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I won't go on and on, today is my birthday and I'm feeling rather uppity. I share it with Ben Vereen, "Diamond" David Lee Roth, Thelonious Monk, Brett Favre, Mya, and a bunch of other people, good company all. The Radiohead album was a welcome present, but I'm going to celebrate with my favorite birthday song, too. Back when Bjork was a Sugarcube, they recorded the wonderful (and consistently timely) album Life's Too Good. On it appeared this song which, if you've never heard The Sugarcubes, I would urge you to purchase and enjoy. This ...
The question has been posed: "How does Radiohead plan to sit down when there are so many millions of people up their ass all at once on this one day?" The album In Rainbows has been universally praised, primarily as a return to form that everyone was hoping for from the band. The world of the internet is divided into the DD's and the DC's (the Did Download and the Don't Cares), and it's pretty clear as to whether you got what all the hype was about. Despite some minor difficulties (it was widely reported that ...
With sincere thanks to Puddlegum for this brilliant observation that might have eluded some of you.
Ten years after OK Computer shocked the world, Radiohead is releasing In Rainbows on October 10 (10/10). Though no one was expecting the album to be released until 2008, Radiohead announced In Rainbows just ten days in advance. In Rainbows, which consists of ten letters, has ten tracks, and would be downloadable for a rumored ten servers.read more | digg story
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In a world full of meritless claims to the reins of modern music's royalty status, I was half-expecting Radiohead's In Rainbows to come out and put me to sleep. On first listen, it's clever, inventive, delicately pretentious in a non-abrasive or suffocating way, and seems to me their most consistent effort since Kid A. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi has me hooked as my instant favorite, followed by the track which follows it, All I Need -- full of sick keyboard flashes, mellow droning and Thom Yorke's flawless tenor over beats which cover the spectrum from straight ahead rock to hip-hop-esque. ...
You can't keep a good band down, and British Sea Power are back with a much-awaited new release to prove that. Already a great critical success, largely on the strength of 2005's much-loved Open Season, BSP have taken two careful years to craft a series of over-achieving, thoroughly kick-ass rock and roll songs that left me wanting to hear more. The Krankenhaus? EP is the precursor to February's full-length, entitled Do You Like Rock Music?, and if anything it's a delightful teaser as to what we can expect come late winter. There is an obvious, profound ...
I admit that I've been a Radiohead fan for a long time. I've seen their concerts, bought their records, and maybe even had a poster on my wall at some point. Who can remember?
In any event, I have been watching with great interest (like everyone else) the forthcoming release of Radiohead's In Rainbows on October 10th. I find it amazing that people are considering it some defining moment in pop culture, that a band of Radiohead's stature and power is willing to release their album and allow you, the listener, to "pay what you like" for it. ...
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