Anxiety said:

as long as you don't have to sit in a bunker, waiting for 7 months
until the brown paper bag arrives, with the home-made cdr kit from
your favorite indie band, I guess you're nowhere near the top of
the music snob food chain

Sdldawn said:

ok... I do know one Beck snob ^^

Radiohead make thoughtful, well crafted songs that are both meticulous (OK Computer) and spontaneous (Kid A - working with generative sounds/music). Thom Yorke's voice may not be for everyone, but they are definitely a few steps up from writing pointless crap like "It's friday night, the DJs playing my song, I'm ready to party" shit...

I also have alot of respect for them because they avoid the media. I doubt we'll be seeing a Thom Yorke MTV Cribs anytime soon.

Tom said:

Sounds like you got issues with rap or rnb.

I can imagine , because generally speaking those styles suck big time

Dewrede said:

Rap and rnb?

Compare De La Soul Is Dead or Illmatic to whats out now, and there's IMO been a pretty sharp decline in Rap over the past decade. Same goes for R&B. I mean, even in the 80's when R&B was getting way commercialized, especially alot of Motown acts, there were at least some decent singles coming out once in a while. Only once in a blue moon anymore do I hear an album that gets me excited about either genre anymore, like Res's How I Do, or DJ Shadow's Endtroducing. The stuff out now just sounds lyrically immature, uninspired, beat driven and gimicky. You can pick up any joe schmoe off the street and make him/her a recording artist by todays standards, christ even Paris Hilton has an album coming out.

Following a recording acts career path from nobody's to stardom nowdays is like watching the GM production line. Everything is predetermined and fabricated.

Back to Radiohead though, The Bends was a really ambitious album for them at that point in their career. I doubt OK Computer would have even been given the green light to be released if there wasn't such a good response to The Bends.

Tom said:

You could also be describing rock by looking at what gets played the most on radio and video channels.

Tom said:

I dont need a primer on rap and rnb. Especially when there is plenty that is still just as fruitful as your examples mentioned if you look for it. Just as there is the same (and crap) in rock music today. Which is what was odd, that we are talking about Radiohead, the spehere of rock music, and you bring up your distaste for rap and rnb. Interesting.



Yeah. Like we have been doing.

I tell ya.. Radiohead rocks



someone give love to Amnesiac...

Sdldawn said:

You And What Army

DiamondGirl said:

the whole album!





Nigels production rocks too...

Fake Plastic Trees from The Bends is their best song though. Tied with Creep

DiamondGirl said:

I enjoy playing Fake Plastic Trees on the piano.. its beautiful.
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DiamondGirl said:

They were some arbitrary mundane made-up lyrics, I think you're reading way too much into. Likewise, I'm not much of a fan of current rock acts either like My Chemical Romance, Good Charolette, etc... for the same reasons above.

Tom said:

Then why not bring them up instead of going out of your way to talk about another genre altogether? :think: That's interesting to me.

Sdldawn said:

You can play that? Lucky.

On a related notwe since you brought up puiano, does anyone have Chris Oreileys piano versions of Radiohead songs? I love it.

Its not one of those runoffs cookie cutter tributes. This dude is way into them and as a classical composer, decided to do tribute to his favorite rock band.

DiamondGirl said:

I wasn't intentionally / conciously trying to target any specific genre when I made that initial post, you interpereted as such. But since R&B & rap were specifically brought up, I talked about them as well on the following post.

Tom said:

Oh. I see.

So you didnt mean rnb or hip hop? rap? I asked that since lyrics such as the one you posted about "ifs Friday night the dj's playin my song Im going to party' are realy prominantin todays rock music.

DiamondGirl said:

Yeah.. I was gifted with an "ear" for piano.. I can just about play anything..

having said that..

I have both of Christopher O'Rileys albums.. beautiful radiohead music on piano.. I will say the second album became very mundane..but beside that, they are beautiful..


got a few on my iPod

I also like the piano in 'Fog'

Their Com Lag cd has two really good songs, one is an acoustic number and the other one is Thom on piano. I don't know the song titles because the copy I downloaded had them all mislabeled.

Yeah , that's the song i meant , infact it's called 'Fog (again)'

Here's the tracklist

http://www.ateaseweb.com/.../index.php


I also like 'I'm A Wicked Child' , it's the only 'bluesy' song they ever made i think
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Dewrede said:

I totally forgot about the Hail To The Theif b sides


i dunno if thats good or bad...

Well , i like them

Dewrede said:

Gonna break them out tonight and give them a second spin...


they got great b-sides.. but its apparent why they are b sides.. cause I always felt their album material was high grade stuff...

I like almost all their songs

I was just going through my cd's and dropped 'Kid A' on the floor
Some of the things that keep the cd in it's place broke off

Sdldawn said:

I did!

CalhounSq said:

DiamondGirl said:

I've heard that comparison before. It's fitting.