HOLY CRAP - NEW RADIOHEAD ALBUM 10/10/07

Are you also acknowledging that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are the third greatest band ever?

Originally posted by callat703:
As promised:

Last.fm Charts, week of October 7 - October 14

1. Radiohead - 118,836 listeners - 3,308,175 plays
2. The Beatles - 73,373 listeners - 844,600 plays
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 64,502 listeners - 498,031 plays

And the top ten tracks of the week are the ten tracks from In Rainbows. Coincidentally, I believe the track order also corresponds to their ranking in the top ten.

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?

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?

I gotta check on that & get back to you. But ?uestlove is a Radiohead fan, if I remember correctly. Pretty cool cat as well. Bumped into him a couple of times here & there.

I like your diversity, my Canadian brethren.

werd. check track 12, "Atonement"

****PAGING SONICK & 703****

Radiohead Returning To The Road In 2008

October 18, 2007, 11:40 AM ET

Lars Brandle, London
Radiohead will embark on a rare international tour starting next spring, Billboard.com can reveal. Although details are still sketchy, expect the British alternative rock band to play multiple markets, in sizeable venues.

"We plan to tour next year, starting in May through to probably the end of the year. With lots of holidays in that period," says Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management, the firm that manages the band.

"At the moment we are talking with our agents in North America and for the rest of the world, trying to get a schedule which works for the band and works financially," he adds.

An extended run will be a treat for dedicated fans who missed Radiohead's summer 2006 dates, which landed in a handful of European and north American markets.

"They toured last summer almost for creative reasons, definitely not for financial reasons. And I think they quite enjoyed it," explains Edge. "The next set of touring will be slightly larger-scale venues."


Frontman Thom Yorke is anything but a fan of international treks and, in the past, the singer has raised concerns over the effects of touring on climate change.

"He likes to do shows, but the whole business of schlepping around the world is not top of his list of favorite things to do," adds Edge. "He really enjoys playing to the fans – it's just the process of how to do that which is the pain in the neck (for Yorke). They're not road dogs. They never have been."

Radiohead tore up the industry manual when they allowed fans to name their price to download its latest album, "In Rainbows," released Oct. 10. To date, representatives for the band have remained tight-lipped on the sales performance of the studio set. Edge downplayed as "exaggerated" reports that "In Rainbows" had shifted more than 1.2 million copies, but admitted the average price paid was "probably pretty close" to £4 ($8).

"We haven't analyzed the data yet," he explains. "The servers are still functioning on delivering the records to people. When that calms down a bit, we will have a moment to analyze and drag the data off. "

And he was philosophical on reports that the illegal platforms have delivered millions of units. "The fact of the matter is, as soon as a record goes into manufacture, or advance copies are released to the press, it goes onto BitTorrent," he says. "That is the fact. What we are dealing with is a situation that we always dealing with."

A label deal has yet to be struck for the physical release of the album, a spokesperson for the band says.

Is Bryce Edge related to The Edge?

Will tickets be "pay what you want"?

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?

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.

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.

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.

**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.

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 Radioheadâ??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 itâ??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 doesnâ??t tell us is how many â??copiesâ? 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

Most fans paid $0 for Radiohead album

By Alex Veiga, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES â?? 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.

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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 Maxwellâ??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>

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

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

mine was shipped, hasn't arrived yet.

thom york, what a looker:

EDIT: pic moved here

article still available here: Pay What You Want for This Article

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?

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).