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Post by petrolino on Jun 11, 2023 4:45:15 GMT
Wonderful band yet it always feels to me as if a power struggle is being playing out publicly that ends in Thom Yorke very publicly asserting "leadership". Even the classics sound compromised nowadays (and have done for some time).
What do you think?
Thanks!
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Post by yggdrasil on Jun 11, 2023 10:06:50 GMT
I find them tiresome and dull, quite fitting for their music. Joyless.
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Post by C-3POtatoe on Jun 11, 2023 14:46:40 GMT
This band ( along with david lee roth's solo albums ) does take themselves too seriously.
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Post by papamihel on Jun 14, 2023 17:39:06 GMT
I liked the first few albums but then it got too weird.
I always loved Just.
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Post by NJtoTX on Jun 14, 2023 22:23:11 GMT
I only really like one song, Lurgee, on Pablo Honey.
And this.
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Post by onethreetwo (he/him) on Jun 14, 2023 22:34:03 GMT
I've only listened to The Bends and Kid A. Loved The Bends. Hated Kid A.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 18, 2023 2:30:24 GMT
I find them tiresome and dull, quite fitting for their music. Joyless.
I feel like they used to be a different band. I work with a big Radiohead fan who's urging me to listen to side-project Smile and he agrees. Last Radiohead concert film I watched was from around 10 - 15 years ago at Austin City Limits, technically strong, but joyless would be an apt description. And at the end I had to see Thom Yorke chide and chastise Ed O'Brien for suggesting there was a degree of collaboration behind Yorke's leadership. I mention the fan I know as he says he dislikes Yorke's treatment of Johnny Greenwood in public, so it does feel like there's a little dictator at work (and his emotional, self-conscious wobbling nowadays verges on self-parody at times).
As a band, I do feel, as with this concert I mention, that they can exhibit a tendency to want to noodle around and meander, while showing just how many different instruments they can play (I used to criticise Prince for something similar). But when they're on, they're on, and I always find them interesting.
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Post by Power Ranger on Jun 22, 2023 14:44:38 GMT
No, they don’t take themselves seriously enough because they’re in a class of their own. Beautiful music.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 23, 2023 22:55:07 GMT
No, they don’t take themselves seriously enough because they’re in a class of their own. Beautiful music.
They rode a higher spiritual plain ("it was so high I can't explain" to paraphrase the Dictators) when they entered in to a basement to perform a 'From The Basement' concert in 2008 but they were riding high at the time on 'In Rainbows' (2007).
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