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I ordered this CD in May and never received it. I did get communication from the seller that he had been away for a funeral. However, I never received it even after that.
LOVED IT. WOW. It is haunting, mesmerizing and oh so lovely. The Bends was always my favorite Radiohead endeavor until now. In Rainbows blows it right out of the water. They are genius. I play it so much I can almost see through it.
Thats where the respect comes from. record store is a cool place to hang out. And people should pay for the talent. .But I dont agree with the free downloading thing (pay what u like means i can do it for free). Cover album complete the music. We need to stare at CD/LP without even have to buy it.
we need record store.
And value.
Sitting in front your PC and upload your fav music is just boring.And we need cover album.
to make a music u must have talent.
To meet girls/guys.
yes, if u pay this album a lot than th usual pay for the say Nickleback album.
it'll make this more valuable.And the talk about killing the induastry, i just dont buy it.
Listening to music witohut holding the cover album in your hand just isnt complete.
its a part of it.if thats the future of music, its dull.
And listen I did to give you my honest opinion. So, I began thinking that one has to wonder, that with all the online music review websites and downloading systems, that when a new album is released it usually does not have as much jubilation behind it, and sometimes even honesty. The sense of happiness ceases due to the way that many of the songs are leaked to the internet even before their release. Yet, now more than a year later the hype was sure to have left this album, and now all I had to do was listen. While some love the album, others would rather Yorke and the music to be so scared of itself with both its institutionalized behavior and subversive ethic that both the band members and listeners will be in hospital straps by album's end -- as that is the Radiohead that we all know and love. In this album, his lyrics are poetically sensitive, high and clement, so much so that after a while it sadly rings like a cry for remorse, cut short by a tightened throat holding back tears. in your hand and hear it how it is supposed to be heard: front to back and with booming stereo speakers. In Rainbows seems as if it is making a case for them as a more radio-friendly, alternative-sounding band, as if almost polite, in fact.
Gone is much of the edgy experimentation that accompanies Yorke's they-are-out-to-get-me paranoid ramblings. Though it can racket up in volume to an operatic rock-and-roll tortured scream, it also seems unfulfilled. Yet, they also sadly still remind one of what once was. I believe one of the best things about music is when an album seems like it's your discovery, not someone else's.
I did not want my honesty to become nerve-wracking in having to decide if I was sincerely liking or hating it, if I was going with the flow or even trying to be different by not liking it. While many need a starting point to know at least what is good, the new way of musical digestion both tells you and lets you hear "the good stuff" before you can even have the album (with artwork). Yet, the press praised this new album as if it was the next coming of music, and many placed it at the top of the year's 'best of' lists. However, the album as a whole is not bad per se, because Yorke's voice sounds like a gentle breeze settling over an ocean wave. As not one to let hype get to me in way of opinions in any way, shape or form, I bought this album when it first came out in CD form, a time when their masterpiece, OK Computer, was yet again in heavy rotation in my player. The music here tries to be much too subtle and arty, thus bordering on indulgent dissonance, and sadly has a feeling of serenity breaking through the horizon. So, a year ago, I listened to In Rainbows just a little bit, but never in full.
It is an album that has much of Thom Yorke's beautiful, signature vocal work as a focal point, yet not much of what makes his paranoid cry for clairvoyance seem as different from many of Radiohead's influences and knockoffs. Songs like "Reckoner" and "House of Cards" are good as they are augmented by string arrangements, but nothing brilliant as the sound is actually too remote, quiet and stifled, undone because Radiohead seems like so many others, as if their sense of subversion has finally gone to the masses. In Rainbows by Radiohead is an album that made me think about how current music is digested nowadays. Songs like "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi," do nothing to make it seem as if they want to again break barriers, while "All I Need" and "Faust Arp" rerun over ground that Yorke has demonstrated on prior, much more epic, experimental, harder rocking and simply better songs. He has shown that he is both a singer of superb passion, encapsulating emotional torment in a thoughtful way, and that there was not much farther to go in crystallizing his voice with both production and accompanying instrumentals by that standpoint. It's as if the album is an annoying Jenga tower that crumbles when the player makes the slightest wrong move.
In this album, Radiohead subjects us to their more introverted and quieter side. Honestly, though, more than half of the songs here work in some way (six of the ten, to be exact); there is a certain point in which the listener gets its stifled sentiment, as In Rainbows is another note of alienation and non-subdued anguish, and is done not up to the band's often high standards, seeming like one of the lesser bands it influenced (Muse or Coldplay). The honesty is dying due to both this and how the music press now lays their opinion on thick before one has time to establish their own. These tracks are the saving grace of the album, and the only reason the album didn't receive only 3 stars. In Rainbows is an album that is not only Radiohead at their most mainstream, but also at their most ordinary. In fact, much of the album plays out like Yorke's solo album, The Eraser, did.
In Rainbows is at its best with "15 Step," "Bodysnatchers" and the second-to-last-song, "Jigsaw Falling Into Place." These songs may have been done before by Radiohead, but no one does it like them. *** 1/2 ( Out of 5)
Sound quality is very good and the performances are right on. I've owned this album for many months and I still never tire of listening to it. The more you listen, the more subtleties you find. My only complaint is I don't like the paper packaging - I'm always fumbling to put the cd and extras in the paper case the right way up, while driving. Plastic would have been better.
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