/around 2:30.

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02-12-2019 , 04:30 PM

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Maybe I would switch a couple here or there, but it sounds like you might do that, also. In general, we have them in the same track.

Our biggest disagreements will probably come at the ends.

Yeah a lot of these are close. I wouldn't really argue with swapping two that were ranked together in any spots.

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02-12-2019 , 04:34 PM

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Gotta figure out who that leaves for podium/nodium now. Pretty sure it is:

bolt2122
Booker Wolfbox
Carl_Spackler
JMurder3
PokerCrazy94
Zaccino

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02-12-2019 , 04:36 PM

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Fitter Happier the winner, imo

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02-12-2019 , 04:36 PM

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This almost makes me tempted to listen to my song, but that might ruin the sweat.

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02-12-2019 , 04:50 PM

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Gotta figure out who that leaves for podium/nodium now. Pretty sure it is:

bolt2122
Booker Wolfbox
Carl_Spackler
JMurder3
PokerCrazy94
Zaccino

When I proposed the ICM chop I didnt realize there was a nodium...

I still love my pick, but then it's likely that the 3 nodium songs are great too.

I'm sweating here.

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02-12-2019 , 04:54 PM

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What's nodium?

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02-12-2019 , 04:56 PM

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bottom 3 (they still beat the DQ'd people though).

so currently the people left are #1,2,3 and #9,10,11

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02-12-2019 , 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by IBeDrummin

Fitter Happier the winner, imo

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02-12-2019 , 05:05 PM

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in 9th place:

This song and Fake Plastic Trees were pretty comparable. I get why people like the song - I think the vocals are pretty good...but it is just boring and repetitive and not really for me. I don't even necessarily mind repetitive music.. but I like when it at least changes pace or is more up beat and this song just doesn't do that.

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02-12-2019 , 05:06 PM

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in 4th place

This was a interesting "game theory" submission by [redacted], and I loved his comment when submitting:

Well, he was right and successfully faded the duplicate DQ. On to the song, man this one was close - just barely missing the podium. I went back and forth on it.

FINALLY we get some heaver sounding guitar/music which I like a lot. On the other hand the non-chorus parts just don't do it for me...and even parts of the chorus are mono-tone.

Overall there are more good parts than bad. I again got a really strong Muse connection at the part on/around 2:30.

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Again, Dizzy is spot on. I guess he can sing, after all. Definitely the best, so far.

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Again, Dizzy is spot on. I guess he can sing, after all. Definitely the best, so far.

Thom Yorke can sing his *** off.

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02-12-2019 , 05:13 PM

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Side note - if you'd ever heard a Radiohead song without realizing who the band was, odds are the song was Creep.

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02-12-2019 , 05:14 PM

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Side note - if you'd ever heard a Radiohead song without realizing who the band was, odds are the song was Creep.

Yeah I learned from this thay it’s their most famous song. Still pretty sure I hadn’t ever heard it - or at least didn’t remember

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02-12-2019 , 05:19 PM

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hoo boy Street Spirit at number 9??

dafuq?

Although I'm surprised someone submitted that song

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02-12-2019 , 05:22 PM

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I listened to the live version.

I would put this one at least a couple of places higher, maybe even 5th.

The playing was good, and the airy vocals fit, this time. I see what Dizzy says about, monotonous, but it's not discordant. This one is okay.

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02-12-2019 , 05:27 PM

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pretty hyped to see what podium'd

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02-12-2019 , 05:28 PM

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the live version would have scored higher certainly

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02-12-2019 , 05:36 PM

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In 3rd place:

Finally we have a more upbeat song! This is much more my normal speed and I enjoyed this one. The beginning is quick and controlled - and then by the end they are finally starting to let loose. Another common theme I've seen with these Radiohead songs is that they often start slow and end their songs very strong.

love the vocals at ~2:20

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02-12-2019 , 05:41 PM

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I'll take it!

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02-12-2019 , 05:52 PM

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This feels like the right place for this song. A better groove than the rest. One problem I have (with all their songs, possibly), is that I don't like the sound coming from one of the guitars, like it is tuned wrong for my ears, or they don't have the right strings. That goes away as the sound is swept into the mix. A good song, though.