i don't get it
― ledge, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
there have supposedly been 1.3 million downloads of this so far.
― tricky, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"i don't get it"
2step---------->15step
rofl etc
― titchyschneiderMk2, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
cute
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― toby, Saturday, 13 October 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll be digging around in my cupboards for the letter i got from thom yorke a decade ago
!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I was trying to pretend like I wasn't really, really intrigued by that comment.
― Z S, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"DAEREST TOBY WAHT IS IT MAED SINED HTOM"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/1554963486_b9401453c4.jpg?v=0
― Z S, Sunday, 14 October 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
^ a victory
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Toilet has a weird tongue.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 October 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
mommy y is clown fellating that toilette
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― toby, Sunday, 14 October 2007 05:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Sunday, 14 October 2007 06:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay so we have to wait for how many months to get this damn bonus CD??
― Bimble, Sunday, 14 October 2007 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
That sounds sexy.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:16 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Bimble, domingo 14 de octubre de 2007 6:55 a.m. (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
Are you being serious?
― Turangalila, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2047/1534118401_a437a4a575_o.jpg
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mister Craig, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:42 (sixteen years ago) link
EDIT: The horrible post-Radiohead high reg plaintive guit parts bit was aimed at 'Bodysnatchers'.
― Mister Craig, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
jazz????
― Jordan, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
right right heh.
― Roz, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait were you referring to Bimble's post? Cause I was thinking of Amnesiac and jazz strings, bah nvm.
― Roz, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
surely "life in a glass house" counts as jazz?
― toby, Sunday, 14 October 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, jazz?????
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 14 October 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
roffles @ pitchfork rating.
― Jordan Sargent, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
u____u
― W4LTER, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
would be better if they didnt even reveal the score at all
― ciderpress, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link
or if they revealed it in 10 days.
― Jordan Sargent, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
*rimshot*
― Bimble, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link
As the "what did P4K give it?" era lingers on, I actually have to hand it to them for that rating.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 15 October 2007 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Sonofabitch, never mind. I only clicked the "?" once. I thought they had balls for a minute.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 15 October 2007 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Sly comment on "how much did you pay?" shenanigans?
― MC, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Ya think?
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Radiohead? Is that a band?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/music/+charts/track/
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― mei, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
holy shit @ last.fm
I guess the drop-off through the album wasn't nearly as bad as some suggested!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha take that "kanYe"
― Future_Perfect, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Wonderwall?
― Davey D, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"Up 41,620%"
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The new sickmouthy blog entry is well worth a read people.
― butchy, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
my boss has been playing this nonstop since last week! his office is right next to me. i can't take it anymore.
― carne asada, Thursday, 18 October 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
dano perino is a str8 beaver
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 18 October 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― dblcheeksneek, Saturday, 20 October 2007 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
They did - click the "?" twice in the review.
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 October 2007 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I've decided I want this on thick vinyl so bad I could spit.
― Bimble, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link