Radiohead - In Rainbows

On the 2001 Hollywood Bowl bootleg I have he sings part of the Beatles' "Baby You're a Rich Man Too"

Could you possibly email just that track to me?

Drop me a line with a preferred address...

Did my email reach you?

It did, thanks!

He used to sing all sorts of stuff in front of that song. I used to have some boot where he sang "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next" at the beginning. I'm not sure if he's a Manics fan (for some reason it seems doubtful) or if he just liked the line.

though I wonder if REM didn't borrow the line from Gabriel.
-- Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 October 2007 00:51 (5 hours ago) Link

OTM!

What makes that interpretation more convincing to me is how close of friends Stipe and Yorke are and the fact that they've toured together.

-- Z S, Monday, 8 October 2007 00:20 (11 hours ago) Link

yeah, plus the fact that it's that song in particular...

That song is about the whole period of time that OK Computer was happening. We did the Glastonbury Festival and this thing in Ireland. Something snapped in me. I just said, "That's it. I can't take it anymore." And more than a year later, we were still on the road. I hadn't had time to address things. The lyrics came from something Michael Stipe said to me. I rang him and said, "I cannot cope with this." And he said, "Pull the shutters down and keep saying, 'I'm not here, this is not happening.'"

wow! michael stipe co-wrote HOW TO DISAPPEAR...
that's great! had no idea.

I should, though, point out that the song which these introductions are being added to is not "How to Disappear Completely" but "Everything In Its Right Place." That said that is a v. good anecdote.

So with two days to go, has anyone gotten a reply back from WASTE yet?

You mean order confirmation? Yeah, pretty much immediately after I ordered, last Monday.

Nope not the order confirmation but the activation code for the d/l.

Download customers.

You will receive a further e-mail shortly before the 10th October detailing your username and activation code. The e-mail will also provide the link to the download area.

Oh, that one - I think we'll know the first mails have been sent out by a global slowing down of the internet.

StanM very funnily OTM.

Ned, thanks for the blog countdown. It's kind of funny how reading through a couple entries on what's a pretty gloomy Monday morning here brought me back to the time when a couple of these albums were released.

You're welcome -- I admit I'm quite pleasantly surprised at how well the series has gone down, it was just a random idea I had last Monday that I decided to run with. (And I know that a couple of people are probably sick of the Myspace bulletins by now...)

I should, though, point out that the song which these introductions are being added to is not "How to Disappear Completely" but "Everything In Its Right Place." That said that is a v. good anecdote.

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 October 2007 12:42 (6 hours ago) Link

Will the email notifications be sent at midnight UK time? Or will they be staggered so the damm site wont go down?

Part six. This one was a little exhausting.

Oooh - I already miss this series of articles and it's not even finished yet!

"remember when ned did that great series of posts leading up to in rainbows?"

I remember it like it was just yesterday.

'Countdown to IN RAINBOWS' = Da Capo Best Music Writing nominee?

that would be awes.

I have a pretty major take-home exam coming up that's going to last from Thursday to Sunday. I have no idea how the hell I'm going to be able to focus on it if In Rainbows does come out tomorrow. Fuck. Everything from the big announcement to Ned's countdown (my problem, obv, not Ned's) has gotten me way more hyped up for this than I would have been.

Seriously considering waiting until after the weekend to hear it, and steering clear of any music sites including this one in the meantime. The problem is I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it argh.

What's the exam?

Legal ethics. It shouldn't be a particularly difficult paper but I haven't started studying for it due to a bunch of other commitments.

Oops, that would do it. (I've been there...)

uh huh. lolcollege

;__;

I'm curious if at this point there's any fans that do expect this band to progress in a new direction. I've always seen (as with the majority, I think) that Hail To The Thief was a comfort record; an album made by musicians still bitter and passionate, but with the more modest goal of funneling that passion into a collection of great songs. Sans overriding statement or unexpected left turns. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if In Rainbows turns out similar in that regard. In fact I'd be totally content with that.

I've held off from tracking all the 'new' songs (partially because I missed last year's tour -- about which more tomorrow on the blog), so hard to say on my end, but I'd want to hope for a break/progression similar between OK C and Kid A. Guess we'll find out.

I haven't the slightest idea what to expect, but that didn't stop me paying 3.14 pounds.

I'd want to hope for a break/progression similar between OK C and Kid A.

I think that's expecting too much at this stage, but if it happens I'll probably be skipping through meadows and flinging out daisies/kissing hummingbirds.

THANK YOU FOR ORDERING IN RAINBOWS. THIS IS AN UPDATE.

YOUR UNIQUE ACTIVATION CODE(S) WILL BE SENT OUT TOMORROW MORNING (UK TIME). THIS WILL TAKE YOU STRAIGHT TO THE DOWNLOAD AREA.

HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD:

THE ALBUM WILL COME AS A 48.4MB ZIP FILE CONTAINING 10 X 160KBPS DRM FREE MP3s.

MOST COMPUTERS NOW HAVE ZIP SOFTWARE AS PART OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM; IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT, YOU NEED TO GET WINZIP OR ZIPIT INSTALLED PRIOR.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THEM HERE:

PC: http://www.winzip.com/
MAC: http://www.maczipit.com/

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS DOWNLOADING YOUR FILE, PLEASE CONTACT OUR DOWNLOAD CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM AT downloadinrainb✧✧✧@wa✧✧✧.u✧.c✧✧

"Stop whispering, start shouting" indeed.

160kbps? Wish they'd said that before I paid money.

It says 10 x 160 KBPS! That's like... 1600 kbps! wow!

That puts the album at 46-48 mins, methinks. Yay calculators!

i thought it means ten (10) songs at 160kbps each...

(I was just kidding, but thanks for explaining anyway) :-/

I just got that update mail as well.

160kbps = ass.

Probably what they were figuring in terms of demand vs. server capacity or something, who knows. And if you got it for free, you got what you paid for.

(Personally I'm thinking that the final CD release will actually be a different mix or something similar.)

I came across this Thom Yorke article from last year, which in hindsight is kind of interesting, if only because it's clear they've been thinking about this whole thing for a long time now.

Radiohead hasn't resolved the question of how to release its new material. Although it seems that every last one of Radiohead's American and European fans is online, Mr. Yorke ruled out purely digital distribution because fans elsewhere -- Russia or South America, for instance -- are not so well connected. A company still needs to press CD's and get them to stores. ''The truth is that the traditional medium is still there, and you need it,'' he says.

Radiohead has been one of the holdouts against having their music sold on iTunes, Apple's online music store, because, Mr. Yorke says, ''the record companies basically don't want to pay the artists at all for the downloading.'' Without a contract, it can decide exactly how it wants to sell its recordings, which has left the band with ''too many variables,'' he adds.

''We were having endless debates, spending entire afternoons talking about, 'Well, if we do something, how do we put it out?' '' he recalls.'' It just became this endless and pointless discussion. Because in our dreams, it would be really nice to just let off this enormous stink bomb in the industry.''

Eventually the band simply decided to postpone any decision about recordings, although it has decided to own its recordings and license them for distribution rather than signing a standard recording contract.

''When we have something,'' he says with a shrug, ''then we'll find whatever seems the most appropriate way to put it out.''

He adds: ''I'm not really into the idea of picking an enormous fight now because I think the structure of the music business is in a state of collapse anyway. You might as well just let it get on with it. There's no point in us trying to help. And it makes you sound really arrogant, like, 'Yeah, we're going to mess up the system.' The system's built us, so that would be a bit silly, wouldn't it?''

Hopefully people who paid the most get emailed first so they can download it before the server melts.

Then all the people who paid nothing, or virtually nothing, can attack it en masse twelve hours later when whoever's hosting it has limited the connection speeds.

Somewhat against the spirit of the event isn't it?

Frankly I might just get it on Soulseek.

160!!! that's kinda bullshit

Yeah...I do feel bad for those who paid more than a few bucks to get a poor quality download. 192 is pretty much the bare minimum these days, isn't it? They should have made it clear from the beginning that it was 160.

I was waiting to hear what the bitrate was before deciding how much to pay. Having heard, I am paying nothing.