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 enlarge | Artist: Radiohead
Label: Ato Records / Red
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $8.73
You Save: $5.25 (38%)
New (31) Used (10) Collectible (2) from $4.36
Rating:  271 reviews
Sales Rank: 187
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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 great album July 10, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
just what I was looking for. Amazon has the best prices for music. I'll never pay music store prices again!!
It grows on you July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm an old-guard Radiohead fan from the Pablo Honey days, but had lost track of them in more recent years. Once the publicity hit about Radiohead selling their latest album for whatever price you want to pay, I jumped on the chance to support a non-traditional music distribution idea.
At first, the album took some getting used to. Since I had not been exposed to the band's more electronic phase, that was new. Also, some of the lyrics were a bit hard to understand. But after a few listens, the lyrics became clear and I came to appreciate the cleverness of several of the songs, both in their lyrical content and economy of sound.
I paid 10 pounds for the album, and I feel it was worth every penny. Months later, it's still in heavy rotation on my iPhone.
Forget About Your House of Cards... July 10, 2008
As a relatively new fan to Radiohead (been listening for a little over a year!) it was a sad moment when I came to the realization that I had experienced all the band had to offer. I had fallen in love with the band as I listened to the crooning, haunting lyrics overlayed with distorted electronic sounds of the album Amnesiac while laying out on the beach. After that, I went out and got my hands on every album available to me.
Lo and behold, rumors started to spread that they were going to release a new cd! When I learned that I could buy it for my own price online, I immediately went to their website and threw down 10 pounds for the album. I spent the next couple of hours laying in my room, absorbing the music that flowed effortlessly out of my speakers. I was hooked from the opening drum beats of 15 Steps and remained rooted to the spot until the final chords of Videotape faded completely.
In my opionion, In Rainbows melds together the experimental and creative outlets of Kid A and Amnesiac while remaining accessible to a more mainstream audience. They keep the progressive, synthestic sounds that define them as a band, but allow the guitar and drums to play a more forefront roll in this album. The distortion of the guitar in Bodysnatchers hearkens back to the grunge of the 90s. Yet the song remains firmly rooted in the present when the distortion cuts out about midway through the song and the guitar takes on a more abstract sound. I think that might be what I enjoyed so much about this album. It seemed to combine the sounds the Radiohead created in the past, from Ok Computer through to Amnesiac, and blend them into something that felt recognizable while at the same time completely new and inventive.
The tracks weave in and out of one another, transitioning seamlessly from one song to the next. However, as cohesive as this album is, each song could just as easily stand on its own. The album is well paced too. It switches from the fast, upbeat tempo of songs like Weird Fishes/Arpeggi and Jigsaw Falling Into Place to the more melodic, slowed down compositions like All I Need and Reckoner. Thom's voice is truly given the chance to shine in the closing track Videotape. A haunting melody that reaches into your chest and grabs hold until the song closes, Thom's signature voice is backed solely by a simple piano for the beginning of the track. The combination of the two, so simple yet so unbelievably elegant and heartbreaking, prove that Radiohead truly are the masters of creating emotional music whose ambiance has the ability to settle deep within a person.
My personal favorite is House of Cards. Combining such a simple, peaceful melody with controversial lyrics make the piece an exquisite contradiction. The pleading to "Forget about your house of cards" followed by the imagery of the cards falling to the ground is mesmerizing. Again, this is a perfect example of how Thom Yorke's voice has the ability to create something beautiful yet agonizing all at the same time.
Overall, I found this album to be one that I could listen to in its entirety over and over again. It still has not gotten old to me. Someone who may have been hesitant to try Radiohead might find this album a means of easing into the sound of the band.
 WTF? July 4, 2008
7 out of 23 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.
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