listen to Radiohead's OK Computer & In Rainbows together (Combination Super Work?)

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This is surely old "news" to many (by the way, Ultraista play LPR Wednesday), but I never tried it until this new Buzzfeed article which says:

Oh, that wacky Thom Yorke. When he isn't staring joylessly into rainy window panes, there's a chance the rascally Radiohead frontman is plotting out decade-spanning musical projects meant to blow your feeble human mind. As most diehard Radiohead fans (Radiohead-heads?) could tell you, there was a strong overarching theme of "tens" surrounding the band's 2007 release, "In Rainbows" -- it was announced ten days before release, there are ten letters in the title -- capped off by the fact that it came out ten years after another of the group's landmark albums, 1997's "OK Computer," another title with exactly ten letters. So what does any of this mean, exactly? When shuffled together with a ten-second crossfade between tracks, the albums go really, really well together. A bit too well, actually, like they're two halves of one big, beautiful whole. For extra mind-boggle-ocity, the two titles, when combined, leave us with this clever anagram:

"Combination Super Work"

Far-reaching fan conspiracy theory or meticulously plotted masterwork? The world may never know.

Try it for yourself, all 1:32:48 of it, below...

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Radiohead 0110

Radiohead - 01 and 10 playlist:
1. Airbag (OK Computer)
2. 15 Step (In Rainbows)
3. Paranoid Android (OK Computer)
4. Bodysnatchers (In Rainbows)
5. Subterranean Homesick Alien (OK Computer)
6. Nude (In Rainbows)
7. Exit Music (For A Film) (OK Computer)
8. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (In Rainbows)
9. Let Down (OK Computer)
10. All I Need (In Rainbows)
11. Karma Police (OK Computer)
12. Fitter Happier (OK Computer)
13. Faust Arp (In Rainbows)
14. Electioneering (OK Computer)
15. Reckoner (In Rainbows)
16. Climbing Up The Walls (OK Computer)
17. House Of Cards (In Rainbows)
18. No Surprises (OK Computer)
19. Jigsaw Falling Into Place (In Rainbows)
20. Lucky (OK Computer)
21. Videotape (In Rainbows)
22. The Tourist (OK Computer)

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Tags: In Rainbows, OK Computer, Radiohead

posted at 7:25 PM on October 23, 2012 in music | Comments (39)

Comments (39)

LOL

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 7:27 PM

turn me on dead man

Posted by paul is dead | October 23, 2012 7:34 PM

Titus Andronicus

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 7:47 PM

I'm not gonna do this.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 7:54 PM

yeah, this is old news. like 2007 old.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 8:00 PM

Obama mentioned it when he was campaigning.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 8:15 PM

Old as fuck.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 8:15 PM

In internet years, this is ancient history. Yeesh.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 8:17 PM

im not even a big radiohead fan, and this is super old news.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 8:18 PM

I crossfaded a pita triangle into a bowl of hummus earlier today, and it worked really well too.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 8:20 PM

ron paul invented the internet

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 8:44 PM

Slow hummus day?

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 8:45 PM

No. Postponing Exit Music (For A Film) after Subterranean Homesick Alien is as jarring and wrong as breaking up the abbey road medley, and Nude doesn't even begin to work there.

Still makes a good tuesday night listen though.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 9:00 PM

This is some nerdy shit. I guess every generation needs their Dark Side of the Rainbow bullshit.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 9:07 PM

"listen to Radiohead's OK Computer & In Rainbows together "

aka The Laziest Mixtape Of All Time

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 9:33 PM

Fan conspiracy, question resolved.

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 9:54 PM

8:20p FTW

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 10:26 PM

Wilco, "A Ghost is Born" + Mel Gibson "Passion of Christ" WORKS!

Posted by Anonymous | October 23, 2012 11:21 PM

Radiohead is the sort of dopily dissonant, synth-mashing, warbling, British crap that passes for cutting edge these days. Their Internet fans are legion, their pretentious and egotistically dull albums continue to sell, and the people who malign the good name of critics by calling themselves as much incessantly drool over Radiohead like they've got platinum bars shooting out of their jocks.

Posted by Dr. David Thorpe | October 24, 2012 12:22 AM

Hundred Waters have been doing this forever not impressed

Posted by Anonymous | October 24, 2012 12:28 AM

Dr. David, may fate bring you to examine whatever is shooting out of their jocks or anyone else's for that matter.

Posted by Anonymous | October 24, 2012 12:40 AM

Hulk Hogan sextape.

Posted by Anonymous | October 24, 2012 2:04 AM

In Comprainows

Posted by Anonymous | October 24, 2012 3:05 AM

This is on some TOOL shit.

Posted by Anonymous | October 24, 2012 7:55 AM

some guy told me about this in a coffee shop in Amsterdam. in 2007.