For those of you who are not yet aware that there was a new article posted of Rolling Stone’s website yesterday that was originally titled, “How Radiohead blew the release of  The King Of Limbs”, then it was switched to “How Radiohead Keep Everybody Guessing”.   Here is part of the article:

“Radiohead released a CD last week, and nobody really cared. You have to admit, that doesn’t happen often. They already released The King of Limbs last month as a digital dump, and got the most baffled reactions of their baffling career. The songs were pretty good — they’re Radiohead songs, you know? — but fans were puzzled by how the whole thing felt like a deliberate non-event. After mastering the art of packaging every new album as a major breakthrough, Radiohead made sure nobody would hear this one as any kind of big deal. It’s like Abed told Jeff on Community: “Everyone else is growing and changing all the time, and that’s not really my jam.

Like many Radiohead fans, I thought they blew it with this album in February by jumping the gun on the download release date, pushing it up from Saturday to Friday without warning. It must have seemed like a very Gaga thing to do, but it really just killed the buzz. Most fans had spent the whole week looking forward to the album, the way we all did with In Rainbows in 2007. Falling out of bed on a Friday morning and finding out the long-awaited global event is over, and you’re already late for a party that started without you, well, that isn’t much fun. No wonder most of the reviews were rushed and impatient first-listen blather, especially since the music was so low-key.”

Then he goes on to compare “Give Up The Ghost” to the Greatful Dead’s “Box Of Rain”.  Personally I can not find any resemblance between the 2 songs.  He also goes onto compare “at least half the songs” to Fine Young Cannibal’s, “She Drives Me Crazy”.  I think one of the best comparison’s I heard for “Give Up The Ghost” was a comparison to the music of Sparklehorse.  Also, I have never seen the show Community so I don’t have much to say as far as that is concerned.

They also go on to say that the band released it the album wrong and they shouldn’t have moved the original download date from Saturday to Friday.  The album did make it to #6 on the Billboard Charts which is not so bad with no more promotion than the album had.

Here is his description of the physical copy:

“They also go out of their way to make the CD itself a totally un-fetishizable piece of product. There’s no bonus tracks or fancy artwork. The album package is so crummy it has to be some kind of statement on consumerism — the cardboard is thin and flimsy, and even the glue is cheap. With my copy, purchased for $11.99 the day of release, the sleeve ripped the first time I took the disc out. All the CD does is sound better, which (I guess) is what CDs are for. I’d hoped hearing the weaker songs in this format would make me like them, but that hasn’t happened yet, “yet” always being a crucial qualifier when talking about Radiohead.”

Cheap glue?  Are you kidding me?  I will be honest I bought the Newspaper Edition of “The King Of Limbs”, and I still bought the physical copy in the store on the day it came out.  I had no issues with the glue, though it would have been nice for it to contain some lyrics or at least a booklet with more info.  Maybe Rolling Stone thinks they should have got to do an interview with the band, or even an advanced copy of the album?  I think Chieftan Mews said it best, when he said, “the album speaks for itself”.  I think the band have a certain way they want to do this.  I also don’t think the band is finished releasing all of the music that accompanies “The King Of Limbs”, we all know that Supercollider/ The Butcher will be released on Saturday for Record Store Day.

Read the Rolling Stone article here.

I also want to make it clear that I am not anti-Rolling Stone or anything like that.  Yes, I also wrote a response to the last Radiohead article that they wrote which did mention this site.  You can read it here, and my response is here.  When I was growing up I had a subscription to Rolling Stone and can remember how exciting it was to receive my copy in the mail.  I also feel that this magazine is often guilty of hyping up certain artists that are already over-hyped in the first place.   Let me know where you guys get all of your music news from in the comments section.  Where do you get your Radiohead news, other artists news, and album reviews?

And here is “Box Of Rain” by The Greatful Dead:

And of course “Give Up The Ghost”

Buy the physical edition of The King Of Limbs on Amazon.com here.  My latest YouTube video on Radiohead is here.

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