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Album of the Month: In Rainbows

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I've never been a Radiohead fan, but I losered out at the Marvelous in West Philly and actually bought the album that was playing. Like some dork in High Fidelity, I asked the guy behind the counter, "What's that music you're playing?" And he told me it was the new Radiohead, which I pretended meant something to me even though it didn't. I liked it so much, though, that I'm now completely stuck on it -- so much so that I had a vivid dream last night about watching a vintage Radiohead video (when Thom Yorke looked like pre-Idol Clay Aiken) that was so beautiful, it made me cry. It had a Darjeeling Limited slow-motion pretentiousness about it, only it wasn't as boring as Darjeeling was.

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I'm not a huge Radiohead fan, but I'm partial to a tune of theirs called "No Surprises." It mixes incredibly suicidal lyrics ('A handshake with Carbon Monoxide') with a gorgeous melody.

Dennis

Ah, yes, great album. I'm listening to it now, in fact.

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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.