Radiohead - In Rainbows

I missed the kids cheering on the first track, where is it?

First one's at 2:13.

where HTTT felt like amalgamation, this feels like codification.

yes.

lol

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has this leaked yet

-- am0n, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:25 (30 minutes ago) Link

now it has!

Radiohead - In Rainbows [2007/MP3/192](New)

lol

Agreed. Being up late last night for the dl and following along with everyone as we absorb is the most fun I've had on ILM in ages.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:46 AM (16 minutes ago)

ok, that's not what i meant. dork!

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/7191/zingms7.png

haha!

when does the ogg vorbis version drop

some very quick first thoughts

some tracks:

Bodysnatchers = The Notwist + Smashing Pumpkins. The most rock track on the album?

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi = Brian Eno produced U2 Unforgettable Fire

All I Need = Talk Talk + Manual + Ulrich Schnauss + Kraftwerk + The Blue Nile + The Broadway Project

Faust ARP = Beatles influenced melodies

House Of Cards - more Talk Talk and a.r.kane influences

Jigsaw Falling Into Place - more The Notwist + The Woodentops circa 1986 + even James - the way the acoustic guitars have an uptempo jangle style

Videotape - more Talk Talk / Mark Holis slow paced arty-rock piano minimalism, this even sounds like Ulver on their new album !

-- djmartian, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 11:52 (4 hours ago) Link

Talk Talk never would've occurred to me as a point of comparison... and yet, I love Talk Talk, and the three songs you compared to them are all among my favorites on this album. coincidence?

"Reckoner" is the Talk Talk song for me on this one.

(Which might have been said upthread, so I should read all these eight million posts already.)

"Reckoner" is the Talk Talk song for me on this one.

"Ascension Day," vaguely.

it's also the early seventies Miles Davis tune too.

just got my download. went really fast. 15 step is great.

Ned - you mean you haven't blogged it already? Fucking amateur.

Oh hell no I'm not blogging this today. I'm reviewing it for the OC Weekly and that runs tomorrow, and the review will essentially be a 'first couple of listens' summation and will say as much. Whatever longer thoughts I have on it will be for down the road.

"Ascension Day," vaguely.

Yup.

something about the "Bodysnatchers" guitar riff reminded me of Television when I first heard it, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it was now. the Wire comparison someone made upthread is dead-on, though.

hm...is there any cover art for this download?

album art is here

I still prefer http://www.rainbowpuke.com (sorry to repeat this from earlier on in this thread, but I forgot the http that time and now it's clickable and everything!)

I've listened to this something like 6 times all the way through now and I swear it's not sounded the same any of those times.

bullshit i wrote on my blog:

Obligatory Radiohead post, because I'm an unapologetic non-hater:

I love ten track, 40-some minute records. I like this record. The melodies aren't really sticking after a few listens, but that's okay. The sound reminds me a lot of Amnesiac (I think it's because of all the clean guitars and relatively small amount of layers...maybe the mastering too? Hail to the Thief sounds like there's a ton going on even when there's not and I think it might be because of the super-hot mastering job [which I don't mind]).

In general it doesn't sound too labored over (whether it was or not)...there's not a whole lot of electronics, and when they show up they're generally on top of the live band sound. They still have all of their tricks, which are pretty identifiable by now. It sounds like Radiohead.

15 Step - Might be my favorite track. It's in five, it's one of the few tracks with beats, cool melody.

Bodysnatchers - obligatory track 2 rocker (good)

Nude - gorgeous. What would they do without those strings?

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - I hoped this would be a little more slamming after hearing the live version, but it's cool. The drums sound really un-produced and naked in the first half.

All I Need - hip-hop tempo, pretty cool

Faust Arp - short

Reckoner - I guess they're going for a Motown thing here, the drums are panned hard right and there is some great tambourine on the left. I really like this one (judging from a youtube clip this was pulled way back from the live version too).

House of Cards - Radioh(dr)ead doing fake reggae? It kind of sounds like a Sea & Cake song with Foreboding Radiohead Keyboards over the top. I'm not sure how I feel about this song.

Jigsaw Falling Into Place - rocks

Videotape - pretty

Oh yeah, I pretty much love everything about how they handled this. It really does feel like an old-school exciting release day - looking forward to it, knowing that a lot of other people are listening to it at the same time.

faust arp is the most explicitly prog they've ever been, pretty little tune.

Hey, the ordering site is down - finished? Was the discbox a limited edition after all?

i think it's just overloaded.

I just paid and downloaded. once you get past the front page things go alright.

Oh - ok. I just noticed that the link in jonny's announcement immediately returned to the same page, that's why I wondered.

( http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/ )

"House of Cards" is really something special, definitely one of the most beautiful songs they've ever done. I wasn't so into "Videotape" when I saw them last year, but that came out very well in the studio, as did "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi."

start to finish this album is clutch

Stan - yeah that was odd. I've decided to think that their web presence is charmingly amateurish / English.

I can't get "All I Need" out of my head.

Cudos to radiohead for making listening to an album an EVENT again. It's been so long since so many people were listening to an album together for the first time. For that alone this album is incredible. It was refreshing to see something like that.

On top of it they made an amazing album. I seriously enjoy every song. They fucking did it again. This album could have totally been an over hyped piece of shit. Thank god it wasn't. Everything I wanted and more. Im so excited about this. Sorry.

anyone worked out the code on johnny's page?

It's been so long since so many people were listening to an album together for the first time.

Almost every great ILM album thread from the last 5 years is so many people listening to an album together for the first time! Rhead's masterstroke has been working out how to combine that excitement, which is totally a download-age thing, with the pre-download excitement of a fixed release date so you can anticipate the excitement too.

Jordan, I agree with you on the Amnesiac comparison.

Groke has it exactly right. Very, VERY clever of them. I've muttered that Radiohead are the highest profile started-pre-widespread-Internet-use era band to have figured out -- step by step, a working-out-of-ideas in public -- how best to make the Net work for them. Arguably they were perfectly positioned to do so.

xpost-Except it doesn't suck.

(In Rainbows doesn't suck, that it is)

I want to know what Geir thinks.

^ otm

isn't there a thread for that

maybe he'll start a poll for it

I want to start a poll just for Geir.

Four tracks in and god, Nude sounds incredible. Also the beat on 15 Steps, especially towards the end!

haha i was wondering about geir too, mostly because this time there IS actually a song with lots of chord changes that sounds like the beatles.

This is gonna sound AWESOME on vinyl. I just hope I don't have to shell out for the diskbox to get it.

OK that second half = they've made a Radiohead version of a psychedelic folk-pop record. There are more strings and acoustic guitars on here than any other Radiohead record, but the arrangements and textures are complex and interesting enough that it never feels like bog-standard strumming.

I wasn't sure if Radiohead would be able to make a guitar-centric record again without it sounding like a retread, and they have. By and large, it doesn't actually sound like any of the others, although all the recognisably Radiohead elements are here.

Also they've really hit it with backing vocals this time - that warm You And Whose Army sound.

I wasn't sure if Radiohead would be able to make a guitar-centric record again without it sounding like a retread, and they have.

I think it's interesting that the only song that immediately makes me think 'Radiohead guitars' is "Bodysnatchers." It's done very well and it's the only thing like it on the album.

Third listen in. Noticing something new each time.

This is gonna sound AWESOME on vinyl.

OK that second half = they've made a Radiohead version of a psychedelic folk-pop record.

Noticing something new each time.

^^^^^^^ these things = yes

I like it. I'm eager to hear it at home, where it has some room to breathe. Everything sounds a bit claustrophobic at work, in my cubicle, listening on in-ear 'phones staring a screen.

*at

word i hate hearing shit for the first time at work on computer.