SellYourSoul wrote:I've got every Radiohead cd and the last 3 which were hailed as masterpieces are horrible for me to listen to. OK Computer and The Bends were genius. Kid A, Amnesiac, and the new one sound like they have no ideas so they just bullshitted their way through the process by making them weird.
Idealist wrote:im sorry but i think needing time to sink your teeth into an album is a good thing. usually if i hear a song and instantly think that its the greatest song i've ever heard it gets increasingly boring in subsequent listens. every time i hear a radiohead song, i hear something different or it strikes me in a differnt way. that, my friends, is mature, developed music. how interesting would you be if you recieved a kindergarten education and never learned anything after that or just simply stayed the same until the day you died? just the simple fact that all of the albums are incredibly different signifies that the band has grown and evolved. nothing genius stays the same. i really seriously cannnot pick a favorite album because they all mean something different to me. kid a and amnesiac may be extremely abstract but that only lends to their dynamic abilities. i personally love how the new album is more beat driven because it really gives phil a chance to shine. i really can't put into words why i love the band because my explanation would fall far short of the truth. it just makes me sad to see the ignorance of people who dismiss something that doesnt incorporate as many hooks into a song as possible to make it catchy and "radio friendly".
cor3y wrote:It has nothing to do with being catchy. You're completely misinterpretting what I'm saying. I simply think if a song is truly good, its good the first time you hear it and continues to be good every time you hear it. And I'm not missing out on anything. I like plenty of songs and albums that I don't like the first time around and they grow on me, I just dont think of that music as being anything revolutionary and worthy of being called genius. My problem is when people claim that to be a sure sign of music Godship, when an artist's music is too complex to grasp the first time around. It makes the musician a master of complexity, but not neccessarily music. I guess I'm just not as much of a music elitist as you are. I'll go back to my 'Nsync album now.
sorry guys
