In Rainbows

So i'll be honest...i was a little worried on the first run through of this cd...but my first run through is usually just listening to about 15-30 seconds of all the songs before listening to it all the way through...thank goodness i tend to look past first impressions. This CD is excellent. I'm going to mention a few of my favorites here...i wish i could talk about all of them but i'd probably run out of things to say and i should probably actually work :(

"15 steps"- when i first heard the beginning of this song, i thought for sure radiohead had sold their souls to the electronic pop gods, which scared the hell out of me. But not 45 seconds pass before they introduce their awesome guitar play, jonny greenwood, adding his simple yet perfect guitar licks...and then not too far after that they turn up the bass part and start really rocking the song out...it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. some of the lyrics for this song just state "one by one" and its really funny how it kind of feels like that when they are introducing all the instruments throughout the entire song.

"Nude"- they keep this track simple for radiohead. :) and i really, really love how radiohead can express the lyrics of their song by their music. this song is called nude...the beginning of the song is just bass and drums and voice...no one is doing anything fancy...lyrically the song to me is talking about what is going on in most peoples minds, and how we have all felt at times. i do have a bass problem, i love bass parts and this one is no exception!

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi- so this song is FULL of arpeggios...pretty much the same one but they have two guitars all over the place just continually playing arpeggiated chords and they keep getting faster and faster and "i get eaten by the worms" then everything starts calming down.. what is kind of cool to me is that at some points it kind of sounds like you are floating underwater...yes, that does sound weird but you will just have to listen to it. maybe fish hear arpeggios?? :)


House of Cards- okay so this song just makes me want to dance around my house with a smile on my face. nothing overly exciting about it really...they have a lot of vocal echo and i'm really not sure what is going on in the back ground...it sounds like someone is tapping the bass or another guitar with a drum stick...which i guess is totally possible. i like has there is one guitar line that kind of goes throughout the entire song like its keeping everything together.