HOLY CRAP - NEW RADIOHEAD ALBUM 10/10/07

[Mobius]

Is Bryce Edge related to The Edge?

[ggw]

Will tickets be "pay what you want"?

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by le sonick:
   

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
  You don't read enough magazines/artist interviews.  Bono.  By far.  The man had a fuckin' tribute to him by The Roots (If those aren't musicians, I don't know what is) at the fuckin' NAACP Awards, man.  That's waaaaaaaay outside the rock dempgraphic, fam.
 

i included the first sentence cause its funny. apparently just liking the art itself isnt enough!    
 
    but the reason i resurrect this is that upon listening to the Roots' Game Theory, i heard a "You and Whose Army" sample.....so i guess the Roots like em both, eh? [/b]

from reading his posts on the roots message board, ?uest is a very big radiohead fan (kid a, especially). originally the track for atonement was supposed to be used on the 'exit music: music for radioheads' comp., got scrapped.. sample was already cleared so they used it on game theory.

[chaz]

Allright.  I've decided I don't like this album and I don't really like Radihead anymore.  The Bends, OK Computer and Kid A were a brilliant trifecta, but it's been all down hill from there.  
 
 Not dissing them or anything, but it dawned on me that this band is really just not my cup of tea anymore and it makes me a little bummed.  Everytime they have a new record I want to like it but I listen a few times and it just goes on the shelf to collect dust.
 
 OK Computer rocked my world so hard, but wasn't that about 10 years ago?  I've changed.  I've moved on.  Really, it's not you, it's me.  I hope we can still be friends.

[Darth Ed]

I've listened to it thrice now, and I have to admit In Rainbows hasn't really grabbed me. It's certainly good, but I'm not hooked on it the way I was with Hail to the Thief. I'll take "2+2=5" over any track on In Rainbows, and I strongly disagree with chaz that Hail to the Thief was downhill from anything, although I recognize I may be in the minority on that view.

[TheDirector217]

**Paging Call @ 703 & Le Sonick **
 
 Radiohead Albums Boxed In Time For Christmas
 
 November 05, 2007, 10:05 AM ET
 
 Lars Brandle, London
 A Radiohead boxed set, spanning the British band's first six studio albums plus a live record, will be available from Dec. 10 via the band's Web site.
 
 The seven-CD limited edition sets will comprise the band's Parlophone albums "Pablo Honey" (1993), "The Bends" (1995), "OK Computer" (1997), "Kid A" (2000), "Amnesiac" (2001), "Hail to the Thief" (2003) and the live album "I Might Be Wrong" (2001). Purchasers will also have access to stream special footage.
 
 On the same day, the alternative rock outfit will release for pre-order a limited edition USB stick, shaped in the band's iconic "bear" image. The 4GB memory stick will contain Radiohead's entire catalog in WAV files together with digital artwork. Both formats will be available only from Radioheadstore.com.
 
 A digital bundle of all seven albums will also be available from Dec. 10 as DRM-free MP3 files, together with digital artwork.
 
 "We are particularly excited about the USB stick," comments Parlophone's managing director Miles Leonard, "which gives fans an easy and portable way to carry the box set and provides another way of bridging the world between on-line and off-line content."
 
 
 U.K. charts compiler the Official U.K. Charts Company recently made tweaks to its criteria, allowing the USB format to quality for the album chart.
 
 Radiohead split with Parlophone in 2005 and recently struck a deal enabling indie label XL Recordings to handle the physical release of its new album, "In Rainbows."
 
 That deal is expected to cover territories outside North America, leaving the band free to sign a separate deal there, but no further details have yet been made available.

[vansmack]

Data On Radiohead Experiment: 38 Percent Of Downloaders Choose To Pay
 By Robert Andrews - Mon 05 Nov 2007 02:13 PM PST
 
 The first concrete analysis of Radiohead�??s innovative pay-what-you-like plan for latest album In Rainbows shows thirty-eight percent of those who downloaded the title indeed chose to pay something, while 62 percent kept their change in their pocket. ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data (via release) shows 1.2 million people visited the site in the first 29 days of October (it was launched at the start of the month).
 
 The average price paid was $6 (£2.88) on a globalised basis but Americans were more generous, coughing up $8.05 (£3.87) - factor in the freeloaders, however, and it�??s more like an average $2.26 (£1.08) on a worldwide basis and $3.23 (£1.55) from Americans. The most common amount offered was below $4 (£1.92), but 12 percent were willing to pay between $8 (£3.84) and $12 (£5.77), around the typical cost of an album from iTunes.
 
 What this doesn�??t tell us is how many �??copies�?� of In Rainbows have been sold (in the middle of October, Gigwise quoted an unattributed source as saying 1.2 million albums had been shifted - and joined the dots to a poll in which a majority of consumers said they paid £4 to suggest Radiohead pulled in £4.8 million in around a week). Nor does it account for copies of the album circulating via Bit Torrent and file-sharing networks. P2P music tracker Big Champagne has previously estimated such transmissions had greatly outnumbered downloads via the official channel. Nevertheless, having let their EMI deal expire without resigning a label deal, Radiohead will get to keep more of the income.
 
 
 Source

[miss pretentious]

Most fans paid $0 for Radiohead album
 
 By Alex Veiga, Associated Press
 
 LOS ANGELES �?? Radiohead let its fans decide how much to pay for a digital copy of the band's latest release, In Rainbows, and more than half of those who downloaded the album chose to pay nothing, according to a study by a consumer research firm.
 Some 62% of the people who downloaded In Rainbows in a four-week period last month opted not to pay the British alt-rockers a cent. But the remaining 38% voluntarily paid an average of $6, according to the study by comScore Inc.
 
 Radiohead broke with its past practice of releasing its music in CD format and through a major record label when it released its seventh studio album online itself. The biggest wrinkle was the band's decision to let fans pay as much or as little as they wanted to download a copy.
 
 The results of the study were drawn from data gathered from a few hundred people who are part of comScore's database of 2 million computer users worldwide. The firm, which has permission to monitor the computer users' online behavior, did not provide a margin of error for the study's results.
 
 Between Oct. 1 and Oct. 29, about 1.2 million people visited the website the band set up for fans to download the album, comScore said Monday. The research firm did not say how many people in its study actually bought the album.
 
 Among U.S. residents, about 40% who downloaded the album paid to do so. Their average payment was $8.05, the firm said.
 
 Some 36% of the fans outside the U.S. who downloaded the album opted to pay; on average, those fans paid $4.64, according to the study.
 
 Radiohead's U.S.-based publicist said Tuesday the band had no comment on the study.
 
 The online release sent shock waves through the recording industry, with some hailing it as a shrewd move at a time of declining CD sales industrywide and others writing it off as a publicity stunt that amounted to the band giving away its music.
 
 The band, which also offered fans the option of buying a lavish box set for about $82, plans to release the album in CD format some time next year. The box set ships on or before December 3, and includes a download.
 
 Source

[sweetcell]

for those thinking that "In Rainbows" is not only no "OK Computer", but would rather listen to the classic "OK Computer"... in a classical style:
 
 The Section Quartet performing Radiohead's "OK Computer"
 Nov 13 2007 10:30P  DC9 Washington DC
 Nov 14 2007 7:30P  World Cafe Live Upstairs Philadelphia
 Nov 15 2007 9:30P  The Living Room New York (2 shows, OK Computer only during second)
 Nov 16 2007 8:00P  Maxwell�??s Hoboken, New Jersey
 
 their website doesn't confirm that the DC show will be a OK Computer show... then again, it doesn't say anything about the next night's philly show either, but the World Cafe Live's  website does confirm the radiohead.  
 
 listen to their take of paranoid android  on theirspace.  Radiohead a la muzak - <insert witty comment here>

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
 Radiohead a la muzak - <insert witty comment here>

see if y'all can top this one:
 
 Radiohead a la muzak - an upgrade
 
  :p

[amnesiac]

Anyone get their diskbox yet? I got an email saying mine was shipped. Can't wait...

[distance]

mine was shipped, hasn't arrived yet.

[sweetcell]

thom york, what a looker:
 
 EDIT: pic moved  here    
 
 article still available here: Pay What You Want for This Article

[walkonby]

i'm sure the answer is in here somewhere (thread or net respectively) but searching is a chore that bores . . . so is this pre-order box set with all the albums, special or not, the only way to purchase in rainbows for those who like 1 cd please sir?

[sweetcell]

no, the single-CD retail release is slated for Jan 1 (i.e. available Jan 2, should be able to pre-order before that).
 
 the digital download site is scheduled to close tomorrow (dec 10).