Radiohead - In Rainbows

Still no reaction from geir?

House of Cards sounds like a Grizzly Bear record.

It sounds like Radiohead after the seventh listen.

-- Cosmo Vitelli, Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:03 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I want this enshrined in a plaque, thanks. This is the Nobel peace price (I mean prize) of this thread. Let's hang it on the wall and be done with it.

17 times and it still sounds remarkably like Radiohead, to wit.

Do us a favor Radiohead. Tell us you're going to e-mail codes to everybody who purchased "In Rainbows" online so they can get the bonus material included on the CD FOR FREE! And then stop talking shit about files. CDs sound bad. I'm surprised you're even selling them. The sampling rate is so LOW! Why not make everybody buy an SACD player, to hear your music right. Or, buy turntables to hear the infinitely superior vinyl. You think you're doing something innovative, but it just looks like you've got contempt for your audience. I never fire up the big rig anymore. I LOVE my iPod. Files rule. Get OVER IT!

Lefsetz chimes in on the idea that Radiohead will be selling a cd version in the stores soon with extra tracks. http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/

BUT I REQUIRE ALL MY ALBUMS TO ... BE EASILY RATE-ABLE AMONGST SAID ARTISTS ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY

Wow, dudes are going crazy with the comparison stuff.

Mos def:

OK Computer > In Rainbows > Kid A > Hail To The Thief > The Bends > Amnesiac > Pablo Honey *

* Subject to change by 2012

* or tomorrow, which ever comes first

Oh and:

Thus, I think most of the experimentation that is going on here is about pushing four minute songs to be as intense and peculiar as they can possibly be and still fit the mood. In a sense these aren't pop songs anymore, in that they often don't give the pleasures of a pop song, or at least those pleasures: movement, climax, resolution etc., are really diluted, in favor of a different goal.

OTM

Thus, I think most of the experimentation that is going on here is about pushing four minute songs to be as intense and peculiar as they can possibly be and still fit the mood. In a sense these aren't pop songs anymore, in that they often don't give the pleasures of a pop song, or at least those pleasures: movement, climax, resolution etc., are really diluted, in favor of a different goal.

Well, OTM except for this edit.

the last minute of Reckoner still kills me every time

Oh and AMG's written review isn't up yet, but they have given it 4.5 stars and best track checkmarks to Bodysnatchers, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, All I Need, and Jigsaw Falling Into Place.

Can't really argue with that, though I might have checked Reckoner or House of Cards instead of All I Need.

i was going to post about not liking house of cards but then i listened to it and it's great.

First two tracks = good, especially "15 Step"

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

"Faust Arp" is such a weird little song. I can't seem to wrap my head around it. At first I was on board with all of the "sounds like the Beatles, sorta" references, until I realized that it was only because the fingerpicking on it is almost a deadringer with John Lennon's "Julia".

the last minute of Reckoner still kills me every time

Yeah, me too, but it's been out for 3 1/2 days.

updated today on metacritic, Radiohead currently ranked number 2 for 2007 albums

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2007.shtml

Yeah but only because a small handful of publications have the arrogance to review it at this point.

the last minute of Reckoner still kills me every time
i seriously don't get that. reckoner like most songs on the album starts well and doesn't go anywhere. it's all in the first two minutes before the break. afterwards there is a big void. just rehashing and strings and rubbish. i think they have kind of lost it. they can hardly write a three minute song which holds the tension and is varied from beginning to end. except 15 step. this album could well be the last album ever a million or so people are listening to. albums are anachronistic in these fast-paced days. which is quite sad. and this album would be a very disappointing last album.

this has a few really good tracks. but it also has a LOT of tracks that are so fucking boring that dont really go anywhere, just like half the songs on the last one.

I seem to be the only person on earth that thinks the opening minute is exhilarating.

But I've always kinda wanted them to do d&b + skronk or something.

I seem to be the only person on earth that thinks the opening minute is exhilarating.

Nope.

far from the only person.

it might be the best minute of the album.

I'm with you, HOOS. It's just the rest of the album that sucks, amirite.

Best moment of listening to record: about 20 seconds before the end of "15 Step" when I figured out the joke of the name.

i don't get it

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

"i don't get it"

2step---------->15step

rofl etc

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"

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/1554963486_b9401453c4.jpg?v=0

^ 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.

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????