Radiohead Minidisc

Wilki Amieva wrote:

The 'masters' are mp3 files @ 128 kbps, each a bulk rip of one of the 18 MDs. This is a shame as it means a lossy source (MD) was re-encoded in a lossy format (mp3), further degrading the audio. Also, there are no track splits and no documentation other than scans of the actual discs. A fantastic listen, anyway!

No - the leak was low bitrate mp3s. What Radiohead have released is straight transfers of the Minidiscs. If you download in flac, WAV or aiff formats on bandcamp there is no further lossy encoding. Minidiscs are lossy, but ATRAC compression is vastly superior to mp3.

Penetration_Guru wrote:

This is technically what Queen tried to do with the Top 100 Bootlegs. They just cocked up the execution.

It isn't. QPL were just re-releasing widely available bootlegs of live material in mp3 form. These are the personal working tapes of Thom Yorke in higher resolution.

What year was the 100 Bootleg thing? I remember when Spotify started the Queen section was made up entirely of those bootlegs. Extraordinary really.

The Real Wizard wrote:

Kevin Spacey wrote:

WTF is your problem bucsateflon? You post that Radiohead is shite or something to that effect and either everyone agrees with you or they are demented. Arguing opinions is useless so if you have nothing else to contribute to this thread get lost in space.

We should probably stop trying to reason with internet trolls in their mothers' basements.

Why were you in bucsateflon's mother's basement?

Is she hot?

Oh, Bucsateflon Co.
We really love you, and we need you

And oh, Bucsateflon Co .
We'd really love to believe you

But now everyone's trolling round
We gotta sort it out somehow

Oh, we said "Now go"
We said we'd like you to, because we've read you

And oh, Bucsateflon Co.
We know if you don't post then none of us do

And everything's under parr
We've gotta up our game somehow

Yeah, yeah
Queenzone's burning down
We gotta put it out somehow

Banana Co!

Absolute choon

dysan wrote:

What year was the 100 Bootleg thing? I remember when Spotify started the Queen section was made up entirely of those bootlegs. Extraordinary really.

eh?

dysan wrote:

Oh, Bucsateflon Co.
We really love you, and we need you

And oh, Bucsateflon Co .
We'd really love to believe you

But now everyone's trolling round
We gotta sort it up somehow

Oh, we said "Now go"
We said we'd like you to, because we've read you

And oh, Bucsateflon Co.
We know if you don't post then none of us do

And everything's under parr
We've gotta up our game somehow

Yeah, yeah
Queenzone's burning down
We gotta put it out somehow

Great song. Nice lyric change! :)

You forgot to mention that Bucsateflon song is dedicated to The Wizard, who apparently has earned the right to aberrate from time to time (now is one of those times), while the other must justify every syllable.
The usual queenzone multiple standards.

The guys from the attached picture are the most important band of the past 25 years, right?
Just to be sure, because I'm a little confused.

Like I said a few times before, I'm not a huge fan and find much of their output to be style over substance but I'm really struggling to think of a comparable band with the same longevity in that time frame.

Substance and longevity, that's fine. How about Threshold, Pallas, IQ, Pendragon & Arena, Marillion?
Maybe not the best bands, but at least doesn't make you ashamed to listen them.

These are all much earlier yes? And yes lots of bands going further into weird, but retaining the commercial output too?

If Radiohead was formed in 1985 then those bands are not much earlier.
But let's focus on the short and fertile period after 2000.

Threshold - Hypothetical (2001)
Threshold - Critical Mass (2002)
Threshold - Subsurface (2004)
Pallas - The Cross & The Crucible (2001)
Pallas - The Dreams of Men (2005)
IQ - The Seventh House (2000)
IQ - Dark Matter (2004)
Arena - Immortal (2000)
Arena - Contagion (2003)
Arena - Pepper's Ghost (2005)
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Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (2003)
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2000)
Linkin Park - Meteora (2003)

Don't immediately see the connection between Radiohead and Linkin Park?
Both are "rock" bands in the most broadest sense of the word, which only a cool teenager can appreciate (for a short time until get bored).

If you can't stay above the line then at least don't try to reverse the musical hierarchy.
The last will be the first only in Bible, in music the last will always be the last.