Reviews (page 15 of 15)
Did not enjoy
A few good songs but nothing overly amazing
meh
Needed more rainbows to bring any kind of vibrancy to this one. False advertising cover art. Started quite positively but then quickly descended into the same old dreary Radiohead for me. I just can't get on-board with Thom Yorke's vocals. Best track: Bodysnatchers
Not a huge Radiohead fan but this wasn’t too bad. Not something I’d usually chose to listen to
Joyless. Perhaps the album title is meant to be ironic.
Hm, not quite what I expected, found it weird to listen to. More distracting than enjoyable.
Maybe its because it was the day of the England semi-final but I wasn't really feeling this today.
Boring
Not into radiohead
Not bad. Nothing really wowed me. Felt like a lot of noise. Very experimental.
Meh. It’s Radiohead.
Sounds alt for sure, lyrics don't come through easily. Lots of guitar blocking and a kind of driving ticky percussion.
All I Need - Best Track so far. forgettable first half Jigsaw falling into Place - Best track on the album Videotape - Alright, Don't hate it - enjoy the piano Average Album
Expected more
@@. Very ambient sounding, liked two tracks.
I wasn't expecting this to be good ambience music, but it was. I'm not sure how to feel about that though.
Meh. OK sound, but not my thing so far. 2
Radiohead-kokonaisuudeks ihan siedettävä
i guess it’s not as bad as previous radiohead albums but that’s no compliment, this was still garbage
0/5 Dunder elektroniskt, hemsk sångare
I like some song from radiohead, but this album personally is bad
I find this just too sad to enjoyably listen to
The melodies were really good. but, not my type.
couldnt get into this one at all. nowhere near as many memorable songs as Ok Computer, so I gave up half way through
Probably the worst opener of this entire project so far. The rest of the album isn't much better. If you want to hear a skinny British dude wail, there's better choices.
Not a fan
As I've said about other albums that I've reviewed before, I may not be high enough to listen to this. But we might as well tackle *In Rainbows* from Radiohead. Let's open up with some bit-crunched breakbeat with some poorly enunciated, highly nasal lyrics, which actually, looking at the text, won't help you at all. This is not an auspicious start.*15 Step* should probably have taken that sheer drop at the end of a short walk. I hope there's a pier involved. Where do I start with *Bodysnatchers*? On the positive side, the vocals are mixed a little more intensely in, so you can somewhat make them out. Right up until Radiohead shows you how much they love Bit Crunch Distortion and starts cranking that up over everything. The lyrics do paint some sort of coherent image, but all they do is sketch it. I see what they are talking about, but it's meaning without purpose. It is, ironically enough, the shape of rebellion without the substance. If that's what they meant to parody accidentally in their song, then I'm going to give it a huge thumbs up, but I suspect that's not the case. A third of the way into the album, and we're saddled with *Nude*, a track which combines all of the sloppy enunciation of the previous two songs with a lugubrious and lazy rhythm. High, whiny vocals and nothing really to say. So far, it's been a Batan Death March in this album, and I really hope it picks up soon. Finally, something I can kind of enjoy. *Weird Fishes/Arpeggi* is slightly better enunciated. It appears to be a narrative about getting out of a bad relationship and thinking rotting at the bottom of the ocean is better than being in it, which I think we can all empathize with. Sure, it's still full of mush mouth and a little bit of crunch distortion, but instrumentally, it's quite nice. Maybe there's hope. You know, I don't think I've ever said the following words together before, but: if *All I Need* had a little more ambition, it could at least aspire to being goth. It simultaneously wants to represent all the people who have been friendzoned, stalkers, or incels. This is a little bit beyond their ability. Ultimately it just ends up sounding like edgy 14-year-old journal poetry. This is another song where instrumentally it's fine and without the lyrics it might even be great. It took until track six, but Radiohead's singer finally discovered that enunciation is a thing. Unfortunately, the trade-off was he lost the ability to have anything but a monotonal delivery. *Faust Arp* is an interesting song despite itself. The cynic in me wants to interpret it as a criticism of their general fanbase: vapid feathers stuffed in their brain, melted by drugs to soft butter, obsessed with no reason. In fact, the lack of reason. Yeah, so far this is the song I empathize the most with. It couldn't last. I knew it couldn't last. *Reckoner* returns multi-tonality to the singer's voice, though it's really only three tones and they're all screechy and annoying. Lyrics? They're there for noise. Don't try to make any sense of them. They're not even meaningful poetry. They're just words thrown together in a semblance of form. I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. For a moment I thought *House of Cards* was doing something unexpected in making a reference to key parties. For those of you who have never experienced the 70s or consumed any media set in the 70s, that was where you had a party and everybody threw their hotel room key into a bowl. At the end of the night you pulled one at random and went home with them to have unattached sex. Then I realized that *In Rainbows* was released in 2007 and none of the people involved had any clue about key parties, and this is just a relatively straightforward song about cheating on your spouse, which is fine, I guess. There are 300,000 country music songs which follow the same pattern. I'll give it this. It has a coherent theme and a coherent throughline, even if it is painfully repetitive. Instead of the bit crunch distortion, *House of Cards* is completely awash in this soft reverb which takes the edge off of everything—to its detriment. It is coherent and it has a sensible lyrical strand, and that's about all I can say about that. I suppose it had to happen eventually. There's actually a song on this album I actively like: *Jigsaw Falling Into Place* is a nice piece of music. It has a clean acoustic melody guitar backed by some nice solid synth bass. The lyrics are clear and well enunciated. The song is actually about something. It is surprisingly good after we've spent this much time getting here. So it was a long way hiking uphill to get to the penultimate song. We finally fetch up on *Videotape*, which, while the last track may have been the one I liked the most, this is actually the most interesting track on the album. Is the singer-protagonist about to blow his own head off, or are they dying of a terminal disease? It's impossible to say, though the latter would fit that stupidly extended playout, which in a music video or movie would be accompanied with increasingly sad images played off of VHS. Sure, it's way over-reliant on repetition in the middle, but it's an actual, coherent, sensible song, which has been in short supply on this album. Do I like *In Rainbows*? No, it's clearly not for me. In fact, Radiohead is clearly not for me. There are a couple of bright spots, but they take a lot of work to get to. I don't recommend it.
I would like to rate this higher. Love this band but I won't listen to them now.
Eh
Wasn't in the mood.
God, I find this irritating and I am a Radiohead fan.
Nope
caca midf
I liked Reckoner but the rest was crap
I'm just not a Radioheader.
Another boring one.
Honestly, this was just a lot of layered noise. Nearly unlistenable.
Definitely prefer earlier Radiohead. That was pretty boring.
More Radiohead. Fifth one so far. More whiny boring junk. Moving on. Best song: Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Starts off a bit more kid A and amnesiac and then gets much more into rock territory. U2core guitars on body snatchers and a great breakdown. The vocal layers that open ‘nude’ are super cool but the song itself was pretty meh. Arpeggi weird fishes is beautifully textured. All I need was dull as dishwater - all I need is to hit the skip button. Faust arp is like badly drawn boy done badly. Pretty much done with the album at this point tbh. Feels like a 2 and that’s honestly generous. A yawnfest for xennial beige Camry driving dry white toast people. Coldplay tier.
People like these guys because why?
Don’t like Radiohead.
Hot garbage. If I gotta hear Thom Yorke whine in that crap falsetto one more time I think I'll scream. Gimme the Radiohead that sang "Creep".
I keep my opinion about Radiohead. Too much noise for a band that isn't brilliant at all. They have taste and good ideas, but the delivery isn't great. This album has, again, songs that sound all the time the same. They also become very long, but because they are pretty repetitive. Most of the songs are repeating the same structure all the time with no changes but by incorporating new elements (just to enlarge them) like strings or whatever they want to use (in this album there is an abuse of strings, and they don't mean anything sometimes, they are just there for the sake of being there). And, honestly, it doesn't prove me anything, just that they like to be repetitive, pretty plain and... what else? It's not that they are non-commercial, it's that they don't evolve the songs in any sense, they are simply bland, just to use one word. I guess for them to not be mainstream means to be boring... For me it means to break conventions and explore, make something because you want to and not because it's what the public expects from you. And I already knew how it was going to sound before clicking play. I guess everyone has an opinion here, for sure. But, that non-commercial image is what makes them mainstream, paradoxically. And, I don't get why they are so enhanced. I'm happy for them, I guess, but this kind of music doesn't make me feel anything.
0 should be an option
Radiohead is a whiny version of U2. Just horrible.
I always thought the Radiohead were a bit dirgey and wailing. This was no exception.
Enough of Radiohead. Didn't listen.
fuck off
Yuck. Cluttering mess.
Ok alternative/rock band from the early 200o’s. Personally , I believe they’re a one hit only band.
Puke.
Don't like radiohead
Expected tuneless caterwauling and was not disappointed. Although, to be fair to the lads, Bodysnatchers is a rocking tune (never thought I'd say that about Radiohead...). The rest of this album just cements my opinion of Radiohead as pretentious, irritating, overrated guff.
Great. Another whiny Radiohead album. I wish I could give it less stars
Not really a Radiohead fan TBH, seems bland
shit
Just so damn pretentious. I just don't understand the appeal. It would be no stars if that was an option.
Thom Yorke is one of, if not, THE worst vocalist ever to disgrace this earth. Each song was so fucking dreary it drove me to insanity. At least OK Computer had more tempo changes, or at least some interesting stuff, even if it was crap. The couple of times where I thought to myself, "oooh, this bits ok" (usually at the start of a song) that prat comes along with his nasally, whiny voice of his and decimates everything. What's that Liam Gallagher quote about Thom shitting in a light bulb or whatever? Probably the one time I've ever agreed with anything he's said.
First listen
i put it on and then it finished. i dont remember a single lick of this album. snore.
Some Radiohead I have liked, but not this one.
Fuck Thom Yorke.
dont likey already listened oncey
Bleak in so many ways! The project is 1001 albums BEFORE you die, and this one brought me close.
I never got Radiohead
"Wakey wakey rise and shine" mumlar/kvider Thom Yorke halvvägs in i skivan. Ingen lyssnar. Det här är ett riktigt sömnpiller. Mer ett sound än ett album. Det kanske finns fantastiska texter och tematik i låtarna men jag får ingen lust att ta reda på det. För mig är detta bara Muzak.
I just don't understand the appeal, couple of cool motifs throughout but overall I just don't feel it. it brings nothing to the table
Hate u radohrad
אני לא מבין למה זה אחד האלבומים הכי מוערכים בעולם. הוא משעמם כל כך ומונוטוני כל כך אם הוא לא היה כזה מוערך אולי הייתי נותן לו 2 או 3 מתוך 5 אבל זה באמת מעצבן אותי שהוא כזה מוערך שיר מועדף - Jigsaw falling into place
Yep. Still hate Radiohead.
Honestly kind of bored by this one.
I did not care for this.
Great? No. Good? No. So, so? No. Bad? Yes.
Awful. Take themselves way too seriously, and then deliver boredom.
Radiohead has never been a hit for me. Sure there are catchy tunes that have become radiobops, and therefore earworms for anyone who's ever dialed in to a radio station. Radiohead has all the pieces of what would make a very Sam Band ™️; British, experimental, ambient, instrumental style vocals, concepty albums, with the moodiness of shoegaze softboi aesthetic. It's very much a weak point for me, yet I dislike all of those aspects of Radiohead. They aim and miss the mark so gloriously. I couldn't even tell you which song it was where Yorke switched up his vocals for a moment and was actually somewhat bearable, but it was nothing but fleeting. I understand how people can enjoy his methods, but it just sounds like someone softly releasing air from a barely full balloon to me. The melodic instruments could be enjoyable if they picked a consistent avenue to drive down. Instead it felt like I was on the edge the entire album waiting for it to start, and tbh I was happier the ending came before any kind of beginning even happened.
I enjoyed basically nothing about the album and don't see how it made the list. I don't know much about Radiohead but pretty sure they have better albums.
Tch... Did Radiohead really deserve a second seat at this table? No. No, they did not. Other than the way this album was released and "sold", I can't see any other reason why it deserves attention or a spot on this list - which is for albums you must HEAR before you die - not albums that disrupted the industry or have an interesting backstory. Judging it solely for its auditory value, it's terrible. The vocals are whiny and mumbly, and the instrumentation is bland and repetitive.
When I first received a Radiohead album by this I was pleasantly surprised I didn’t hate it. I rated it a 3 as I thought it was fine, just not for me. After this album, I feel validation for my ignorant opinion on this band. This is not only not for me, but it’s utter crap. This felt so pretentious. A band that was given false praise for too many years, that can now produce whatever garbage they want to collect a paycheck. Safe to say this will not be getting a 3 from me.
Had best een aardige band kunnen zijn met een andere zanger. Dit album is het equivalent van ‘s nachts muggen op je kamer hebben. Die heb ik liever. Beste: Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi Minste: Body Snatchers / House Of Cards Albumhoes: Heel herkenbaar / heel lelijk. 2/5
poopoo
Audio equivalent of sucking on a lemon
I had liked OK Computer pretty well a decade earlier and when this album was released under the pay-what-you-want model I thought that was neat, so I went to Radiohead.com or whatever and downloaded this for $0.00. I overpaid. Oh well, at least there are only 37 more Radiohead albums on this list that I’ll have to suffer through.
This could possibly be the worst album I have ever listened to… his whiny voice drives me nuts. The music is okay but one listen is all I could take. If there is a favorite song, I guess it’s “House of Cards”. It would be great if someone else sang it
Not the music I enjoy
👎🏻
He tuntevat sointuja, mutta eivät ymmärrä melodioiden perään. Tavallisesti musiikki vaatii kumpaakin elementtiä. Ja "he voisivat tehdä perinteistä musiikkia jos haluaisivat".. I'd like to see 'em try.
Nah bruh
Radiohead fans, where are you all at? In the rainbows? Come on, explain to me why this album is also just junk noise, moans, and random beeps? Favorite Song: "Faust Arp".
Hot shit burning in the sun
Radiohead, not for me. Thom York sucks. I despise his acidic voice. The music is pure shit. All this over hyped bands, I can't understand it. Radiohead - Coldplay, yuck
Nope. Way too many Radiohead on this list. I can’t take it seriously
The more I listened to this album, the more I got irritated by both the music and the voice. I didn't do it for me.
Extreme crap
wow, i hate this. 1.2
I was so glad when this album finished. I wish he would sing instead of wine. Also every song sound the same. There is no originality.
Not what I expected, not unpleasant, not my thing. Sort of like marsh mallows, quite nice occasionally. But really just mushy nothingness. Want to give it a two as I didn't actively dislike it, but can't really justify it.
Fuck Radiohead quit giving me this shit
not a fan at all. over rated
Not for me
i just dont get the attraction to Radiohead
Grim
Did not like this album.
Still don’t get Radiohead
I know this album is highly regarded among the fans but I'm not really a big Radiohead fan so this one really didn't do it for me.
Could not listen beyond two tracks. Not my type of music.
truly unbelievable lows after such highs in their career
sorry to radiohead, but this album is irreversibly linked to the ex of mine who had a big poster for it and also literally never washed his bed linens but would complain if I febrezed anything because he had "a very sensitive sense of smell"
Yuck.
Gefällt mir nicht.
This was not great, but tolerable up until "nude". I don't say this often, but Thom Yorke needs to shut the fuck up. We don't need that kind of whining. After nude it seemed to go even further downhill. Dissonance in the background, detuned synths, more Yorke sounding like a strangled cat. By the time Faust Arp comes around I'm ready to shit-can this album. I'm kinda glad I didn't because "Jigsaw falling into place" is a kind of niceish track. It utterly falls apart again with "Videotape" - which is a dirge.
Naja, DRS3 lobt die Band ja in jeder Sendung. Aber für mich habe ich noch keinen Zugang gefunden. Besonders dem Sänger kann ich fast nicht zuhören.
Previously rated: Kid A (1/5) Hail to the Thief (1/5) ************************** This initially sounded like it was going to be better than the other two I heard previously. And overall, I think it is slightly better, but only slightly. The whiny vocals are still here. The pretentious, atmospheric background music. I don't dig this band at all.
All sounds the same
I mean, it's fine. I can see putting this on to do homework or something, but I wouldn't put it on if I were just like "I want to listen to some music."
* Like the airy element on Nude. Highlight of Nude was that rather beautifully held note with "thinking" towards the end. * Three songs in, and although I didn't dislike nude, I still find myself underwhelmed by this album so far. Likely looking at my first one star rating if nothing changes in the next seven tracks. * Getting Lofi Girl vibes from that background melody in Weird Fishes/Arpeggi. That does much of the work on getting it so high on the list. * The instrumentals on Jigsaw Falling into Place gets a thumbs up from me. * In Videotape, it almost sounds like a hail of bullets going off in that final verse up until near the end. Very solemn melody throughout. I never thought I'd hear "Mephistopheles" used in a song but here we are. * Yep, this album is gonna hold the honor of being my first one star rating. I went back and forth a bit on whether or not to give it two, since I found some tracks to be okay-ish... but decided against it. None of the tracks with the possible exception of Jigsaw Falling into Place would I consider to be legit likable. The top 6 were alright listens but nothing spectacular. Jigsaw Falling into Place is the only one I'd really consider "good" from start to finish. -- Album Rankings -- 1. Jigsaw Falling into Place 2. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi 3. Reckoner 4. Nude 5. All I Need 6. Videotape 7. 15 Step 8. House of Cards 9. Bodysnatchers 10. Faust Arp
No me gusta me parece todo igual
Me pareció horrible. No lo pude terminar de escuchar!
meh
Seichter Art Rock.
This is the 5th Radiohead album on this list. Completely unnecessary. This is very similar to all of the other Radiohead albums. It is bad. Not the worst on the list but not any good. I will round down in order to be consistent with the other Radiohead albums. They are indistinguishable at this point.
Yeah, obviously I'm just really not a Radiohead fan
I gave up roughly a third of a way through the album. It's got small moments I like but as a whole it's too experimental for me.
Thom Yorke's vowels-only caterwauling will never qualify as singing
I remembered after listening to this that it wasn't Radiohead I liked, but Portishead. DIrge.
Crap. Too miserable
All very skippable
Just random noises
Hopeful during the first track. Rest of album drowns on into an easily skipped waste of time.
This is just the same forgettable shit 9 times, with the exception of the second one, which is actually pretty good. 1.3/10
I don’t understand the hype. Thom Yorker’s voice is like nails on a chalkboard. No thank You.
The fact radiohead offered a song for whatever you felt like paying for it - maybe nothing - and i still didn't listen to it says a lot about what i think about radiohead. What's heavier, a kilogram of steel, or a kilogram of feathers. Ah don't get it.
Makes my head hurt.
Oh good. Post-OK Computer Radiohead. I’ll let you know my thoughts after I wake up from my nap.
Again with the Radiohead? This is painful and a waste of time.
I cannot get past Thom Yorke's vocals.
Thin vocals, overproduced instrumentation. Why is this considered good music?
Right, so they've done something quite original has young Radiohead. This record is in effect one song tweaked, extraordinary. It sounds like the studio rehearsals of that one song. What utter rubbish.
Gone are the days where we can rely on Radiohead to produce anything that resembles coherency, the profound, or really anything that connects with listeners. Radiohead is a token example of a band that has taken experimentalism and managed to not only lose themselves in the process, but also any collective memory of their recent works that isn't "Creep". Thing is, Radiohead is so big on promise that even reviewers such as this cannot help but to continue consuming their content and just being used to the disappointment and long for better days when Radiohead was a rock band.
I think this was the point where I realised Radiohead had completely ran out of ideas, other than novel internet distribution methods. "All I Need" is OK, the rest is bland, indulgent, forgettable twaddle. Thom Yorke's lyrics are just interlinked platitudes.
Start off by saying this is not my preference in music. I understand this band has a large fan base, but I found nothing truly remarkable about this album. The music was formulaic in that once you heard the first few bars, it was just repeating that section until the song was over. I could not hear the lyrics. I tried adjusting the eq and other settings to no avail. “Jigsaw falling into pieces” was the only song to get my toe to tap. If this song came in the radio I would listen but not add to a playlist. Everything else I would have changed the station. Just my opinion.
Not my cup of tea
Every song just blended into the next one seamlessly. Because they all sounded the same.
Nawet nie wiem jak oceniac cos takiego wystawiajac wczoraj jedynke dla pani PJ, bo kolejny numer od Radioheada In Rainbowns wyznacza nowe poziomy mialkosci muzyki rokowej, przez bite 42 minuty materialu nie moglem uslyszec niczego co by zwrocilo na siebie uwage, a sluchalem muzyki prawdziwie windowej, bo jest tak elektronicznie jak tylko sie da, ale to ten najgorszy rodzaj muzyki elektronicznej probojacy brzmiec jak analogowe odpowiedniki instrumentalne, wiec jak dla mnie muzycznie nie ma nic, lirycznie jest depresyjnie na popowo, a to wszystko z tragikomicznymi wokalami, kolejny raz potwierdzaja sie memy mowiace o fanach radioheada, a nie byl to pierwszy badz z pewnoscia ostatni krazek tej bandy na liscie, bo tak duzej popowej bandy z wysp trzeba na liscie upchnac przynajmniej z polowe dyskografii, wiec mentalnie sie szykuje na dalsze boje, bo pewnie in dalej w las tym bardziej popowo to bedzie brzmiec, bo jest to zaledwie 7 album z ich 9 plytowej dyskografii, a rocznikowo jest to 2k07, co tez daje do myslenia, bo sam zespol pierwsza plyte wydal w 97, wiec troche czasu to jest
Absolute 1. I can't take another whiny album from these guys. This was very difficult to get through.
I don’t like Radiohead
Hard pass! I know it’s Radiohead and all that. Indeed this why I bought it when it was released (on cd). Revisiting it again now I find it just as unlistenable. Were they completely stoned when they made this album? Were they just bored of everything? Is it possible they were both? Last track is passable, maybe that’s when then woke up. Sorry diehard Radioheads.
Ik kan niet tegen de stem van de zanger.
Not for me
It was okay, radiohead isn't really my vibe. Save a couple songs from it tho
Already know and it’s bomb
Listed to this when it came out! Love nude
Good like
Quality drumming keeps the album flowing nicely. Distinctively Radiohead in the unique way that Radiohead are.