Hail to the Thief [Vinyl]

Additional Hail to the Thief [Vinyl] Information

Radiohead Photos        

More from Radiohead

OK Computer
The Bends
Kid A
Pablo Honey
Amnesiac
The Astoria London Live

What Customers Say About Hail to the Thief [Vinyl]:

Or the punk urgency of 2 + 2 = 5. They don't have to prove anything - they can just have fun in any style they choose.

R.E.M. couldn't do it (I stopped listening after Document), nor could U2 (I stopped after The Joshua Tree).

Radiohead has done something no other band has been able to do: convince me that growing up isn't so bad. There's a sense of complete mastery.

All the other bands that I adore just didn't have enough staying power (Gang of Four, Joy Division, Ride, The Smiths). It took me years to move on from Pablo Honey, but with each successive album, they are more and more capable and more and more interesting.Hail to the Thief is proof that they can do anything now.

I love the industrial sound of Myxomatosis a la Skinny Puppy with Thom Yorke settling on a deep, intimate voice this time. This band is so fascinating, capable, and stimulating that I'm willing to go wherever they lead even if it means I have to grow up to keep up with them.

I would recommend skipping it as it can be very hit and miss. This album has listenable enough tracks, however memorable hooks or beautiful ambient passages are RARE. However, at other times it's very catchy and has a variety of different sounds. Thom shows off his ability to sound melancholic as well as on any other album with this track. if your not a big radiohead fan, this is not the place to start. The tracks that have some substance:1. Very weak for Radiohead.

2+2=5 - This is actually over rated. No where near some of radiohead's other great work and can even get annoying at times. This album is actually a 2 star when stood up to Radiohead's standards and potential. Catchy chorus9 - There There - THe feel of this track is similar to that of "I Might be Wrong" from amnesiac. A great rock song with some interesting lyrics.13 - Scatterbrain - One of the catchiest Verse/Chorus structures of the album. Point is. Enjoy. If you love radiohead then you probably already have it and enjoy some of the tracks like me.

There are maybe, 3 or 4 tracks that i put on regularily, but this is not an ok computer, the bends or in rainbows in the sense that it cannot be fully enjoyed as a listen all the way through. It is mediocre, and i cannot be blamed for not trying hard enough to delve fully into this album. 4 - Backdrifts - I enjoy the electronic feel here, kinda creepy feeling in a way, But also simply a very catchy verse.5 - Go to Sleep - Fantastic acoustic guitar work here. A much different feel from the rest of the tracks. I listened very carefully and found very little. (or try)

This is just one of those albums that you buy and listen to once and you just never feel like listening to the whole thing again, and Radiohead shouldn't be the kind of band to release music like that. I mean, there were some great songs, but every other Radiohead album has at least one or two tracks that I can play over and over and never get tired of.

No, I'm not talking about their albums, I'm talking about their songs. The only way to judge how good one of their albums is is by the number of outstanding tracks it contains.

The funny thing about Radiohead is that their music is either hit or miss. The main problem I had with this album was that it had no stand out tracks.

This album only contained four or five strong tracks, a huge step down from both Kid A and Amnesiac, the two previous releases from the band that shared the electronic influence of Hail To The Thief. Unfortunately, this is also the band's longest release at almost an hour, with fourteen strange and mostly forgetable tracks.

On the other hand, the album doesn't have any tracks that I just can't stand and will always skip. I guess I'm on the fence on this one.

The lines that are most prominent ("flat on my face" - "put me inside/put me inside") provide much of the bruising force. It's a serrated strait jacket. If OK Computer suggested a technology-fueled alienation, this is what alienation feels like. For all the press they get for their challenging missives, I love just listening to them rock out. "A Wolf at the Door" employs a falsetto-less Thom Yorke as he chants alongside a propulsive yet uneasy beat that gradually builds. well, you get the idea. It's a.

For a band known for skipping across the darkness of one's mindscape, Thief was darker and more depressing than anything they've ever done (I believe the rumours that the five musicians came perilously close to calling it quits, though those rumours happen with every album). But it's also a beautiful summation of those ideas started six years previous. If Kid A is like starring at a Rothko painting and OK Computer a Futurist landscape, than Hail to the Thief is a Munchian scream. And by rock music, I mean ROCK MUSIC, because this is Radiohead's most "rock" album of their career. The guitars squall and shriek, the drums and electronic backbeat is insistent and determined. And then, of course, there's the album closer. Is it powerful. Of course not.

It's a terribly bloody knife fight. While there is a desire to read a greater political meaning to the whole thing that Yorke et al have flatly refused is there, the greatest achievement of this album is how it conveys crippling emotional violence. Raw, agonizing pain. What's most astonishing about this album is how physical it feels: "Myxomatosis" is the rock music equivalent of a seizure and "2 +2 = 5" is a nervous breakdown set to a terrifying falsetto. Is it pleasant. Even for Radiohead, distinctively so.

Boring from start to finish. I'm a big Radiohead fan so it pains me to say this, but. Don't bother with this one. this collection of tracks is the most uninteresting, unlistenable, monotonous music I could ever imagine a band like Radiohead recording. There's not an interesting track on this whole album. If you're a Radiohead fan Hail To The Thief will only diminish your regard for the band. Pass this one by.