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Listening To Radiohead Again: What do you nerds think?

71 by SecondEdition_Archive
Mason wrote:
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.


Well there you go! That kind of blanket end-of-the-world hysteria was why Hail To The Thief was such a disappointment. At least with the other 2000-era records I could believe there was subtlety and slight slivers of optimism. Hail To The Thief had none and was boring besides.
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Listening To Radiohead Again: What do you nerds think?

76 by Rotten Tanx_Archive
scntfc wrote:
Rotten Tanx wrote:I've been thinking about Radiohead quite a bit lately.
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Perhaps there's something I'm missing having never heard an album.


Robert G wrote:I haven't even bothered with listening to In Rainbows. In fact, I'm kinda pissed that they used that title. After going to see an exhibit at the Hirschhorn Museum in DC called "Visual Music" and now having listened to all kinds of weird shit, no album should be called that unless you're bringing some serious fucking business to the table. Sadly, I know that Radiohead do not do this with their album, and thus, it shall remain shunned by me.


these two posts made me lol all over my overpriced limited edition in rainbows box set. funny stuff!

salut! to the concept of spending more time thinking about a band/album than actually listening to it.


I probably know ten of their songs. Creep, Just (I think?), Karma Police, the one where he holds his breath for ages, paranoid android, street spirit, some others.

Ten songs is enough to think about and judge a band isn't it? Or must we listen to several albums of every band in order to have an opinion? That could take some time.
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Listening To Radiohead Again: What do you nerds think?

78 by the Classical_Archive
The mrs and one of my close buddies are fans so I've heard all the post-Ok Computer records and I think I pretty much like half of all those albums. In Rainbows seems sort of lazy but its okay, though I've never heard it outside a car stereo so maybe its incredible?

Amnesiac is probably the one I like the most, Kid A a close second.

They are def a singles band who thinks they are an album band.

Mr. Arrison's assessment of the band I think is basically dead on (On the side note of piano-led Radiohead covers, Atomic's verson "Pyramid Song" is great) esp the iPhone analogy, the love and the hate is pretty overblown.

The fact they are likely the most humorless band ever is a large part of what ends up irking me about them and in the end what keeps me from thinking they are little more then a sometimes entertaining diversion.

Yorke's incessant whining in that tour doc is a horror.
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