Radiohead - In Rainbows

While we wait, I've started a little something.

zelda did you pay anything

I'm starting to get so excited about this album and I know that's just not rational. I didn't like their last one.

I'm dead intrigued that they've picked up the ball with that song "Reckoner" again, I thought they'd left that one in the dust long ago, quite mysteriously.

Yo, is it true what I heard that the Radioheads are gonna release a tribute album to Rainbow, and if you get the special 100 quid discobox it comes with a pot of gold?! I hope they cover "Since You Been Gone", that's all. Ronnie James Dio rules!

Timely as ever.

they are painting the whole world as in rainbows...

Tuomas, it's much better than that: if you order the free mp3s there's a field where you can decide how much money they're going to send you. They're very generous, they say "it's up to you, really, it's up to you"

But I don't want any money the Radioheads have touched with their plucked gopher hands... Ronnie James Dio rules!

Don't worry, you can fill in 0.00 - they'll still send you 45 cents, but you don't have to accept them.

45 cents of what?

45 cents, the 50 Cent tribute rappers.

Ned, I like your piece. Not living in the US at that point, I hadn't realized how singlehandedly "Creep" introduced them to an American audience.

I had a cassette of Pablo Honey, and loved "Anyone Can Play Guitar," but found the rest of it, well, I'm not sure: I think I had difficulty placing it (as a 19 year old) within either shoegaze (my love at the time) or grunge (most of which I didn't like), so I gave up. I think I lumped them in with something like Ash (which came out in 94 I think), and assumed they'd be similarly important.

Ned, I like your piece.

Thanks -- yeah, it was VERY singlehanded. As you say, Pablo Honey is a bit of a there/not there album, but one thing that struck me on the relisten was that it was extremely well-produced. Usually everyone goes on about that for the following albums instead.

Second part up later today. Pretty much just keep checking back in.

Anyone want to put money as to when we'll actually hear this record? As opposed to repeatedly getting the same error message when the Radiohead site immediately falls over after being hit with the force equivalent to 1000 Glastonbury Ticket Sales.

They'll probably roll out emails over a 24-hour period, just to take some of the burden off the server. That's my guess anyway.

Part two of my project is up.

They'll probably roll out emails over a 24-hour period, just to take some of the burden off the server. That's my guess anyway.

But how would they decide the order in which to send... oh. I knew I should have donated something. :-/

Part three of my project is up.

the section starting with "I hate OK Computer." is completely otm

Damn, Ned!

(For those wondering, read the whole section indicated and you'll see what I mean.)

Ned, you just made my evening with your piece. I wasn't really around for any of that myself, but I really enjoyed hearing your take on it all.

Thanks! This whole exercise has been interesting...

Thom's hair looks like Rod Stewart!

I'm really enjoying these pieces too, Ned. It's pretty amazing how well you've captured the time that all this happened, both general reception to the band and your personal anecdotes. i can barely remember what i did last week much less stuff ten years ago, so yeah, wonderful stuff.

had fun with the accompanying youtube clips too - that performance of "Paranoid Android" on Jools Holland was blistering.

Thanks much, again. :-)

The clips were sort of a last minute idea, a 'wait a minute, duh' thing. My selections are kinda at random but at the same time I'm trying to find notable performances, or at least some unusual ones.

lol: http://guitar.blogfeedsworld.com/?p=2494

I enjoyed reading those entries, it certainly puts things in perspective (since I was probably teething then).

Gotta love those guitar enthusiasts. Anyway, you kids today with your hula hoops and your iPods and your...

i was just noticing going through those clips, while the rest of the band seems to have gone through a bunch of different looks (especially Thom), the younger Greenwood appears not to have changed his hairstyle nor his wardrobe, or indeed aged a day, since 1993.

http://home.att.ne.jp/wood/greenwood/archive/old/image/b-day.JPG

the younger Greenwood appears not to have changed his hairstyle nor his wardrobe, or indeed aged a day, since 1993.

Yep, pretty much.

This is from *last year*:
http://pics.livejournal.com/radioreverie/pic/0001qa1w.jpg

Rest of the band is his own portrait of Dorian Grey.

I always felt that Kid A was Radiohead's pinnacle (thus far). Not only my favorite, it's the album where they clarified themselves and earned my eternal respect (and probably adoration).

With that, the next column in Ned's series is the one I'm anticipating the most. It's kind of old man Raggett to serve these appetizers before the 10th.

"OLD...MAN...RAGGETT..."

http://www.marcnorton.us/media/DIR_73405/73516.jpg

Part four is up.

ditto cosmo vitelli, kid a is such vivid music

Listening again to it today made me realize how wrong a lot of people have been about that album, including myself. I had remembered it as this restrained calm, rather foolishly.

Kid A was the first album that I remember mp3s wrongly informing perceptions of the whole. A random track like "Treefingers" could be your first (and only) foray into Radiohead's new music. I remember reading from people in forums at the time, who came for Karma Police redux and thought they were swindled into Music For Airports instead.

As for the chatter about Amnesiac being a "return to form" (take that, Kid A!), that notion had been so cemented in Truth by the time the band posted a stream on their website that I was intensely confused on first listen, getting through each track and thinking, "This is pretty cool, but what the fuck?"

I just keep thinking about this album "it won't be as good as Kid A"

If you go in with that expectation then it won't be!

Listening again to it today made me realize how wrong a lot of people have been about that album, including myself. I had remembered it as this restrained calm, rather foolishly.

The misperception that has always bugged me the most is the idea that Kid A was nothing but an Autechre/AFX/Squarepusher/Warp Records ripoff. I always asked for specific examples of which Radiohead song sounded like which Autechre song, but strangely, I never got a good response.

I enjoyed your article, Ned, and the last 3 as well.

I just keep thinking about this album "it won't be as good as Kid A"

They've defied my expectations before, and it's been 4 years since HTTT. I really have no idea what this one will sound like. It just as easily could be a retread as it could be relevant. They're smart enough, so I'm hopful.

What does beer have to do with this? o_O

I think it's good that they've been out of the limelight for a while. Doing it this way means that there'll be less "WTF, it's not as good as the last one" or any silyl expectation. I'm going to treat In Rainbows very much as a new leaf in the Radiohead book, a fourth chapter if you will.

I still keep meaning to assemble a single mix CD from parts of Kid A and Amnesiac...and call it 'Kid Amnesiac'.

I still keep meaning to assemble a single mix CD from parts of Kid A and Amnesiac...and call it 'Kid Amnesiac'.

-- Edward Bax

You'll need "Worrywort" and "Kinetic," surely. . .

I paid about $6 for the download. [pound symbol]2.90, to be exact.

I paid $5. I always tend to remember Kid A as "restrained calm" myself. I guess that shows how little I listen to it now.

Part five is up.

And part five-a (since part six is tomorrow).