Well. It’s a given I’ll buy this album. It’s the sort of disc I feel I have to listen to multiple times, to get comfortable with. My initial thought is this album sounds like Rubber Soul if the Beatles got to go back and rerecord it knowing everything they learned from Revolver through The White Album.
Needless to say I’m a fair Radiohead fan. They recently announced their new album In Rainbows will be for sale via their website for a price determined by you. It’s been quite some time since their last album Hail To The Thief, so there’s a ton of pent-up demand.
Mr. Tunequest found a little bit of new Radiohead stuff. They’re supposed to release a new album sometime this year. Really hard to make any kind of evaluation with these really short, random snippets, but I’ll certainly get it as soon as it’s released.
After listening to all the Radiohead albums repeatedly over the past few months, these are the songs I marked with a five star rating in iTunes. The order below is chronological, not from best to worst.
If forced to pick a Top Five, it would be Paranoid Android, Karma Police, Pyramid Song, High And Dry, and Everything In Its Right Place.
I’m finally done with my Radiohead listening project and can come up a list of their albums from “best to worst” — in my humble opinion, of course.
This actually answered a burning question I had which was how The Bends stacks up to Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail To The Thief. To my surprise, The Bends fared better than any of those three according to my totally nonobjective Intra-Album Ranking System.