Track Listing

1. 15 Step
2. Bodysnatchers
3. Nude
4. Medley: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
5. All I Need
6. Faust Arp
7. Reckoner
8. House of Cards
9. Jigsaw Falling into Place
10. Videotape

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-01
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
On the deliriously satisfying In Rainbows, Radiohead returns to a more straight-ahead (though subdued) rock sound. Much hubbub has been made about this record’s innovative release. Radiohead allowed fans to pay what they wished to download fairly low-resolution tracks from the band’s own website. Like so many innovations, it already seems funny both that it was such big news and that someone else of similar stature hadn’t done it sooner. Some pundits were appalled that it took awhile to download the tracks if you tried to do it at the same time as thousands of other people, while others decried that the group was trying to kill the music industry (or save it). Little of the press seemed to focus on the record itself, which actually made sense because it was so entertaining and inviting, the most low-key album Radiohead has made to date. There’s even a very straight-forward, simple, silly little love song, “House of Cards.” It might be a bit lethargic, but the simple instrumentation of electric guitars, bass, and drums is lovely as heck. A handful of these tunes enchanted fans for years before finally being committed to computer “tape.” This is particularly fitting as In Rainbows is the group’s most “band”-sounding album since OK Computer. This is not a record that hits you over the head with how far this group is pushing the envelope; it’s simply a phenomenal, well-crafted, and exciting album. As soon as it’s done, you’re playing it again. –Mike McGonigal

Album Description
TENTATIVE TRACKLIST: “15 Step” - 3:57 “Bodysnatchers” - 4:02 “Nude” - 4:15 “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” - 5:18 “All I Need” - 3:48 “Faust Arp” - 2:09 “Reckoner” - 4:50 “House of Cards” - 5:28 “Jigsaw Falling into Place” - 4:09 “Videotape” - 4:39

Customer Reviews

Must buy album
Not quite as good as Kid A or OK Computer but Radiohead is not trying to top those albums. Even though the album was essentially free through digital download, the CD is a must buy because the sound quality is much better.

In Rhapsodies
One of my fovourite CDs. Played it for a music loving friend who was so blown away by the beauty of this album he went out next day and bought it, Do I need to say any more? Sublime and superb. So beautiful to listen to.

Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here
I’ve wanted to like IN RAINBOWS since I got my CD (full price by the way) but with regret I have to say that this is music to sleep by, this is music by and for elevators, this is devolution. Ever since THE BENDS and OK COMPUTER it’s been a long descent into electronica hell. “House of Cards” singlehandedly saves this one from eternal damnation. I’d wait for this one to be available for free before buying unless you’re a collector. Perhaps it will age well, time will tell; but… I wager at the end of Radiohead’s rainbows there’ll be an empty pot of gold and a leprachaun laying nearby neatly garroted. Hail to which thief?