love the dub sound of house of cards
picked this detail in the mix when listening properly on the bus this morning. totally makes the track for me.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 October 2007 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
In Rainbows - is rated number 3 album on rateyourmusic.com for 2007 albums
Top 1000 Albums of 2007 http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2007
― djmartian, Thursday, 11 October 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
why always links to RYM?
― poortheatre, Thursday, 11 October 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Why not?
Anyway, hi dere all. Now imagine if that shutdown today had happened yesterday.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Radiohead broke ILM
― Davey D, Thursday, 11 October 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just coming onto this thread to mention Robert Wyatt - it's really there in the warm jazz guitar tones.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
radiohead are reefer duberland http://gapersblock.com/transmission/archives/2007/10/#023128 or not nice dusted review (as usual) even if the guy's wrong about the album being a let down http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3903
― kamerad, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
after one on-the-bus listen (i was going to be all aloof and wait a couple of weeks, but succumbed at 7.30 this morning) i've remembered many of the reasons i really like radiohead. it's good to be reminded of this. i think i'm going to spend a lot of time with this album.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
It's got thumbs up from me!
(hey, with reviewing style like that, I'm off to Plan B!)
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Five listens in and '15 Step', 'Weird Fishes' and 'Bodysnatchers' look like being highlights; 'All I Need' is the only thing even approaching a weak link. Other thoughts: Thom's voice sounds in fine form throughout and 'Faust Arp' is more Five Leaves Left than Beatles to these ears. Really enjoying the whole thing.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
'All I Need' is the only thing even approaching a weak link
no wai!
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
It outstays its welcome a little... It's a minor quibble though, I'm very much impressed with this.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
what has happened to ilm? around 2001 i was one of the few who defended "amnesiac" (besides john and melissa). i hadn't cared about them before. "hail to the thief" i liked too, don't remember what ilm thought. now they release an album which i find as uninteresting as everything pre-amnesiac and everybody (except bimble) is totally nuts about it. this reaction baffles me. or maybe it doesn't. i like what i like and you like what you like. thom yorke's voice really goes on my nerves again as it used to in the nineties. there are no melodies on the new album. which could be a good thing. but i don't think it is. there is meandering, the album doesn't flow. the songs are too similar, too exchangeable. just listening to "nude" and it is a crappy soft rock ballad. the next song isn't better. it's all wishy-washy. i thought prog was dead but the dead live longest, it seems. "five leaves left" and "faust arp"? if you compare any nick drake to it then please compare it to the right album. which would be "bryter later". the weakest nick drake. but whereas the strings on it are just an extra topping on "faust arp" they seem to be the whole meal. i don't hear anything remotely interesting in terms of melody, rhythm or harmonies. my fave is the opener i guess. because it rocks.
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I think its simply a by-product of lots of Radiohead fans being caught up in a moment and everyone else sitting on the sidelines. Not to say everybody's reactions in the last 30 hours haven't been sincere, but that the effusion was predictable. For my part I've listened to it a couple of times and it's not really grabbing me, but I'm not trying to kickstart the inevitable backlash coming at the 48 hour mark either
― Billy Pilgrim, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
now they release an album which i find as uninteresting as everything pre-amnesiac and everybody (except bimble) is totally nuts about it.
People saying "hey, I like this bit" or "I don't know about this song" interspersed with a thousand comments about the pricing and download model aren't exactly indicators of people "going nuts." People usually listen to an album for a bit before declaring it anything, right?
― mh, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
SOMEONE TELL ME JUST WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ILM
― cutty, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Stuff. Things.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
9/11
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
cutty would probably like in rainbows
― chaki, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Actual answer = nothing has happened to ILM. Well, nothing and everything, but what's happened is irrelevant, because the Amnesiac thread is largely full of of praise. Bit like this one.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know why that didn't work.
So... Amnesiac
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
oh god marcello
― cutty, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway:
My formal review for the OC Weekly
My acknowledgment of its inherent limitations. There's a lot there I'd already rewrite, but I think that about everything.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I really like how Arpeggi keeps that 3 over 4 hemiola or whatever going for the whole song, it's tricky but sounds natural.
― Jordan, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"15 Step" finds drummer Phil Selway going off on acoustic and electronic beats that could easily have been hitting the charts in recent times (they'll surely be used on mixtapes before the year is out).
Ned, you know I love you, but there's not a lot of rap in 5, dude. :>
― Jordan, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
LET ME DREAM (however stupidly).
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually that would be a great Radiohead B-side title from 1995.
which would be "bryter later". the weakest nick drake.
Totally wrong there of course
― trailofgybe, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
That's okay, I remember making a post after HttT came out, something about wanting to hear Ludacris on Backdrifts. :/
― Jordan, Thursday, 11 October 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I may have missed the corresponding Billboard article, but is this album being tabulated like any other, i.e. will it show up on the album chart next week?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"reckoner" = radiohead's "new grass"?
― jackl, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned made this comparison in his review
― W4LTER, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I think
― W4LTER, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Not to the song specifically. "Ascension Day" is the other song I've heard so mentioned...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Aaah, Rainbows; I like those.
― G00blar, Friday, 12 October 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Alex very much OTM upthread there. I don't get the love.
― circa1916, Friday, 12 October 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
They've never done anything as pretty as 'Nude'.
― the next grozart, Friday, 12 October 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
'Faust Arp' is a big fuck you to all those crap buskers who learnt to play 'Street Spirit' and thought they could impress people. Let's see you play these chords then!
― the next grozart, Friday, 12 October 2007 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
At Ease sez that someone else sez 1.2 million "sales". I guess that's a combination of downloads from the sites and orders for the discbox.
― Z S, Friday, 12 October 2007 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm...that's 1.2 miilion without counting discboxes, whoops. "The band will cash in again when the payments clear for the ‘In Rainbows’ box set which are on sale for £40 a go"
― Z S, Friday, 12 October 2007 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CquDCsalbgA
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 12 October 2007 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
First sentence of album review on Rolling Stone dot com:
These wily boys may have a secret album-title exchange program with Kelly Clarkson, but everything else about In Rainbows is typically hard-rocking Radiohead.
― stephen, Friday, 12 October 2007 06:15 (sixteen years ago) link
In reference to Rolling Stone review, from Idolator dot com:
BY CHRIS N. AT 10:54 AM "None of it sounds like any other band on earth," yet "'House of Cards' is a fragile lovers-rock ballad closely resembling Dusty Springfield's (and the Byrds') 'Going Back.'"
― stephen, Friday, 12 October 2007 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i had never seen a shooting star before
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 October 2007 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Also of interest?... One of the guys from Portishead speaks about In Rainbows, and its effects on the industry:
"so then.......music for free is it? well fuking great. so if you get our album for nothing or very little , does that mean i can get my boiler fixed for free... --------i could tell the plumber that its all for the love of sharing and its to combat the evil money grabbing corperation that is zanussi. ...............im sure he will understand. also im not having a pop at radiohead they are fuking good and clever with it. anyways im sure it will all become clear at some point"
― stephen, Friday, 12 October 2007 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Couldn't you also argue the opposite? Why should Bono get a million dollars for singing some shitty song and a plumber get much less for hammering away all day long?
― filthy dylan, Friday, 12 October 2007 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Why would a plumber be hammering? Welding, more like.
― nate woolls, Friday, 12 October 2007 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm still not sure where the hell "free jazz" comes in on Kid A or Amnesiac.
lol xpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 October 2007 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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― stephen, Friday, 12 October 2007 07:57 (sixteen years ago) link
They've never done anything as pretty effeminate as 'Nude'.
-- the next grozart, Friday, October 12, 2007 1:15 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
― stephen, Friday, 12 October 2007 08:00 (sixteen years ago) link