Radiohead breaking up

[popvulture]

So, no Dawn Chorus LLP record released on actual Dawn Chorus Day, instead just indefinitely blank site. How wonderfully anticlimactic.

[D.o.S.]

JUST LIKE IN RAINBOWS.

OOOOOHHHHHH

[popvulture]

[pd~]

JUST LIKE EVERYTHING POST-2003

OOOOOHHHHHH

[casecandy]

Just weighing in with all of my opinions of Radiohead ("Unsolicited opinions are the best opinion" — all millennial white guys)

Britpop Radiohead was the best Radiohead; The Bends is the best album; "Fake Plastic Trees" is the best song.

All of their stuff is at least okay.

Well, I've never heard King of Limbs, so no comment thereon.

The rest of their studio catalogue ranked in order from best to "worst" goes: Bends > Computer > Kid A > Rainbows > Amnesiac > Thief > Pablo.

They are a good band... obviously, a great band... but my God, is their insufferable pretentiousness offputting.

It's like, yeah, I get it, "Breathing people made this record! And you can't wait to dive back in and try to prove that wrong over and over," (— Pitchfork) but could you at least try to look like human beings and not perfect void constructions of the indie gods, just like for one fucking album cycle? No gimmicks? No shit?

Like... black metal artists like Striborg and Leviathan that do everything in their power to obscure their humanity ("For me corpse paint is about making the music less human, taking myself out of the equation, so the music just exists" — Jef Whitehead) seem infinitely more human to me than Radiohead ("Jef Whitehead has a very human sadness that sets him apart from other black metal bands" — some blogger somewhere).

And of course that's the appeal, I get that ("Radiohead were the band that intimidates; Weezer were the band that inspires." — Andy Greenwald). I just tire of it.

Which is weird because when Björk or Kanye does crazy album cycle stuff I eat it up.

AAAAAAANYWAY

*All quotes are from memory and thus may be paraphrases.

[popvulture]

I've never thought of them as being particularly pretentious, more just typically British.

[D.o.S.]

To the above: http://bfy.tw/5YpV

[fuzzonaut]

Artsy fartsy bullocks.

[Jwar]

Artsy fartsy bullocks.

Wait...I like artsy fartsy bullocks too...

[popvulture]

To the above: http://bfy.tw/5YpV

mm hmm

[rustywire]

I mean, beside Creep, did they ever have a catchy song? I'm being serious.

Opening song on Kid A...which I can never get the name right without looking it up.
...I think it's A Place For Everything (and everything in its right place)

[neonblack]

My son was born whole Everything In Its Right Place was playing. No shit.

#dadcred

[bigchiefbc]

My own little slice of dad-cred is that my 5yo son now likes "Optimistic". They played a slice of it over a driving montage in an episode of Top Gear and he wanted to hear the whole song.

[popvulture]

I mean, beside Creep, did they ever have a catchy song? I'm being serious.

Opening song on Kid A...which I can never get the name right without looking it up.
...I think it's A Place For Everything (and everything in its right place)

In terms of their catchier offerings, this is probably my favorite. Such good Jonny riffage too.

Reminds me of a really good photo collection I saw in some magazine of Thom hair over the years...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qMagfZtv8[/youtube]

[bigchiefbc]

When I think of catchy Radiohead, my mind goes to this (bonus points for gratuitous use of cowbell):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrL9uMqeP8M[/youtube]