Last week modern gods Radiohead also got themselves involved in the Record Store Day shenanigans releasing 2 new tracks from the ‘The King Of Limbs‘ sessions. Both ‘Supercollider‘ and ‘The Butcher‘ would be potential singles, rather than outtakes, for lesser bands.
Our reviews of ‘King Of Limbs‘ as well as The Strokes recent ‘Angles‘ album sparked an interesting discussion at Cougar Microbes HQ. The problem for bands such as Radiohead or The Strokes is that have given us, in my opinion, two of the best albums of all time early in their careers.
As fans we always come back to these and therefore expect so much from them. It seems that we are never satisfied and this is because we inevitably compare every subsequent release with the raw diamond that will inherently never be reproduced, and this is to point out that we sometimes fail to appreciate great music just because it is not another ‘Last Nite‘ or ‘Karma Police‘ .
Going through reviews for both these releases I found it almost impossible to find one which did not refer to the both band’s “golden egg“. It is as if we were asking them to recreate ‘Ok Computer‘ and ‘Is This It‘ over and over again, but in that case would these albums be as special as they are?
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