History Music / InRainbows

[[caption-width-right:350: ''Before you're lost between the notes. The beat goes round and round (2x). I never really got there. I just pretended that I had. Words are blunt instruments. Words are a sawn off shotgun'']]

The album earned widespread acclaim and was cited to be one of the best albums of the year, and when Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime updated in 2012, ''In Rainbows'' snagged the #336 spot. It won [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammys']] for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Special Edition Limited Package, and in summer 2008 the band re-performed the album in full from the basement.

# "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" (4:09)

* LyrricalDissonance: "15 Step" is a very warm and upbeat song about a failed love that at least partially uses metaphors connected to hanging, with instances such as the line revolving around the TitleDrop ("15 steps, then a sheer drop").

-->''"You used to be alright - what happened?"''
--->--'''15 Step''', the opening track

The album earned widespread acclaim and was cited to be one of the best albums of the year, and when Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime top 500 albums list]] updated in 2012, ''In Rainbows'' snagged the #336 spot. It won [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammy's]] for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Special Edition Limited Package, and in summer 2008 the band re-performed the album in full from the basement.

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!! Tracklist

# "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" (5:18)

# "Jigsaw Falling into Place" (4:09)

# "Down Is the New Up" (4:59)

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!! Tropes Falling into Place:
* AlbumTitleDrop: During the bridge of "Reckoner", the rising background voices:

* AnimalMotifs: "All I Need"

** It was released ten years after ''Music/OKComputer'', which makes some believe that the two are companion albums.
** The record was announced on October 1st and came out on the 10th.

* AudienceParticipationSong: Everyone does the stomp-clap thing for "15 Step".
* BittersweetEnding: "Videotape". Despite being [[TearJerker an utterly heart-shattering track]], it bows out on "Today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen."
* BrutalHonesty: "Nude".
-->''Don't get any''\\

* CheshireCatGrin: Referenced by name in "Jigsaw Falling Into Place".

* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: A counterexample; the album was actually distributed through a "pay what you want" system that got lots of media attention, although the band has now discontinued it.

* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: In "Bodysnatchers"; it was one of the lines that got turned into a shirt.
-->''Blink your eyes''\\

* OneWordTitle: "Bodysnatchers", "Nude", "Reckoner" and "Videotape".

-->''You got a CheshireCatGrin''

-->''You're on Candid Camera''

-->''Your future's bleak, you're so last week''

The album earned widespread acclaim and was cited to be one of the best albums of the year, and when Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime top 500 albums list]] updated in 2012, ''In Rainbows'' snagged the #336 spot. It won [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammy's]] for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Special Edition Limited Package, and in summer 2008 the band re-performed the album in full [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePlGGnNEjPM from the basement]].

* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: A counterexample; the album was actually distributed through a "pay what you want" system, although the band has now discontinued it.

** "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" [[AliceAllusion references]] ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland."

** "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" [[AliceAllusion references]] ''Literature/AliceInWonderland.''

** "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" [[AliceAllusion references]] ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''
--> ''You got a CheshireCatGrin''
** "Videotape"

** "Down Is The New Up"
--> ''You're on Candid Camera''
** "Up on the Ladder" from the bonus disc references the [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]].
* TimeMarchesOn: "Down Is The New Up"
--> ''Your future's bleak, you're so last week''
* TitleTrack: "Reckoner" is a subversion, but the album is named after a line in the song ("because we separate/like ripples on a blank shore/in rainbows").

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* LighterAndSofter: Don't get us wrong, there's plenty of Thom Yorke's angst in the tracks, but the overall sound is a lot more SweetDreamsFuel than their previous works.

** "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" references ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''
--> ''You got a Cheshire cat grin''

* UncommonTime: "15 Step" is in 5/3. Coincidentally, 5 * 3 = [[ArcNumber 15]].

* UncommonTime: "15 Step" is in 5/4.
** Actually its 5/3.
*** 5*3=15, Right?

* AliceAllusion: "Jigsaw Falling Into Place"
--> ''You got a {{Cheshire cat grin}}''

* CheshireCatGrin: See AliceAllusion above.

--> ''You got a Cheshire cat grin''

The album earned widespread acclaim and was cited to be one of the best albums of the year, and when Magazine/RollingStone's top 500 albums list updated in 2012, ''In Rainbows'' snagged the #336 spot. It won Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Special Edition Limited Package, and in summer 2008 the band re-performed the album in full [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePlGGnNEjPM from the basement]].

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After the release of ''Hail to the Thief'' to critical and commercial success, Music/{{Radiohead}} disappeared for five years. Soon enough, in fall 2007 their comeback album '''''In Rainbows''''' dropped after 2 years of production. It debuted at #1 in both the US and the UK, and in one year sold 3 million copies in both physical and digital formats.

The album earned widespread acclaim and was cited to be one of the best albums of the year, and when Rolling Stone's top 500 albums list updated in 2012, ''In Rainbows'' snagged the #336 spot. It won Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Special Edition Limited Package, and in summer 2008 the band re-performed the album in full [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePlGGnNEjPM from the basement]].

* AlbumTitleDrop: During the bridge of "Reckoner", the rising background voices are saying "in rainbows".

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After the release of ''Hail to the Thief'' to critical and commercial success, {{Radiohead}} disappeared for five years. Soon enough, in fall 2007 their comeback album '''''In Rainbows''''' dropped after 2 years of production. It debuted at #1 in both the US and the UK, and in one year sold 3 million copies in both physical and digital formats.

!!Tropes:

* TitleTrack: "Reckoner" is a subversion, but the album is named after a line in the song ("because we separate/like ripples on a blank shore/in rainbows").

* LighterAndSofter: Don't get us wrong, there's plenty of angst in the tracks, but the overall sound is a lot lighter than their previous works.

* LighterAndSofter: Don't get us wrong, there's plenty of angst in the tracks, but the overall sound is a lot lighter than their previous works.