Radiohead - In Rainbows

Fitter Happier: Twelve Classic Radiohead Hits infomercials at 3 in the morning.

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).

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).

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.

as long as Pull/Pulk is on any future best of, all will be right in the world.

Alex, i think you're the exception to the rule. every Radiohead fan i know has their *entire* fucking catalog. myself included.

and this is off topic, but as for entire catalogs in box sets, Alex: Joy Division's Heart and Soul is excellent

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?

nothing about this on radiohead.com, it's EMI's radiohead site.

Yeah, the article's wrong.

ah

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

are they ever gonna price this shit in dollars for U.S. third world folks in America?

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) :

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

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?

I was wondering how long they'd have the nerve to keep that up for.

When Parlaphone tosses around the term "strictly limited" (the USB thingy) without committing to a number?

Industry rule number 4080: Record company people are shady

I'm actually thinking about picking this up. Never even listened to Pablo Honey, my copies of The Bends and OK Computer are burned CD-Rs from a friend, downloaded I Might Be Wrong, and my copies of Kid A thru Hail to the Thief are in the gorgeous "limited" packaging which of course means the actual discs are all scratched to shit (why is it so hard for bands to make fancy-schmancy packaging with a standard jewel case-style tray in the back of the book or whatever?). Filling out the rest of their back catalogue and getting some of the more dodgily packaged releases (I Might Be Wrong in particular, I have seen the super-tight gatefold thing it comes in and it makes me wince) in digipaks isn't all bad. And really, it's no less legitimate than buying the albums outside the box; the same major profits off of them regardless.

Also I can put it next to my Talking Heads and Sly Stone box sets, I am weak-willed consumer whore :(

xpost: oh yeah, the USB stick is going to be "limited" like, well, the previous "limited" Radiohead albums were. You don't make the molds to manufacture the plastic bits for that thing and then get some electronics manufacturer to slap USB sticks in them just to make a thousand of them or whatever, you'd barely break even, even at the ridiculous price they're asking.

Though I do wonder: 7 albums in .wav format, that's somewhere in the region of 4.5 GB, isn't it?

Shady notwithstanding. Agreed. I am a weak-willed (Radiohead) whore and will likely pick up the "box set" at least (for the digipacks alone).

repackaged in digipack sleeves featuring the original artwork.

If you look at the picture on the website, there is no tray that the disc snaps into; it appears to be the cardboard things a la "Funeral"

You sure? It looks to me like the open I Might Be Wrong is in a standard clear tray, and while the others are probably mockups and not actual photographs they do look like the right thickness/form factor for digipacks.

Another thing that wasn't noted much here on ILM: earlier this year Capitol/Parlophone released domestic editions of all of the Radiohead tour EPs except Itch (My Iron Lung, Airbag/How Am I Driving? and Com Lag/2+2=5). Again, it's a transparently cynical cash-in on their older Radiohead recordings now that they won't have new ones to release anymore, but getting a hard copy of the fantastic Iron Lung EP for less than $10 wasn't bad as far as blatant marketing ploys go.

I finally picked up Com Lag on that rerelease for a few bucks. Much cheaper than the $31.99 import versions I saw in shops previously...so I'm okay with a domestic release. Already had the other EPs.

Not that I'd ever buy this, but how in the world is this usb stick going to plug into my computer? Look how bulky that thing is!

http://www.radioheadstore.com/images/usb_left_03.jpg

That thing is awful.

I finally picked up Com Lag on that rerelease for a few bucks. Much cheaper than the $31.99 import versions I saw in shops previously

Did they finally fix the horrible audio glitches on the Four Tet remix?

webcast going on right now (to continue for a couple of hours, apparently. just started)

http://www.radiohead.tv

mac os users; download flip4mac
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm

pc users; windows media

Thom is dancing to M.I.A. Good times.

First track he played: Burial, then M.I.A., then something else, now Heart of Hearts by !!! - nice!

BRILLIANT! (they did something vv funny with the final scene of Se7en)

too bad I'm getting disconnected all the time, I'm going to have to find a download later (can't keep watching like this). Great Smiths cover right now! (The Headmaster Ritual)

Is that Ed? Hahaha, this is classic.

yuk

Oh man now they're playing. Reckoner!

That was brilliant.

New Order!

"Ceremony"!

x-post

hahaha "I thought you were squirting milk out of your breast...that's not going to convince anyone!"

Phil is playing Iron & Wine, hahaha.

"Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car," btw.

Ahhh, what is this?

Hey, they played Iron & Wine! Cool. Still, what is this?

What was that after I&W?

(and before Will Oldham - I guess Phil is the resident folkie?)

The folk just died a bit

So this is a stupid time to ask this question, I guess, but what is the DJ's creative role in this, and how does he carry it out? I mean, the songs he's playing sound unchanged from when I hear them on the original discs. Isn't the DJ supposed to enhance or manipulate certain sounds in the song, or add new elements to a song, or mash up a few different songs, to create something new? Again, I realize this is a stupid question, but I've wondered about it, and I'm curious.

I'm not watching anymore, but I assume you're asking about DJing in general?

The DJ selects the tracks he plays, may or may not beatmix (the good ones usually do), may or may not follow the mood of the crowd (the good ones can play with a crowd and speed up their set slowly or get to big climaxes and then suddenly drop a slower song), they don't necessarily have to scratch or mash up or speed up/slow down/add beats with a drumcomputer/rap over it. Some do, because that's what happens in their niche, but in general: selecting & playing the records and try to get the crowd behind them.

Ideally, you should go see a bad DJ and then a good DJ. The difference can be enormous. They can play the same records, but one will have no reaction from the crowd and the other one will have them raising the roof.

I think this is more along the lines of a video podcast. And, I vote to keep up a running tracklist, ha.

I saw Girl Talk earlier this year at the Langerado festival. He was a very good DJ, if that's the right word for what he does. He mashed up snippets of dozens of songs into something new. The (hippie/indie) crowd loved it.

And I guess his set had to be especially good, because that wasn't a DJ crowd (it was a Greatful Dead-type crowd).

So how was this DJ? (Now that his set's over)

There's lots of different kinds of DJ: the one you saw specialized in mashups, others do scratching and other hardly danceable stuff, most do dance stuff though. This one, anyone who was watching? (I gave up because of the disconnects I got, I'm hoping people are ripping the stream to upload it later)