Radiohead - In Rainbows

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/

i heard it works better if you play it simultaneously to "the wizard of oz"

xpost: I LOVE stuff like that. No, I haven't, though.

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.

“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?

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?

ROFL

There's this golden section stuff too, by the way.

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/thenumber23posterbig.jpg

Anybody tried this yet?

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

haha. made the tracklist. going to try it out on a transatlantic flight in a few hours. to make sure i'll listen to this in the right context, i've booked a seat in row 10.

all this does is make me wanna skip through the In Rainbows tracks. :/

i think in rainbows is now my favorite radiohead record. it makes the other ones seem kind of like they are trying too hard or something.

Okay, I hate to be the bringer of sceptical news, but I just tried the 1010 thing and I'm afraid it doesn't really work. I tried it with and without crossfades and really the only times the tracks segue well into each other is clumsily and quite obviously by accident. It doesn't sound awful but there's no great significance to it.

my guess is the 1010 thing was originally just a hint that it was coming out on the 10th of October - all that cryptic code stuff came out before the big announcement. i don't think they meant for it to say anything beyond that. Radiohead fans be over-analysing, big surprise. Besides, technically In Rainbows is a 2-Disc album, doesn't really make sense to just play one side.

that said, i like how Bodysnatchers segues into Subterranean Homesick Alien. I just wish it was the other way around because then it would start with Thom wishing aliens would pick him up and then end with "I've seen them coming! I've seen them coming!"

I've been listening to this album pretty much nonstop for the last 12 hours. I've decided the tracks after #2 have to be judged separately from what comes before. Still, it is annoying the way I have these fave tracks that are followed by a boring track, followed by a favorite track, followed by a boring track, etc etc. Faust Arp can go fuck itself, really. Weird fishes is almost as boring. What a snoozefest. Still I'd give this album an 8/10.

My fave is actually Reckoner after all, who would have thought I'd forgive them for a song which doesn't have a single thing to do with the bad ass rock and roll one they did live in 2001 called that. But the falsetto is so hypnotic and haunting...

My second fave is House of Cards, which just happens to follow Reckoner, what luck!

The thing you have to realize about tracks 3 and on is that it's so slow it's a whole other wavelength. Kindof like that band Codeine. You have to get used to it, let it sit awhile. 6 plays minimum before you begin to understand.

Still, upon hearing Bodysnatchers for the 15th time or whatever I thought "THOSE FUCKERS BETTER PLAY LIVE HERE!!!"

All I Need is my third fave track, as if anyone cares. Or was that my fave track? Whoops! No but the ending of that...you know what I mean when piano ending starts and it builds and he starts doing the "aaah aaaah"...hell yeah. I'm not really sure if that's my fave track or Reckoner anymore.

They're like mini more quiet versions of Paranoid Android, I swear, the best of these tracks

It's all about the beat with House of Cards, fantastic Halloween intro.

Adam Says:
October 20th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
So in effect, In Rainbows is the Sonic & Knuckles expansion cartridge to OK Computer’s Sonic the Hedgehog?

^^ actual lols

I just revived this Saul Williams thread because it's about him, but Trent mentions Radiohead too:

What's The Deal With Saul Williams?

"House of Cards" I'm pretty sure is my favorite Radiohead song, of them all, although it may be because it sounds like it is outside here (chilly, colorful, shiny with rain, etc [not like that's new territory for them lol]).

all this does is make me wanna skip through the In Rainbows tracks. :/

Ha, it made me wanna skip through the OK Computer tracks (lol prog).

i'm surprised by the house of cards love, it's easily my least favourite song on the album (though not without it's charms).

2x

hahaha nah In Rainbows is great, I'm just getting a bit sick of it whereas I haven't listened to OK Computer for a while.

xposts

After a few plays on the first couple of days I've stayed away from it for a while, except for a random unfocused listen while in Hawaii. Which turned out to be great because a lot of the lyrics suddenly stood out the less I concentrated on them (which I often find is the case with me and lyrics anyway).

Yes, the lyrics stood out...I agree!

I've been trying to play other things, and I have played other things but really I just want to play this album on repeat all day and night long, I'm afraid. Even the songs I hate I've learned to tolerate because I just don't really want to hear anything else but this album over and over. I'm sorry that's the way it is. And to think they've got more tracks up their sleeve, I mean...holy christ.

"Nude" --> "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" --> "All I Need" is the best 1-2-3 combo of the year.

i listened and enjoyed, but wasn't really thrilled. i listened to the track i pegged as my early favourite - weird fishes - today, and i realised i liked it because it's basically a sea and cake song! that's ok, but it really is a sea and cake song.

i'll spend more time with this.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/5615/news/paste/paste_invites_readers_to_choose_own_subscription_price

EMI counterattack:

http://www.radioheadstore.com/home.asp

"On the 10th December Radiohead are releasing a limited edition box set collection of all their Parlophone albums from 1993 - 2003."

= We, EMI/Parlophone, are releasing

I haven't paid anything for this yet, as I intend to buy the actual physical album when it arrives in the shops. Still their best album since "OK Computer".

I'm not trolling, but honestly, I think this album is deadly boring. I listened to it all the way through 5 times, which is about three more times than I would normally give it, and I can't bring myself to play it again.

But it's free!

Yeah, I feel pretty much the same way as Billy. Mostly glad that I put 0.00 in for what I wanted to pay.

I think it's got 3 or 4 great songs on it. And the rest is not exactly bad but it's Radiohead-by-numbers. About the same as I felt about Hail To The Thief.

I love it. My favourite Radiohead album.

Somebody upthread or somewhere else said that it's a rich man's album, and I have to agree. That's not inherently bad, but it made me think that what I have always really liked about Radiohead was the visceral impact of their best songs. They go for the jugular. and I don't mean just the uptempo songs, I just mean the performances/productions are fully committed to the band's conception of the song. These songs, otoh, sound curated, hedged, smoothed out, refined. That's okay too, but the songs themselves don't have much to say either, so it's all very nice and polite and I'm off to listen to something else thank you very much