Radiohead - In Rainbows

cute

there have supposedly been 1.3 million downloads of this so far.

is it just me, or does that seem like rather a small number?

i'm still absolutely loving this album; i felt like i'd stopped caring about them about 5 years ago, but at this rate i'll be digging around in my cupboards for the letter i got from thom yorke a decade ago before the week is out.

It's a preposterously large number by the standards of physical releases. OK Computer has sold about three times as many copies, but it's been out for ten years, not four days.

And it's not too shabby considering that the website was basically unusable for people who tried to order on Thursday and Friday (rather than pre-order).

Also, if the average price people are paying really is £4, it's not exactly pocket change for the band, either.

i'll be digging around in my cupboards for the letter i got from thom yorke a decade ago

!

I was trying to pretend like I wasn't really, really intrigued by that comment.

"DAEREST TOBY WAHT IS IT MAED SINED HTOM"

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^ a victory

Toilet has a weird tongue.

mommy y is clown fellating that toilette

i wrote to him first. it's a very cool letter though, featuring little cartoons like the ones on the liner notes to the bends.

it's funny that i have no feeling at all for how many CDs a band sells - i guess i would have estimated OK computer at like 30 million worldwide by now. so i take it back, 1.3 million is indeed impressive.

First two tracks = good, especially "15 Step"

Rest of album = boring shit that only serves to remind me why I don't like Radiohead

-- The Reverend, Saturday, October 13, 2007 5:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Reverend so OTM it's not funny, but I agree the first two tracks are great, I said so before and I shall listen to them again right now.

The reason I got all excited when I first heard "15 Step" was "oh my god! Who thought they'd do JAZZ!?" I mean in a lot of ways, that kind of jazz is a real weakness of mine, for real. And I was just walking out the door to work and I was so excited that I could take the brand new album to work with me. And well...the rest of the album was a downer disappointment, I've already said that.

Someone upthread said the use of "Etcetera" was as good as anything Smiths had on whatever that song is where they said etcetera and I fully agree.

Can we all please imagine a 15 Step 12" on DFA with a mix or two by James Murphy & Co. Thanks.

What went wrong? And what's with lyrics about romantic love when he should be singing about Bush & co. or global warming? Just my opinion.

Okay so we have to wait for how many months to get this damn bonus CD??

Haha, yeah. Two tracks in I was like "THIS IS THE ALBUM THAT'S FINALLY GOING TO GET ME INTO RADIOHEAD", but it was not to be.

Can we all please imagine a 15 Step 12" on DFA with a mix or two by James Murphy & Co. Thanks.

That sounds sexy.

What went wrong? And what's with lyrics about romantic love when he should be singing about Bush & co. or global warming? Just my opinion.

-- Bimble, domingo 14 de octubre de 2007 6:55 a.m. (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Are you being serious?

Yes, but I'm afraid truth be told I listened to this entire album earlier tonight, full of guilty pleasures. All of a sudden, a lot of it made sense to me. I was worried I'd have to eat all my negative words about this album on this board. "All I Need" especially. Stay tuned, thanks.

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I think 'All I Need' is terrible...just sounds like a lame trip-hop cast off type thing, y'know UNKLE collaboration type territory.

And even 'Reckoner', with it's Four Tet/Fridgesque percussion falls flat for me. And those horrible post-Radiohead (heh) high register plaintive guitar parts just make me think of the Coldplays > iLiKETRAiNSes of the world. This is Jonny Greenwood on this record, one of the most amazing guitar/multi-instrumentalists of the last 10-15 years (certainly in popular music anyways) - and you can't hear his personality at all in this).

Best tracks for me: 'Faust Arp' and 'House Of Cards' now.

EDIT: The horrible post-Radiohead high reg plaintive guit parts bit was aimed at 'Bodysnatchers'.

the strings bother me a lot on this record - Greenwood just re-discovered melody apparently. It's all very Fake Plastic Trees, which is great of course, but I kinda prefer the horror-movie/atonal/start-stop strings on Amnesiac.

jazz????

right right heh.

oh wait were you referring to Bimble's post? Cause I was thinking of Amnesiac and jazz strings, bah nvm.

surely "life in a glass house" counts as jazz?

yes, jazz?????

roffles @ pitchfork rating.

u____u

would be better if they didnt even reveal the score at all

or if they revealed it in 10 days.

*rimshot*

As the "what did P4K give it?" era lingers on, I actually have to hand it to them for that rating.

Sonofabitch, never mind. I only clicked the "?" once. I thought they had balls for a minute.

Sly comment on "how much did you pay?" shenanigans?

Ya think?

Radiohead? Is that a band?

http://www.last.fm/music/+charts/track/

Say you pay £4 to download the album and you like it. Is it then okay to pay another £4 to the Radiohead site and download disc 2 of the boxset from Soulseek?

holy shit @ last.fm

I guess the drop-off through the album wasn't nearly as bad as some suggested!

Wonderwall?

"Up 41,620%"

The new sickmouthy blog entry is well worth a read people.

my boss has been playing this nonstop since last week! his office is right next to me. i can't take it anymore.

dano perino is a str8 beaver

According to Metacritic, Pitchfork gave In Rainbows a 9.3 (thereby explaining its landing in the latter's Best New Music). Or wait, maybe we did it...

They did - click the "?" twice in the review.

I've decided I want this on thick vinyl so bad I could spit.

It's a marketing gimmick! Send out your download at a most unsatisfactory bitrate and watch the money roll in for the real thing!

I've decided I want this on thick vinyl so bad I could spit.

-- Bimble, Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:39 AM

i thought you didn't want it at all?

I thought you were of the opinion that tracks 3-x were the suxxorz. Have I lost my one compadre?

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