5th Graders and Radiohead

[Nie Trink Wasser]

finally, someone has produced an opinion of radiohead worth reading about. :roll:



in order to solicit an honest, undiluted opinion about Radiohead, you'd have to find the proverbial People Living Under Rocks. As People Living Under Rocks are unavailable, let's use fifth graders.

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We will play a career-spanning selection of Radiohead songs;

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We begin with Hail to the Thief, Radiohead's latest, a critically adored and hopelessly muddled platter of art rock weirdness. The kids shift restlessly as "2+2=5" sputters into guitar-and-drum-machine gear.

When Thom Yorke's famously tortured croon first surfaces, the whole room starts giggling.

Giggling.

...........

Unlikely. Returning to Hail to the Thief for the grand finale, Mitsi's announcement that "Sail to the Moon" will be our last song earns a chorus of "Yessss" and several robust fist-pumps. Thom has made few fans.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2003-09-17/music.html/1/index.html

[Prospero]

Fifth graders? They would ask organisms whose sole existence is comprised of MTV and whatever other garbage television and radio spews into their heads to comprehend something without first being told that they must like it because it's #5 on TRL (Total Request Live on MTV)?

Well, now that we have a fully developed example of an exercise in futility, can we go back to ignoring what critics have to say and just enjoying something for what it's worth to you, the only person whose opinion truly matters?

[Nie Trink Wasser]

Originally posted by Prospero
Fifth graders? They would ask organisms whose sole existence is comprised of MTV and whatever other garbage television and radio spews into their heads to comprehend something without first being told that they must like it because it's #5 on TRL (Total Request Live on MTV)?

Well, now that we have a fully developed example of an exercise in futility, can we go back to ignoring what critics have to say and just enjoying something for what it's worth to you, the only person whose opinion truly matters?



:roll: :roll: :roll:


hahahahaha

as if you don't suck the teet of the music-critics and pander to the crowds that consider radiohead-farting-into-a-microphone a work of joy.

[Prospero]

Originally posted by Nie Trink Wasser


hahahahaha

as if you don't suck the teet of the music-critics and pander to the crowds that consider radiohead-farting-into-a-microphone a work of joy.

:rolleyes::rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Truth be told, I discovered Radiohead by accident one night on an mp3 binge session. "Idioteque" had an interesting name, so I downloaded it and soon fell in love. I remembered watching the music video for "Paranoid Android" years ago and being amused with the fat man in the spiked leather thong, but that was my entire perception of Radiohead. It was a fluke that I managed to miss them for so long, but my eventual discovery, I'd like to think, was a valid and unbiased one. All things considered, I think it better that I found them the way I did than following the hype, as you so clearly seem to exhibit scorn for so doing.