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Originally Posted by Glice
bands. Cursory Googling suggests that Ok Computer alone sold 8.5m. It's easy to be noble if you can afford to throw away money.
I think Radiohead, since at least Ok Computer, have been financially very canny. They've managed to continue selling arse-loads while cutting back on heavy commercial presence. 'Enigma' and 'mystique' being bigger selling points than market saturation. If Radiohead say, or allude to the idea that In Rainbows lost money, I'd be very careful: they're discretely very clever marketeers.
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propz, though radiohead wish they had that
trump change.. selling millions of records is nothing when you are part of the mainstream machine, that shit goes to all the vampires. those dudes are probably relatively broke in mainstream music standards, even as huge as their machine is, such things have immense overhead and are more corrupt than Zimbabwe.
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but fair play to them for continuing to be Radiohead
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exactly.
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Originally Posted by aselfishimpulse
I think OK Computer had a lot better drum sound. I feel like how I often differentiate bands is ultimately their rhythm section, like OK Computer had a bigger "rock" drum sound more akin to John Bonham aka BIG. In Rainbows has a drum sound more typical of post-punk with no big kick and cymbal sound which is way more Gang of Four, to me at least.
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Yeah, but they gutted the sound too much on the record (In_Rainbows) it needed a fuller sound like they usually have..