Radiohead...

Unless you have been sleeping in a digital cave, you are all aware that Radiohead released a new album online that YOU, the paying customer, can name your own price for.

I paid 5 pounds for mine. You can be a real cheap bastard and pay "Zero". One friend of mine paid 1 pound which I thought to be too cheap. Don't be that guy.

I am a huge Radiohead fan, and so far the album has a lot of mellow tracks. It is not my favourite album, but it is growing on me with every listen. These guys are still the best out there.

Personally before this album:

1) The Bends: Their most "poppiest" album. It truly rocks out.
2) OK Computer: "Paranoid Android" The Led Zepplin "Stairway to Heaven" of the 90s. One of the few albums that I can listen through its entirety (Weezer's Pinkerton included).
3) Kid A: "How to Disappear Completely" lifts my spirits every time when the strings go into chaos and then Thom's voice breaks through.
4) Tie between Hail to the Thief and Amnesiac: Both albums feature some great songs: "2+2 =5" is one of my favourite tracks of all time and tracks like "Spinning Plates" show the talented nature of Radiohead... I find an immense suspense in that track.
5) Pablo Honey: I know a lot of people like this album (see Little Buddy), but in grade 12, I got so sick and tired of "Creep" that I couldn't even begin to give the rest of an album a whirl.

I wish Radiohead would come back to Vancouver soon. They haven't been here since the magical night at UBC where REM played the night before and Thom Yorke actually joined REM on stage for "Shiny Happy People" and I could have seen this for free if only my good friend Kavie Toor and spoken up quicker and snagged the tickets this promotions girl was trying to give away and Kavie knew her but he was too slow and some other guy beside us said "I will take them" and he most certainly did take those four free tickets.

But I don't hold that against my friend. No way. I am above that.

Radiohead is one of the best bands live. I have seen them four times and each show was a musical masterpiece. Do not hesitate to see them live. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

Werd.