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In Rainbows | 
 enlarge | Artist: Radiohead
Label: Ato Records / Red
Category: Music
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Rating:  241 reviews
Sales Rank: 47
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 21622
UPC: 880882162221
EAN: 0880882162221
ASIN: B000YXMMAE
Release Date: January 1, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | 15 Step | | • | Bodysnatchers | | • | Nude | | • | Medley: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | | • | All I Need | | • | Faust Arp | | • | Reckoner | | • | House of Cards | | • | Jigsaw Falling into Place | | • | Videotape |
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Amazon.com
On the deliriously satisfying In Rainbows, Radiohead returns to a more straight-ahead (though subdued) rock sound. Much hubbub has been made about this record's innovative release. Radiohead allowed fans to pay what they wished to download fairly low-resolution tracks from the band's own website. Like so many innovations, it already seems funny both that it was such big news and that someone else of similar stature hadn't done it sooner. Some pundits were appalled that it took awhile to download the tracks if you tried to do it at the same time as thousands of other people, while others decried that the group was trying to kill the music industry (or save it). Little of the press seemed to focus on the record itself, which actually made sense because it was so entertaining and inviting, the most low-key album Radiohead has made to date. There's even a very straight-forward, simple, silly little love song, "House of Cards." It might be a bit lethargic, but the simple instrumentation of electric guitars, bass, and drums is lovely as heck. A handful of these tunes enchanted fans for years before finally being committed to computer "tape." This is particularly fitting as In Rainbows is the group's most "band"-sounding album since OK Computer. This is not a record that hits you over the head with how far this group is pushing the envelope; it's simply a phenomenal, well-crafted, and exciting album. As soon as it's done, you're playing it again. --Mike McGonigal
Album Description
TENTATIVE TRACKLIST: "15 Step" - 3:57 "Bodysnatchers" - 4:02 "Nude" - 4:15 "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" - 5:18 "All I Need" - 3:48 "Faust Arp" - 2:09 "Reckoner" - 4:50 "House of Cards" - 5:28 "Jigsaw Falling into Place" - 4:09 "Videotape" - 4:39
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| Customer Reviews: Read 236 more reviews...
 WTF? July 4, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I can't fully express my loathing of this album. Its like random beating mixed with terrible vocals that sound more like humming than actual words. I got this free but really they should have paid me to buy it.
 Better than the last one, that says a lot for a band going on into its more mature years. July 3, 2008
The first thing that will strike you on this album is the intensity of the drumming. Its non stop run away with your baby drumming madness. The next thing is that its a better album that hail to the thief in my opinion. That's a good trend because I'm hoping these guys will be around for a long long time.
Drifting Into La-La Land July 2, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Giving Radiohead a third attempt at becoming a band I can enjoy as a whole, "In Rainbows" comes at a convenient time. Just like when "OK Computer" hit the shelves (the first time I tried to get into them), I'm faced with the tough decision of whether to go by the reviewer's and critic's swooning for this album and go at it swinging or pick up some of their older albums to give another spin.
I chose the latter, re-trying "OK..." and picking up "Amnesia" and the "Airbag/How Am I Driving?" EP as well. Happily, I'm more "into" them now than before, though I still have certain reservations that keep me from truly enjoying the band.
So where does "In Rainbows" come in? It's simple, really. When "OK Computer" didn't move me at all ten years ago, it appears "In Rainbows" is its spiritual successor one decade later. Almost as if this album plays off of their so-called "legendary" album from long ago, I'm almost as tired by this as I had been the first time I tried to get into them.
Sure, the first two tracks show a hell of a lot of promise. Edgy mood rock with very, very interesting vocal samples that would make some artists shiver. That third track, though, is a big, big downer. It's appropriate it's called "Nude" because it's missing something. I'm not intrigued by Thom Yorke's vocals at all, sometimes feeling he's purposely being whiny and droning because it's what's expected of him. He doesn't move me whatsoever in "Nude" and the music doesn't compensate for this as how certain Radiohead songs in the past have. "Reckoner," while plausibly enjoyable, repeats the formula doubly, forcing listeners to pretend momentarily that Thom's got the chops for true falsetto singing. It worked for "Fake Plastic Trees," but it does NOT for "Reckoner."
Really, it doesn't work very well throughout this album.
One thing that I could really appreciate about the band is the sense that quality means something to each member. It's not just Yorke's band, it belongs to the entire group. Somehow, I don't feel this as much with "In Rainbows." My wife and I shared the same thought that the album "sounds like someone else." Translated, "this sounds like Radiohead's winding down their career and is now getting into 'copycat mode.'"
Anyone familiar with the band VAST should strangely find the "vast" amounts of dreary, dramatic strings in this album to be eerily familiar. Considering the number of albums they released that used the same formula that appears to be constituting "In Rainbows," it's hard not to make the comparison. It's enough to make VAST an excellent band, though sadly, it's sort of a step down from what I'd consider to be "excellent Radiohead."
Oddly, this album does deserve a certain amount of praise because it is very well-produced and the point is received well. I don't feel that it's anywhere near the top of the band's best albums list, but it is solid. The traces of noise rock and experimental pop stylings that made older albums interesting DO exist, though they're upended by periods of absolute boring vocals.
3.5 stars is good enough. Any more and you're probably either a rabid Radiohead fan who can't help but love everything they release...or a brand new listener who hasn't heard anything else they've done.
a stupendously overrated album from a stupendously overrated band July 1, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I paid absolutely nothing to download this album from the band's website, and I'm very glad I didn't give them any of my money. This band's music is so frustratingly obtuse that it's no fun to listen to, especially with Yorke's exceptionally annoying voice. I just don't understand what so many people like about this band.
cry faust over bit torrent June 26, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
didn't care much about the band until kidA, even though i was their BIGGEST fan since 1993, meanwhile, i was also the biggest fan of nirvana, sublime, debbie gibson, alanis morrisette, poison, mc hammer, jason priestly, ninja turtles, boyz ii men, baywatch bjork, and batman- the animated series all at once. i was 5, what do you expect? goethe? actually...
but now according to my maturing tastes, there's something wrong with the album which i can't quite put my finger on.
so i will be as double-edge and creative as possible, to match my FAVOURITE front man in the world! *squeak* he's practically a jain!
in rainbows is not nearly as embarassing as 'hail to the thief'. this album totally covers their butts on the false prophetry from the previous effort. citing Faust, multiple times: that covers everything, before, now and after. dude i totally found the hidden meaning. they certainly give you your money's worth.
and, as prophesized, they have moved on from shaping culture to making history: pricing based on personal value and independently distributing music. that's both original and brave, like kicking EMI to the curb after umpteen years, that's like finally moving out of your mom's house. EMI, goooooodbyyye!
i price this at $1200:
my hourly rate is $100, i spent about 15 minutes with bit torrent and another 2 putting it into itunes. i listened to it 7 times according to itunes, conservatively estimating another 7 in other situations. album is 42.5 minutes long, about 10 hours spent. through radio, probably 2 singles combined total of 7 times, 4 minutes per song, that's 28 minutes. another hour and a half writing and proofing this bit, that comes out to just over 12 hours. i'll around down for old times' sake. that's $1200 for my time, and the appropriate commission of course. i trust that they are gentlemen.
music was ok. more of the same. at least they use allegories to whine. if i have to listen to another song that keeps talking about how much this guy wants to off himself, or about their mom and dad, or pot, i am going to listen to in rainbows again. since not whining is too much to ask for.
what happened to bands that know how to make an exit? more importantly, what happened to personal growth? i take that back, entrenchment answers everything. people must be trapped in life in order to not off themselves. but since this is the year of my campaign, i'll have to stick to my original stance of posing important questions to the citizens of the world. a vote for me is a vote for change.
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