Never have i been more stoked about an album as i am about this one.  In fact, the last time I have been this excited about a new album was dc Talk’s Supernatural.  I shouted when i found out the news!  Radiohead’s seventh full length release, In Rainbows, comes out in 4 days on October the 10th.  It is available only and unusually  as a digital download from their website, which you can visit here.  That’s pretty typical nowadays with iTunes and even Amazon.  Now, here’s the unusual part.  You decide the price.  You can pay as much, or as little as you, if anything, for it.  There’s also a “discbox” version that is much more involved, and I imagine a lot of the “real” fans will buy it.  Go buy the download.  You can get it for free.  And even if you don’t like Radiohead very much, do it ’cause it’s free, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll like a few songs or become a fan…

You can watch a lot of live videos of them performing all the songs off of it at various points live on YouTube.  Do it.  Watch this video first of Videotape.  This song may quickly rise in my favorite Radiohead song list.  It’s too early to tell, but I can’t listen to it enough.  The main melody riff is like a circle in that it always wants to begin again, and it’s hard to let it stop.  Here are the lyrics as found from greenplastic.com

Lyrics:

Videotape

When I’m at the pearly gates
This will be on my videotape, my videotape
Mephistopheles is just beneath
and he’s reaching up to grab me

This is one for the good days
and i have it all here
In red, blue, green
Red, blue, green

You are my center
When i spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape
On videotape
On videotape

This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can’t do it face to face
I’m talking to you after it’s too late
From my videotape

No matter what happens now
I won’t be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen.