A short while back I posed a question. Scroll down and you will find it. It’s pretty simple. As a decade shifts out of infancy into maturity it seems that some band, group, someone releases an album that pretty much defines the decade. The Beatles did it with Sgt. Pepper. The Sex Pistols, etc etc. The main point of this was to find out: Is it coincidence that each of those albums were released in the 7th year of the decade? And, more importantly, what is the album that defines the oo’s.
I think we have our first candidate. And, even weirder, it’s by a band that put out the last era defining piece of work: Radiohead.
My “review” of In Rainbows can be seen at www.shuffleboil.com, an exciting new webzine I am proud to have been asked to be a part of. So, please, mark your calendars and check out the stuff there.
Has there been more debate in the music industry than file sharing? Copyright? Price points? Has Radiohead really demolished the old model? I think they may have. Besides the fact that this album is among their best. It is also a massive statement. It may prove to be the most important album of the decade.
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