I'm sure if I think about it, there are a few albums that have the same effect on me. However in most cases, it's not an album from a band who I can't stand. Kinda funny I reckon.
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Article comments
1 - Doyce
Summarizes my thoughts on Radiohead perfectly, except for the part about The Bends.
2 - andy
oh well haha. What can I say?
3 - Louis
You guys are ignorants! Sounds familiar, nevermind. Instead of ignoring "people"'s opinions like Homer Simpson might, you maybe should listen to them. Of course I have to respect your opinion but when it comes to Radiohead I no longer thinks your blashphemy stands as an opinion and I pity you as I would the village idiot. Have you seen "High Fidelity"? Besides, if you love "The Bends" are you really a hater of theirs? Moreover, it sounds to me, you likely don't know any other of their albums or that you really have absorbed "The Bends", otherwise you wouldn't use "My Baby's Got The Bends" as a title for this article.
4 - The Theory
What are you talking about? Posts like this are the reason people don't take radiohead fans seriously...
5 - andy
hmm I love elitism. Go suck your indie scene queen's egg my friend.
6 - frost@work
well, radiohead isn't my favorite band, however I do recognize the overwhelming effect that they have had in shaping and directing the scope of modern music.
I'm kind of confused though... of all the radiohead albums to love the most approachable has to be OK Computer. Oh well, to each his own I guess.
I don't think you are the village idiot, maybe a distant cousin, but... heh
7 - andy
maybe I heard the Bends at the right time and OK Computer at the wrong time in my life. I just can't stand the band at all really. Definately not genius. Not say...White Stripe genious;)
8 - its only a joke
radiohead have to be the most sophisticated modern band i have ever heard. You said that 'The Bends' was the only album you owned by them, so how can you judge them if you haven't heard the variety in their music? Radiohead are unique; I cannot explain the music, or put it into a single genre. They are a great band.
9 - jun
why is it fashionable to bash radiohead these days? "Hey all you indie-tards! Radiohead aren't ingenius. In fact they suck! Why? Because they are childish and stupid and they suck!" - ad infinitum
10 - BobGervais
It's fashionable to bash them because they're a prime example of putting a talentless bunch of people in a recording studio, produce a disc full of garbage and then morons call it 'art'. Don't piss in my hand and tell me it's raining. Likewise, don't tell me they're technical. Or creative. You think Thom Yorke is the only whiny-heroine-overdose-waiting-to-happen to ever sit in front of a mic and *cough* "Tell it like it is"? Please, you're gonna have to go pretty far back in time before that becomes original.
Face it, Thom can't sing, none of them are proficient enough to play their instruments and their lyrics are prosaic.
It's great if Joe Blow likes the screeching noise that is their 'music'. Great, enjoy it to the end of time. But don't sit there and tell us how they're the greatest stick-it-to-the-man-band in the universe. They're simply not.