Shrug because...

"Creep" was great when I was thirteen. Then it was cringey for a long time, especially after This American Life did a story about a call center manager who sang it at karaoke. Now it's good again because of Patrice O'Neal:

"Karma Police" is interesting because it doesn't sound like a Wes Anderson soundtrack choice but it does sound like what would happen if a Wes Anderson movie set came to life and tried to write a rock song

In Rainbows wasn't the first "pay what you want" record but it was high profile enough that it "shook up" the "industry". Did it level the playing field between Metallica and some Terre Haute garage band? No. It was just a moment. That and that record sucked and I know because...

My alcoholic-as-fuck ex-housemate, the one who nearly literally burnt the goddamned house down, was big into Radiohead (and played In Rainbows on a loop). So big into them that I once asked him if he wanted to go see Slayer and he literally ran out of the room. Probably to go get drunk and cry to Radiohead. He liked that. (And hairy porn.) (And not closing his laptop.)

Thom Yorke's Suspiria soundtrack is fittingly meandering garbage for a meandering garbage remake. I can't hate him for that, that's just the shit he does when there isn't a Greenewood around to check him, I suppose. Luca Guadaniño, though, decided his horror movie about feminism in Cold War Berlin or whatever the fuck that was needed a dude mournfully yodeling over a piano and, boy, he got it. So, yeah, no, fuck the both of them.

Overall, I guess they've done some cool shit but they've also done some over-hyped lame shit and the memories I have associated with them generally center around a drunk asshole passed out on the kitchen counter while the house fills with smoke.

So, shrug.

They have three records that I like. But I've listened to them enough so I don't need to revisit them.

Still, prefer them over the cloying pretentious crap of Arcade Fire.

yngwie einstein wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:19 am ... the cloying pretentious crap of Arcade Fire.

I was hoping I would never be reminded of that year I was into Arcade Fire yet here we are.

Charlie D wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:08 am My alcoholic-as-fuck ex-housemate, the one who nearly literally burnt the goddamned house down, was big into Radiohead (and played In Rainbows on a loop). So big into them that I once asked him if he wanted to go see Slayer and he literally ran out of the room. Probably to go get drunk and cry to Radiohead. He liked that. (And hairy porn.) (And not closing his laptop.)

LMAO, I love reading these kinds of ex-roommate/partner/friend/etc. grievances that are tied to a certain band/album/song. I avoided listening to Spiderland on my own accord for many years due to similar circumstances with an old bastard roommate, it happens.

chexmixbreath wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:36 am... ex-roommate/partner/friend/etc. grievances that are tied to a certain band/album/song.

Should be a thread.

Charlie D wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:08 am [...] That and that record sucked and I know because...

My alcoholic-as-fuck ex-housemate, the one who nearly literally burnt the goddamned house down, was big into Radiohead (and played In Rainbows on a loop).

I'm struggling to think of any album that could survive this. So my offer is:

• Name your bullet proof album.
• PM me your address
• I will arrive with:
  • A waiver for you to sign.
  • A cask of strong beer (my choice).
  • Said album on digital player, set on a loop (so it will keep playing should I become incapable - see above).
  • A lighter.

Think John Goodman in Barton Fink, soundtracked by Willie Nelson's Stardust on repeat 24/7.

Charlie D wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:46 am

chexmixbreath wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:36 am... ex-roommate/partner/friend/etc. grievances that are tied to a certain band/album/song.

Should be a thread.

Great idea.

chexmixbreath wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:36 am

Charlie D wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:08 am My alcoholic-as-fuck ex-housemate, the one who nearly literally burnt the goddamned house down, was big into Radiohead (and played In Rainbows on a loop). So big into them that I once asked him if he wanted to go see Slayer and he literally ran out of the room. Probably to go get drunk and cry to Radiohead. He liked that. (And hairy porn.) (And not closing his laptop.)

LMAO, I love reading these kinds of ex-roommate/partner/friend/etc. grievances that are tied to a certain band/album/song. I avoided listening to Spiderland on my own accord for many years due to similar circumstances with an old bastard roommate, it happens.

Mine is Kyuss, though I'd much rather listen to Kyuss than Radiohead. I used to work third shift so I'd sleep through the day. My old roommate would come home from his 9-5 job and begin lifting weights to Kyuss.

*some dumb stoner riff*

*CLANK*

*some dumb stoner riff*

*CLANK*

ad nauseum

hate that band.

enframed wrote: Sun May 29, 2022 3:52 pm

Charlie D wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:46 am

chexmixbreath wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 11:36 am... ex-roommate/partner/friend/etc. grievances that are tied to a certain band/album/song.

Should be a thread.

Great idea.

Someone make this happen!!

Not sure how i wound up listening to and loving the above but it miraculously has me really appreciating Radiohead.

it's so scary. Evidently i have a hardwired "i don't want people to think or know i'm a Radiohead fan" condition. I feel like if i get over it i could be very successful.