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...said Repete. He attributed that eclectic, hard-to-pin-down sound to the band’s varying musical tastes. Dispatch acknowledge everyone from Peter Gabriel and Cat Stevens to Stevie Wonder and Al Green when talking about their personal tastes; other influences and favorite bands include Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dire Straits. Slightly older than the other two, Braddigan admitted that he has “deep roots in the hair bands. Actually AC/DC is what got me into rock and roll...
...words comes out in the phrasing. "How does it feel?" Dylan famously asked on Like a Rolling Stone. We may not have known exactly what he meant, but we knew how it felt. Today's musicians have taken that lesson to heart. Thom Yorke of the British band Radiohead wrote some songs for his album Kid A by cutting up lyric sheets and pulling lines out of a top hat. The Icelandic band Sigur Ros sings some songs in a made-up tongue it calls Hopelandic...
...Radiohead BRITAIN Hailing from Oxford, this art-rock quintet spins futuristic songs about the disillusioned and the disoriented, about aliens and creeps--but often with a glimmer of hope. Key albums: OK Computer...
Given the fact that Britain has bestowed upon the world the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and, more recently, Radiohead, it's probably not surprising that the British press has historically been somewhat snooty about rock acts from its former colony, the U.S. So the reviews when the American band the Strokes hit London earlier this year were astonishing in their almost insane effusiveness. "They're Lou Reed, television and the Ramones rolled into one!" gushed London's Guardian. Britain hadn't so completely surrendered to a group of Americans since Lord Cornwallis handed over his sword at Yorktown...
...tinge, like the Cowboy Junkies on a bad trip. Yet despite the unremitting, minor-key downbeatness of it all, the album never reaches the depths of claustrophobia and despair that gives Cave his unique edge, and makes him so hard to stomach for most; instead it occasionally wanders into Radiohead territory. Her voice truly is an experience in itself—a gloriously wrecked set of pipes from the desolation of the moon, that at times has the gravely timbre of a suicidal Peter Gabriel. The lyrics are all of a piece with the music: “You?...