Radiohead - In Rainbows

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.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2047/1534118401_a437a4a575_o.jpg

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?

xp

I'm trying to put my finger on what classic rock song "Bodysnatchers" reminds me of. I'm hoping it's not "Bittersweet Symphony."

Classic, obv. I really like how the bass sounds.

a lot of people i know think bodysnatchers sounds like paperback writer

Killer Cars sounds a bit like Paperback Writer.

I can see the PW thing. I think it might actually be that the riff in "Bodysnatchers" reminds me of how John sings "He's a new (and better man)" in "Dr Robert." In a weird way. Maybe.

"Radiohead said to shun majors in next deal" (for the physical CD) :

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/business/media/23music.html?ref=business

Anybody tried this yet?

http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-01-and-10/

i heard it works better if you play it simultaneously to "the wizard of oz"

xpost: I LOVE stuff like that. No, I haven't, though.

I made a rough copy last night. Whether or not it's deliberate, it sounds brilliant. The fade between Bodysnatchers and SHA sounds amazing. I'm just finishing off making a higher quality version. Be ready tomorrow,if anyone wants a copy. I'll YSI or something.

“The meaning behind all of this is right in front of our faces, we’re just overlooking it. (Thom) has been expecting an article much like this one for a couple of years, as have I. But I’m willing to wager he’ll have fun waiting a few more. On the other hand, it seems to annoy him that no one ‘gets it’ yet, given the mountain of clues.”

This at least intrigues me. I like the idea of this band playing some sort of game with its ravenous audience. The rest of this interlocking OK RAINBOWS darksidewizardofthemoon bullshit needs to stop. It's gonna turn this band back into Pink Floyd. You don't want that again people, do you?

Brent Says:
October 21st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Um.. this is only radiohead’s 7th album.
Darnell Says:
October 21st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
>Um.. this is only radiohead’s 7th album.
This was the TENTH COMMENT!!!!! Coincidence…or psychic phenomenon?

ROFL

There's this golden section stuff too, by the way.