Music Discussion #2 - Radiohead
 

Radiohead

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Radiohead's Wikipedia page

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Music Discussion #1 - The Beatles

Honestly can't say I know much about them. Any recommendations?

My favorite album

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You can start off by listening to the following tracks.

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My favorite Radiohead album is "Kid A". Fell in love with it during the end of 2010.

Here are my personal favorites

"Exit Music (For A Film)"

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"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"

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"Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box"

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"Optimistic"

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Most of Radiohead's work from 2000 is experimental (in some capacity) and features electronica in their music.

Loved OK Computer,the rest of there stuff is hit or miss for me though.

I like them, but I don't consider them to be the be all and end all of music as some people seem to.

I love Radiohead. It's a band that's never been my favorite at any point in time, but which I have been listening to consistently since Pablo Honey. I got my tickets to see them in June. It should be pretty good, as I've heard they're amazing live.

Favorite songs are Subterranean Homesick Alien, and A Wolf At The Door. No youtube, cause I'm at work.

Good band but insanely overrated.

I listened to all the suggestions and I have to say, while they are good I just don't care for them that much.

I like Radiohead. Not one of my favorites though. Some of their songs are incredible, others are forgettable. Kid A is a fantastic album, but honestly In Rainbows is my favorite album. Way more accessible sound and consistency.

I get their influence on modern music though. Kid A introduced a whole new sound to popular music.

Even though they're not one of my favorites, I would definitely see Radiohead live if given the chance.

Well, they hate Scott Tenorman for being a whiny bitch about Eric Cartman killing his parents and turning them into chili.

Everything is overrated these days, according to the internet. I think we should retire the word from the english language.

On topic, Radiohead is a top 5 band for me.

Everything in this thread is required listening. ^_^

Fuck Coldplay.

Coldplay are decent. Their music is appreciated worldwide.

Radiohead is probably my favorite band ever. Love everything they've done from OK Computer to present (The Bends is a great album, it's just not really my vibe and not really indicative of the Radiohead that I "love")

I don't wanna get too in depth here because I will come off as a "huge pretentious asshole" but they genius "IMO". They essentially deconstructed traditional song writing and structure and created something completely unique to them.

"That being said", I completely get why so many people are turned off by them. I don't think I've liked any Radiohead song after The Bends on first listen other than their more straightforward stuff like Reckoner and There There. Most tracks really do require a few deep listens to really understand what they're trying to do with the particular song.

Shutting up now.

Like Spinning Plates

I actually have a theory about Coldplay/Radiohead. Coldplay is the band Radiohead WOULD HAVE BEEN if they never went in the direction of OK COMPUTER and just did the same shit over and over and over.


Parachutes was an awesome first album, and (prepare for heresy) I think, comparably better than Pablo Honey. A Rush of Blood... was okay, but Viva la Vida... okay, more of the same guys, WTF?

Radiohead played with sounds a bit more, and basically took a HUGE gamble with what became like the biggest album of 1997. And then again with KID A.

It's kind of like the argument in Rap v. Hip-Hop (or, in better terms, "mainstream" vs "underground") in that while you can't really fault Coldplay for continuing to do what keeps them popular and make a ton of money from that, the results of the departure from doing just that is what keeps Radiohead highly reguarded as one of the greatest bands ever.

I remember ripping and flipping this track backwards out of curiosity years ago. Didn't regret it.