The Radiohead Appreciation Thread

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmqJ7XijOrI

Just wondering if we have any radiohead fans here. Kid A and In Rainbows are the best, closely followed by OK Computer. Everything in its Right Place is one of my favourite songs ever, it is just so beautifully memorising - it is the first song on Kid A, the youtube video above.

So yeah, anyone else a fan?

[Tiny 16]

This should be changed to

'The Dreary Non-Specific Vague Stereotypical Guitar Music' thread.

[Nigel 0]

radiohead are awesome, the bends is <3

Planet Telex

The Bends

High and Dry

Fake Plastic Trees

Black Star

Street Spirit

In my eyes only one better band in the world :)

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Wait, what, Tiny? Radiohead are normally critisized for being too alternative, not for being stereotypical. If you hate the typical guitar music, listen to radiohead.

Anyway, Nigel, have you listened to either Kid A or In Rainbows? Or OK Computer? These all make The Bends, which is an awesome album, look a little bad.

I suggest starting with OK Computer. The second song on that album, Paranoid Android, is one of my favourites of theirs. This song is insane; it starts off quite cool, but there is an insanely good bit in the middle - some of the riffs are just godlike. Then it changes to a much more soft tone, with him singing "rain down", which is lush, followed by a totally awesome explosive ending. Probably their best song (although not quite my favourite).

If anyone listens to the whole of that song and says it isn't awesome, they need to rethink their standards.

[Nigel 0]

i do have all their albums, just there is a raw talent in the bends which i think is lost in the latter albums.

The newer albums are technically superior but the bends was my first album as a kid :)

also if you havent seen them live... do :)

[Tiny 16]

Maybe it's just me, i find them so generic.. it all seems pretty dull. Although i listen to lots of fast paced music, maybe i haven't given them much of a chance.

I like 'Just'!

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You haven't given them much of a chance then. Like, In Rainbows is literally one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. Obviously not all of the songs, but some of them are just beyond amazing. I also think that it can take a while to get into radiohead, as they are very different. They aren't really generic at all - they are actually pretty unique.

Their first two albums are a little generic (although the bends is awesome), but OK Computer is in no way generic at all. OK Computer is one of the landmark albums of the 90's, it is special. But yeah, In Rainbows is different, but has some of my favourite songs ever written.

This song is from In Rainbows. Probably my second favourite song, it is amazing.

[Nigel 0]

my two fav bands collide ;)