Radiohead - In Rainbows

hehe yeah, i'm a girl the last time i checked.

Oh, glad I apologized then! :)

I'm starting to get excited about this Radiohead thing though, in fact, before I saw your post I read my update in my email and thought "ooh this is sexy! We're all downloading from Radiohead at more or less the same bloody time!"

I know! it's a weird sort of communal experience - usually with widely-anticipated albums, people tend to be more like "oh I'll get this tmr" or "i've got to hear this soon" but suddenly everyone's all "I want to hear this NOW".

viz "beardos discussing prog around the fire"

It's like we're all waiting in line outside Tower Records with our headphones & CD players or something. Old school shit.

In Rainbows = a new Harry Potter book.

lol that had not occurred to me

I'm going to wait this one out despite having to wake up at a god awful hour. Shouldn't be much longer... maybe 4 hours? That's what, 9 in England? 2am here... better put on the coffee. :)

hmm... I paid for mine (possibly twice) and have received precisely squat. f u radiohedz I will download this shit for free in protest.

It's like we're all waiting in line outside Tower Records with our headphones & CD players or something. Old school shit.

This sends me into fits of laughter.

In Rainbows = a new Harry Potter book.

This sends me into even more fits of laughter.

No seriously...it really is like we're all standing outside in the freezing cold, winding around the block isn't it?

i like it. i like actually waiting for music to come out. im not used to it. usually ill find out an album has been leaked and ill get it. or ill get it when i can.

this is nice

Yes, and I imagine this has been said before but what I admire them most for is the whole thing "OKAY BLAM! HERE IT IS! YOU'VE GOT A MERE TEN DAYS!" you know??? Instant's notice, a Gemini's dream. Etc. No anticipation, nothing. Now or never.

in such a short time something like this has become so rare.

it has to be an instant notice thing like that because if not it would never work. it would find its way onto the internet.

downloading!

WAHT

IT BEGINS

does it suck yet?

holy shit. downloading

almost done burning. no telling. i only heard some breakbeats so far.

i'm getting a lovely 215kb/sec

i bet tomorrow it will be a tenth of that as their server gets slammed by a million fans

whoa. university network don't fail me now.

*walking away from the computer for 43 minutes*

stolen signal be true

wtf dudes does radiohead hate me

i should be liveblogging this

how can you say you were really there if you didn't liveblog it

32% of 1 file

this, right now, is really exciting

bad news guys: it sounds like radiohead

did all you guys pay actual money or something????

i didn't.

does it suck yet?

-- Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:42 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OMG will someone please post this to the LOL Excelsior thread. For that just about sends me into all the LOL's I'm going to have tonight before I pass out.

WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT THIS IS NOT A SURE THING! THIS ALBUM MAY SUCK ASS! IT COULD BE WORSE THAN AMNESIAC! (whoops didn't mean to start a war about this kind of thing, please carry on, quite sorry)

In the middle of listening to this.

Predictions:
People will say this sounds like HTTT pt. 2
Little "progression"
Not nearly as good as Kid A or OK Computer

Also I think some of the live versions from the 2006 tour were better.

Oh fuck, "All I Need" is amazing.

I need to review what I just said!!

ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i didn't pay but i ordered it minutes after the order page went up on the 1st, maybe they're rolling it out in batches to prevent the server from buckling

no alarms and no spoilers, please? lol

Someone upload this shit already so I can go to bed.

oh god, christ here we go. The positive hyperbole and the nasty put-downs. Where will it end?

5600 trillions posts by morning.

hahaha sorry, i'll shut up now.
no alarms and no spoilers 4 lyfe

Oh god!!! What if it's one of those albums where 50% of the people like it and 50% think it's crap?

THE HORROR!

YES. I have listened to the first three tracks of this, am extremely tired and really pleased with what I heard. Must sleep now.
Bodysnatchers is a little kraut-rock, no?

yeah i just ordered it today. comforting to think that maybe theyre just trying to be civil.

Oh goodness, I feel like one of those hopeless kids about to get a new Harry Potter. (Except in my case cries of, "It's like HTT/Amnesiac" is like hearing that "Harry gets AIDS on page 84 and spends the rest of the book conjuring a cure. He dies on the last page.")

ps I'm glad the internet didn't explode.

Amnesiacis their best album. And if Harry got AIDS and died that book would've been so much better.

you think yr contrarian but yr not

I'M BEIN SERIUS

3 tracks in and im loving it

Amnesiac? The best album they've ever done? Hey I'd even bump you The Bends on that one, mate. You are WRONG.

4 TRACKS IN THIS SHIT SUCKS I WANT A REFUND PLZ.

Amesiac has their best songs, so it's their best album. It's that simple.