How can you prefer "Pablo Honey" to any of their albums? Interesting. Very good album. Just believed they made so many incredible leaps forward into musical genius after that is all.
Mine are:
1) "Amnesiac"/"Hail To The Thief". ('Amnesiac' ahead at the moment.)
2) "Kid A".
3) "OK Computer".
4) "The Bends."
5) "Pablo Honey".
I loved how everyone tried to get Radiohead to return to "OK Computer" days when they put out "Kid A", basically shitting on the band and Radiohead just basically said "What? Everytime we do something different you bail on us? **** you then." Kept their good fans and ditched the shit ones.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
How can you prefer "Pablo Honey" to any of their albums?
Well, a very interesting question. You do have a point with the 'leaps' they have made. However, Pablo Honey gets shit on as an album.
As most Radiohead fans would know, Creep almost broke them up, as it was their only hit from Pablo. But 'Anyone can play guitar,' 'Stop whispering' and every other song gets pissed away. That just shows that nobody really cared to see what kind of music this band could produce.
Then the Bends came out and everyone was all up in arms about Radiohead. 'High and Dry,' 'Fake plastic trees,' and 'Just' make the airwaves and people are flocking to them. Hense The Bends is at the bottom of my list.
I guess you could say it is a matter of principle. However, I can listen to Pablo Honey from 1-13 and be pleased, where with the Bends I skip 3/4 of the songs. The only track from The Bends I really like is Street Spirit.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Just believed they made so many incredible leaps forward into musical genius after that is all.I loved how everyone tried to get Radiohead to return to "OK Computer" days when they put out "Kid A", basically shitting on the band and Radiohead just basically said "What? Everytime we do something different you bail on us? **** you then." Kept their good fans and ditched the shit ones.
OK Computer was a terrific CD (If you have a chance, pick up 'Strung out on OK Computer.' A string quartet did the entire album. Made me love 'Let Down' on a whole new level) Kid A and Hail to the Theif are far better.
I love the Techno/Rock/Blues kind of feel. That is the way I see it anyways. The bass lines and the electric drums are put to good use.
That is the problem with most bands now... they are afraid of change.
Yep. Mainly just afraid of losing fans.
Radiohead haven't compromised themselves for anyone. People who have followed them did so no matter what and realised what was happening, the musical evolution. People who tried to halt the progress and drag Radiohead down just so they could continue to understand what was happening, just got left in the dust. Rightly so too.
-AC