Word: radioheads
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...player: P: Choral pieces for my choir, Counting Crows. V: Dave Matthews Band, Madonna, Radiohead, Beatles, some random pop, lots of Bollywood songs, some classical music...
After tossing off some of his current rap favorites, Eyedea tellingly gives major props to a slew of reluctant mainstreamers, including Outkast (“the most important people in rap music”), Radiohead (“the best band still alive”) and the work of Beck and Sigur Ros. Like these artists, Eyedea wants to achieve success without personal compromise, a feat that may require not just building great songs but reconstructing the entire hip hop playing field...
...somewhat worrying when your musical heroes talk about packing their bags during their own zeitgeist. In the New York Times earlier this month, Sasha Frere-Jones quoted Timbaland: “I’m tired of stuff now, even stuff that I do. Coldplay and Radiohead are the illest groups to me. That’s music. Norah Jones is music. I love real music that I can play and never get tired of. The stuff I don’t get tired of is the stuff that’s musical...
...Dylan Mills), 19, speaks in a tangled local idiom in which choppah means knife, chaps are chains and sket means slut. In Britain, where most rappers still spit moldy American hip-hop cliches, Dizzee is celebrated as a rap original. (Boy in Da Corner beat out albums by Radiohead and Coldplay for the country's prestigious Mercury Prize.) But American audiences--who get Dizzee's album on Jan. 20, six months after the Brits--have a right to ask: What, exactly, is rap without words they can understand...
Simply protesting injustice can at times sound a bit like the line from “Karma Police” by Radiohead: “We’ve given all we can but we’re still on the payroll.” People protest greed and human rights violations while still wearing the clothes, buying the soft drinks and driving the cars that fuel the system they are protesting. International boycotts, the only real weapon against transnational corporations worth billions of dollars, may be the next step in keeping tabs on corporate abuses. Coke...