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Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Andrew Fleming on 29 Sep 2008, 07:14 ---Radiohead are terribly formulaic.
Kid A had its moments, but most else is simply boring and predictable. Especially In Rainbows.
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How the hell do you figure that? I can understand saying IR is predictable or formulaic, but Radiohead in general? That's ridiculous.
Andrew Fleming:
hey, you guys play some repetitive major-chord guitar riffs while i try to stretch slow, high, occasionally falsetto singing over as much time as possible.
nah, don't worry about it, we'll edit in the electronic squiggles/ambient-or-orchestral effects/indulgently-strange digital editing later.
the fans will love this shit.
Dimmukane:
I think we have a fatster.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Andrew Fleming on 29 Sep 2008, 13:59 ---hey, you guys play some repetitive major-chord guitar riffs while i try to stretch slow, high, occasionally falsetto singing over as much time as possible.
nah, don't worry about it, we'll edit in the electronic squiggles/ambient-or-orchestral effects/indulgently-strange digital editing later.
the fans will love this shit.
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So 'Treefingers,' 'Like Hunting Bears,' 'Fog,' and 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' are examples of this, are they?
Repetitive major chords? Have you ever actually paid attention to the chords Radiohead play? The first progression in 'Paranoid Android' alone is fucking wacko.
Jesus, have you even listened to Kid A all the way through? Most of the songs don't even have guitar on them at all.
Andrew Fleming:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 29 Sep 2008, 16:05 ---
--- Quote from: Andrew Fleming on 29 Sep 2008, 13:59 ---hey, you guys play some repetitive major-chord guitar riffs while i try to stretch slow, high, occasionally falsetto singing over as much time as possible.
nah, don't worry about it, we'll edit in the electronic squiggles/ambient-or-orchestral effects/indulgently-strange digital editing later.
the fans will love this shit.
--- End quote ---
So 'Treefingers,' 'Like Hunting Bears,' 'Fog,' and 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' are examples of this, are they?
Repetitive major chords? Have you ever actually paid attention to the chords Radiohead play? The first progression in 'Paranoid Android' alone is fucking wacko.
Jesus, have you even listened to Kid A all the way through? Most of the songs don't even have guitar on them at all.
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Yes, that's true. Kid A was a nice exception the general Radiohead style, and I think it is definitely their best work. And yeah, that is a very oversimplified analysis of their music. But their fast songs are even worse, because when you speed Yorke's melodies up, it becomes much more obvious that they're not really all that interesting and just sound like most late-90s pop melodies - boring.
Radiohead are not that bad song-by-song, especially on albums like Kid A and OK Computer. But whenever I listen to these records as a whole, Yorke's style becomes so monotonous and boring by the third or fourth track that I find myself already wishing the album was over. I think what I really don't like about Radiohead is that even though they often get pegged as "experimental," they're actually frustratingly unwilling to experiment, trying to force everything into a cohesive pop-song structure, and always layering Yorke's stylistically suffocated vocals on top.
I know that nobody will agree with me though, because Radiohead are just like that, I guess. Their fans love them.
EDIT: Also, you have convinced me to work my way through some of Radiohead's material again, which I'm slowly doing.
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