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Atoms For Peace — Before Your Very Eyes...
Album: Amok
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Total ratings: 719









Released: 2013
Length: 5:45
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The god of the window
Was passing you by
But you really want this
Then know

But your good look is
The keys to give

Soon or later
Soon or later
Soon or later
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes

Or so your shoulders
Your look when you're older
Time's fickle card game
That you and I

You have to take your chances
The book of the guess

Soon or later
Soon or later
Soon or later
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes

Soon or later
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes
And before your very eyes
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 jkforde wrote:
just imagine having this amount of creative potential bottled up inside you, unreal 


I can relate 
I wish these guys would put out Nothwr album.

if you get beyond the Thom Yorke sound you may well realize the brilliance if Flea in this song. That's not only a synthesizer. 
It didn´t sound to me like the radiohead typical bass sound... and infact...
A pleasant, unexpected surprise, this sunny Friday afternoon!
Well if it isn't Thom the whinny Yorke! I recognized your moaning from afar.
just imagine having this amount of creative potential bottled up inside you, unreal 
 ick wrote:
This is really just sounds like another Radiohead record to me.  
 
not a problem for some of us
hey cool a new radiohead song - wait what ?
I like it.  Love Radiohead, so love this too...
 ick wrote:
This is really just sounds like another Radiohead record to me.  
 

SADLY, yes it does
What's funny is if it said "Radiohead" instead of Atoms for Peace y'all would give it an 8 overall rating.

Still gets a 1 from me.  Sounds the same as all their other crap.
 DaidyBoy wrote:
I love Radiohead, but this is horrid to my ears.
 

Thom warbles and quavers. That's his main contribution to Radiohead  from what I can tell. 

Radiohead has made some great music, but for me Thom doesn't contribute that much. His limitations as a singer get exposed here when the music behind him isn't that strong. 

Quite shabby!!!
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWrUEsVrdSU
Super video thank you R_P   : )
R_P wrote:
Now with a cool video...


 


This sounds unfortunately exactly like the original whiny band....
 torino390 wrote:
Obviously pursuing the more self-indulgent side of Thom York, but the beauty of music is you don't have to like it, you have a choice. Personally I always find it refreshing and interesting to hear people pushing the boundaries. Every now and again, a masterpiece is born this way. If musicians didn't experiment and dig deep, we would live in a world filled with manufactured pop, and no-one wants a world like that!
A life without Dark Side of the Moon? No thanks. Let the experimentation go on I say. 

 
i wouldn't call 'Dark Side' an experiment
it was a cold calculation 
Obviously pursuing the more self-indulgent side of Thom York, but the beauty of music is you don't have to like it, you have a choice. Personally I always find it refreshing and interesting to hear people pushing the boundaries. Every now and again, a masterpiece is born this way. If musicians didn't experiment and dig deep, we would live in a world filled with manufactured pop, and no-one wants a world like that! A life without Dark Side of the Moon? No thanks. Let the experimentation go on I say. 
It seems Radiohead in my first listen. Wow!
 passsion8 wrote:

Why does Honda need Acura, Nissan need Infiniti or Toyota need Lexus? Higher form of expression or additional revenue stream?

 
But they're not "exactly" the same as their parent brands. Ya' know "higher form of expression" and all that.  I think the main motivating factor may be the additional revenue in all cases though.
atoms
 passsion8 wrote:

Why does Honda need Acura, Nissan need Infiniti or Toyota need Lexus? Higher form of expression or additional revenue stream?

 
And the defence rests. {#Clap} 
 MassivRuss wrote:

But this sounds EXACTLY LIKE Radiohead. I mean what's the point of having a side project, if it sounds EXACTLY LIKE your main band.

{#Moon}

 
Why does Honda need Acura, Nissan need Infiniti or Toyota need Lexus? Higher form of expression or additional revenue stream?
I love Radiohead, but this is horrid to my ears.
 Larrygrrl wrote:
At low volume levels the percussion sounds just like an antique manual typewriter....love that noise.  So tactile, so delicious.

 
{#Clap}

brilliant song, the lyrics,  the composition of sounds {#Music}
It sounds exactly like... ah, it's him.
 MassivRuss wrote:

But this sounds EXACTLY LIKE Radiohead. I mean what's the point of having a side project, if it sounds EXACTLY LIKE your main band.

{#Moon}

 
Good point. For that matter, why keep singing like this in every song? Thom Yorke is turning into a quavery one-trick pony. 
Yorke refrito.
 hayduke2 wrote:
I read a weird paperback in the seventies (during a summer job at a beach!) called "Amok"
it was about a humungus-sized Japanese soldier in the wilds of a Somoan Island, living decades in the wild, thinking the world war (#2) is still on and chopping people with a samurai sword .. sorry  

 
This really made my day, wow. Thanks hayduke2 for going completely off script and making me trip! B-)

...I pretty much know Ok computer, Kid A and Amnesia by heart, saturated myself with those albums.
I haven't heard anything that might make me come back to them. I think they're still a great band.
I unfortunately agree that this spin-off sounds just like the motherband.
 MassivRuss wrote:
But this sounds EXACTLY LIKE Radiohead. I mean what's the point of having a side project, if it sounds EXACTLY LIKE your main band.

 
...i thought it was radiohead!..

...to be fair, thom yorke's own solo work sounds similar to radiohead, but I don't hear much of anyone else in this...


I read a weird paperback in the seventies (during a summer job at a beach!) called "Amok"
it was about a humungus-sized Japanese soldier in the wilds of a Somoan Island, living decades in the wild, thinking the world war (#2) is still on and chopping people with a samurai sword .. sorry  
At low volume levels the percussion sounds just like an antique manual typewriter....love that noise.  So tactile, so delicious.
 helgigermany wrote:
I do not like all Radiohead, but this is very nice!

 
But this sounds EXACTLY LIKE Radiohead. I mean what's the point of having a side project, if it sounds EXACTLY LIKE your main band.

{#Moon}
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I do not like all Radiohead, but this is very nice!
 niccca wrote:
this is pure excellence   {#Motor}

 

For you. For me, this is impure noise. 
 
this is pure excellence   {#Motor}
Love Radiohead and Thom and Peppers and Flea.

But I keep wondering where Flea is on this - can't really hear him when he's not funking out. 
I must admit - I wish they could capture their live sound in this record.  A live disc would be sweeeet!
Seriously liking this. It does show what a good singer Yorke is. IMHO, of course.
 serinde wrote:

I gave it a 1, just like I do Radiohead.  Because I don't understand why we are supposed to like Radiohead, any more than we are supposed to like having off-tuned hornets buzzing around in our ear canals.
 
I missed the commandment that we must all like Radiohead ('though I do like many Radiohead releases).  So glad there are different flavors of ice cream out there....even if I don't ask for the scoop with off-tune hornets.
 
 wrangler wrote:
these guys put on a hell of a show at the barclay's center last month.  {#Cowboy}

 
{#Yes}{#Yes}  Incredible show in Chicago!  BTW, full shows are uploaded on radiohead.com...you will see what we mean.
 ekin wrote:
THIS IS REALLY BAD SOUND!! PLEASE NEVER PLAY AGAÄ°N AND DESTROY THÄ°S SONG FROM YOUR HOSTING COMPUTERS. DO IT FOR JESUS OR WHAT YOU BELIEVE 

 
Ummm... whut?
THIS IS REALLY BAD SOUND!! PLEASE NEVER PLAY AGAÄ°N AND DESTROY THÄ°S SONG FROM YOUR HOSTING COMPUTERS. DO IT FOR JESUS OR WHAT YOU BELIEVE 
I'm more than willing to give this the lowest rating of any track I've ever heard on RP. WTF is this noise? Are those vocals I'm hearing? What is that bee buzzing thing that is supposed to be musical? The whole cut seems worth about 10 seconds but it goes on for endless minutes. How about a 3 for avant garde effort? 
Okay!?!? I like it!
Wake me when it's over...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
these guys put on a hell of a show at the barclay's center last month.  {#Cowboy}
Thank you RichardPrins!!!
That video is super cool man 
I was thinking the next song would be radiohead, but then it was radiohead (sorta)
Now with a cool video...

There are several MUCH better tracks on this record - why play this one - it's dangerous enough around here rolling out Thom York anything!
 johnjconn wrote: 
Yes, it is a supergroup, but in the end it sounds a lot like Thom Yorke's first solo record - The Eraser. (Nigel Godrich produced that one). I've heard the whole Atoms For Peace album and I like it but I don't like it as much as I like Radiohead albums.
 serinde wrote:

I gave it a 1, just like I do Radiohead.  Because I don't understand why we are supposed to like Radiohead, any more than we are supposed to like having off-tuned hornets buzzing around in our ear canals.



 
I like how you see things! And I like Radiohead. And these guys do them justice. 
This is really just sounds like another Radiohead record to me.  
I didn't know this sucko-barfo Radiohead cover...
Cool transition from Brahms to this.  Not sure I like this particular piece, but gotta give props to Bill/Rebecca for auditory brilliance....
 
stevendejong wrote:
I really do not understand why this gets such a low rating while extremely similar music from Radiohead gets a much higher rating. I can only imagine:

1. Liking Radiohead, but giving low ratings for this to punish it for sounding like Radiohead. 
2. Disliking this, but giving Radiohead high ratings because it is Radiohead... and we should like Radiohead.

For me, this is a 5 or 6. Boring and depressing. Just like Radiohead.


 
I gave it a 1, just like I do Radiohead.  Because I don't understand why we are supposed to like Radiohead, any more than we are supposed to like having off-tuned hornets buzzing around in our ear canals.


Sounds like lesser-Radiohead. 6


me too, 8

 Huey wrote:
I like it!!! 8.

 


I like it!!! 8.
I really do not understand why this gets such a low rating while extremely similar music from Radiohead gets a much higher rating. I can only imagine:

1. Liking Radiohead, but giving low ratings for this to punish it for sounding like Radiohead. 
2. Disliking this, but giving Radiohead high ratings because it is Radiohead... and we should like Radiohead.

For me, this is a 5 or 6. Boring and depressing. Just like Radiohead.

Yorke sets up AFP as a "side" project, all experimental and super-groupy, and it sounds JUST F-ING LIKE his base band!

{#Frustrated}

Genius!!!
 t00lur wrote:
how that could be not Radiohead
it is too Radiohead/Thom Yorkish 

 
It is Thom Yorke vocalizing.  
Not a bad quasi-ambient, lo-fi tune - for now. I figured it was just a matter of time before there was a band named "Atoms For Peace".  
afp



 
 t00lur wrote:
how that could be not Radiohead
it is too Radiohead/Thom Yorkish 

 
It might as well be...
how that could be not Radiohead
it is too Radiohead/Thom Yorkish 
Really bad song, really bad sound, really bad production and never play this bullshit song again! 
 allenrudd wrote:
Put me on the side of I like it.

 

Ditto ....
What utter rubbish.

Doesn't deserve any air time at all.

Bin it.

Now.

Do the world a favour.

 
 allenrudd wrote:
Put me on the side of I like it.

 
I'd like it too if it weren't for the whining, nasal, self-indulgent vocalizations of Mr. Yorke.
Yorke is droning again. 
I think the title of this album, spelled a bit differently and backwards, would be the likely result of too much of his off-key singing of unintelligible lyrics.   
radioheadache
Put me on the side of I like it.
 dig wrote:
Radiohead by any other name.


So... Why does everyone hate this and love Radiohead?

 

Because Yorke, performing/writing on his own, is a wanker.
 dig wrote:
Radiohead by any other name.


So... Why does everyone hate this and love Radiohead?

 
I don't like Radiohead, either.
 
 dig wrote:
Radiohead by any other name.


So... Why does everyone hate this and love Radiohead?

 
There wasn't a lot of love for The Eraser (which was also just Thom and Nigel) here either.  It suggests that folks like the guitars and drums that the rest of the band bring into the mix.  

Electronica in general gets slagged a bit by the Radio Paradise crowd, but BillG seems to like it, thank heavens!
Radiohead by any other name.


So... Why does everyone hate this and love Radiohead?
Interesting discussion about Spotify by AFP: https://www.stereogum.com/1406001/atoms-for-peace-pull-music-from-spotify/news/
 MassivRuss wrote:
You can call it AFP or anything else, but Yorke's rectal itch of a voice and this minimalist noodling is still crap.

Rectal itch???   your funny,made me sit up straight
 

tight....I like that
You can call it AFP or anything else, but Yorke's rectal itch of a voice and this minimalist noodling is still crap.
 teapot wrote:
It's not terrible, but it sounds like what Radiohead and Thom Yorke (with Nigel Godrich) have been doing for years now. In other words, Thom and Nigel are repeating themselves.

 

Agreed. I would like to hear more influence from the other band members, particularly Flea and Joey Waronker. 
It's not terrible, but it sounds like what Radiohead and Thom Yorke (with Nigel Godrich) have been doing for years now. In other words, Thom and Nigel are repeating themselves.
A Thom Yorke project I presume?