Radiohead - In Rainbows

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LOLOLZ

Perfect! I was talking on Facebook with a friend about how the cover needed a unicorn.

i've been busting 'moon in june' over the past couple of days...wyatt is as good a role model as any. even if his politics are a tad extreme.

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:27

I'm so glad that Radiohead didn't cover that song. I thought they did for a second after skimming up through this thread.

Wyatt and Radiohead do have some similarities. They both make music that can be 'absorbing'. The main difference is that more people listen to Radiohead than Robert Wyatt. I'm happy when people aren't familiar with Wyatt or any other of my favorite musicians because I'm not ready to hear idiots singing my favorite songs on the bus.

LOLZ at my little ponyhead!

I dunno, I'd love "Born again Cretin" to be sung on many buses.

So, this morning, I wondered, Is it on sale at ebay?

Yep!

This is the latest release from Radiohead that is available as a free download from their web site. In the same way we are offering the music on this CD for free. We will charge you only for the manufacture, postage and packing. The designs used in the CD have been created by iUK Music and are not those used by or approved by Radiohead. The artists name and the name of the tracks are also supplied for free by Radiohead as part of the download information. You can send money to Radiohead for the music on this CD by visiting their web site at www.radiohead.com.

This is an un-official issue of the free download by Radiohead from their web site at www.radiohead.com, it's an exact copy of the music on that free download which is the original recording. It is in a CDO format that uses graphics supplied by iUK Music for the cover. See www.thedisckiosk.com/cdo.htm for more details.

love the dub sound of house of cards

picked this detail in the mix when listening properly on the bus this morning.
totally makes the track for me.

In Rainbows - is rated number 3 album on rateyourmusic.com for 2007 albums

Top 1000 Albums of 2007
http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2007

why always links to RYM?

Why not?

Anyway, hi dere all. Now imagine if that shutdown today had happened yesterday.

Radiohead broke ILM

I was just coming onto this thread to mention Robert Wyatt - it's really there in the warm jazz guitar tones.

radiohead are reefer duberland
http://gapersblock.com/transmission/archives/2007/10/#023128
or not
nice dusted review (as usual) even if the guy's wrong about the album being a let down
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3903

after one on-the-bus listen (i was going to be all aloof and wait a couple of weeks, but succumbed at 7.30 this morning) i've remembered many of the reasons i really like radiohead. it's good to be reminded of this. i think i'm going to spend a lot of time with this album.

It's got thumbs up from me!

(hey, with reviewing style like that, I'm off to Plan B!)

Five listens in and '15 Step', 'Weird Fishes' and 'Bodysnatchers' look like being highlights; 'All I Need' is the only thing even approaching a weak link. Other thoughts: Thom's voice sounds in fine form throughout and 'Faust Arp' is more Five Leaves Left than Beatles to these ears. Really enjoying the whole thing.

'All I Need' is the only thing even approaching a weak link

no wai!

no wai!

It outstays its welcome a little... It's a minor quibble though, I'm very much impressed with this.

what has happened to ilm? around 2001 i was one of the few who defended "amnesiac" (besides john and melissa). i hadn't cared about them before. "hail to the thief" i liked too, don't remember what ilm thought. now they release an album which i find as uninteresting as everything pre-amnesiac and everybody (except bimble) is totally nuts about it. this reaction baffles me. or maybe it doesn't. i like what i like and you like what you like. thom yorke's voice really goes on my nerves again as it used to in the nineties. there are no melodies on the new album. which could be a good thing. but i don't think it is. there is meandering, the album doesn't flow. the songs are too similar, too exchangeable. just listening to "nude" and it is a crappy soft rock ballad. the next song isn't better. it's all wishy-washy. i thought prog was dead but the dead live longest, it seems. "five leaves left" and "faust arp"? if you compare any nick drake to it then please compare it to the right album. which would be "bryter later". the weakest nick drake. but whereas the strings on it are just an extra topping on "faust arp" they seem to be the whole meal. i don't hear anything remotely interesting in terms of melody, rhythm or harmonies. my fave is the opener i guess. because it rocks.

I think its simply a by-product of lots of Radiohead fans being caught up in a moment and everyone else sitting on the sidelines. Not to say everybody's reactions in the last 30 hours haven't been sincere, but that the effusion was predictable. For my part I've listened to it a couple of times and it's not really grabbing me, but I'm not trying to kickstart the inevitable backlash coming at the 48 hour mark either

now they release an album which i find as uninteresting as everything pre-amnesiac and everybody (except bimble) is totally nuts about it.

People saying "hey, I like this bit" or "I don't know about this song" interspersed with a thousand comments about the pricing and download model aren't exactly indicators of people "going nuts." People usually listen to an album for a bit before declaring it anything, right?

SOMEONE TELL ME JUST WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ILM

Stuff. Things.

9/11

cutty would probably like in rainbows

Actual answer = nothing has happened to ILM. Well, nothing and everything, but what's happened is irrelevant, because the Amnesiac thread is largely full of of praise. Bit like this one.

I don't know why that didn't work.

So... Amnesiac

oh god marcello

Anyway:

My formal review for the OC Weekly

My acknowledgment of its inherent limitations. There's a lot there I'd already rewrite, but I think that about everything.

I really like how Arpeggi keeps that 3 over 4 hemiola or whatever going for the whole song, it's tricky but sounds natural.

"15 Step" finds drummer Phil Selway going off on acoustic and electronic beats that could easily have been hitting the charts in recent times (they'll surely be used on mixtapes before the year is out).

Ned, you know I love you, but there's not a lot of rap in 5, dude. :>

LET ME DREAM (however stupidly).

Actually that would be a great Radiohead B-side title from 1995.

which would be "bryter later". the weakest nick drake.

Totally wrong there of course

That's okay, I remember making a post after HttT came out, something about wanting to hear Ludacris on Backdrifts. :/

I may have missed the corresponding Billboard article, but is this album being tabulated like any other, i.e. will it show up on the album chart next week?

"reckoner" = radiohead's "new grass"?

Ned made this comparison in his review

I think

Not to the song specifically. "Ascension Day" is the other song I've heard so mentioned...

Aaah, Rainbows; I like those.

Alex very much OTM upthread there. I don't get the love.

They've never done anything as pretty as 'Nude'.

'Faust Arp' is a big fuck you to all those crap buskers who learnt to play 'Street Spirit' and thought they could impress people. Let's see you play these chords then!

At Ease sez that someone else sez 1.2 million "sales". I guess that's a combination of downloads from the sites and orders for the discbox.

Hmmm...that's 1.2 miilion without counting discboxes, whoops. "The band will cash in again when the payments clear for the ‘In Rainbows’ box set which are on sale for £40 a go"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CquDCsalbgA

First sentence of album review on Rolling Stone dot com:

These wily boys may have a secret album-title exchange program with Kelly Clarkson, but everything else about In Rainbows is typically hard-rocking Radiohead.

In reference to Rolling Stone review, from Idolator dot com:

BY CHRIS N. AT 10:54 AM
"None of it sounds like any other band on earth," yet "'House of Cards' is a fragile lovers-rock ballad closely resembling Dusty Springfield's (and the Byrds') 'Going Back.'"

i had never seen a shooting star before