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88 out of 100

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9.1 out of 10

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  • Summary: Radiohead releases their latest with a pay-what-you-want price.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 40 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 42
  3. Negative: 0 out of 42
  1. Q Magazine
    100
    Once again, Radiohead have proven themselves priceless. [Dec 2007, p.107]
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  2. The Guardian
    100
    The most heartening thing about In Rainbows, besides the fact that it may represent the strongest collection of songs Radiohead have assembled for a decade, is that it ventures into new emotional territories.
  3. The Wire
    60
    There is still a sense here of a group magisterially marking time, shying away this time round from any grand, rhetorical, countercultural purpose. [Dec 2007, p.63]
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  1. Positive: 644 out of 704
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 704
  3. Negative: 35 out of 704
  1. j30
    10
    A perfect album and one of the best albums of the decade. This is one of those albums you'll look back on and remember the exact time and place you first listened to it. It's a record that changed the music industry forever by asking consumers how much their music meant to them. Apparently a lot, because the album went number 1 on music charts when the cd copy came out. It's kind of funny to think that this album didn't win "Album of the Year" at the Grammy's.… Expand
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  2. ZachJ.
    5
    maybe rolling stone has never heard "roygbiv" from the boards of canada's 1998 release "Music has the right to children" before they heard the song "all i need". i guess 9 years is long enough that when radiohead uses the same beat it doesn't sound like any other band on earth. boards of canada = other worldly… Expand
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  3. PaulK
    2
    Sound of heads disappearing up arse.
    • 1 of 2 users said yes

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