Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

oh good.

i'm really really loving this more and more.

it's one of those falsely understated albums that sounds minimal at first blush but is written so brilliantly well that it's really just distilling the best parts and melodies into something special.

but it takes awhile to warm up to because you have to get "in" the record as it isn't aiming to blow you away from the beginning

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

You guys have to remember than 99% of the buying population doesn't know what the difference between 160, 192, MP3, or any other bullshit. They just know HEY IT'S ON MY IPOD.

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

I believe:

OK COMPUTER > THE BENDS > (sizeable gap) > IN RAINBOWS > (smallish gap) > HTTT > PABLO HONEY > KID A > AMNESIAC

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

oh we're there now are we...

OK COMPUTER > KID A > IN RAINBOWS > AMNESIAC > HTTT > THE BENDS > PABLO

>_<

it's only been 12 hours. but i went from "feh" to "AMAZING"

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

Yup yup. (Although I haven't listened to In Rainbows yet...):o

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

I'm enjoying the shared experience that the net is having with hearing this record at the same time. It feels like an event.

It's a long way from when I saw this band with 50 other people at a free show at Tower Records on the Sunset Strip on the day 'The Bends' came out. I saw "Fake Plastic Trees" on 120 Minutes, determined it was the greatest thing I'd ever heard and was surprised to discover they were playing the store two nights later.

Highlight of that evening: Radiohead playing "Creep" and Johnny's trademark distorted stab being completely silent even though he was trying to do it. He looked genuinely perplexed and never got it together the whole performance. :)

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

If they don't know the difference then make the 1% happy! ;)

Ranking the new albums: In Rainbows == Kid A < HTTT < Amnesiac

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

you know... this album really sounds very much more organic than their previous efforts (or is it just me?)

hmm... sorry - brain's a bit fried... just got out of an exam, and I was basically just in the litho studio all day before that (other than when I was cramming)

(edit)
and for me it goes
Kid A -> Ok Computer -> (bit of a gap) -> the Bends = Amnesiac -> HTTT -> Paplo Honey

it's still a bit too early for me to say where "In Rainbows" will go... probably just after Ok Computer...

Amnesiac just kinda ticks me off, b/c all of the tracks were finished as a part of Kid A. It just seemed like a "more profitable option" than anything to release two albums, instead of a double album... and the fact that Cuttooth was a b-side. Although, I think it's sort of a better album than 'the Bends' - which I've never really liked beyond the singles, but it's sort of one of those deals where the singles are soooo good, that you kinda forget that the rest of the album isn't so hot (which is sort of reminiscent of Orbital for me).

HTTT also isn't a bad album... there's just something about it, that doesn't really grab me as much

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

maybe radiohead were putting out two records to speed the inevitable exit from their record deal. One Double doesn't count as two no?

just a thought.

and i can't rank INRainbows in the pantheon of records yet... I want the whole thing (read: Both albums together). I think this record should properly be marketed as a double record as Videotape kind of leaves me dangling when i get there...

I think I'll reserve judgement when i have both together.

crAnk

Re: Radiohead, new album "In Rainbows" next week
 

and yes, this is how my friends are. They just drag and drop and don't hear the artifacts or lack of highs and lows...