Radiohead - In Rainbows

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

I like it well enough, and I think there are some really great moments on it that get up there with some of their best stuff. It's funny too how some tunes I didn't really like very much now seem to work really well. I'll probably reach for this one before any of the others besides Kid A/Amnesiac.

Maybe my musical interests have changed a bit since 2000/2001, but this one hasn't really dominated my listening repetoire in any way similar to the way Kid A/Amnesiac both did.

I maintain that the 10 best songs on HTTT are a better "album" than this one.

Still love this one, mind.

you might be right on that, one of these days I'll finally put on my own sequenced, edited-down version of HTTT

HTTT just never happened for me. 4 good songs at best.

Special editions of Thom Yorke and co's early work out this year
2 hours ago
Radiohead's first six studio albums are set to be made available as a box set.

'Pablo Honey', 'The Bends', 'OK Computer', 'Kid A', 'Amnesiac' and 'Hail To The Thief', plus live album 'I Might Be Wrong', will be released in a box set on December 10.

The new releases - the band's output for old label Parlophone - will come in new 'digipack' sleeves featuring the original artwork. Owners of the new editions will also get access access to stream special footage via "Digital Insert technology" by putting the new CDs into their computer.

A limited edition USB stick shaped like the band's bear logo, will also be available featuring the same contents on CD-quality WAV files, along with digital artwork.

A download bundle of the boxset will also be available from www.radioheadstore.com

As previously reported, the band have left Parlophone, and following the download and deluxe releases of new album 'In Rainbows' via their own website, they have signed a deal to release the album on CD with XL Recordings.

£34.99 for the download

£39.99 for the 7 CD boxset, and

£79.99 for : this:
http://www.radioheadstore.com/images/usb_img.jpg

This is dumb.

But In Rainbows is the album of the year.

it does strike me as kind of dumb. the bear logo usb? plus all these releases are some of the most widely available releases out there.

I have a feeling that Radiohead played little part in this and they're probably a bit pissed off because this move seems totally contrary to the direction they're moving in from a marketing perspective.

yea, you're right. just seems like parlophone trying to cash in on the in rainbows profits which they obviously aren't going to see anything of.

i won't be buying this.

Dry Humping the Cash Cow

Yeah, I bet they had nothing to say in this. It's all old fonts & designs too.

Awaiting a comment on their site... (will they even acknowledge this? ask people to boycott it?)

Number of bonus tracks: 0

40 pounds/80 bucks for a box set of Radiohead's first 6 albums >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 40 pounds/80 bucks for a box set of Radiohead's one most recent album

I don't think they need to get people to boycott it - where's the demand for an ugly white box they shoved all the old records into?

Alex, would you really pay 80 pounds for a USB stick? At least the discbox has bonus tracks.

Hell, they could have at least thrown in a b-sides comp.

To be honest, I expected Parlophone to release a "Radiohead's Greatest Hits" (called exactly that, just to spite them) :-)

"Radiohead's Greatest Hits (not out-of-date for some time, right lads?)" on Parlophone.