Song · In Rainbows era (2007–09)
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In 2009 the band let a homelessness charity in America have it free for a short film.
In Rainbows Disk 2album- 2007released
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2007
the way in
It opens the second disc of In Rainbows on the same piano chords as “Videotape”, which closes the first. Over them go distorted keystrokes, looping textures and wordless vocals from Thom Yorke, and after 63 seconds it runs straight into “Down Is the New Up”.
Putting the album's ending at the start of the extra disc is the neatest joke on either disc. Peter Paphides, reviewing the discbox for Uncut, heard it pick up on the piano note the album ends on, and took that as a sign that the second disc carries the album on rather than sweeping up after it.
2009
it can happen to anyone
The band cleared it free of charge for “It Can Happen to Anyone”, a short film by the National Coalition for the Homeless in America, because they thought the cause worth it. The film was out in January 2009, a few weeks before they gave “Videotape” to Shelter in Britain.
the video
The In Rainbows Disk 2 recording.· ExoArchivewatch on youtube →
the record(2)
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- Wikipedia, “In Rainbows”, for the relationship to “Videotape” (citing “Premature evaluation: Radiohead – In Rainbows CD2”, Stereogum, 4 December 2007).
- The site's own catalogue note, based on Rolling Stone.
- Peter Paphides, review of the In Rainbows discbox, Uncut, 4 January 2008.
- Uncut, “Radiohead Track In Homeless Advert”, 16 February 2009, and Stereogum, “Radiohead Soundtrack Their First Advertisement”, 12 January 2009, for the National Coalition for the Homeless film.