Word: radiohead
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...Radiohead are hardly new kids on the block, so perhaps my obsession needs some explanation. Firstly, I was a late convert; for years I steered clear of them, repulsed by what sounded like endless whiney songs about plastic and supermarkets. “Too long under fluorescent lights,” I thought. “Needs to get out, get laid and stop moping...
Secondly, Radiohead recently released one of the finest albums of their career. I have never been bitten by classical music the way I am bitten every day by pop music. But in the darkest crannies of my soul I know that classical music has a depth and a complexity to it that pop music, alas, cannot. This is something that rock music snobs try to obscure by knowing tens of thousands of different indie bands, and by endlessly dividing similar guitar music into different categories and genealogies. But for the prophet, there is a simpler solution: just listen to Radiohead...
Forced Premise hope to change the landscape of the Harvard music scene, as they are constantly developing their sound, writing new material and experimenting with different styles. They claim to cite flagship bands such as the Beatles, Radiohead and Deerhoof as their main influences...
...thought I was doing pretty well in bridging the "generation gap"--though my kids would say even this outmoded phrase betrays a certain cluelessness. In any case, my teenagers and I can readily agree on playing Radiohead and Coldplay during car trips. We laugh together at Queer Eye and Jon Stewart. Then there's Johnny Depp. My 14-year-old daughter and I are totally eye to eye on that one (as long as I don't remind her that he's closer to my age than hers). Luckily, we've been able to skirt such deal breakers as tattooing...
...little ocean and a few hundred years of history. In an age of monopolistic record companies and internet file-sharing, you could be forgiven for expecting everyone to listen to the same music—whatever the corporate gods see fit to entertain us. Everyone likes talking about Radiohead, everyone is afflicted with Britney Spears, Coldplay is everywhere on both sides of the Atlantic. But look closer, and the common tastes start to vanish...