Yossarian wrote:Fun fact (assuming I'm remembering correctly): Dave Grohl played every instrument on the first Foos album.
Tempy wrote:I've seen a few songns of Radiohead's set at Glastonbury and it has me very excited to see them in Glasgow, especially as Johnny's on rare form with his solo and lead work. Great to hear them injecting new life into songs like Lucky 20 years on
Muse [...] built an entire career on the moment 2min 45sec into Paranoid Android, when the distorted guitar riff kicks in.
Liveinadive wrote:Much like the Foo Fighters the hype around Muse became to much for me to stomach.
The fucking Jo Whiley "oh my god so powerful" shit.
I like the odd Muse track but I have no idea how anyone can sit through an entire album of it. The epic nature of it all loses meaning without some breathing space.
Tempy wrote:I still kinda like them for all their goofy kitsch. They write terrible songs but I like Matt's guitar lines frequently.
It's difficult to believe that Radiohead once made The Bends, a rock record with power-chords, choruses and a Turtlewax production job. Even listeners raised on Krautrock or Ornette Coleman will find Kid A a mystifying experience. Thom Yorke rejects the notion that the disc was designed to be "challenging", but he didn't explain why it sounds like a score composed for an experimental dance troupe. It also fails to sweep away preconceptions about Radiohead, pandering to the worst cliches about their relentless miserabilism. It's an album that comes at you in fragments - the hesitant church organ of Motion Picture Soundtrack tumbling into a pastiche of celestial bliss with choirs and harps, the "overheard" orchestral snatches in The National Anthem prefacing a Mingus-like splurge of jazz anarchy. The lyrics, too, sneak out like cloaked assassins: "I laugh until my head comes off". For sheer awkwardness, it breezes off with the gold medal. Still, it does make OK Computer sound like Abba's Greatest Hits.
Adam Sweeting
Diluted Dante wrote:I mean I'm trolling, but also lets not pretend that when it came out that a lot of people didn't think it was shit.
Yossarian wrote:Diluted Dante wrote:I mean I'm trolling, but also lets not pretend that when it came out that a lot of people didn't think it was shit.
So what? They were wrong then, and the passage of time has only proven how wrong they were.
regmcfly wrote:I'm free to let people have their own opinions, but personally Kid A is a top 5 album of all time ...
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