My Music At Work

I tried to avoid the music blog...but who am I kidding?

I downloaded In Rainbows yesterday off a torrent.
This seemed rather crude, however, as Radiohead has released the album digitally, allowing listeners to decide what they will pay before downloading. The least one could pay is one pence - the most - well - its up to you.
I downloaded it because, after some wreckless spending, I decided it was best to 'hide' my credit card - in other words, stash it in Steph's room and force her to decide whether my purchases are worthy before placing that oh-so-shiny piece of plastic in my grubby little hands.
So as it is, I did not pay for 'In Rainbows'. I feel terribly guilty, but I have every intention to pay. I have every intention to purchase the discbox set. Once I can afford it.

Now I've listened to the album, in its entirety, only once. Otherwise I have had it on shuffle, or selected songs to play. First reactions were:

• Second half of the album is stronger than the first
• 'videotape' may reduce me to tears provided right context and sound system
• I really enjoy the guitar on 'house of cards'
  
• 'nude' makes me want to kidnap thom yorke
• the album as a whole seems very cohesive, the songs work together whereas 'hail to the theif' - while you can undoubtedly listen to it all together, the songs were very much independent of each other. and thats not to say that the songs off in rainbows aren't, but rather that, they seem to talk to each other, they interact well.
  

Hopefully once I have given 'In Rainbows' a couple of more listens, I can actually develop a half decent thought to share.

Although Laura commented earlier that she loved the song I had in my profile, the week is up and a new song is up for your listening pleasure. I figured that since I've mentioned Tegan and Sara about thirty times the past three months, it was high time to stream another song off the con. It was a hard pick too. Do I go with the single or not? I decided to go with the con - title track and single. Although, I'm pretty sure I streamed this weeks ago, I figured I'd give it another go - especially seeing as how its been #1 on the independent Canadian music charts for a while, and #1 on the R3-30 for two weeks. And I'll try to keep my musings on this short, but I do feel that this is one of the best Canadian - nay - one of the best pop albums to be released in a really long time. Its the kind of album where lyrical, personal, and musical growth are evident, where production is spot on, and where the artist doesn't loose themselves in the process. I found a bootleg of one of their demo tapes and its amazing to see how they have evolved as artists, its also refreshing to hear that they haven't completely forgotten their roots after fame came round knocking with 'so jealous'. you know, its all kind of the opposite of gwen stefani. you hear that gwen? build a foundation and grow on it. don't just move when the market's hot. don't just buy cheaply made houses and decorate them by buying a discounted feng shui book if you don't actually appreciate or understand the culture behind it..