Minotaur029 wrote:2nd Edition, bitches wrote:Radiohead needed Eno's vocal albums to learn how to kick ass 'n' stuff.
This is also really interesting. I never thought of this before, but I can totally see where you're coming from. SecondEdition...you are always good for an observation that I never would have realized...no pressure...
I have to say though, Radiohead figured out their own creepy vibe that is separate from Eno's. One only needs to look to
In Rainbows to see that they are comfortable in their own synthy skin.
In Rainbows is actually fairly weak, however. It's [
IR]
all right...obviously, Radiohead died a bit post-
Amnesiac.
Why thank you, good sir.
Radiohead are a lot more depressed and depressing than Eno ever was, so obviously they would make music that was creepy and sad in ways that were totally removed from Eno's oeuvre (though Eno certainly has creepy nailed - "The Great Pretender," anyone?). However, as soon as I listened to
Another Green World for the second time ever about a week and a half ago, I said to myself, "Oh, so that's where
Kid A came from."
Another Green World is loads more of a positive work - it's humanistic, astoundingly lyrical (two qualities that
Kid A definitely lacked), and evokes an intuitive, childlike sense of wonder at the world that is almost inexpressibly beautiful. In contrast,
Kid A is a far, far more negative and less intuitive record. On first listen, it's a somewhat abstract record, but subsequent listenings show that almost all of the songs have some type of pop song structure underneath, which is borne out by the fact that almost all the songs on
Kid A have Thom-Boy Yorkeshire arias on them.
The use of electronics in both records, though, is very similar - the ways that both use electronics and synthesizers to obliquely express human emotion are very closely linked. But there's no question who did it first: Eno is the master, and Radiohead are the students.
Life...life...I know it's got its ups and downs.
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