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In Rainbows | 
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| Artist: Radiohead
Label: XL
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
Buy New: £6.47
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Avg. Customer Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 72
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.2
UPC: 634904032425
EAN: 0634904032425
ASIN: B000YIXBVI
Release Date: December 31, 2007
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Condition: BRAND NEW - Sealed IMPORT!! -
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| Tracks:
| » | 15 Step | | » | Bodysnatchers | | » | Nude | | » | Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | | » | All I Need | | » | Faust Arp | | » | Reckoner | | » | House Of Cards | | » | Jigsaw Falling Into Place | | » | Videotape |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's very likely that even if you haven't heard the contents of Radiohead's seventh album, you'll be aware of its existence. Released as a digital download by the band themselves before a CD release was even considered, In Rainbows was lauded for innovation before a note of music was heard. Luckily, the music matches the hype--it takes the best part of Radiohead's previous works and advances the formula even further. While the opener "15 Step"--all skittering drum patterns and dub-style bass--may hark back to the electronica of Kid A, the sound soon gives way to a more guitar-based sound. Whilst not as musically heavy as previous albums, the tunes are far more focused and passionate--"Bodysnatchers" is based around a hypnotic, distorted bass riff, while the beautiful string-drenched "Nude" is a true Radiohead classic. Lyrically, like Thom Yorke's solo album The Eraser, the lyrics are sketches of suburban paranoia, and the eerie sense of things no! t being quite right. This is especially true on the piano-based closer "Videotape", which poignantly details a man watching his life's achievements in his final moments. In short, In Rainbows is another masterpiece from the Oxford quintet. --Thomas Allott
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| Customer Reviews: Read 101 more reviews...
 A distillation of the previous 6? July 3, 2008
What were Radiohead to do? They can't please all the people all the time, can they?
So, were they too keep the Bendsphiles moaning about "pretentious, tuneless noises, blah blah blah" or turn their backs on Kid-A-philes "far-out experimental techno wizadry"?
Unbelievably, Radiohead seem, at least to this ear, to have kept both camps happy. Maybe I'm biased, short of Pablo Honey, I consider all the albums to be quite magnificent in their own ways, and this is no different.
Once the techno-ish intro of 15 Step has finished (where, I believe, many of the post-OK Computer refuseniks stopped listening to write a 1-star review), In Raibows delivers the accessibility of earlier albums without losing the soundscapes of the later ones. They even chuck in a few riffs.
For me, listening from Nude, through Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, All I Need, Faust Arp, Reckoner to House Of Cards, it is almost impossible to not to sit stunned, grinning at the amazing beauty of it all. Reckoner, incidentally, is irresistable. I can't even begin to describe it.
This is not to say the penultimate track, Jigsaw Falling Into Place, is poor. Of coarse it's not. It's just back to some frankly Bends-esque rock, before the achingly beautiful and coldy chilling Videotape plays us out. Marvellous stuff.
in rainbows June 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
there is not much to choose between any of the radiohead albums, but in rainbows excells. they have never stood still, but this is genius. they could have done what oasis did and release 10 versions of the bends, but no. thiis is what makes radiohead unique, bless 'em
One of their best? June 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was always a lover of OK Computer, and this is another object of love.
It's a great album, with nothing in the way of padding. It may not be as great as OK (OK was a landmark in many ways), or it may be as great, in a different way: I've yet to make up my mind.
I'll be revisiting some of their other - between-times - releases as a consequence. They will be different, I know, but equally worthwhile, I predict.
 Nowhere near as good as the 2007 live versions June 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those lucky enough to have heard the live versions of these songs found on the Internet from their 2007 American tour, they'll probably notice they grooved and moved far more to those tracks than the extremely boring, mellow versions found on "In Rainbows". Thom was inspired as all hell at those shows, and it showed in the music, but this album is simply a bunch of boring rehashes of great songs done way way better live on the small theater stages in 2007. And what the hell did the band do to "4 Minute Warning" on the bonus CD?! They butchered what was probably their best song since "Exit Music"!
Spare a thought for the fiftysomethings June 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Review No 103 to date and if you're a Radiohead head you probably wont have read any of them before rushing out to buy or download this magnificent piece of musical mastery. So I suppose this is for the newcomers, and there will be plenty. Do you know that approximately one million people celebrate their 16th birthday every year, and that's just in the UK. 'In Rainbows' is a good place to launch your Radiohead obsession. It's probably the most accessable album since 'The Bends', its easy to get on with. You could describe it as 'easy listening' by Radiohead's standards. You wont have the same relationship that you might have with 'Kid A' or 'Amnesiac'( my favourite RH albums)It will be your friend for life, no mood swings or the silent treatment. No tantrums or funny looks. 'In rainbows' will, quite simply , be your best mate until you crock. Please don't buy the singles. Why Radiohead ever decided to be a singles band is behond me. Stick to the albums and enjoy the concepts. Once you've grasped them you'll really start to enjoy the music.
Anyway what do you think to this. When I first heard Radiohead, a couple of days after they'd released 'The Bends' I was a mere thirtysomething. Now that I'm a fiftysomething I have a bit of a problem with my pork pies,yes it's good that they're using more paper as opposed to plastic in order to reduce the said carbon footprint and hence save the planet, but the lyrics are printed so small I have to have every light in the house on so I can read them...... Thom you haven't thought this through, if you want to save the planet print the bloody words BIGGER!!
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