Secular Elation

Just bought OK Computer. Giving it a listen now.

Damn--now I have 2 albums to be busy with! So many songs, so little time.

DarkBronzePlant

I'll save you some time. Just throw a guitar down a long flight of stairs while simultaneously whining in a sort of half-falsetto manner. Try, but don't succeed, in matching whatever general sounds your falling guitar is making. And I guess throw in a drumbeat somewhere.

That's about what those albums sound like.

Silent Acorns

Could you, perchance, grace us with what qualifies as proper music in your illustrious opinion?

Secular Elation

Did they learn how to tune their fucking guitars for this album?

I know absolutely nothing about guitars, other than that they make cool sounds when people play them properly.

I don't know what settings Radiohead placed on their guitars, but their songs are awesome nevertheless.

Silent Acorns

I'll add my name to the list. Pablo Honey is, without doubt, their weakest album, and The Bends is their most underrated. Before they made The Bends, they were just "those guys who did Creep". After The Bends they became "those geniuses who also did Creep".

Secular Elation

Finished listening to OK Computer. I agree, one of the best albums to be released in the 90s. I need to give it a few more listens to more fully grasp it, but at first full listen, it is outstanding. Definite standout tracks are "Paranoid Android," "Karma Police" and "Electioneering," which is perhaps the rockin' tune of the album. I've heard excessive raves about "Exit Music (For a film)," but it didn't affect me all that well. Maybe after a few more tries.

At this point, I'd say that I enjoy Hail to the Thief more.

Hedwig

Adding my voice to those who've already suggested The Bends. OK Computer was my favorite Radiohead album until I heard The Bends.

August Spies

Translation: "I dont' know anything about music at all"

pariah

Does it really matter?

Often bands don't use the guitar in a conventional way...they tune the guitar to the floor and it is used as more of a rythm instrument . Then the bass or lyrics, even piano, provide the melody. Just b/c something isnt conventional doesnt mean that its bad.

NOTE: I have never even heard a radio head song but I assume that they use their guitars in a manner similiar to Korn, System of a Down...etc.

DarkBronzePlant

Hmm. I've played guitar for about twenty years, and have sang for about fifteen years. I have a minor in music, I've probably written about five hundred rock songs, as well as a number of baroque and classical pieces. I also play the piano/keyboard, and the saxophone and clarinet (although I haven't picked either one of those up in ages.)

I could explain to that the reason I really like "Creep", the only song by Radiohead I've ever heard and liked, is because although it only consists of four chords, those four chords fit together rather cleverly, in that the first chord is the tonic chord; the second is the mediant, which is typically a minor chord, but in this case raised to a dominant seventh chord, thus providing a chromatic passing tone between the tonic chord's fifth and the root note of the next chord, which is the submediant. But wait! They throw in a bit of deception, because that dominant seventh resolves to the subdominant chord, not to the submediant as expected! Finally, the fourth chord is again the submediant, but this time it's lowered to minor form, thus providing another chromatic passing tone between the subdominant's III note and the tonic's V note. So it resolves quite nicely when return to the tonic. Plus the guitarist gets some pretty impressive tones out of his axe.

Or you could just ask queue, AspenMama, scigirl, FamilyMan, or blamethegods for their opinion.



So... where were we? Oh yeah, the latest Radiohead sucks.