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Rock is used to front men like Bono (who wants to throw his arms around the world) and Mick Jagger (who wants to throw his legs around the world). But Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, would just like the world to behave. His best songs--Fake Plastic Trees, Let Down, Pyramid Song--are written from the perspective of a perfectly rational person who thinks the rest of the world has gone nuts. As rock mantras go, this has all the sex appeal of "Get off my lawn!" But millions have been moved to heights of ecstasy by Radiohead...
...tempting to write off Longwave as yet another mediocre band benefiting from the success of fellow New Yorkers The Strokes. Although the two bands sound nothing alike, a tour supporting the garage rockers resulted in Longwave’s major label debut The Strangest Things. For all its arty Radiohead-esque guitar wavering and contemplative pop melodies, though, the new record is merely nice...
...Private Radiohead concert for my closest 20 friends and me. Let me know how arranging that goes, for sure...
Invisible Downtown is an American band of the old-fashioned REM school. Their lyrics are full of locale-specific imagery and stories of cruel women; one song even name-checks “The Great Gatsby.” There is little room for Radiohead-style navel-inspection in their power-pop broadside. “Power-pop” is an unfortunate term for anything except a large bubblegum balloon, but such are the vagaries of music terminology. Luckily, Invisible Downtown’s debut The Safest Place is one of the strongest arguments for the term?...
...bands have taken as much abuse for what they are not as Coldplay. The British foursome sold 5 million copies of its very good first album, 2000's Parachutes, but was slagged on both sides of the Atlantic because its abstract, lovelorn pop was neither abstract enough to be Radiohead nor pop enough to be Oasis. This middle existence between the brains and the brawn of British rock led Alan McGee, the manager who discovered Oasis, to dismiss Coldplay as "music for bed wetters...