Talk:Amnesiac
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why is this labeled art rock and EXPERIMENTAL??? it gives radiohead way to much credit, this is just beats and electro stuff your talkin about, that doesnt make it arty Would a disambiguation notice be in order? With a link to dissociative amnesia? Except that's rather a non-article right now so it may not be worth it -- sannse 15:57 Mar 29, 2003 (UTC)
- done. Angela 18:13, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)
This is a concept album? What's the concept? Everyking 06:33, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
- Isn't it obvious? All the songs have the theme "We couldn't fit these on Kid A"....no, seriously, there really isn't one, but some fans have tried to link it up with the Kid A concept. --MockTurtle 23:22, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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- Yeah, I removed the concept album bit a little while ago because I don't think there is one. If someone wanted to make a case for it, though, I suppose they could add it back in some form. Everyking 00:02, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just in regards to Christgau's review: His star system is a bit weird, since it isn't out of 5, and is part of his Letter grading system.-- Weebot
How the hell is this album jazz-inspired? The only slightly jazzy track is the last one. I took that part out.
^ | I have no idea when the above comment was made, but it is still wrong. The rhythm section in Pyramid Song, Knives Out and Dollars and Cents (the first two actually being the album's singles) is blatantly jazz-inspired, and You and Whose Army uses a jazz style string bass. The last track on the album (Life in a Glasshouse) is not "slightly jazzy", it is a wholesale appropriation of New Orleans/trad jazz style, actually using well known British jazz players- Radiohead doesn't even PLAY on the track, apart from Thom Yorke singing. Besides, your or my subjective feeling about the album's jazz inspiration or lack thereof would be original research. The album was often noted as being partially jazz inspired in reviews, and this is because the band themselves described jazz, particularly Mingus, as a major influence on songs like Pyramid Song. Certain Mingus songs might not sound much like "jazz" to you either, I'm guessing, like the ones where people sing/shout or there's handclaps (these being the inspiration). It is certainly appropriate under these circumstances for Wikipedia to note the album's otherwise widely noted jazz inspiration, without going to such an extreme as classing its genre as jazz or anything (that would only apply partly to the final track, as you said). 172.144.0.252 13:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Anyone else think hunting bears sounds like the musi on ecco the dolphin(on sega mega drive)?
[edit] Modeselektor
Removed the reference about Modeselektor being an inspiration for Thom on Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors. Modeselektor made their first release one year after Amnesiac was released. - ZEROpumpkins (talk) 04:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
