I just downloaded it. It's not even the 10th yet. 10:45 pm 10/9. Wow.
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 4:28 AMAnyone else NOT get their confirmation from waste.com?
I emailed them, but have received no reply... -
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 7:22 AMAT
LAST
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YES
NOISE
BRING IT ON
got it on 7am eu time
i missed this voice
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 9:20 AMi had TWO links this morning when i woke up... great way to begin the day... -
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 9:30 AMShit! When I clicked on the link that I paid for it said that the link had already been used but I have not used it yet! I e-mailed waste.... but no music!! :< I'm growing impatient!!
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 9:46 AMOK, so far I love it - the only possible exception being 'Videotape.' I really like the live version, and I'm not sure that I'm into what they've done with the song here. I need to listen to it more, though, before deciding. -
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 10:42 AMHUGE shockers: the Reckoner ISN"T The Reckoner... but something completely else...and completely pretty.
Nude is gorgeous and brought a tear to my eye. House of Cards isamazing.
Videotape underwelms. For such a stellar live song and to placed as the last track the album goes out with somewhat of a whimper.
For some reason i cant hear Children yelling or whatever in 15 step..... People seem to be loving Faust Arp but this is my like 4th listen so...
I might change my mind.
Highlights: Nude, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi ,Reckoner -
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 10:57 AMoh god! This sucks! I wanna hear! My ears need something good....it's been too long! -
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 4:06 PMI had the same problem Shalee!
Still waiting for a reply from waste...
Of course it is revolutionary technology
and the new isn't always a
streamlined stitch into the old....
I still love the band...
maybe I didn't pay enough?! -
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 4:29 PMI have yet to get a link as well.... got a general response back from waste, giving me a new email address to re-ask the question: where's my link?
Pulling for you guys... -
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 4:53 PMI've had this all day. I read a great review from the Los Angeles times (Radiohead are MORE LA holywood nuerotic than SF functional pot head liberal nuerotic) that sort of echoed what i felt the first five listens.
The album is a wolf in sheeps clothing. joyus. Thom mostly speaks of romance but then foils it in Death. Videotape is the most depressing ending to a Radiohead album this side of Wolf at the Door... the "shuffling to the Gallows" beat, which i am sure is intentional.. the first two lines are heartbreaking...and then.. done. You're hung.
Reckoner and Nude are most deffinitely my favorites. I think Reckoner could be one of their top 20 best..and someone remarked it was the future of porn soundtracks. There's something so luch and sensual about this track... the strings...thoms crooning.. the pacing..the throb of the colins bass. It's decadent and stands out as something new for Radiohead.
I skipped only one track that at this time bores me. Thats the only negative thing to say.... and I dont wanna ruin it for you guys... Only positivity.
But: In my opinion...only mine... this album isn't an OK Computer or Kid A epic. And one should try not to look at it as such... in my advice and look at it as another chapter.
Nude WILL go down as a classic track. It's sensual as well. actually the album in most parts save for Body snatchers and 15 step is pretty romantic and sensual.
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Re: In Rainbows
Thu, October 11, 2007 - 2:06 AMnude gorgeous brought to eye -tears
videotape booooom
the children yelling are weird, not so much radiohead, isnt it? but the song gives me very good headaches, and colin blows my mind in 15 steps, mindblowing bassss
there is nothing like hearing a new radiohead for the first time
i remember every 1st listening from the bnds and so on
nothing like it
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, November 14, 2007 - 12:50 AMvideotape is the perfect ending! you could look at it as underwhelming, but to me, it slid under me, in a marvelously perplexing way, that only made me think about the record more, and want to listen to it again! i just started reading kafka's short stories, and it's so much like his endings, or last sentences! i love it!!! :-D
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 12:11 PMcan someone confirm that these tracks are only encoded @ 160 kbps? -
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Re: In Rainbows
Wed, October 10, 2007 - 1:37 PMthat is indeed that case. For what it's worth, I listened to the entire album last night on my Sennheiser $300-something, super-awesome, professional headphones, and it sounded fucking great.
Here's what Jonny Greenwood said about the issue:
Q: How would you respond to complaints about the sound quality – that 160 isn’t a high enough bitrate?
A: I don’t know, we talked about it and we just wanted to make it a bit better than iTunes, which it is, so that’s kind of good enough, really. It’s never going to be CD quality, because that’s what CD does.
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Re: In Rainbows
Sat, November 24, 2007 - 9:17 PMReally disappointed with it to be honest, if this was the first album i heard of theirs I'd consider them to be mediocre at best. It's not that the songs are poor, just the album as whole is quite forgettable. It's nice to chill to, nothing special, and lacks the reinvention of sound you'd expect from Radiohead. I really doubt it will stand the test of time like The Bends and OK Computer have done, and will continue to do for many years to come.
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Re: In Rainbows
Mon, November 26, 2007 - 10:34 AMThat was my thoughts the first 3 or 4 times I heard it. Then one day it just sank in, like all really good albums do for me. I think its top three for sure. It may not be a reivention of the wheel but the song writing is really solid and for those who like Thom's voice a little less "Wheredidjapaaaark the caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar" shrill it's a godsend of an album. -
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Re: In Rainbows
Sun, December 9, 2007 - 5:53 AMWell, I'm happy to say I had a fucking great experience with it. I had one of those very rare experiences where I totally love something the very first time I'm hearing it. As I was listening to it, it sounded so right, the perfect blend of all the elements: melody, groove, acoustic instruments, sounds. Real brilliance. I've only listened to it once so far and I think my organic medicine may have doubled as a "$300 pair of Sennheisers" for now. Can't wait for the proverbial 3rd listen!
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Re: In Rainbows
Mon, January 7, 2008 - 8:41 AMWell, I'm a bit behind, 'cause I waited 'til it came out on cd. I'm a liner-note-geek/ old skool I guess.
5th listen, and I have to say, the layers & textures & lyrics on this album stand up to any of their other fine work. Awesome! -
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Re: In Rainbows
Mon, January 7, 2008 - 7:31 PMI looked forward to this SO much.
Went onto their site like a good little fan, paid them 10 clams...made a few copies. The first 2 tracks were scratchy and bad.
Listened anyway.
And thought," wait a min, this is not new."
Then realized that most of the songs had been performed at their Greek Theatre Show in Berkeley in June 06.
I felt little cheated....but got over it because I had made a copy of the Greek Theatre show off the 'net. I treasure it.
I love this album. It is delicate and beautifully wrought.
But this morning, picking up my "opiate of the masses"
(no not religion, as per Marx, but mediocre coffee) at Barnes and Noble coffee shop in the mall....and what were they playing?
In Rainbows.
It's kind of killing it for me.
Can't deal with too much more of this hype.........
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Re: In Rainbows
Mon, January 7, 2008 - 9:50 PMyou know, the album, after having the physical album i have a new respect for the album. Having a lyric sheet and album artwork actually propels the album for me into more respectful catagories for me.
When listening to Reckoner I finally saw the reasoning for the albums title.... when it was sung... "in .....Rain...Bowwwwwwsss" I always thought Reckoner was the centerpiece of the album.
Did not "get it" until I heard "that part"... relistened to the structures of each song, along with a lyric book and sat on it for awhile.
IT's one of their best.... I appreciate this more than HTTT... oddly because HTTT carried some of their best work.. but this cohesive...and the strange part is that it didn't feel as such when i first heard it.
I AM craving a good old fasioned glossy highly publicized tour sponsored by Budwiser. -
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Re: In Rainbows - on the Radio
Tue, January 8, 2008 - 1:18 PMhype shimpe, liking an album or artist because others do or do not like said album is silly in my mind.
RADIOHEAD is a freaking huge megaband!
not a local secret.
When they put out music it will end up on the radio. And it will be the best thing on said radio. Being played in public spaces = the same thing.
liking or not liking something because it is popular is best left for the very young
Like it (or not) because it connects with your soul. (or it does not)
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Re: In Rainbows - on the Radio
Tue, January 8, 2008 - 1:42 PMIndeed. I'd rather be hearing Bodysnatchers on the radio or in a starbucks while guiltily getting my morning coffee/latte fix than say... a Good Charlotte song. -
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Re: In Rainbows - on the Radio
Tue, January 8, 2008 - 6:26 PMI don't like, or dislike any music because , or in spite of its mainstream popularity, or lack thereof.
I don't need music to be exclusive or obscure for me to love it.
But there *is* such a thing as too much of a good thing.....
and muzak is muzak.
Relentless marketing spoils the magic of slow delightful discovery. The unfolding that happens when you listen many times to a lovely song.
The price of mass popularity.. It found RH a long time ago, I guess, and no matter what they do , there is no going back. -
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Re: In Rainbows - on the Radio
Tue, January 8, 2008 - 6:49 PMI tend to feel bands like RH are the anti-Nickleback. Which is a good thing!
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Re: In Rainbows - on the Radio
Tue, January 8, 2008 - 10:55 PMRadiohead are special. I say that knowing how cheesey it will sound coming out out of my fingers... but they are...and have built their carear around proving they can withstand many music biz cliches ... like that of the one hit wonder or the one album wonder... or the critical darling.... the indie darling... the mainstream stadium powerhouse... album after album the address the box that the last outing could have put them in..
The rock band gone electro? nope.
With this album Rh sought out and devised marketing for this album through press and word of mouth by utilizing the Napster-age self promo of getting music for free. They know who they are...and didn't need to put out glossy videos or campaign hard to get their music out.. they are RADIOHEAD.. the myth. as someone else said..a mega-band.... and they will never be anything less.... when they put out an album... it will get played..and thats a miracle... because worse shit gets played.
But at this age... i would Kill to hear Panda Bears "Deep Blue Sea" or Cat Powers "Love and Communication" on high rotation on any radio station instead of the other shit played. Quality is Quality...and as for being overplayed... quality ... true quality can't be overplayed..but i know exactly what you mean. -
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Re: In Rainbows - on the Radio
Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:19 PMI agree actually. this album caught me by surprise and I had to slow down and really listen too it...not something I'm used to anymore. It is truly amazing. Honestly, one of the things I've always enjoyed about Radiohead besides the intelligent music is that they clearly don't care what the media or critics say about their work. I think the distribution of this album is an important reflection of that fact (and their willingness to take chances).
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Re: In Rainbows - on the Radio
Wed, January 9, 2008 - 8:30 AMRelentless marketing spoils the magic of slow delightful discovery. The unfolding that happens when you listen many times to a lovely song. >>
I can hear that.
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