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Se7en:
I dont like radiohead because frankly, the music bores me to death. Really, they cant hold my attention for 3 minutes, so im not interested.
KharBevNor:
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No one describes a Dream Theater song with "This sums up exactly how I feel.". No one falls in love to Dream Theater except maybe if it's over EverQuest. Radiohead would rather be judged by this criterea than their overall playing ability or how their songs look on paper. The point I'm making here is Radiohead is not prog and should not be compared to prog and that prog is dumb.
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I think you're making a statement best described as 'fucking stupid and close minded' when you posit that no-one thinks any Dream Theater song describes how they feel.
Also, we're not talking about Dream Theater, we're talking about the hundreds of bands with more talent, soul and originality than Radiohead.
Mainly fucking Skyclad.
--- Quote from: Kid Amnesiac ---Khar and Kai, you both should be stabbed in the ear. You're obviously not using them correctly.
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Or maybe I should just listen to Radiohead, it's as painful.
Radiohead? Moer liek GAYDIOHEAD, amirite?
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decklin:
Well, I'm sure this is just the start of ye olde Radiohead backlash rearing its ugly head, but I'll share some thoughts.
The Bends and OK Computer are probably what I've given the most spins, historically, so I don't get the fantastically original thing. They did rock. They did it well, when a lot of their peers happened to be crap. (Or maybe this is just me. I stopped listening to much rock from about 1996 to 2003 :P.) They can write a damn good tune. And Thom's singing/lyrics, well, you like it or you don't.
Then Kid A came along and became this massive indie shibboleth. I was introduced to Pitchfork via a friend's link to their review of it. No sound on that album, even, is new. At all. I was listening to everything they pilfered for it at the time :). But, as they say, immature artists imitate, mature poets steal. They put it in a new context and changed the landscape a bit. Indie heads became a somewhat less parochial. It's not one of my particular favorites (save a few tracks) but it is richer than it is derivative and I think our perspective is deeper for it.
Amnesiac, on the other hand. Amnesiac is one of my favorite albums of all time. Now, go ahead and flame me away for this, but I read it as a transfiguration of/commentary on/reverse concordance to/cryptogrammatic reconfiguration of the phenomenology of Kid A (and the surface of all this that it managed to scratch at points) as I just described it. If the words "postmodern" or "deconstruction" make you want to leave the party, well, I didn't say you have to like what I like. But in this case I think convential indie wisdom has cheapened our collective experience, because convential indie wisdom is, well, dreadfully modernist, and doesn't leave much room for art beng about other art or reflexively about itself instead of about, well, sounding cool. Although that is changing. And I do not think any of this needs to have been intentional (or even was) on the part of Thom et al. Take that as you will.
Hail to the Thief is just utter crap. I should have just downloaded 2+2=5 and not wasted my money. I haven't the foggiest if they're going to regress further into "sounds cool" next time or actually pull out something conceptually interesting, but, well... I would say "I'll download it first this time" but it did last time and I still bought it (dunno what I was thinking. Other than it was on 0-week sale and I hadn't formed an opinion yet. Anyone wanna buy a used copy?)
decklin:
Oh, and you probably want to read Amanda's "Insufferable Music Snob" series over at Pandagon if you want to understand the whole popular = not cool meme. :)
Radiowar:
Radiohead are OK. Amnesiac is my favorite, the rest are pretty boring.
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