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In Rainbows

Radiohead

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A sermon from the converted

The first point I would like to make is that it was not itunes fault that radiohead have not appeared in this format previously: it was a sociopolitical decision not to. Also, they released this album on their own website for about two months as a pay-if-you-want (ie you could have it for nothing) download. This is an album that brings together a lot of what Radiohead have been experimenting with the past few albums. Thankfully the Kida A/Amnesiac experiment seems finally to be over and they have now returned to beautiful, sweeping melodies, fantastic use of both distortion electric (Bodysnatchers) and achingly beautiful acoustic (Faust Arp) guitar and the brilliant use of emotive percussion/drums (Videotape). I'm not sure the band would like to hear this but the phrase which most accurately describes this album for me is 'achingly romantic'. There is a summer night feel to these songs that has never existed in their music before: the sadness of (admittedly lesser known) songs such as 'True Love Waits' is now replaced with the gorgeous optimism of 'House of Cards', 'Weird Fishes' and 'All I Need'. And thrown in to cause car accidents when the car stereo is notched up to 34 we are given 'Bodysnatchers' and 'Jigsaw falling into Place'. This is probably superfluous to say, but I utterly love everything about this album even though, in true form, it is not easy - some lyrics are unclear and unfathomable but who cares? - buy it and buy it again so that maybe one day Radiohead will come back to Melbourne to play that second concert they owe us! In case they don't, the band tours Europe in June/July '08 - a perfect reason to visit Paris in springtime.

It wasn't free!

In Rainbows was never free. The idea was that you paid the amount of money that you thought it was worth. If you are giving the album five stars here then you should have given the artists money for their efforts. I paid 7 pounds for it when it was released, and was happy to do it. People aren't idiots for paying artists for their art. They are idiots for giving some of the cut to iTunes when they could have given it all to the artists. The fans that downloaded it directly from the In Rainbows website and didn't pay anything need to question their loyalties. Oh, and I think the album is fantastic...

We're expected to pay $17 for something that was released for whatever we wanted to pay?

This album was released in mp3 format on Radiohead's website a few months ago, at whatever price the buyer wanted to pay -- even nothing. I don't understand why anyone would want to pay $17 for what can be purchased legally for much less. Besides that, a brilliant album.

Biography

Formed: 1989 in Oxford, England

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Radiohead were one of the few alternative bands of the early '90s to draw heavily from the grandiose arena rock that characterized U2's early albums. But the band internalized that epic sweep, turning it inside out to tell tortured, twisted tales of angst and alienation. Vocalist Thom Yorke's pained lyrics were brought to life by the group's three-guitar attack, which relied on texture — borrowing as much from My Bloody Valentine and Pink Floyd as R.E.M. and Pixies — instead of virtuosity....
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