This is so, Thom-Yorke-esque...

everything off ok computer

daaaaamn

did you get burned out on it
or
just never like it
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Regarding Thom's voice he's sometimes been singing nasally on purpose since Kid A, especially live. I agree that can be annoying (but that won't detract me from listening to them and I still think he has a great voice).

I love Life in a glasshouse, I will, We suck young blood (after many listens though :D) and You and whose army.

I agree that I might be wrong is ruined by the production.

there are only about 5 radiohead songs i CAN stand. they get touted for being so "weird" and "revolutionary" and amazing songwriters, but for my tastes, they're incredibly boring and rehash the same midtempo songs on every album. and the songwriting is mediocre at best. what's weird to me is that a band like tv on the radio is obviously very radiohead influenced, but ends up being better than radiohead because they actually have dynamic. radiohead seem to still be riding their anti-gimmick thing, which has ended up being their little gimmick...kinda like tool.

Radiohead (and Tool for that matter) require a certain level of investment and deep listening to enjoy. You have to come in with an open mind and a particular mindset. There are countless bands out there of course, that are more imaginative and innovative, (Isis, Boredoms, just to name two) but in the mainstream media, Radiohead and Tool are popular music's innovators.

ah, I hate Tool

^That's funny, I have a friend who detests A Perfect Circle, but is OK with Tool...

I dig Aenima but it isn't great or anything. Everything else they've done it lame.

i can't think of any of their songs i don't like, some are a bit meh, but for the most parts, i really don't skip tracks, i still don't have pablo honey though.

the regular version of creep is the closest to a song of theirs i can't stand, just because it's the song everyone everywhere play.

some of the songs mentioned are some of their best, weird even as many are them at their most experimental.

but anyhoo, i'm actually surprised many people don't like his voice, i rather have thom's castratti chords over, say, björk who i find unbareable.

They probably only appeal to a dedicated core of fans who can appreciate their musicality. Kind of like Sonic Youth, but in a mainstream sense...

unfortunately, a lot of radiohead appeal is based on poserism, same with björk and millions others (including, in a lesser extent, sy).

as in that people tend to like these bands in order to seem educated and with good taste in music. which also generates a bunch of backlash from people rejecting them altogether as fads.

That's really weird, I would think that if you appreciate one, you would appreciate the other... :confused: There's not much of a difference between their voices, they both have an almost child-like quality...

what? are you kidding? that conceited "i'm so cutesy but weird and excentric yet i'm a bland yoko ono rip off" shriek? it really pains me, it's a voice like shakira that really bothers me.

besides, a lot of thom's shit is emotive, sometimes over emotive, whether björk has no emotion at all.

i don't see how radiohead requires any sort of "deep listening" when their music is anything but deep. maybe on a superficial level it is, because there's an occasional non-traditional texture thrown in there, but it really is just as uninteresting as the majority of everything else on the radio. maybe that's my problem biggest problem with radiohead, that they COULD do much more to push the envelope and bring new listeners to experience new things in sound and music, but they get deterred by the all-ruling piano jam.

truer words have never been spoken.

well, in a lot of cases, there's certainly people like me who truly appreciate them for what they are.

Bjork has no emotion? Haha, that actually made me smile... She does tend to get a bit clinical though, but I don't think she's emotionless... She does has some range, in her earlier work especially. Bachelorette and It's Oh So Quiet are good examples. Her music admittedly helps her voice a bit, but I don't see how that is much different than almost any singer, other than Jeff Buckley. On a side note, I find all her recent work to be very detached and more intellectual...

that piece of shit gives me the urge to jump out the window, not to mention giving me the biggest toothache saccharine can give.

Maybe I mis-worded my post a bit; deep listening might not be the best way to put it... I would say however that Radiohead have become more than just a rock band. They have become somewhat more important than that, and that requires their music to be held up to a different light than most other bands. I can't really explain much, because I'm in school right now, and doing my work while typing at the same time... But I hope that makes some modicum of sense...:o

i don't doubt that, but you're certainly in the minority. especially since pitchfork methodically gives their albums 9.somethings or higher just for the sake of blind faith. when that happens, the indie kids take it as gospel and declare radiohead "the best fucking band on the earth, dude!" and anyone who doesn't like them obviously doesn't get it or like good music, duh.

totally right. they've become electro-rock.

Do you guys honestly not like Radiohead?

Us guys?

Haha. Like Arctic Monkeys? Or worse? :)

Yes, but I can see why most people do like them. For some reason they just don't do anything for me. I reckon they'll sound really dated in 10 years.

as much as a fat child hates a healthy salad and water for dinner.

In my opinion there are at least as many poseurs among SY fans than Radiohead fans, if not more.

that's to be expected from a band that has been around for over 25 years and has influenced some of the most important bands of the past 15 years.

To be honest, I don't see what the big deal is. Radiohead are not that big of a deal. They write good, somewhat clever songs, that can get rather emotive. That's it. They're not the saviours of rock. But unfortunately, that's what Pitchfork et al has painted them out to be and it has caused a lot of detractors and critics to wag and point their fingers. Which saddens me. On a side note, SY were not exactly the critic's darling back in the day were they? Thurston Moore got into this argument with Robert Christgau over Kill Yr Idols. Apparently now, he's their biggest fan. Which is ultra ironic.