Everyone on the blogs is talking about ‘In Rainbows’, Radiohead’s just-released download-only album. Most reviews seem to be leaning towards the “really-good-but-not-exactly-Kid A-or-OK Computer” end of the spectrum. I haven’t gotten around to actually downloading the thing myself so I’m not going to pass judgement quite yet. But having met the inimitable David Lynch (not the director, the hirsute drummer/guitarist – ex-Standard Deviation and Dirttrack and currently with Sideproject) on the streets of Cork this lunch time and aftere wandering around for a while, conversation turned to Radiohead. However, as we were passing the Moderne, Mr. Lynch stopped and listened. The Moderne were pumping music out onto the street. What music I hear you ask? Well, as the astute among you may have predicted, it was a track from ‘In Rainbows’. The Corkonian among you will also realise how truly fucking weird it is to hear Radiohead coming from the Moderne, a place where the loopy-earring/tracksuited females of the city come to do their clothes shoplifting…I mean…shopping. Order was restored when a few moments later, they were pumping out Natasha Bedingfield from their tinny little speakers. But now I can’t shake the horrible association between the Moderne and Radiohead and fear the album may be tainted before I even download the thing. A true disturbance in the force.
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“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.” « ST // October 23, 2007 at 13:36 |
[...] So while our soccer team don’t appear to be au fait with the concept of “goal-scoring” and the rugby team have the combined catching ability of a toddler, it seems that Ireland’s Radiohead fans are the most generous in the world. The Examiner have it that, according to http://www.whatpricedidyouchoose.com, Irish fans of the band paid an average of €6.38 for their recent ‘download-only’ album, In Rainbows. [...]