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“Creep” was, and in fact, the most played sin­gle and most jam sin­gle in stu­dio in my time in 1993. I was still in sec­ondary school and there I was with my band play no other songs but Creep *LOL* we were just bunch of wannabe but it was fun really, really fun!

“the band has ditch EMI, I am won­der­ing why this copy was imported by EMI into Malaysia”

In Rain­bows was Radio­head 7th album but I have only their sec­ond album and this the 7th album. Although I’m a fan, it’s seemed I don’t lis­ten to their entire list of albums release. That’s prob­a­bly after school I was too con­cen­trate on my work and while I was still at school I don’t have money to buy any music at all. That’s explain I only lis­ten to their hits from radio or TV.

This is new Radio­head album which sup­poses to be the free down­load since Octo­ber 2007 but the band decided to make it onto plas­tic start­ing Jan 2008! Although the band has ditch EMI, I am won­der­ing why this copy was imported by EMI into Malaysia. It cost me USD16.89. The sug­gested retail how­ever, was USD13.98.

Was this XL’s idea or what? I thought the CD pack­age was kinda cool. Fans def­i­nitely can have some good time mak­ing their own CD cover from stick­ers pro­vided (or not *gig­gling*). These days I really like to think of it as cut­ting down cost, cost effec­tive and global warm­ing! It’s good in a way! No plas­tic cas­ing means less plas­tics pro­duc­tion mean less car­bon diox­ide releases to the air.

The band did very well for this album. The dig­i­tal down­load was a big step. I haven’t heard of any other band offer full album down­load for 3 month and con­tinue doing very well after the full album was release on CDs. The album also get­ting good review and pub­lic­ity and some believe Radio­head is mak­ing new fans while putting the band on track after their long break (Radio­head last album was in 2003 with the release, Hail to the Thief)

Check out their album on iTunes or DEAD AIR SPACE for real cre­ative contest!

“To cel­e­brate this week’s sin­gle release (we still have those in Eng­land) Radio­head have bro­ken up the song ‘Nude’ into pieces for you to remix. – DEAD AIR SPACE”

Basi­cally you can down­load N U D E’s stems and remix your own ver­sion and start pro­mot­ing your remix from your own website/blog or social net­work­ing sites.

I guess I won’t be join­ing the con­test, how­ever I do like to show you how the CD looks likes on XL label. Very cre­ative indeed and I love the con­cept, only thing I regret, I should have got it from Amazon.com for cheaper price.

List of titles on this album

1. “15 Step” – 3:57
2. “Bodys­natch­ers” – 4:02
3. “Nude” – 4:15
4. “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” – 5:18
5. “All I Need” – 3:48
6. “Faust Arp” – 2:09
7. “Reck­oner” – 4:50
8. “House of Cards” – 5:28
9. “Jig­saw Falling into Place” – 4:08
10. “Video­tape” – 4:39

After lis­ten­ing to it for few times, in my opin­ion, it’s a great album, lot of sur­prises but I’m afraid I didn’t find all the tunes to my lik­ing. My per­sonal favorites so far are Nude, All I need and Reck­oner. Great come back, I love Thom Yorke voice and being alter­na­tive fans I am happy that this guys still mak­ing alter­na­tive music. Rock on, R A D I O H E A D!

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