Radiohead - In Rainbows

(xpost) maybe she asked them?

I'd heard 80,000.

could they be any more fey?

I'm pretty sure the 80,000 figure was mentioned in the observer music monthly interview and at least one of the bbc radio interviews.

all you london based ILM'rs : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/7191556.stm

don't these fucks have jobs?

From The Observer, Sunday December 9, 2007,

"Caught in the flash" by moderator/interviewer, Craig McLean:

'Can you say something about the sales figures of In Rainbows, the average price paid only for the download and the number of ordered discboxes? In which countries the most discboxes?'

Ed: 'I think there's about 80,000 discboxes.'

Jonny: '60,000.'

Ed: 'It was 65,000 a week ago.'

Colin: 'It's 72,000.'

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Again, that was almost a month ago. I reckon(er) they've hit 100K sold by now (or shortly before the Christmas).

And, for the record, I didn't doubt the veracity of Melissa W's info, I just wondered where she got/read/heard it.

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Thanks to leigh for the Observer lead; and seconding my own Jesus Christ² - 100K discboxes at $80 USD a pop!?!?! Wowowowowowow.

This album is great, you guys.

But Amy MacDonald costs a fiver.

Is anyone else watching this?

I seriously wished I took the day off work when I found out about the show this morning. :(

Yeah I'm watching, it's brilliant. Amazing how tame My Iron Lung sounds these days.

It looks way more entertaining listening sitting at home than at the shop though

This looks like the best gig of all time to me.

bye thom!

brick lane more liek brick LAME

93 Feet East it turned out morelike

Ed and Thom are broadcasting on Radio 1 right now.

This looks like the best gig of all time to me.

Evidently you weren't at Glastonbury '97.

The In Rainbows material works really well live, I think. (if not better than on the album itself)

I love the way the drums sound, sort of soft and tactile; and in a lot of cases they sound "closer" to the listener (less reverb / panning) than the other parts of the song.

It actually reminds me of some idm (thinking of RDJ album) - drums and melody have these kind of parallel independent lives, rather than one serving the other.

The "Scotch Mist" show was on TMF last night, nice.

I'm listening to this/watching this now.

Did I already say they are the best live band in the world on this thread yet? And did I mention they are coming to my town? And do you know those fuckers will never be as good in the studio as they are live? Really I'm not quite sure why they even try.

They'd be great in the studio if they just stopped over producing everything.

I love this album more every time B0b L3fs3tz froths about it.

I think the uglier Thom Yorke gets, the more unshaven, the more "fell out of bed" his hair looks, the more I like it. I think he ought to really go the whole hog, grow out the beard/hair, do a bad 70's fashion thing, man. Then I'll really be happy.

Great as this album is, Radiohead are approaching oversaturation at the moment.

15 step sounds curiously nice at 33rpm

are they going to take four years dribbling out another one of these then?

^probably

I LOVE THE STICKERS YOU GET WHEN YOU BUY THE CD EVEN IF YOU ALREADY BOUGHT THE DOWNLOAD!

All my impulses to be a creative child were satisfied by realizing these stickers were there! You can peel them off and put them on a white piece of paper and wow! COLOURFUL ART ON YOUR WALL! I love it.

Only live versions of these songs suffice, now, though. Only live versions. I will not go to my grave before seeing them live again, mark my words.

http://www.gigwise.com/news/40672/emi-to-release-radiohead-greatest-hits-album

Ed O’Brien told Canadian music-TV presenter Strombo: “They’re planning to do a greatest hits for April, May to coincide with our tour. That’s an interesting one. We won’t be doing any promotion for that, obviously.”

Yeah, I wonder if that means they're not going to play any of the songs on the greatest hits...

not sure why they'd be "wrathful" or whatever about this. nice for them that they're breaking even.

I just started recently appreciating those bonus tracks!!!!

But live versions trump all.

It's impossible to get "4 Minute Warning" or "Down Is The New Up" out of my head once they start.

Also have they got an amazing drummer or WHAT?

...I'm still rather amused by imagining a parallel-o-verse where Radiohead have released a collection of Richie Blackmore covers.

TOPSY TURVY TOWN

I think this is, now, definitely my favourite Radiohead album. I still; think they're hideously overrated, though.

I actually want to listen to this from time to time; that's the deal-maker.

Anyone else pick up tickets for the US tour? My girlfriend and I snagged a decent pair of seats for Houston, May 17.

Though I will say, it baffles me that Radiohead can come up with a brilliant, barely tested way to distribute their album independently, for free and for profit simultaneously, and avoid all the major label bullshit - yet for concerts, they're still going with Ticketmaster without protest.

not on sale for the bay area yet, but I'll go this time; the hail to the thief show we saw in London four years ago was one of the best shows I've ever seen, certainly better than the last time I saw them, which was after Pablo Honey (yeah I'm dumb)

can't they just do like 10 shows at the warfield instead of sending me down to mountain view?

is that where it'll be? so terrible. I'd almost rather it just be at the fucking coliseum

Tickets went on sale yesterday, but I've been lazy.

first buy/'borrow' the download.
then buy the boxset.
then the proper cd in the shop.
now buy the bits !

Radiohead, iTunes and Garageband are giving fans the opportunity to remix the band's new single "Nude” at http://www.radioheadremix.com

To make remixing easy, the separate ‘stems’* from the song will be available to purchase from iTunes. The ‘stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. Fans can mix them in any way they like, either by adding their own beats and instrumentation, or just remixing the original parts.

Fans who purchase all five ‘stems’ from iTunes during the first week they're available, will be sent an access code to a GarageBand file ready to open in GarageBand or Logic. However, you don’t need GarageBand to do a remix, all the stems are available in iTunes Plus and compatible with several music software platforms.

Finished mixes can be uploaded to http://www.radioheadremix.com where the public will listen and vote for their favourite remix (voting ends May 1st). Fans can also create a widget allowing votes from their own website, Facebook or MySpace page to be counted as ‘mix votes’ back on radioheadremix.com.

Nude is out now in the UK on CD, 7” and download.

*‘stems’ are the component parts of the song.

these guys know how to make a buck -- nothing is wasted.

Fans can also create a widget allowing votes from their own website, Facebook or MySpace page to be counted as ‘mix votes’ back on radioheadremix.com.

Oh shit, if SCENE QUEEN HANNA BETH makes a remix this contest is OVER

EMI's Best Of tracklist :

Radiohead "Best of" is something you may recall we first talked about in February, when it emerged (via guitarist Ed O'Brien) that the Oxford quintet's former label EMI would be releasing one.

True to his word, a double compilation album of singles, a b-side and album songs from their 12-year back catalogue with the label, will surface billed as Radiohead: The Best Of.

Available as a two-CD set and a 4x12" vinyl package, EMI will release it on June 2nd to coincide with their UK and Ireland tour in the same month.

CD1 Tracklisting:

Just
Paranoid Android
Karma Police
Creep
No Surprises
High and Dry
My Iron Lung
There There
Lucky
Fake Plastic Trees
Idioteque
2+2 = 5
The Bends
Pyramid Song
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Everything In Its Right Place

CD2 Tracklisting:

Airbag
I Might Be Wrong
Go To Sleep
Let Down
Planet Telex
Exit Music (For A Film)
The National Anthem
Knives Out
Talk Show Host
You
Anyone Can Play Guitar
How To Disappear Completely
True Love Waits