Radiohead - In Rainbows

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^ 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.

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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????

right right heh.

oh wait were you referring to Bimble's post? Cause I was thinking of Amnesiac and jazz strings, bah nvm.

surely "life in a glass house" counts as jazz?

yes, jazz?????

roffles @ pitchfork rating.

u____u

would be better if they didnt even reveal the score at all

or if they revealed it in 10 days.

*rimshot*

As the "what did P4K give it?" era lingers on, I actually have to hand it to them for that rating.

Sonofabitch, never mind. I only clicked the "?" once. I thought they had balls for a minute.

Sly comment on "how much did you pay?" shenanigans?

Ya think?

Radiohead? Is that a band?

http://www.last.fm/music/+charts/track/

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?

holy shit @ last.fm

I guess the drop-off through the album wasn't nearly as bad as some suggested!

Wonderwall?

"Up 41,620%"

The new sickmouthy blog entry is well worth a read people.

my boss has been playing this nonstop since last week! his office is right next to me. i can't take it anymore.

dano perino is a str8 beaver

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...

They did - click the "?" twice in the review.

I've decided I want this on thick vinyl so bad I could spit.

It's a marketing gimmick! Send out your download at a most unsatisfactory bitrate and watch the money roll in for the real thing!

I've decided I want this on thick vinyl so bad I could spit.

-- Bimble, Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:39 AM

i thought you didn't want it at all?

I thought you were of the opinion that tracks 3-x were the suxxorz. Have I lost my one compadre?

xp

I'm trying to put my finger on what classic rock song "Bodysnatchers" reminds me of. I'm hoping it's not "Bittersweet Symphony."

Classic, obv. I really like how the bass sounds.

a lot of people i know think bodysnatchers sounds like paperback writer

Killer Cars sounds a bit like Paperback Writer.

I can see the PW thing. I think it might actually be that the riff in "Bodysnatchers" reminds me of how John sings "He's a new (and better man)" in "Dr Robert." In a weird way. Maybe.

"Radiohead said to shun majors in next deal" (for the physical CD) :

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/business/media/23music.html?ref=business

Anybody tried this yet?

http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-01-and-10/