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>"My favorite Radiohead album? I guess it'd have to be Amnesiac."
>Kid A is the most experimental record of the 2000s.
>>65448031
no one thinks this
>>65448004
>>65448031
Stop.
>I pretend I don't like Radiohead on /mu/
OK Computer is the greatest rock album ever made
>>65448113
who the fuck is this guy anyway
i have this picture on my computer for some reason but no clue where its from
>>65448113
>rock album
>rock
>>65448129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfOuJ93sIog
>>65448129
its a meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0SyA-45pLA
>>65448154
>>65448157
holy fuck ahahaha
>I listen to /mu/-bait "art" rock bands
Radiohead, the most hyped and probably the most over-rated band of the decade, upped the ante for studio trickery. They had begun as third-rate disciples of the Smiths, and albums such as Pablo Honey (1993) and The Bends (1995) that were cauldrons of Brit-pop cliches. Then OK Computer (1997) happened and the word "chic" took on a new meaning. The album was a masterpiece of faux avantgarde (of pretending to be avantgarde while playing mellow pop music). It was, more properly, a new link in the chain of production artifices that changed the way pop music "sounds": the Beatles' Sgt Pepper, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Michael Jackson's Thriller. Despite the massive doses of magniloquent epos a` la U2 and of facile pathos a` la David Bowie, the album's mannerism led to the same excesses that detracted from late Pink Floyd's albums (lush textures, languid melodies, drowsy chanting). Since thee production aspects of music were beginning to prevail over the music itself, it was just about natural to make them "the" music. The sound of Kid A (2000) had decomposed and absorbed countless new perfumes, like a carcass in the woods. All sounds were processed and mixed, including the vocals. Radiohead moved as close to electronica as possible without actually endorsing it. Radiohead became masters of the artificial, masters of minimizing the emotional content of very complex structures. Amnesiac (2001) replaced "music" with a barrage of semi-mechanical loops, warped instruments and digital noises, while bending Thom Yorke's baritone to a subhuman register and stranding it in the midst of hostile arrangements, sounding more and more like an alienated psychopath. Their limit was that they were more form than content, more "hype" than message, more nothing than everything.
>>65448148
Not him but it is a rock album you fucking dunce.
>>65448113
i fucking love this guy
>>65448129
type into youtube, fedora guy tells people to fuck off
>>65448031
fuck that's one cool hat
>>65448184
this is why you're gay, scaruffi. this is why you're gay
>>65448148
What do you think it is?
>>65448004
>i prefer the live version of True Love Waits. Why? Three reasons: Pure. Freakin. Epicness.
>>65448184
seriously I'm reading this and realizing this is what a critic is. this post epitomizes the concept of "critic" so well. a barrage of words and observations that describe the music so little and the critic's own perceptions so much...
>masters of minimizing the emotional content of very complex structures
how can you say this about a song like "Optimistic"? How can you say National Anthem, Kid A, Idioteque etc are "complex"? this guy is just not adding up for me. I don't agree in the slightest with his wishfully "astute" observations.......
>>65448370
Something else
>>65448399
have an upvote my friend! :)
>>65448518
>>65448518
legitimate criticism can't exist for music or film, it can only exist in analyzing literature. Music and film "critics" are just reviewers
>>65448619
what makes you say this? (not trying to be a dick, I'm genuinely curious)
>>65448100
I legitimately think Radiohead is boring. I like In Rainbows and A Moon Shaped Pool though.
>>65448719
literature critique is based solely on text and thought, therefore matching and connecting with the text in the most pure and logical response. music and film reviewing is based on aesthetic qualities that don't wholly cover the piece, trying to match literary narratives to media that it doesn't concretely match, and the atmosphere that impacted the experience of watching the film/listening to the album.
>>65448184
>Thom Yorke's baritone
>>65448518
a critic gives his interpretations and contextualizes music. he isn't required to point out the elements in a song. he could, but in scaruffi's case he won't most of the time.
>>65448835
this makes no sense at all
>>65449013
he's literally a baritone
>>65449425
>he's literally a baritone
>>65449607
epic comeback, reddit. you're still wrong, tho
>>65448753
>Radiohead is boring
>I like In Rainbows and A Moon Shaped Pool
>>65448004
this is objectively true
>>65448031
nobody thinks this
>>65448399
nobody says "epicness" in everyday conversation
