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OK COMPUTER is an astonishing album.

IN RAINBOWS has a handful of very beautiful tracks and is quite a worthwhile purchase.

Everything else is pretty worthless. HAIL TO THE THIEF, in particular, has no discernible songwriting talent throughout any of it. I was so excited to pick it up after hearing the genius of OK COMPUTER, but I don't think I've ever been so let down by an album in my life.

Based on what I heard of Radiohead and off-shoot projects on local radio.......
If I wanted to hear interesting experimental music, I'd listen to Polvo, dead C, Brise Glase or Don Caballero.
If I wanted to listen to rock infused with interesting guitar or drumming bits, I would choose Bitch Magnet, Fugazi, Arcwelder etc.

They are about as "experimental" as the local radio around hear can tolerate.......
Based on what I heard, unresounding Crap.

Fuck this band.

I remember when these guys were being pushed as England's answer to the Smashing Pumpkins.

Tedious, self important and complete crap.

I can tolerate OK Computer and about 15 minutes of Kid A.
The rest is total Crap.

The sound track to Their Will Be Blood was great.

Johnny Greenwood not crap.

In Rainbows is glorious and gorgeous. It has one misstep which is "House of Cards," an unfocused sort-of-dubby overlong waste that serves only as a chance to recover from the brilliance of "Reckoner."

Radiohead is not an experimental band. They use techniques pioneered by experimental bands in an incredibly precise, cerebral fashion. This is important. It is a waste of time to say "They're not actually experimental!" because they're not. They just do it better.

More to the point, Radiohead has an intense melodic sensibility that exceeds basically everyone, and the classical compositional sense to take that and turn it into something extraordinary. "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" runs through a dozen variations of a similar melodic form before finally landing on the obvious and most consonant melody for the very last sung line of the song.

I do not listen to their first two albums. Pablo Honey is kinda shitty, and The Bends, with the exception of "Street Spirit," is pointless next to OK Computer for listening purposes.

Hail To The Thief has good moments, but is bloated and uninspired compared the the albums that preceded it.

OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and [/i]In Rainbows[/i] are works of genius, and, furthermore, display a unified creative force that is an utter rarity in bands.

So fuck the haters. I realize some people don't care about melody or composition, or would rather feel cool by hating something popular while fellating other things that are popular within their scene, but it's your fucking loss.

NerblyBear wrote:OK COMPUTER is an astonishing album.

IN RAINBOWS has a handful of very beautiful tracks and is quite a worthwhile purchase.

Everything else is pretty worthless.

I question the possibility of even making this a remotely coherent musical opinion, given Kid A and Amnesiac. I don't understand how one could possibly like In Rainbows and OK Computer without thinking, "Fuck, man. Motion Picture Soundtrack is pretty gorgeous."

I give em a not crap. Not that I have any real interest in listening to them, but as far as arena level rock stars go they are not a bad band. I do not think they are really all that deep or amazing, sounds like pretty good pop/rock songs with some pretty average electronic stuff thrown in.

They have some pretty good guitar tones. Esp. that guitar sound in "Optimistic" and one of the singles off Hail to the Thief. "Go to Sleep" or something? The title track off of Kid A is really good, too.

Other than that, no thanks, I'm not interested.

I like that song "Bodysnatchers". Wtf.

"Totally awesome song! I am adding it to my IPod workout songs!"

"u can buy it in stores and u can also buy it at some starbucks"

japmn wrote:Their Will Be Blood

Holy shit!

"Their Will Be Blood"!

In an effort to bring a more violent and polytheistic slant to an old favorite, I'm going to start working this line into The Lord's Prayer (i.e., "Their kingdom come / Their will be blood / On Earth as it is in heaven").

"Their Will Be Blood"!

We're all going to hell!

NerblyBear wrote:OK COMPUTER is an astonishing album.

IN RAINBOWS has a handful of very beautiful tracks and is quite a worthwhile purchase.

Everything else is pretty worthless. HAIL TO THE THIEF, in particular, has no discernible songwriting talent throughout any of it. I was so excited to pick it up after hearing the genius of OK COMPUTER, but I don't think I've ever been so let down by an album in my life.

i suggest you revisit hail to the thief. "go to sleep," "myxomatosis," "drunken punchup at a wedding" are all good songs. there are others, though it does contain a couple of duds. 12, or even 10 tracks would have been plenty. the trouble with hail to the thief is that they put 14 tracks on it.