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Originally Posted by u b k  The ending of All I Need is compromised by the crush, it wants to absolutely explode into a million pieces and instead it's completely held back and mashed together. This kind of limiting creates a lot of tension without allowing for a full release because we're almost always slamming against the ceiling. |
The ending of 'All I Need' sounds just about as dynamic as the ending of 'Optimistic,' which is just about as dynamic as the ending of 'There, There,' which is no more dynamic than the ending of 'You and Whose Army?' which is just slightly less dynamic than the ending of 'Climbing Up The Walls.'
These almost-but-not-explosive-enough endings used to bother me; they even disappointed me slightly. But when I realized that this has been going on with Radiohead for each of their last five albums, I began to think this has all been on purpose; that Radiohead
doesn't want to let us have it
that way, that it would be too satisfying or too much of some sort of effect that Radiohead simply wont give us on a record or a disc.