"Nude" --> "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" --> "All I Need" is the best 1-2-3 combo of the year.
― three handclaps, Monday, 29 October 2007 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― derrrick, Monday, 29 October 2007 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/5615/news/paste/paste_invites_readers_to_choose_own_subscription_price
― StanM, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
EMI counterattack:
http://www.radioheadstore.com/home.asp
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"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
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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".
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 5 November 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
But it's free!
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I feel pretty much the same way as Billy. Mostly glad that I put 0.00 in for what I wanted to pay.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I love it. My favourite Radiohead album.
― nate woolls, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I maintain that the 10 best songs on HTTT are a better "album" than this one.
Still love this one, mind.
― stephen, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
you might be right on that, one of these days I'll finally put on my own sequenced, edited-down version of HTTT
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
HTTT just never happened for me. 4 good songs at best.
― nate woolls, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
£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
― Mark G, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
This is dumb.
But In Rainbows is the album of the year.
― three handclaps, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― three handclaps, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i won't be buying this.
― stephen, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Dry Humping the Cash Cow
― nate woolls, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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?)
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Number of bonus tracks: 0
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Simon H., Monday, 5 November 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Alex, would you really pay 80 pounds for a USB stick? At least the discbox has bonus tracks.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 November 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Hell, they could have at least thrown in a b-sides comp.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 November 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
To be honest, I expected Parlophone to release a "Radiohead's Greatest Hits" (called exactly that, just to spite them) :-)
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"Radiohead's Greatest Hits (not out-of-date for some time, right lads?)" on Parlophone.
― Mark G, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
the day will soon come when we'll see that, though
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
We Might Be Right: The Very Best of Radiohead
― Simon H., Monday, 5 November 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Fitter Happier: Twelve Classic Radiohead Hits infomercials at 3 in the morning.
― nickalicious, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't say I'd buy the USB stick, I have no use for that, if anything from that deal I'd get the CD box set. But to be honest I'm kind of right in the target audience for this kind of thing (have heard/liked 4 of their first 6 albums but currently only own a copy of 1 of them).
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
And in the last few years I've been really big on buying up bands' entire catalogs all at once as box sets (Steely Dan, The Police, have my eye on the Led Zep one next).
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
you just wonder how many executive meetings they had @ emi as to exactly where they were going to put the usb connection in the bear logo.
― mark e, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
as long as Pull/Pulk is on any future best of, all will be right in the world.
― three handclaps, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Alex, i think you're the exception to the rule. every Radiohead fan i know has their *entire* fucking catalog. myself included.
― stephen, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
and this is off topic, but as for entire catalogs in box sets, Alex: Joy Division's Heart and Soul is excellent
― stephen, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
from Billboard news article:
A Radiohead boxed set, spanning the British band's first six studio albums plus a live record, will be available from Dec. 10 via the band's Web site.
??????
the band's web site? if radiohead didn't have anything to do with this, why their own web site?
― stephen, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
nothing about this on radiohead.com, it's EMI's radiohead site.
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, the article's wrong.
― three handclaps, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
ah
― stephen, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=radiohead.com :
Administrative Contact : someone at waste.uk.com
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=radioheadstore.com
Administrative Contact: someone at virginmusic.com
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
are they ever gonna price this shit in dollars for U.S. third world folks in America?
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
The site has been changed!
"On the 10th December Parlophone are releasing a limited edition box set collection of all their Radiohead albums from 1993 - 2003."
vs. 3 hours ago (scroll up a little) :
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Did EMI/Parlophone REALLY think they could get away with "Radiohead are releasing" or does this prove that they're amateurs and not P/R specialists at all?
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I was wondering how long they'd have the nerve to keep that up for.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 November 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link