Gingerbread Man on 21/10/2007 at 05:03
Perhaps. But I keep wondering if it's like Pink Floyd. Again, my brother and I have near-violent conversations about whether or not Atom Heart Mother and Piper At The Gates Of Dawn are shitty or not, but we both agree that Animals may be one of the greatest albums ever.
Vernon on 21/10/2007 at 07:43
My favourite Radiohead album is without a shadow of a doubt HTTT, and I'm not one to go for the mid-nineties British guitar stuff usually, but I just have to stick up for Pablo Honey a little bit here - it really isn't that bad. Relative to other Radiohead albums it is pants, but compared to a lot of other bands, it is pretty solid - even though it sounds what I imagine U2 must sound like if you were starved enough of decent music to bother putting one of their albums on. But yeah, PH has a few good tracks, so don't discount it completely? It sort of reminds me of what some thirteen year old kid who could never fit into the metal/jungle/hip-hop scenes would like if he happened across the record and would listen to it on his walkman until the tape snapped or whatever. At least it is all better than On A Friday anyway
I don't if any of that made sense :tired: As has been pointed out some posts back, PH is certainly no starting point for someone who wants to get into them - go for OK Computer.
Vernon on 21/10/2007 at 08:00
Also, <3 for My Iron Lung EP :smith:
Fingernail on 21/10/2007 at 09:26
the drum/shuttering sound on videotape made me think of a projector reel fluttering after the film's finished, appropriately enough. That or a sort of camera shutter. Somehow it works, though.
polytourist97 on 22/10/2007 at 09:20
GBM, I think if you want one track to sort of "capture" what's great about Radiohead, you're better off looking to some of the other albums. "How To Disappear Completely" would be the one track I would recommend.
If you MUST stick to In Rainbows though, I don't see how anyone could think of recommending anything else besides "Reckoner". I personally think it's the only song on the album that starts, maintains, and finishes equally strong.
PigLick on 22/10/2007 at 14:36
haha "How to disappear completely" sounds more like what Radiohead should be doing, rather than writing songs about.
IM JOKING
Kuuso on 23/10/2007 at 13:52
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Please someone convince me to give this album a chance. I've long been perplexed by Radiohead's ability to stun fans while simultaneously leaving
me feeling like I've just sat through an excruciating tape made by a sleep-deprived adolescent in his basement on a four track.
A four track with awesome production values, don't get me wrong. But there's evidently something I'm not getting about Radiohead... too many people think the band is excellent for me to just write them off, but -- despite every human effort made by my brother -- I just don't see it. To me it's mostly just a kind of smug noodling with generous dollops of pretension and art-school wank.
Tell me a song to start with, what if this album changes my mind?
I am afraid that if you haven't got interested in Radiohead via the previous albums (OK Computer, Kid A/Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief in particular) I don't think you will get interested cause of In Rainbows either. It is the same Radiohead, with a strange minimalistic style this time. The songs seem quite basic, but some of them turn out to offer interesting stuff once you listen to them a few times. There's lots of stuff going in the background.
It is a great album, worth listening to, but not the best this band has offered. This time around, Thom's vocals really start to annoy at some points and the lyrics are...well, mumbo jumbo.
Jason Moyer on 23/10/2007 at 20:01
I'm in the same boat as GBM. I've tried really hard to like Radiohead over the years, and something just doesn't do it for me on most of their albums. I generally like Amnesiac/Kid A (particularly "knives out") but I think what does me in really is his voice, for whatever reason. It's especially perplexing since I'm a fan of similar krautrock-influenced stuff (Stereolab, for instance).
SubJeff on 24/10/2007 at 15:14
I go from loving them to hating them. Sometimes they sound like heartfelt bliss, other times like OxBridge emo angst that you just want to strangle.
This new one has me quite taken though. For now...
Stitch on 10/12/2007 at 01:45
Some of you must be getting those disc boxes by now :cool:
I stole the extra songs, and first listen indicates they form an excellent encore to In Rainbows.
