Non-Urban Music I'm convinced, Radiohead are one of the BEST BANDS EVER

[Salar]

Man, the past 3 days all i've been listening to is radiohead, OK Computer, Pablo Honey, Kid A, The Bends and Hail to the thief.. i'm convinced that they are one of the best bands if not THE best band out there at the moment. Every track is so good, so meaningful so true. Here's an article i was reading in Rolling stones (july issue) by Dave Matthews from Dave Matthews band. So much hatred and admiration at the same time.

"Every time I buy a Radiohead album, I have a moment where I say to myself, "Maybe this is the one that will suck." But it never does. I wonder if it's even possible for them to be bad on record.

It belittles Radiohead to describe their music as having "hooks." Their music talks to you, in a real way. It can take you down a quiet street before it drops a beautiful musical bomb on you. It can build to where you think the whole thing will crumble beneath its own weight - and then Thom Yorke will sing some melody that just cuts your heart out of your chest. There's a point on the album Kid A where I start feeling claustrophobic, stuck in a barbed-wire jungle - and then I suddenly fall out and I'm sitting by a pool with birds singing. Radiohead can do all of these things in a moment, and it drives me fucking crazy.

My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me fell like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album. And every time, they raise their finger to the press and the critics and say, "Nothing we do is for you!". They followed their most critically acclaimed record, OK Computer, with their most radical change, Kid A. It's not that they're indifferent: It's just that the strength of character in their music is beyond their control.

Seeing them perform makes me even angrier. No matter how much they let go in their shows, they never lose their clarity. There's no point where Jonny Greewood or Ed O'Brien will suddenly look up and say "Where the fuck are we?" There are no train wrecks in Radiohead; every album and performance is wretching. God, these guys have suffered, or they can fake it like nobody else."

 

[ShockA]

They're amazing, yes. So many great tracks that can touch you on an emotional level like no other band can.

Though, I know a lot of people who dislike them as well.

 

[Little Skittle]

the best band slot is already filled

 

[Salar]

They're amazing, yes. So many great tracks that can touch you on an emotional level like no other band can.

Though, I know a lot of people who dislike them as well.

Yes but generally the people that dislike them are the people that don't actually listen to the lyrics and can't understand the powerful lyrics. I know it took them a while to grow on me. Myxomatosis from hail to theif converted me to Radiohead. But now, i just can't stop.

So so so good!

But i guess each to their own. I can't tell others what to like... or can i?

 

[Casey]

Never used to be into them before I heard "High & Dry".. from that I was converted. Great band, "Creep" is one of my favorite songs too... I can't relate to them as much as I can to Nirvana and there music doesn't touch me on a basic level like some of Soulfly's mellower work, but still, Radiohead are fucking amazing.

 

[LesanePCrooks96]

Agreed, Radiohead is awesome. Add Rage Against The Machine to that as well...too bad Zach de la Roca decided to leave and they split up, their music was great.

 

[Stephen]

I used to hate Radiohead.

that was until i bought the bends, what a fucking album.

HIGH AND DRY - my anthem

 

[Casey]

Agreed, Radiohead is awesome. Add Rage Against The Machine to that as well...too bad Zach de la Roca decided to leave and they split up, their music was great.

Zack has apparently recorded a 19-track solo album produced by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)

2 legends! But he's apparently said he's not going to release it. damn shame.

 

[kingtim3]

A Radiohead covers album is coming out in January. A few of them are already out there. Mark Ronson and Phantom Planet's "Just", Randy Watson Experience's "Morning Bell", and Bilal did "High and Dry" (which is goddamn amazing).

Some of the other rumored ones are J Dilla from Slum Village doing "Everything in it's Right Place", Cinematic Orchestra doing "Exit Music", and Me'shell Ndgecello doing "National Anthem". Phonte from Little Brother and Nicolay are supposed to have one in the works also, as well as Sa-Ra Creative Partners (they produced Pharoahe Monch's "Agent Orange"), ?uestlove from the Roots, and a couple of other cats. This project should be great, like a modern day version of all those Motown covers of Beatles songs.

Here's Bilal's cover of "High and Dry" - not only does it prove that Radiohead are amazing songwriters and don't just make noise, but that Bilal has an amazing voice. The horn section in the middle is sick.

s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2WL8OEJ1MB9AV02KPWQKDIKTF5

And here are the other ones that have been released thus far, not in very good quality, though:

Randy Watson Experience - "Morning Bell"
s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ETSX3WTGRPN81PL34U177S9S4

Mark Ronson and Phantom Planet - "Just"
s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0A6GPTW03GNFS0K9E5FLOSYWFN

 

[yom19]

Mark Ronson and Phantom Planet - "Just"
s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0A6GPTW03GNFS0K9E5FLOSYWFN

Hi, i'm hardly looking for this song since a while, is that possible that you repost it on yousendit please, your link just over seems to be expired...

Thanks a lot

 

[Casey]

Thanks for the heads up on that kingtim (nice name, from the fatback song?) - can you repost bilal's cover of "high and dry" please? thanx man.

 

[Casey]

out of interest salar, what are your top 5 radiohead songs?

 

[Salar]

i don't have a top 5, there are too many good tracks to mention.

Myxamatosis is still one of my favourites. It's just so different to any other song. And same goes for Idiotique and paranoid android.

Too many too mention Militant. Radiohead don't have a strong fan base because of a few songs, but because they have solid albums that provide totally different flavours of music. I compare outkast to radiohead calling outkast the radiohead of hiphop. Mind you outkast became too commercial but they still provide music that is DIFFERENT to all the same bullshit that comes out.

 

[yom19]

Thanks for the heads up on that kingtim (nice name, from the fatback song?) - can you repost bilal's cover of "high and dry" please? thanx man.

Here is the repost of Bilal - High & Dry : http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2V5G3NU6K1BH2033POQ1VXVM4H

Still looking for Mark Ronson and his "just" cover...

 

[Casey]

Thanx yom19, repped.