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Universal acclaim- based on 2281 Ratings
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DanOct 16, 2007Absolutely gorgeous. I can't stop listening to it! They are on such a higher level of musical talent than any other band I've heard.
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carld.Oct 16, 2007Best since OK Computer ,heart warming
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KSliceOct 16, 2007Reckoner rocks. All I Want makes me well-up. Thealbum is almost unassuming in the way it warms up to you. I am wildly surprised by how much I like it - and how much more I like it each time I hear it. Even non-Radiohead fans will find at least one track they'll like.
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BPOct 16, 2007No big deal, Kid A is still their best.
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DanLOct 16, 2007
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SamOct 16, 2007Beautiful.
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ElvisP.Oct 16, 2007In Rainbows and Kid A are the best albuns of the decade!!!
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AaronS.Oct 16, 2007Best album since 'Kid A'. I liked 'Hail to the Thief' and 'Amnesiac', but have to say that Radiohead haven't sounded this alive as a band in years. Compulsively listenable.
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GuyHOct 16, 2007
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GraemeW.Oct 17, 2007
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ToddW.Oct 17, 2007In Rainbows is a perfect amalgam of all that came before from the best band on the planet. While not groundbreaking like O.K. Computer or Kid A, Yorke, Greenwood, Selway, et al. show the pretenders just how to construct a melody quite unlike anything you've ever heard before. That's what keeps the fanatics, like me, coming back for more. A strong contender for album of the year.
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jeremyOct 17, 2007I've never been a huge a fan of Radiohead, but this album blew me away. It flows smoothly, and every song is fantastic. And, it's fun to listen to! My one complaint? A lot of the songs sound similar. But hey, it makes for a superb album.
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MichaelGOct 17, 2007
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L.D.Oct 17, 2007mystically mellow...
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EstherOct 17, 2007Simply Amazing!! I'm still in awe that this is a Radiohead Album, they took their musicianship to a whole new level. It is definitely their best album to date and deserves a 10.
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LachlanOct 17, 2007
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izzyj.Oct 17, 2007everything in its right place. exceeded my expectations. warm.
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FredJ.Oct 17, 2007Others have said it best. "Hauntingly beautiful" I know it's a bit early, but I believe this to be one of my favorite albums by anyone ever. Beautiful.
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PhilipD.Oct 17, 2007Fantastic, gorgeous and not one song even considered for skipping. Check out 15 Step, Apreggi, Nude, Bodysnatchers and Jisaw Falling Into Place!
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NicholasM.Oct 17, 2007Best album not only of this year but since Kid A, easily, fantastic albuim.
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JordanS.Oct 17, 2007It's like walking the arc of a rainbow, blissful beauty, but still threatened by the sight of the distant storm raging with madness. Great stuff.
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HasbroM.Oct 17, 2007The tightest and most grippingly beautiful thing they have ever recorded. While it does not upstage their other work, it does add yet another new piece to their growing collection of outstanding albums and makes their older work sound that much more right.
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herberth.Oct 17, 2007This new uplifting and radient album seems to be remnants of The Bends, Ok Computer and Hail to the Theif. It is a great way to pull all 6 studio albums together. This album ranks up there with the best of Radiohead!!!!!
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PaulJ.Oct 17, 2007I would actually give this a 9.5 if I could, but I could not rank it a 10 since that would be in the territory of OK Computer and Amnesiac- albums which were a little more streamlined than this effort. However, this is still one of their best albums and definitely shows the ongoing effort of the band to be avant-garde. Fantastic listen!
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OctavianI.Oct 17, 2007Great album !
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JuanR.Oct 18, 2007simply amazing... Radiohead never fail.
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HendrikK.Oct 18, 2007
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joelC.Nov 8, 2007Something to enjoy for a long long time, Videotape is one going straight to the top 3 of radiohead
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MattOct 18, 2007This is why they're Radiohead and everyone else isn't.
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VinNov 8, 2007Beautiful record! Gives me a head rush for the first half then puts me in harmony for the last of it. This record is one of their best to date, worth it to pick it up. If your have been a Radiohead fan you won't be disappointed.
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NigelS.Oct 18, 2007A nice relaxed return to the studio for Radiohead. Maybe not as in your face as 2003's Hail to the Thief, but much deeper and easier on the ears. Its as if the band wrote these songs, and just stripped all the fat off of them in the recording studio. There is no filler here.
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sidy.Oct 18, 2007After listening to In Rainbows a few times, It seems to me almost as if everything Radiohead has done after OK Computer were experiments in preparation for this album.
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JustinH.Oct 18, 2007Brilliant.
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RobC.Oct 18, 2007Lush. Sparse. Beautiful.
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jacopot.Oct 18, 2007GO THOM
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RufatR.Oct 19, 2007Music is not so different, as in previous albums. But it's still Radiohead stylish, and Thom's voice is still one of the most sinsere ones.
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MikeWOct 19, 2007it is the perfect album. every song is brilliant. there are no stand outs or "singles" - u could not release these songs separately. they are all part of one long journey. every band member's contribution can be clearly heard. videotape is the saddest and most moving song i have ever heard. there couldnt be a better and more satisfying ending to an album
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AlexisOct 19, 2007This is a gentler, warmer and more accessible Kid A. It's not as good as OK Computer, but it's solid. They are so much more interesting, intelligent, original, creative and talented than any other band in the world today.
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kkk.Oct 19, 2007in rainbows is an album which is different from other albums of radiohead as well as other people's albums
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ScottW.Oct 19, 2007
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DarenWNov 9, 2007The first listen, it's OK. But after about the 10th listening, I realized this CD is still growing on me. I'm addicted, I have to now have a daily listen! It's one of Radiohead's best, right now 2nd to OK Computer!
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kelseyhOct 21, 2007This album has made all other music irrellevant for me for the past week. I have not listened to anything else, and I have still to get tired of it. Radiohead are so far and about anything else anyone else has done since the talking heads.
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jeffort23Dec 10, 2007Granted, while it contains neither the estranged beauty found on OK Computer nor the exhilarating rush of reinvention that was Kid A, this album reminds you of the better qualities of both works. At times, both familiar and unsettling --- it's the sound of drowning in a warm bath, of being pleasantly out of place.
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VengeanceDec 13, 2007
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drewtOct 20, 2007
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LauraDec 2, 2007
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BonoV.Dec 21, 2007Their best work since OKC in my opinion. They continue to evolve like no other band. At first listen I was tempted to be disappointed by 15 Steps and Bodysnatchers as I had heard them live but Nude just takes you to another place and it flows from their. Thom's voice is front and center and never sounded better. Album of the Year!
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ShaunBOct 22, 2007
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MattAOct 20, 2007Amazing. Simply put. I can't think of a single track that i don't like... ...it may not be for everyone...but it's definitely for me.
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mycles.Oct 22, 2007odd but accessible. sad but encouraging. minimal but lush. low-fi but hi-fi. incredible. radiohead keeps making better albums. soft but harsh. alienating but loving. they keep rock alive by killing it.
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AndrewWOct 22, 2007I like this record- an improvement on the last 2. It might even be better than kidA after a few more listens. What I can't agree with are those reviewers saying this album isn't another "electronic" album. After my first few listens, this is more of an "electronic album" than hail to the thief was. Plenty of beeps and drum machines here. I do like it though. Good effort.
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MichaelP.Oct 20, 2007Brilliant - gets better with each listen!!
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MaxM.Oct 22, 2007
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tomj.Oct 22, 2007My favorite since OK Computer. Radiohead has rediscovered what made them great; the ability to translate emotion in perfect melodies.
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carolR.A.Dec 24, 2007Thank you very much RaDioHead!!
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StevenN.Dec 24, 2007Bursting with emotional melodies, atmospheric hazy sounds scattered within off beat tempo's. Wierd Fishes standout track by miles of depths of oceans.
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JohnT.Oct 22, 2007Nice trolling Jonathan H
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SeanC.Oct 22, 2007
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JohnJ.Oct 22, 2007The best Radiohead album since OK Computer.
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DaveW.Dec 27, 2007i must be the only naive mofo on earth that feels that every single radiohead album has been an evolutionary improvement on the last. musically, technically. broke boundaries. this is no exception. my only gripe is that it took them so goddamn long. awesome.
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KalebOct 22, 2007
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krismpDec 31, 2007I just feel like i can listen to this album all day long and never get bored or tired. Its a simply album made with so much deep in it.
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JROct 23, 2007
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Jerc.Oct 23, 2007This is the best album from this band
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TravisM.Dec 31, 2007Easily the best album of 2007. Perhaps of this decade.
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SimonOct 23, 2007Best album of the decade!
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StuartG.Oct 23, 2007In every way it's a masterpiece.
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RonaldL.Oct 23, 2007
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KeilS.Oct 24, 2007Yet another wonderful album from an always engaging band.
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ThomasMOct 24, 2007
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HuskerD.Oct 24, 2007
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RobS.Oct 24, 2007I love this album, my favorite since OK Computer. though I'd just like to say that the fact there's people here claiming it's a masterpiece and their best yet, and people saying it's awful and over rated just goes to prove that music is subjective, and that criticism of it is pretty damn pointless
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MW.Oct 24, 2007This album is their best since OK Computer.
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ChrisD.Dec 5, 2007
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DeboraDOct 26, 2007It sounds nothing like anything they've done before... But just as brilliant as
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MikeAOct 26, 2007Holy crap this is a brilliant album. I never really listened to Radiohead before but after hearing this Im finding as many as thier older songs as I can! "All I Need" is honestly one of the best songs I have EVER heard in my life.
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JasonM.Dec 8, 2007Bought it at 10am and have been listening to it non-stop since then. It is now 9pm. No other album has had this effect on me since Disintegration by The Cure and that
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ThomG.Dec 8, 2007
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RaulLOct 28, 2007The first masterpiece of the century!
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BryanwOct 31, 2007Great effects , mix, voice, and new style.
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TimmyBOct 31, 2007
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JohnBOct 31, 2007I'm not sure that Dusted Magazine thought it was a 4/10, surely? Album of the year!
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ashmallOct 31, 2007cool
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joserOct 30, 2007WOW!!! That was all I could say when I first heard this album. I then picked up the phone to inform everyone I know that appreciates good music. Get this album ASAP!
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JamesMcDOct 30, 2007one of the best bands ever
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GCJan 13, 2008Amazing, top notch... took the standards to an all new level!
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BenTJan 17, 2008A beautiful, sprawling sound scape. They recall all their greatest moments. The good old britrock days (Bodysnatchers), to the haunting Ok Computer (Videotape), and the revolutionary Kid A (All I Need). Heck, they even through in some Hail to the Thief (15 Step). To quote krzysztof ziewacz, "Launched me into space". Exactly
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RXOct 19, 2008
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FlorusG.Jan 26, 2008Just a good way to survive and concur the world. Radiohead did it again. Thanks.
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TM.Jan 27, 2008It's Radiohead but not much else.
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RickyD.Jan 29, 2008Beautiful work!! It comes at no better time, because I was in desperate need of an album like this. Its refreshing to hear Radiohead take a different approach with "In Rainbows". Thank you Radiohead!
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DaveB.Jan 30, 2008I love Radiohead. I can't say they've ever recorded a "bad" record. This one, however, is awesome. Just when I think they are going in a slower, more trippy musical direction, they change course again with something new.
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JulM.Jan 6, 2008They are back and reloaded.
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JustinJan 6, 2008As with OKC and Kid A, my inability to find words to describe their brilliance is countered by my inability to describe where In Rainbows lacks. The best I can do for our generation's Beatles: It's good enough.
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ArmandoO.Oct 7, 2008Not a doubt....it is an exciting, beautiful and emotional work that surpases all their previous works. An instant classic that will be regarded as the "Dark Side of The Moon" of this decade. They have taken so much distance from the rest of the bands, as their sound has become unique. Can't wait for the next album.
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AniruddhaJan 9, 2008well its RADIOHEAD... easily the best album of the year... one of the best albums ever.
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TomPJan 9, 2008
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SamS.Feb 15, 2008The band seems to have finally folded under the hysterical pressure of the music press and rigid rock fans that can't distinguish quality from familiarity to produce a generic rock album. It's well crafted, masterfull, and boring
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GeoffreyG.Feb 16, 2008Ben W., I'm not a Radiohead fanboy. I don't like OK Computer that much, I didn't get into Radiohead before In Rainbows, but honestly, it is one of the finest albums I have ever listened to not just in the last year, but in my life.
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Awards & Rankings
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In Rainbows really does present Radiohead at their most full-blooded and confident.
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Overall, the material feels more human, more honest, more assured.
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Happily, In Rainbows is pretty, pretty good.