I just don't get Radiohead at all.

[Firky]

Thanks for the watch this Firky - btw were you aware of the theory that if tracks from OKC and IR are played alternately there is a some kind of link - some music professor has noted this - something about chord progressions and lyric linkage - not had time to experiment to see for myself but its an event I am anticipating with Radiogeekness joy.

I am. Radiohead often do little things like this, they never produce a straight album since Kid A (which has all kinds of stuff hidden in it). Amnesiac probably has most of the other strange links in it... you can hear Nigel Godrich making sheep noises in Pakt Like Sardine Tins

 

[8ball]

Oh, also if you start playing a lot of the tracks off Kid A on one stereo then set a second stereo running exactly 17 seconds later it's fucking amazing

Idioteque and The National Album especially.

 

[stavros]

"Kid A" is their masterpiece in my eyes, although I haven't heard "HTTT" or "IR". I do love it, and also how it confused and pissed off all the rockists who just want guitars.

 

[catinthehat]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Radiohead-Ashgate-Popular-Folk/dp/0754639800

Read this ? Its a collection of academic essays on radiohead.

 

[Firky]

Not read the book but I have read essays on Radiohead and had many sent to me when I did their website. Some are very good some are really shit, like the Karma Police and 1984 one. Wow. You really have to be academic to work that out.

Dante's Inferno and Pyramid Song - now that is interesting.

 

[Utopia]

Amazing band, i'm 34 & so i've grown up with them, from Pablo Honey to In Rainbows every album's kinda strung a chord with me, truly innovational, intelligent & musical. My band.

 

[Firky]

*my band*

Followed them since 1992 and have the Drill EP

In year ten (1994) I skipped first lesson to be the first to buy My Iron Lung EP from Woolworths.

Fucking hell a dick waving contest over RH

 

[david dissadent]

Ive heard of them. They're like an indie band or something arent they?

 

[Threshers_Flail]

It is a shame that they're success led to the rise of a lot of wank like coldplay snow patrol and travis. The worse bit is that some of there songs do remind me of these bands as i have only liked them for a few years. I blame old people who still listen to radio 1 and go to glastonbury.

 

[TopCat]

Radiohead are a bag o shite.

 

[rollinder]

Their on Later tonight - doing songs from In Rainbows I think

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Their on Later tonight - doing songs from In Rainbows I think

Sounds like a good reason to stay down the pub then.

 

[Firky]

dubversion loved radiohead

 

[DJWrongspeed]

I agree with some of the sentiments above, you either get them or you don't. There's a few standout tracks which i'd be happy defend and vouch for. It's hard for a band when they become part of some kind of 'youth' generation. They're the Pink Floyd of their day. They've handled that tag really well and have been productive with it, not like countless other artistically bankrupt bands.

The most poweful image of them will always be in Glastonbury '97 amongst the mud. 2 cars of cops watching from their landrovers and me wandering up the hill in the gathering gloom and mist with this band getting sadder & sadder. It defined something very English, i won't forget. I'm really not interested in an essays on their albums but they do/did define some kind of generational spirit surely.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

nah, they were, are and always will be tedious whingy bollocks :yawn: the only generational spirit i'm interested in is lolita gin innit

 

[stavros]

They're the Pink Floyd of their day.

I'm helping my Dad download all his Pink Floyd vinyl for CDs at the moment. Do you think I should introduce him to Radiohead, and if so where do you think he should start from a PF entry point?

 

[Nikolai]

I'm really into Radiohead. They're spot on as far as I'm concerned, both musically and culturally. The only album I don't like is Pablo Honey - their first one.

 

[Firky]

I'm helping my Dad download all his Pink Floyd vinyl for CDs at the moment. Do you think I should introduce him to Radiohead, and if so where do you think he should start from a PF entry point?

No because they are nothing like Pink Floyd musically. Just bung him OK Computer and Hail to the Teef.

 

[girasol]

I still like Radiohead a lot - the first cd I got was The Bends in 1995. I was flying back from Ireland, after finally finally splitting up with my boyfriend at the time and was walking around the airport when I spotted it.

I was already very broke after buying an early return ticket (I was a student then) but I went ahead and bought it anyway, I think I liked the cover or something like that. I think I must have played it non-stop for a month, then I got Pablo Honey, which took a lot longer to grow on me but I really like the second half of it now. The rest is history

Anyway, I could go on about Radiohead for hours, but I won't. You either like them or you don't and that's that... My boyfriend thinks they're shit...

 

[david dissadent]

Bloody hell, didnt realise that Jonny Greenwood was being considered for an Oscar this year. Pity he has been ruled inelegible.... but his album is apparently selling rather well.

 

[Juice Terry]

Well I thought they were absolutely fucking incredible on Joolz Holland's friday night thing

<disclaimer>i was monumentally stoned though</disclaimer>

 

[gabi]

Finest band around, in my opinion.. cant say ive heard all their shit, but what i have has been beautiful.

i like the way they conduct themselves too. that spot they did when they took over zane lowe's show and played (and talked) all kinds of random shit was awesome.