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Playing it on my CD-Rom right now, and it requires "some software" to be installed to play. Won't open through the reuglar CD player program.
Copy protected, or what? I'll be annoyed if I can't rip it, I listen to all my music with a portable mp3 player.
Good album, by the way.
It's not "OK Computer mk II", but it certainly isn't "career suicide" like on critic labelled it.
I think it's protected, which is a sign of things to come.
Go here:
http://www.pecknology.net/storage/httt/httt.html
The album's a bit hit and miss. Still, it's at least truckloads more interesting and intelligent than the generic "hyped" (aka. cloned) rock bands going around at the moment.
Mobbenfuhrer
10 Jun 2003, 15:00
I recently bought a Rondey Rude CD that also wouldn't play on the CD-ROM, but would on the CD player stereo.
It had a label saying it was copy-protected.
Porthos
10 Jun 2003, 20:25
I can't describe how ****ed off I am about that copy protection. I skip out from work today to pick up the album, get ready to rip the tracks to mp3 to listen to at work while I take the CD home. Nuh uh.
Apparently record companies want me to cart my entire ****ing CD collection around with me if I want to listen to music. Very ****ing nice, especially in this era of portable mp3 players and so on.
Frankly, screw them. If another album I want has copy protection on it, I'm not paying for it.
Porthos
10 Jun 2003, 22:14
Anyway, back to the album. My first thought is that I want to see the movie that this is the perfect soundtrack for - it'd be an epic modern tragedy.
The apparent complexity of layered sound does a great job of disguising the simplicity of most of the tracks on the album - if you like finding patterns in chaos, this is a good album to do it with.
Its not going to give you the active edge that The Bends offered; it certainly sounds like a follow on from Amnesiac, so if you didn't like that, you probably won't like this.
We suck Young Blood is a stand out track for me so far; pretty simple, but very emotive - relying on that illusory complexity that I mentioned previously. I'd call it the album's posterboy. A Punchup at a Wedding is an interesting slow bluesy track, which is a bit different, while There there and Sail to the Moon are also pretty easy tracks to listen to.
I dunno that I like all of the band's experiments with electronica - while the odd ambient bit is pretty effective, I don't know that I'm such a big fan of the more obvious synth drumbeats that some of the tracks employ; especially The Gloaming and Myxamatosis - mostly sounds like Thom Yorke is singing along to a game soundtrack from the Sega Megadrive (okay, well, almost). Also, the warbling synth of Backdrifts hurts my ears.
Its going to take a few more listens yet though.
I haven't heard this album yet but if it is just a follow on from Kid A and Amnesiac then I will be pretty disappointed. Music to fall asleep to is ok to a point but hell you have to give it a bit of punch every now and then.
I read a Thom Yorke interview a while back where he said it would be an OK Computer 2. Sounds like he wimpered away from that idea then going by the reviews so far.
If this album isn't an improvement on the last 2 then a once great band has now become nothing more then an experimental band.
I haven't heard the album yet so I wont slag it off but The Bends and OK Computer are 2 of my favourite all time albums and it just hurts to hear their last 2 sleepy albums and then here Yorke saying in a documentary (called Meeting People is Easy) that Creep sounds like a "fridge buzz" and that he is sick of the songs on OK Computer. Also says in an interview there will never be another Bends album (meaning similar stlye).
He sounds like a man who is scared of success.
Anyway I'll buy Hail To The Thief and judge for myself and just hope it is better then bloody Amnesiac.
Porthos
11 Jun 2003, 13:31
Its experimental.
Meh. I'll just save my money and wait til somebody else buys it then.
mace007
11 Jun 2003, 23:50
Originally posted by Porthos
We suck Young Blood is a stand out track for me so far; pretty simple, but very emotive - relying on that illusory complexity that I mentioned previously. I'd call it the album's posterboy. A Punchup at a Wedding is an interesting slow bluesy track, which is a bit different, while There there and Sail to the Moon are also pretty easy tracks to listen to.
I dunno that I like all of the band's experiments with electronica - while the odd ambient bit is pretty effective, I don't know that I'm such a big fan of the more obvious synth drumbeats that some of the tracks employ; especially The Gloaming and Myxamatosis - mostly sounds like Thom Yorke is singing along to a game soundtrack from the Sega Megadrive (okay, well, almost). Also, the warbling synth of Backdrifts hurts my ears.
Its going to take a few more listens yet though.
Almost identical to my views on it, although Gloaming and Myxamatosis are growing on me. Sleeper hit is Scatterbrain, for sure.
My friend can't rip his version using MusicMatch, but using my trusty FreeRip MP3 (adware but it's worth it) I got the job done.
Porthos
12 Jun 2003, 10:20
Yeah, I gave the copy protection process some thought and figured that if you had an old dumb track ripper, it'd still work. It did - all the copy protection just came up as a 15th track that I couldn't convert. Thank you Media Box.