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Old 06-10-2010, 06:14 PM   #2651 (permalink)
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Yeah, no doubt. I'm sure it was revolutionary at the time. I did manage to connect with Kid A about 8 years after it was released though, regardless of that kind of impact.

Those kind of things must be exciting. Seeing as I've only been into music for 4-5 years now, I haven't gotten to see anything too towering happen in music. I'm just going to keep waiting.
KidA never did much for me but that's a whole other can of worms haha

i've felt bad for your generation for a while though, the internet really changed everything. i remember the dominance of AoR and hair metal prior to Nirvana coming and going, and at this point i really don't see how it's possible for another group to come along with that much impact. things are both changing too quickly and remaining far too stagnant. target markets for pop acts keep getting younger and shiftier and with the popularity of reunion tours few has-beens are fading away. the attention whores from the past are still clamoring for the attention of the net. the 'music' stations have dropped their facades and owned up to being nothing more than peddlers of pop culture tripe - and most people seem okay with this. *shrug*



*edit to reply to the above* A one-hit wonder until OK Computer??? yeah because High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, and Just really didn't do anything at all on the charts... they might have not eclipsed Creep but they were hardly a one hit wonder. hell, Just routinely gets ranked as one of the best videos of the 90s.
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*edit to reply to the above* A one-hit wonder until OK Computer??? yeah because High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, and Just really didn't do anything at all on the charts... they might have not eclipsed Creep but they were hardly a one hit wonder. hell, Just routinely gets ranked as one of the best videos of the 90s.
alot of times the term "one-hit wonder" can refer to band that scored a massive hit on the charts and whose subsequent attempts at singles didn't get nearly as large of a hit as their first one. it's not like these bands give up and stop trying to make stuff for the radio anymore, just that they became eclipsed by their one song.
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isn't this one of the main reasons for this entire site?

what's next? a thread made specifically to banter about music?
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Old 06-11-2010, 12:51 AM   #2653 (permalink)
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^right, only i clearly remember 1995 and the fact that for a while you simply couldn't turn on a music channel without seeing one of those 4 videos (can't believe i forgot Street Spirit - which actually charted higher than Creep). the singles for 'The Bends' were not minor hits, they're the reason they were able to take the chances they did with OK Computer.

to call them a one hit wonder until OK Computer is just wrong, not unpopular, wrong.
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Well, since this is the subject atm and it's the unpopular music opinions thread and I'm a professional hater, even though it will bring about alot of hatred that I cannot possibly recover from... *prepares to defend self from relentless attack* I think Radiohead is overrated and generally are not very good.
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ATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

I love them, but if we all felt the same it would be boring.
And if we had to go with the majority, we'd all be listening to crap.
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I will say they do have some good songs: Just, Paranoid Android and Creep. I haven't heard everything from them, but I do enjoy those three.
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Old 06-11-2010, 03:44 AM   #2657 (permalink)
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Well, since this is the subject atm and it's the unpopular music opinions thread and I'm a professional hater, even though it will bring about alot of hatred that I cannot possibly recover from... *prepares to defend self from relentless attack* I think Radiohead is overrated and generally are not very good.
I absolutely agree.
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Old 06-11-2010, 07:12 AM   #2658 (permalink)
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I will say they do have some good songs: Just, Paranoid Android and Creep. I haven't heard everything from them, but I do enjoy those three.
All of those songs you listed are pretty mediocre/barely good (OKC pushers would say otherwise about Paranoid Android, but that's them).

Where am I missing all of this stuff from? I have never once seen Radiohead given unanimous fan boy praise. None of their fans have ever claimed they're the saviors of music. Are people pulling these 'overrated' claims out of their ass, or is their some validity to them that I'm missing out on all of the time?

ps. The fact that they have a lot of plays on Last.fm doesn't justify anything. Neither do the end-of-decade/end-of-year lists littered with Radiohead releases, those are just music sources that purposely bias themselves to appeal to the fans of the music. I would hardly consider that overrating them.

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*edit to reply to the above* A one-hit wonder until OK Computer??? yeah because High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, and Just really didn't do anything at all on the charts... they might have not eclipsed Creep but they were hardly a one hit wonder. hell, Just routinely gets ranked as one of the best videos of the 90s.
Ok - maybe I'm wrong. I also remember '95 quite well but the last thing I would have done back then was to watch music videos or pay attention to radio charts. I was really into Jazz and underground rock music at the time.

All I remember is that I thought The Bends sucked and I personally didn't know anybody who even really cared about Radiohead at the time.
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All of those songs you listed are pretty mediocre/barely good (OKC pushers would say otherwise about Paranoid Android, but that's them).

Where am I missing all of this stuff from? I have never once seen Radiohead given unanimous fan boy praise. None of their fans have ever claimed they're the saviors of music. Are people pulling these 'overrated' claims out of their ass, or is their some validity to them that I'm missing out on all of the time?

ps. The fact that they have a lot of plays on Last.fm doesn't justify anything. Neither do the end-of-decade/end-of-year lists littered with Radiohead releases, those are just music sources that purposely bias themselves to appeal to the fans of the music. I would hardly consider that overrating them.
They seem to be more popular than they're deserving of, but there's a hundred other bands I could say the same thing about, most of them to a much greater extent than Radiohead, so... *shrug*
Also, the bolded part seems to epitomize overrated-ness. But maybe I'm just missing the point (which I seem to do very often these days).
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