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?
― 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
It's a marketing gimmick! Send out your download at a most unsatisfactory bitrate and watch the money roll in for the real thing!
― Bimble, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Bimble, Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:39 AM
i thought you didn't want it at all?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought you were of the opinion that tracks 3-x were the suxxorz. Have I lost my one compadre?
xp
― The Reverend, Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Sundar, Sunday, 21 October 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
a lot of people i know think bodysnatchers sounds like paperback writer
― LaMonte, Monday, 22 October 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Killer Cars sounds a bit like Paperback Writer.
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Sundar, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
"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
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Anybody tried this yet?
http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-01-and-10/
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i heard it works better if you play it simultaneously to "the wizard of oz"
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost: I LOVE stuff like that. No, I haven't, though.
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I made a rough copy last night. Whether or not it's deliberate, it sounds brilliant. The fade between Bodysnatchers and SHA sounds amazing. I'm just finishing off making a higher quality version. Be ready tomorrow,if anyone wants a copy. I'll YSI or something.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
“The meaning behind all of this is right in front of our faces, we’re just overlooking it. (Thom) has been expecting an article much like this one for a couple of years, as have I. But I’m willing to wager he’ll have fun waiting a few more. On the other hand, it seems to annoy him that no one ‘gets it’ yet, given the mountain of clues.”
This at least intrigues me. I like the idea of this band playing some sort of game with its ravenous audience. The rest of this interlocking OK RAINBOWS darksidewizardofthemoon bullshit needs to stop. It's gonna turn this band back into Pink Floyd. You don't want that again people, do you?
― Cosmo Vitelli, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Brent Says: October 21st, 2007 at 12:19 pm Um.. this is only radiohead’s 7th album. Darnell Says: October 21st, 2007 at 12:25 pm >Um.. this is only radiohead’s 7th album. This was the TENTH COMMENT!!!!! Coincidence…or psychic phenomenon?
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
ROFL
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
There's this golden section stuff too, by the way.
― StanM, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/thenumber23posterbig.jpg
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 October 2007 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link