they are playing in manchester tomorrow night. anyone else going?

Wait so people actually listened to this band when they were thirteen?

Wow.

And to think that people give me shit for having liked Aerosmith at that age.

This band is like having tea and biscuits with your Lesbian aunt who kind of studies Sanskrit and is into encaustic. Like, I can see how it appeals to twenty-somethings on their first mortgage, but thirteen.

Did you also cry a lot?

sunlore wrote:Wait so people actually listened to this band when they were thirteen?

Wow.

And to think that people give me shit for having liked Aerosmith at that age.

This band is like having tea and biscuits with your Lesbian aunt who kind of studies Sanskrit and is into encaustic. Like, I can see how it appeals to twenty-somethings on their first mortgage, but thirteen.

Did you also cry a lot?

Dude. They were at the MTV video music awards when I was 11. That's where I first heard them, and I listened to them from then on.

And yeah, I'd say I cried a lot. I was a depressed little kid!

Radiohead is something your parents would like. What use is there for music at age thirteen if your parents would like it?

I mean what's next, Phil Collins?

sunlore wrote:Radiohead is something your parents would like. What use is there for music at age thirteen if your parents would like it?

I mean what's next, Phil Collins?

What are you talking about? Half of their stuff was just angst with distorted guitars. Also known as: what thirteen year olds listen to.

A Totem Pole wrote:Half of their stuff was just angst with distorted guitars.

And always ever so Oxford.

For the record: I don't hate Radiohead, it's completely inoffensive music to me, which is kind of my point come to think of it.

The new album sounds inert and tedious to me.

The songs don't go anywhere.

How is this record getting such good reviews?

Sorry lads but I won't give you a penny for that download.

SecondEdition wrote:One thing, though: I doubt if Radiohead would have sounded the same without Brian Eno's vocal albums.

Totally. I hear a lot of Eno (in general) in their post-OK Computer records, which is a good thing, if you ask me. And I absolutely love those albums. Kid A is one of my favorite records ever. The more I listen to In Rainbows, the more I think it will be, too.

I generally don't like this type of music. This Yorke, he gets to me, man.

MonsterDad wrote:This Yorke, he gets to me, man.

yeah. He's the reason why I don't listen to Radiohead that often anymore - the Chicken Little of rock, no question. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Thanks, Thom.

SecondEdition wrote:

MonsterDad wrote:This Yorke, he gets to me, man.

yeah. He's the reason why I don't listen to Radiohead that often anymore - the Chicken Little of rock, no question. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Thanks, Thom.

What's funny is that in interviews, Thom maintains that "2+2=5" was partially inspired by the story of Chicken Little.