Best Ever Albums

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

Applerill — Fri, 1 Jan 2021 01:54:02 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 01/01/2021 06:54

ItsGabe wrote:

an-outlaw wrote:

Hi Gabe! This albums rubbish but is that Katebush in your profile
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haha hi outlaw, indeed it is a rather rubbish record overall

and nah it's actually from the movie 1983 movie City of Pirates by Raúl Ruiz

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lovely film, highly recommend. much better than anything connected to thom yorke and the radioheads

City of Pirates is one of the most wonderfully Charli movies ever <3

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

KitchenSink — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:56:12 GMT

Author: KitchenSink

Posted: 01/01/2021 04:56

an-outlaw wrote:

Hi Gabe! This albums rubbish but is that Katebush in your profile
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haha hi outlaw, indeed it is a rather rubbish record overall

and nah it's actually from the movie 1983 movie City of Pirates by Raúl Ruiz

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lovely film, highly recommend. much better than anything connected to thom yorke and the radioheads

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

an-outlaw — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:33:40 GMT

Author: an-outlaw

Posted: 12/31/2020 12:33

Hi Gabe! This albums rubbish but is that Katebush in your profile
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Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

KitchenSink — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:56:35 GMT

Author: KitchenSink

Posted: 12/31/2020 11:56

maybe the only album I can think of where its remix album counterpart is infinitely superior. idk most of these tracks feel weirdly empty to me, and some of the production choices feel almost idk amateurish? like the kind of shit you'd make while you're still learning your way around a new DAW or something. Thom's vocals help tie it together a bit but the whole thing just maintains this sense of really missing something. maybe that's why I prefer the remix album as much as I do, I feel like a lot of that aural white space got filled in in a (usually) fairly interesting manner, or at least one that made the individual tracks feel less interchangeable

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

craola — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 22:55:52 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 12/29/2020 03:55

CharlieBarley wrote:

Sorry to hear that Dude

thank you, charlie.

RoundTheBend wrote:

Anyway, this is probs his best solo record? I haven't heard that Anima release yet though and it seemed like peeps went ape shit over that (more than Tomorrow's Modern Boxes?)

hard to say which record is his "best". sort of apples to oranges. for me, the eraser and anima are easily his two best non-radiohead efforts. anima is probably more imaginative and less derivative, but the eraser has more of a pop quality with earworms and more distinct structure.

tomorrow's modern boxes, atoms for peace, and suspiria are all somewhere on the ok to good spectrum for me. if it wasn't THE tomas york, i probably wouldn't give those a second spin. but the eraser and anima are definitely where it's at.

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

RoundTheBend — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:07:46 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/28/2020 19:07

craola wrote:

love this album. harrowdown hill in particular... it's such a simple song with a ton of repetition, but it gets me right in the feels. my first dog died a few days after the release. i was in high school, working the summer as a custodian, and i had this album in my cd player on repeat that entire day while i was scrubbing toilets and definitely not crying. that's probably a pretty big contributor, but all that aside, i really think this is a great album.

Now I like that track even more. What a harrowing memory. Sometimes pain and the growth therefrom are the best memories though. Hoping it's the latter. Also custodian work was the best with music - hours of music and ignoring the world while doing mostly hypnotic (albeit tiring, but lucky for me almost never gross) work. I couldn't imagine doing that for an elementary school though. 5am at the university one semester for me... then I decided I couldn't do mornings like that anymore.

I love that track because it was kinda a wet dream to think Flea and Thom Yorke teamed up and came up with it... something tells me it was just Thom and Flea just played along, but idk.

Seeing the two onstage being equally weird still gives me the fanboi chills:

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Also only 116 albums left and I'll have finished my library listen. It's nice to go through the whole thing every so often.

Anyway, this is probs his best solo record? I haven't heard that Anima release yet though and it seemed like peeps went ape shit over that (more than Tomorrow's Modern Boxes?)

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

CharlieBarley — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:54:05 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 12/28/2020 18:54

craola wrote:

Sorry to hear that Dude

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

craola — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:51:22 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 12/28/2020 18:51

love this album. harrowdown hill in particular... it's such a simple song with a ton of repetition, but it gets me right in the feels. my first dog died a few days after the release. i was in high school, working the summer as a custodian, and i had this album in my cd player on repeat that entire day while i was scrubbing toilets and definitely not crying. that's probably a pretty big contributor, but all that aside, i really think this is a great album.

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

Skinny — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:45:48 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 12/28/2020 18:45

I mean yeah its name is apt because all memory of it has been erased.

Nah, I lie. I like this. Feels like a nice addendum to Amnesiac or sth.

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

CharlieBarley — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:32:24 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 12/28/2020 18:32

Agreed

Re: Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

DommeDamian — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:30:48 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 12/28/2020 17:30

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Album of the day (#3662): The Eraser by Thom Yorke

BestEverAlbums — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:00:25 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 12/27/2020 21:00

Today's album of the day

The Eraser by Thom Yorke (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2006.
Country:
Overall rank: 721
Average rating: 77/100 (from 655 votes).

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Tracks:
1. The Eraser
2. Analyse
3. The Clock
4. Black Swan
5. Skip Divided
6. Atoms For Peace
7. And It Rained All Night
8. Harrowdown Hill
9. Cymbal Rush

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.