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In Rainbows
by Radiohead
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Media Type: Audio CD
Release Date: January 01. 2008
Label: Ato Records / Red
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 47
Average Customer Rating: 
UPC: 880882162221
List price: $13.98
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 Mellow Yellow, and blue, orange, green, red, etc., July 24, 2008
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You know when you're tuning a guitar, and you keep tweaking it tighter and tighter, and the pitch keeps rising, until eventually it snaps and evens its tone out? That's what happened with Radiohead, where the experimentation and chaotic sounds of their previous albums finally give way to a delectable mellow buzz. Bravo.
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Best rock CD of the year, July 22, 2008
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"In Rainbows" got a lot of attention for the novel way Radiohead started to sell it. The music shouldn't be overlooked. Each song is in the Radiohead style, catchy, and organic. There are some synth or looped parts, but it sounds like five guys in a room. Highly recommended.
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much better than I expected., July 21, 2008
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I was apprehensive about buying this cd after reading some of the negative reviews on Amazon.com. However, I bought it and have listened to it quite a few times now and must say that I prefer it to "the bends", but find "ok computer" a better album. This is much more of an album than "the bends", which to me is a collection of singles.
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A consistently satisfying album, July 16, 2008
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People should stop expecting Radiohead to be what they think they should be, and just listen - if they did, they might get more out of it. In Rainbows, which very importantly was independently made without a studio hanging over them, is the band's most refined album to date. The songs, both in their construction and arrangements, are concise, punchy, consistently imaginative and often very moving. Some are more successful than others, of course, while some take longer to speak and are therefore worth listening to again and again. But after listening to the album maybe 100 times over the last 6 months, I still find many new things each time. This is not an album that everyone will like on the first hearing - and thank goodness for that. Like most truly valuable things in life, the more you put in to it, the more you get back out, and that is certainly true of In Rainbows. That said, the melodies are very memorable, and the overall sound not nearly as complex as in previous albums, and yet the effect of the songs is more focused. Quite simply, this is a consistently satisfying album.
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 Over Hyped- Snoozer, July 15, 2008
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My initial first listen to this album on college radio had myself and the DJ bummed out. Are we all so desperate for another OK Computer or Bends cd that anything with Thom Yorke doing some actual singing will create booming praises? I think so. Most likely In Rainbows will share space with Amnesia, Kid A and Hail to the Thief, sitting in a box in my closet, completely stopped listening to.
This album is plain and simple boring to listen to, with lifeless songs that are no fun to sing along with (I admit I like to sing along with music). What happened to actual SONGS this band used to create? I can take an artsy off the usual path album or two from a band, but maybe radiohead should have just called it quits after OK Computer because it doesn't seem they even aspire to top it.
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