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| Artist: Radiohead
Label: XL
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 264
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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 yup May 19, 2008
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
I know I'm not alone in recalling a time when Kid A seemed like the weirdest thing ever. Granted, the groundwork was laid out decades before and they were essentially just putting their influences into musical form, but it all came together beautifully; that albums lit up paths to me that I never even knew existed. So listening to In Rainbows is a very "huh, remember when these guys were forward-thinking?" experience. Yeah, it's nicely constructed and beautifully produced, but my expectations for a new `head album are higher than with any other band. Sometimes marketing gimmicks and "nice" songs are not enough.
 Very good...but not their best May 13, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I find it interesting how people (PR?) have built up and then knocked down a number of Radiohead's albums over the years - it will be interesting to see how In Rainbows is re-evaluated in years to come.
For me, it's a very good album but not the "return to form" that some people would manufacture.
For starters HTTT was actually a great album in parts despite some reviews to the contrary - Where You End, A Punchup, There There, and the title track all deserve a place in their canon up against any song they have written (not to mention the b-side I Am A Wicked Child). For that matter, all their albums have tracks of true undiluted greatness.
So what of In Rainbows? Well to me, it sounds like a b-sides album (as does the bonus album!). If that sounds like a criticism, plenty of my favourite Radiohead tracks have actually been b-sides - Pearly*, Palo Alto, Polyethylene I/II and the aforementioned Wicked Child.
However, for me the album doesn't seem as coherent a whole as The Bends or OK C******r, more like a collection of tracks. Equally many of the individual tracks feel somehow a little like doodles (great doodles by the way) rather than actual completed tracks.
If this all sounds like a criticism, it's not actually, more a plea for some perspective on what is undoubtedly a great album, but not the pinnacle that some seem keen to claim...
Personal favourites are: Reckoner (Yorke's voice at it's most beautiful), Nude, All I Need, Videotape (even though, maybe because, it is similar to Pyramid Song), House of Cards, Bangers + Mash
 Their safest album yet May 10, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
In Rainbows is Radioheads most accessible album. It sounds very nice, and is a brilliant blend of electronica and rock. A blend to the point nearly of average. It isn't up to the standard of works like OK Computer and Kid A. It feels like their happiest album. Some of the songs have been around in live form for a while, but haven't been finished up. This makes it feel like a bit of a b-sides album, which it isn't. It is better than that.
The release system is what this album will be mostly remembered for. It was a revolutionary to the marketing industry, as Kid A was to electronica. The music however, doesn't live up to the release system.
 the true genius of this album becomes clearer with every listen April 24, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
quite often with radiohead albums i have thought upon my first listening "what's that?" but after a few plays you really do start to "get it" and after several listens, you really discover the depths of the genius in the work. i think this is quite possibly the best radiohead album yet - and definitely another wonderful example of their unique magic. i love it - the band are really together and thom yorke truly has the voice of an angel. do yourself a big favour and buy it :)
Out of this world April 16, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
i wish i could have given it more than 5 stars. Radioheads have done it again and produced an absolutely outstanding album. Nude, Videotape and reckoner are brilliant. I earge everyone to give this album a try. You won't be dissapointed!
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