Radiohead

[Skuj]

Am I allowed to do this? ie Start a thread about Radiohead?

I do love albums 2 to 6. And the 7th, In Rainbows, has a very interesting release story.

In a drunken state, I ordered the In Rainbows "discbox", because I want 18 new songs vice just 10. I just have a really good feeling about this one.

I don't care for the 2LP vinyl that comes with the discbox though. What can I do with that, I wonder?

[Offering]

Of course you can start a Radiohead thread man! Cant say Im too much of a fan, myself, but its all good, go for it......

Havent they put out their new album online and the fans can pay whatever they want for each copy?Almost like a donation - like process?.....Good idea I think...

[noisembryo]

Any opinions on 'In Rainbows' yet?

[Dave Nicholls]

Radiohead, they've come a long way since i saw them last.
They were supporting Therapy? at the fleece and firkin in Bristol when they were nobodys.
The drummer pissed on my foot in the gents and did'nt even say sorry!

Great memories...

[Sordel]

noisembryo said:

Any opinions on 'In Rainbows' yet?

In Rainbows is my album of the year for '07. I got the Discbox version with the extra tracks, but before I received that I only had the downloaded album to go on and it would still have been my album of the year.

Of course, people regard Radiohead as "alternative" and "experimental", which is pretty funny given what the hep cats on these boards listen to. (Is this the only place in the world where Bitches Brew is the most mentioned Miles album? ;D)

Here's what I said about it in my Amazon review:

While OK Computer is still regularly counted amongst the greatest albums of the last fifty years, it was released a decade ago, and - with fans frustrated at the band's defiant refusal to produce ballads and anthems - a lot of territory has been ceded to the likes of Coldplay. So, is it time to ask what Radiohead have done for us lately?

On the evidence of In Rainbows, the band has been mining the same seam of quasi-ambient textures that began with Kid A, but - rather against the run of play - they have finally hit the mother lode. Where Thom Yorke's solo album, The Eraser, was cold & clinical, In Rainbows brings back the sound of human performers: the opener, "15 Step" might sound at first like a return to the mechanical odd time-signatures of the recent past, but the jazzy guitarwork in the left speaker gives it a new lease of life and wider appeal. Indeed, the guitars (and for that matter the drums and bass) give the album an authentic "band" feel on this album that has been missing from their later studio work.

Yorke's vocals still float free from the main song on occasion creating musical lines that you'd be hard-pressed to whistle five minutes later, but for the most part he sings melodies, with audible lyrics(!) "All I Need" could well have appeared on OK Computer, and "Faust Arp" (driven by acoustic guitar and strings) throws up surprising echoes of Nick Drake. When the dramatic, looping percussion of "Reckoner" enters to remind us that we are, after all, still listening to the most leftfield act in mainstream rock, it is all the more effective for the contrast.

In fact, "Reckoner" is a great example of how far Radiohead have come. It's a high-wire act: one step to the left is a club classic reminiscent of Soul II Soul's "Back to Life" (it's one remix away from being a colossal dance hit), and one step to the right is U2's next stadium-filling ballad. Choirs of Yorkes singing in a controlled falsetto, strings swoop in, drum tracks shift. This isn't "pure" Radiohead, but no one else could do it ... and it's been too long since Radiohead themselves have done anything like it.

In Rainbows is, at last, another Radiohead album worth getting excited about.

[HolgerregloH]

sordel said:

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In Rainbows is, at last, another Radiohead album worth getting excited about.

That´s right! Good review for it.

btw, [glow=red,2,300]Happy Birthday[/glow] Sordel

[Sordel]

holgerregloh said:

[glow=red,2,300]Happy Birthday[/glow] Sordel

Thanks, HolgerregloH.

[King]

Awful awful awful band. Really really shit music.

[pigs]

king said:

Awful awful awful band. Really really shit music.

[yaroyaroyaro]

I was huge Radiohead fan before i got addicted to Zorn etc. etc. etc.

Whether you like them or not, i can say they worked as introduction to many other styles and musicians (Four Tet, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Cristian Vogel, modular synths scene etc.) for me at that time. Like Zorn does to you when you explore his collabs etc etc.