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Hail To The Thief | 
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| Artist: Radiohead
Label: EMI Music Canada
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 21.99
Buy New: CDN$ 11.99
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Rating:  929 reviews
Sales Rank: 4216
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 724358454420
EAN: 0724358454420
ASIN: B00009NOF4
Release Date: June 10, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | 2 + 2 = 5 | | • | Sit down. Stand up. | | • | Sail to the Moon. | | • | Backdrifts. | | • | Go to Sleep. | | • | Where I End and You Begin. | | • | We suck Young Blood. | | • | The Gloaming. | | • | There there. | | • | I will. | | • | A Punchup at a Wedding. | | • | Myxomatosis. | | • | Scatterbrain. | | • | A Wolf at the Door. |
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From Amazon.com
Filling the gulf between OK Computer's epic progressive rock and Kid A's skittering electronic theatrics, Hail to the Thief borrows equally from each. Its title implies that this will be a collection filled with songs of anger and dissent, but Radiohead no longer howl at the moon like they did on 1995's The Bends. Instead, they use eloquent metaphors and complicated arrangements to express the uncertainty, fear and anger arising from the 2000 U.S. presidential election and a post-9/11 world. There's no doubt about where Thom Yorke and company stand; the prog-rock break on "2 + 2 = 5" and Yorke's terror at the thought of being "put in a box" make that immediately clear. But there's a prevailing sense of powerlessness here. The tinkling piano behind the cold sonic surface of "Backdrifts" and the brief, swooping melody in the middle of "Sail to the Moon" are islands in a sea of confusion. Like all of the band's best work, Thief requires more than a few listens to fully appreciate, but those who stick around will be richly rewarded. --Matthew Cooke
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Apres deux albums plutot experimentaux (les geniaux KidA et Amnesiac) suivis par un enregistrement public dans la meme lignee, le quatuor d'Oxford, s'il n'opere certes pas la non plus un virage a 180, synthetise comme jamais auparavant l'ensemble de ses preoccupations musicales. Des 1995, sur un disque comme The Bends, on sentait deja a l'œuvre le lyrisme tourmente de Thom Yorke encore servi par l'evidence de chansons pops imparables. Avec OK Computer, en 1997, une etape etait franchie: le groupe larguait definitivement les amarres et tutoyait les etoiles, avant de s'abandonner dans une passionnante deconstruction a la musicalite de prime abord moins evidente, mais pas moins enivrante. Hail To The Thief rassemble sur un meme disque cette passion pour les chansons habitees ("Where I End And You Begin" en est un des meilleurs exemples) et un gout singulier pour la recherche, deleste cette fois de ce poids des machines qui a pu etre parfois et precedemment omnipresent, qui se traduit ici par des textures sonores riches, melancoliques et comme ecorchees vives. Ce sixieme album decomplexe est un des sommets de leur œuvre. --Herve Comte
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Better than previous efforts November 23, 2007
Hail to the Thief captures the intensity of the band that seemed to me to have been put on hold while they experimented with Kid A and Amnesiac. I loved both albums, but they lacked the consistency of previous and subsequent efforts. Song highlights for me are 2+2=5, Sit Down Stand Up, I Will.
Hail! March 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Hail To The Thief" is a musical oxymoron: Warm yet cold, distant yet intimate, eerie yet lovely. While it doesn't quite work up to the eerie purity of past albums like "Kid A," Radiohead has crafted an album that manages to mix experimental electronics and rock'n'roll in equal measure. And it does it pretty darn well.
It opens with a strange electronic sputter, which slowly melts into a guitar melody, and the sound of Thom Yorke eerily singing, "Are you such a dreamer/to put the world to rights?" Otherworldly sound effects and entrancing rock music continue all through this album, with Yorke's singing warming up those cold songs.
The heart of these songs seems to be helplessness and sorrow; even panoramic piano pop like "Sail To the Moon" seems unhappy. But there are also eerie melodies, sweaty tribal pop, and chilly electropop laced with explosive percussion. There's even the acoustic "Go To Sleep," a folky number that stands alone in this blippy rock collection.
If you pick it apart, "Hail To The Thief" echoes Radiohead's past work: the styles of "The Bends," "Kid A," and others can be heard woven in there. For most bands, this would be a disaster. But Yorke and his band actually make it work -- their sound gets a little cluttered at times, yet the fusion of musical styles is nothing short of astounding.
"Hail" is not Radiohead's best album -- it doesn't have the intensity and purity that some of their other collections do. But it does pack a punch. Radiohead's "fusion" sound seems very cold and mechanical... until the melodies change. Sometimes it's an explosive riff or a rhythmic drum, or the whole song will simply speed up. The melody will warm up for a moment, only to get chilly again when it slows.
But a lot of the atmosphere has to be credited to Thom Yorke; while Yorke is often dissed for his high, dispassionate voice, here he seems to have emotions boiling just under the surface. And the odd note of his voice makes him sound almost ghostly. Which suits the music, by the way -- would a more robust voice sound as good against a cold, eerie backdrop?
"Hail To The Thief" uses most of Radiohead's past styles, and mishmashes them together into a surprisingly good album. Eerie, despairing and thoroughly entrancing.
 The best album of 2003? I THINK NOT. September 19, 2006
0 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is not the best album of 2003. I can't understand how a band that is primarily centered on electronica music can be considered groundbreaking? GROUNDBREAKING? Only if you want to be put to sleep. I'm not afraid to say that I can't stand Radiohead. Radiohead is one of those bands that I avoid. Hail to the thief is another piece of garbage from an over-rated band.
Thom Yorke's vocals are dull, boring, uninspired and his only purpose is to put-you-to-sleep.
Forget Hail to the thief. THE WORST ALBUM OF 2003!!
And 'richly rewarded' I have become... (4.5 stars) September 4, 2006
Like many fans apparently, I was initially put off by this album. I was expecting something groundbreaking, as every one of their previous efforts have proven to be. Going in with unrealistically high expectations, it was natural to rebuff this album upon first listening. But now I can proudly say it has insidiously crept in beneath the surface of my bodily shell and found a home deep within the cavern of my soul. Upon reflection - inflection - bending - warping - molding - brainwashing - reprogramming - revelation, this could very well be THE time bomb waiting to explode in your mind. It hit me unexpectedly after a few listens, losing interest for a while, taking a long break, and then listening again. Only then did I realize that what I had here was a quiet-Classic-in-the-making, ready to break out when I least expected it. All the subtleties, the muted electronics creeping behind solid instrumentation, backing Thom's vocals - ever crooning and poignant - depicting his lucid visions of the melancholy messed up little world in which we live.. yes it's a classic ladies and gentlemen. (and who knows, with a few more listens, this could turn into a 5 STAR)
 listening several times to Hail To The Thief April 9, 2006
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought the CD to listen to " There there". It's one of the greatest tracks ever. Worth a lot of hassle. Unfortunately for my ears the other tracks are mediocre. Moreover the CD is an un-CD and it is not mentioned on the page here. This was very disappointing to me.
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