In Rainbows
by Radiohead
This album has been added to 51 private lists and 122 public lists:
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Zaelos 30 Ranked.
librariousI hadn’t listened to this in a long time. It’s better than Ok Computer? I have no nostalgia for this one, but it’s good.
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KakifrautI could see why someone would listen to it just not for me. 1/6
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On Vinyl
Greg- Root Genre: Rock
- Primary Branch: Art Rock / Alternative Rock
- Secondary Influences: Electronic, Post-Rock, Soul / R&B, Ambient, Chamber Pop
- Textural Identity: Warm, intimate and highly detailed — interlocking guitars, elastic bass, subtle electronics, strings and soft rhythmic programming, with unusually organic production for late-period Radiohead
- Energy Axis: Low → Medium-High (mostly restrained and sensual, but with sudden rhythmic and emotional surges)
In Rainbows is still best rooted in Rock, but Art Rock / Alternative Rock is the clearest branch because the band integrates electronics, orchestration and unconventional rhythm without giving up guitar-band foundations. It is also one of Radiohead’s warmest records sonically: less icy than Kid A, less overtly political than Hail to the Thief, and more focused on texture, intimacy and groove.
The Soul / R&B influence is subtler but important. “Nude,” “All I Need” and “House of Cards” depend on spacious basslines, sensual pacing and vocal phrasing as much as on rock convention. “15 Step” introduces a clipped electronic rhythm, “Reckoner” is built around percussion and falsetto, while “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” turns layered guitars into something almost post-rock in its gradual accumulation.
Small review: In Rainbows may be Radiohead’s most balanced album. “15 Step” opens with nervous rhythm, “Bodysnatchers” provides one of the record’s few outright rock eruptions, and then “Nude” suddenly clears the space completely. “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” is the centerpiece for me: guitars cycle around one another until the track seems to lift off without ever resorting to a huge climax. “Reckoner” might be even more beautiful, with its feather-light percussion and falsetto floating above an almost soul-like groove.
What makes the album endure is that nothing feels overdesigned. Radiohead are still extremely sophisticated, but the sophistication has become fluid rather than cerebral. It is experimental music that rarely advertises its experimentation.
Collection shorthand: Rock → Art Rock / Alternative Rock.
That’s 78/78 — the full vinyl collection categorized.
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My faves!
Zoe Wangnude all i need reckoner omfg
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Poma Needs to Listen to
Jack KomerI will die on a hill that this is the best Radiohead album. Indie rock masterpiece
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Every Album I have Listened to
GwiffmanThe final two tracks are the pinnacle of beauty
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CodyWhat a beautiful album. The thing that makes the album so beautiful is it feels like it was made entirely in a single session. When you listen to the entire thing back to back you feel like you’re there in the studio with Radiohead watching them play the whole album back to front live thats how well produced and well executed the album is. I first stumbled upon the album when I had just gotten out of a long relationship and it really articulated the beauty of musicianship to me, especially during a time when I was solely creating electronic music. It made me pick up the guitar and actually use it in my productions after not doing so for years.
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Diogo2007
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wiktorFlawless, no skips 10/10
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AoibhCrying (Fav: 15 Step)
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gishiki-p89/100
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Für Dido
RababaDas Album haben wir auf dem Rückweg von Pias home auch gehört; also du nur den Anfang und es ist wirklich sehr sehr gut
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Top 50 Favorite albums
SamPeak Radiohead. The only song that’s not as good as the rest is House of Cards, but other than that it’s a 10/10
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SebastianBest Radiohead album
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Top 100 All Time
Cooper AllenThis is Radiohead’s prettiest album. It doesn’t scare me and it’s quite nice.
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tabi <3Painting the face before going... outside, again. It never ends.
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52 albums
KyleOne of the best Art Rock albums
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2007
JamesIn Rainbows is sheer brilliance - a concise, instrumentally fluid, and song-oriented album from arguably the best band of the past 15 years. The album feels remarkably warm and human for a band often associated with technological alienation and abstraction. Thom Yorke sings about desire, anxiety, obsession, and emotional disconnection with tenderness while the band plays with incredible rhythmic subtlety and restraint. Priceless.
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Top 100 Albums (Oct 2025)
GabrielSuch a wonderful record. I mean really. Every song is a 11/10.
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i.l.baby's first "oh my god you can do this?!" indie. i was already a radiohead fan - at ten, my father decided i was ready, and handed me a copy of ok computer, which was the start of everything. ok computer is very dear to me, but i don't love every single track, and at that age i mostly just listened to tracks 4/5/6 on repeat (ten year old loudly singing "we hope that you choke" in her bedroom etc). in rainbows really blew my mind. as a classical musician basically since birth, it was the first like popular album where the musicality really jumped out at me. also "reckoner" is the most underrated radiohead song of all time and that's the hill i'm dead on
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music self-meme, very online edition
cherryi'll listen someday
confession: i get radiohead and LCD soundsystem mixed up. once i was like "yeah of course i've listened to radiohead, i like this one song of theirs" and i searched up "dance yrself clean" and it was not radiohead. -
the list.
Joseph SandersEh.
I feel they are trying to chanel OK Computer but it fell short of the mark.
It’s same same but worse.
6/10
03/08/25
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migu's magnum opus
miguhow did this get in here
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badiflo9/10
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Favorite Albums of All Time
DavidRadiohead's best album IMO. I was spinning this heavily at the time my first son was born. It was an exciting and scary time in my life.
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SylviaMy favourite band, my current favourite album (last week it was A Moon Shaped Pool). What else is there to say?
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My top (Almost 100) Albums of all time.
GwydianIn Rainbows was released the year I was born, 2007. That actually doesn't have any relevance to me or the album I just wanted to say that. Radiohead decided to pick up the pace a little and and then immediately drop it back down, it doesn't follow much of a story, it doesn't promise anything crazy innovative and it doesn't demand a certain feeling or review. But at the same time it does all of those things. Radiohead are unpredictable and difficult to explain but this is nothing short of genius. Listen to it if you have the time and you might dance and you'll probably cry.
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vertino1001albums:863
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MY FAV ALBUMS RN(in no order nor genre)
Lethal.leeImo one of radioheads best albums(ik everyone say the same)perfect for a mental breakdown
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Favorite album covers of all time
RobinFrom Wikipedia:
Describing the album cover, Donwood said: "It's very colourful — I've finally embraced colour! It's a rainbow but it is very toxic, it's more like the sort of one you'd see in a puddle." -
My Favorite Albums Ever
stumpnuggetPerfect. Start to finish. When I think about Radiohead, I usually put this one on.
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lorenzaComprado en el DF
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BomaStripped-down, poetic, and emotionally resonant.
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