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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 26, 2021 10:01:00 GMT
I don't mind them so much now, but 20, 25 years ago all the talk about the band really fucked me off. It was like they were positioned by 'real music fans' as a kind of thinking-person's-alternative-to-Oasis. Thom Yorke's persona didn't help matters much, either - bit like Stipe but with even less personality. I don't hear much in the way of great music either. There are bits there, some cool riffs maybe. But they swim in and out, and of course there's always that miserable, anaemic vocal wailing over the top. There was deffo a class element in the UK. Oasis were working class louts, gobby Northern oiks whereas Radiohead where THINKING MAN'S public school boy rock...mature, grown up, intellectual, saying something profound about the TIMES we live in. Easy to kick back against. Critics projected a lot onto them because critics are often middle class public school boy types who want working on. All that pseudo academic, post millennium angst angle that framed OK Computer. In a way Radiohead were a bit like a Gen X Pink Floyd for the 90s. All that middle class English angst and ennui, more suggested rather than explicit and heavily reliant on mood and atmosphere and the odd line that hinted at something larger and more troubling going on.... a modern day disquiet and malaise. Sometimes just hinting at this stuff and creating a mood can be evocative enough you know but Yorke does have an element of the Stipe's about him.
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Post by rayge on Aug 26, 2021 10:03:26 GMT
I'm kind of interested in this premise. If I don't like a band, I just don't listen to them. If it's a band I'm forced by circumstance to listen to, such as Queen, resentment forces me to dislike everything I hear. If someone makes a track I really like, I can't really hate them, even if they turn out dreck thereafter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2021 10:30:53 GMT
I don't mind them so much now, but 20, 25 years ago all the talk about the band really fucked me off. It was like they were positioned by 'real music fans' as a kind of thinking-person's-alternative-to-Oasis. Thom Yorke's persona didn't help matters much, either - bit like Stipe but with even less personality. I don't hear much in the way of great music either. There are bits there, some cool riffs maybe. But they swim in and out, and of course there's always that miserable, anaemic vocal wailing over the top. There was deffo a class element in the UK. Oasis were working class louts, gobby Northern oiks whereas Radiohead where THINKING MAN'S public school boy rock...mature, grown up, intellectual, saying something profound about the TIMES we live in. Easy to kick back against. Critics projected a lot onto them because critics are often middle class public school boy types who want working on. All that pseudo academic, post millennium angst angle that framed OK Computer. In a way Radiohead were a bit like a Gen X Pink Floyd for the 90s. All that middle class English angst and ennui, more suggested rather than explicit and heavily reliant on mood and atmosphere and the odd line that hinted at something larger and more troubling going on.... a modern day disquiet and malaise. Sometimes just hinting at this stuff and creating a mood can be evocative enough you know but Yorke does have an element of the Stipe's about him. Ha, you kinda make them sound like the what said about the queen on here. They're begrudged, some wish they'd fuck off, but as long as they go about their business and cause no trouble, they're grand.
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Post by fange on Aug 26, 2021 10:47:59 GMT
His greatest moment, for mine.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 26, 2021 10:56:11 GMT
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 31, 2021 10:37:03 GMT
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