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New Radiohead Album "In Rainbows"
Thrillho:
I've given it one listen and I wasn't terribly impressed. Honestly, it wasn't bad, but I was totally underwhelmed. I think I need to give it a few more listens, but right now...it doesn't feel like it's enough after four and a half years of absence, having led the British music press and fans by the testicles for five straight albums.
Valrus:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 12 Oct 2007, 14:49 ---four and a half years of absence
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You mean besides the touring.
muteKi:
--- Quote from: ScrambledGregs on 12 Oct 2007, 13:31 ---You say "half of the album" but this is the album. All that other stuff was left off for a reason.
That's the fucking problem with CDs. Everybody decided that since they could hold 80ish minutes, then they should. I may be a purist here, but I hate when reissues have all kinds of bonus tracks stuck right after the album ends. They could at least have 30 seconds or so of silence to help you cleanse your palette, y'know??
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As a collector, I tend to disagree. I like it when old albums get the bonus tracks added. When it comes right down to it, I can change the order and such in playlists and all. I mean, I guess it can totally derail the flow of the album, but I'd rather have them then go all around the world trying to find the B-sides and single remixes that I missed.
In other words YAY MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK or something, I think.
Hat:
The thing about the 80 minutes argument seems a little defunct to me though. Haven't cassettes always held about 90 minutes, 45 on each side? And the idea of the double LP is pretty ancient. And generally the kind of bands that write 80 minute albums are the kind of long rambling pretentious bands that would have done a double LP even if CDs weren't the dominant form of distribution at the time.
Although I agree, seeing a classic album released and then stuffed with outtakes and bonus tracks until its 80 minutes bugs me, I just delete them when I rip them to my computer, and I hardly ever listen to the hard copies.
Anyway, I warmed to in Rainbows at first, although it hasn't really stuck in my mind and made me listen to it over and over again, which may be a good thing. It may be like Hail to the Thief where I'm basically sitting around in six months time, put it on and decide I acutally really fucking love it.
Johnny C:
Some greatly-expanded reissues are pretty awesome though. I have the expanded Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and the first chunk of songs on the second disc basically consists of takes of the album with their previous drummer.
The bonus disc for In Rainbows is, from what I understand, just that: a bonus disc. It's not some kind of second half to the record that only TRUE FANS can hear. It's odds and sods. It's things that didn't fit. It's leftovers, extras.
Hence, "bonus."
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