In Rainbows
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 | Product Details: Release Date: 31 December 2007 Record Label: XL Rating:   Sales Rank: 288 | | Look for similar items by category:
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| | Customer Reviews: Radiohead do it again (06 November 2008)Just how many more albums can Radiohead make of such quality? Other bands become very samey, or try to change and fail. Somehow Radiohead manage to change whilst staying the same and keep producing top quality albums. This album just gets better and better with each listen, and in my view a Radiohead classic already. Good old Radiohead (01 November 2008)Doubtlessly Radiohead keep on getting better. One should hardly be surprised that Radiohead have maintained the status quo from Pablo Honey to present, and trademark of all their work one tends to think "I don't get it", but without fail one will always come to the conclusion of "I completely get it now!". I was no exception. My greatest weakness when listening to a new album is to listen to each track in turn and skip it if I do not feel totally taken in after the first 30 seconds. However whilst playing on Flight Simulator (hence the name), I elected to play In Rainbows on media player whilst handling a plethora of dire failures on an Airbus 'A319' with the intentions that the music would sink in properly. Needless to say Yorke and his crew have done it again... With more style and talent than ever before. From start to finish this album was, and will be for ever, an absolute pleasure to listen to. This music is pure genius. To put it in a slightly more far-fetched manner, if we were to make contact with an intelligent life-form galaxies away and send a probe to them containing music from Planet Earth, I would personally see to it that In Rainbows be added to that collection because I would want anyone out there to know that something that wonderful came from us. I recommend this album to everyone out there as it will be one of your smartest purchases! Oh and thanks to In Rainbows, my plane landed safely. ;) El Cangrejo (23 October 2008)Puts forth your spine and surrender a flag These are voyages of the Evil Knievel Expanding the bridges antennae and jumps Come back peter fly away tuvoc Fly away cosine sine and tan And angel delight on a spoon black with soot Held in the flame while old nelix ruts At the stroke of wine then he shoots it all up And Kes unties a bandage And retreats to her womb But none of it was real But all Superted's dream And Spotty's in camp David He's swinging from trees Bringing along ladels of lamb stew to the natives And day release slaves and part time part monsters Pumping it on steak knifes Batting their handkerchiefs And spending a night in a neckerchief eating beans for archangel gabriel with on eye Pirate of dreams and sunshine and eye patch Shame on Thom Yorke as he planked through the window No parrot or eye patch for him I think that's enough The ends "Paint the Whole World with a Rainbow!" (13 October 2008)Just when most of us had given up on the band ever producing another truly great album Radiohead deliver 'In Rainbows'. It is a fantastic album. Ok, I'll admit it falls slightly short of The Bends and Ok Computer (if we must compare) but possibly only due to the trifling matter of including a couple less tracks than those two colossi! It is great to see the band finally nail a few ideas they've been experimenting with on the last three albums - 'Jigsaw' and 'Weird Fish' completely destroy 'I Might be Wrong', 'In Limbo', 'Where I End', etc. The intro to '15 Step' conjures up nightmares of electro skit hell but the song develops well and turns into a really addictive opener. 'Bodysnatchers' is hands down their best guitar rocker since The Bends. 'Reckoner', 'Nude' and 'Videotape' are right up there with 'Fake plastic Trees', 'Exit Music' and 'How to Disappear Completely'. 'Faust Arp' is completely fresh and offers up a very different vocal performance from Thom. 'All I Need' and 'House of Cards' are mood pieces but infinitely more satisfying than 'The Gloaming', 'Spinning Plates', 'Hunting Bears' and the like. This is the first Radiohead album since 'Kid A' where the songs complement each other and add up to a satisfying whole. There is also a lightness to this album that is unique and stands it in good stead. Whisper it but in time 'Rainbows' could slowly, but surely, become the Radiohead album you feel like listening to most often. Retrogressive, but still very listenable (09 October 2008)Throughout their career Radiohead have proven that they can: 1) Write very captivating songs in a specific mood; 2) Challenge convention and deftly experiment to great effect. For example, the PH and The Bends slots nicely into category (1), OK Computer between the two, KID A and Amnesiac firmly in (2), HTTF between the two but leaning towards (2), and In Rainbows - Between the two once more, but with an inclination towards category (1) - the 'song'. With this angle, the band produced a nice album, one I have listened to many times (ALL Radiohead albums have an excellent shelf life, and I really do mean the word 'captivating'). But (here it is) - what a wasted opportunity! The songs are surely store more intriguing value than their finished counterparts. If you don't follow my meaning, then here are some examples: WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI: The orchestral version is astonishing. The lyrics are far better suited to this frame than a regular band set-up; especially the building bass throb that feels as though the listener is descending deeper into some watery abyss. BODYSNATCHERS: Quite a good riff, but the energy should be far more contained in a snappier song. No more than 2:00. This way, the bridge is all the more riveting too - consider the KOKO acoustic version. FAUST ARP: A lovely interlude, but little else. The excellent Morning Mr. Magpie (on TMGLMOAT DVD) would have been a better choice, a more vibrant choice before the mellow Reckoner. 15 STEP: It's too clean. More electronic drone would be nice, and certainly a sharper transition of the intro to that wonderfully dreamy guitar riff. The vocal reverb is effective and could have been used in the coda to replace that "cka-cka-ca-ca" chant. So - not one song on the album, I would argue, has been realised to its fullest extent. It is still a cherishable album, and one I will probably be listening to in 20 years' time, but when you have the extraordinary quality and intangible mood of an album such as KID A - written by the same hands - I can't help but feel a little frustrated at the chance of a masterpiece lost in this way of performing In Rainbows. |
