What will the general attitude towards Radiohead be in twenty or thirty years?

that must have been really 'neat' for you.

They haven't gotten round to that one yet :-)

madonna might disagree with that.

OK Computer = Sgt Pepper
Kid A/Amnesiac = Two Virgins

Great analogy - but I suspect more appropriate on the Coldplay thread than this one.

Geir, are you forgetting that Kid A was a US #1? Arguably, they were even more ubiquitous during that period than even when OK Computer came out. Neither Kid A nor Amnesiac were "marginal" releases.

Anyway, I don't really care what the general attitude towards them will be. I will always remember them fondly.

madonna might disagree with that.
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bjork might argue too.
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I think the word "successfully" appears there, which would disqualify Bjork.
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xpost(s) - Can we just give Nicolette the credit & stop worrying about it?
(That said, I only heard her second record & didn't much care for the vocals tbh).

Madonna? has Madonna ever been first at anything in a strictly musical sense? Love or loathe her for it, music provides the means to her end. The oxygen of publicity giving her the space to become the meta-media-entertainment figure she is. No bandwagon is un-jumpable on in her quest.

Pinning Björk as "fusing IDM with rock/pop" seems an oddly retroactive, scholarly and very, very reductive way of approaching her work*. If I hear some beats in 'Homogenic' that are close to 'Chiastic Slide' Autechre, it's only because I've had it suggested to me after the fact. There's so much more going on than that influence-wise. She's as much a contemporary of many of her influences as a 'follower'.

*Hell, this goes for Radiohead too, although their 'influences' are more easily spotted, much less absorbed & naturalistic imo. The fact they are reproducing electronic(a) music on more traditional instrumentation has given them something of a disguise though. It clearly winds some people up something terrible, how dare they! :-D

*whistles Bob Marley*

probably not. has radiohead?

i was simply pointing out that ray of light came out way before kid a.

What else on there besides 'Frozen'* is IDM-ish btw?

*which sounded like a shameless 'Homogenic' rip-off at the time to me.

I don't know if it still would if I heard it again today.
It just seemed a peculiar way to 'thank' Björk for writing the title track of her previous album back then.

The royal 'we' I presume.

Most. "Knives Out" and "Optimistic" aren't too bad, but the rest are go nowhere. They are repetitive, monotonous, lack an obvious chorus etc. etc. They lack climax simply. You may call the kind of song I want "formulaic", but there is a reason for that formula. It is there because it works better than anything else.

I make the Beatles analogy only because no one since the Beatles has written better music. Obviously they haven't had the cultural impact, etc., but hopefully popular music will progress in such a way that, in the future, people will listen back and realize how important they were.

― Nigel (Nigel), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 21:43 (6 years ago)

radiohead is a good band

Personally, I think they're important for being the first band to successfully fuse IDM (or whatever people call it these days) and rock/pop

madonna might disagree with that.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, June 2, 2005 2:41 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
bjork might argue too.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, June 2, 2005 2:47 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm! also, tori amos.

i wonder if they'll reboot bands like they reboot movie franchises, and this will be the only way people of the future can find meaning in it.
conceivably gorillaz could be resurrected by pixar indefinitely.
not looking forward to jj abrams jr.'s radiohead.

wait, madonna did pop + idm? if generic trancey beats ala William Orbit = IDM to you, smh. am i missing some great madonna track that fuses pop + idm?

I doubt they'll be making music together, but they will certainly be considered among the "canon" by one "The Bends"/"OK Computer" camp and one "Kid A" camp.

I can see OK Computer being reissued about a million times

If the CD survives, that is....
(Which I believe it will, but obviously streaming is a bigger threat towards the CD than digital downloading ever was - because streaming is legal and earns the artists money)

radiohead is a good band

― fela cudi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:24 PM

boom

they could redo the whole album digitally like george lucas and make it rhyme more.

or remove Thom Yorke completely and make the albums pleasurable to listen to

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