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Radiohead week: The Bends


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Yeah I have and it ain't bad, but after OK Computer they started being all pretentious, thinking they were the best when they clearly weren't. They missed a great opportunity to be absolutely mega like U2 and they missed the boat with the downright awful, boring Kid A. It's a shame as they're talented but they are so far up their own arses these days.

 

Kid A was an amazing album, and one of the defining albums of this decade. Radiohead has always been moving in different directions and if you get a chance to listen to their albums, not one album is the same as the other. Honestly I'd rather listen to a band that changes their sound up frequently (Beck, Beatles), then bands that stay in the same niche most of their career.

 

Also Radiohead didn't want to become a mega success. If you watch Meeting People is Easy, they got pretty tired quickly of touring, and dealing with the media. That's what big acts have to deal with all of that time. It actually tired the band out so much that they were very close to disbandening. I think when you mention Kid A being boring I think that you are getting it confused with it being difficult to get into at first. For me it took quite some time to get into, because it's not as easy a first listen to as say The Bends.

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Favorite song – Black Star

Least favorite song - Bullet Proof

Most listened to song (iTunes/last.fm) -

Least listened to song (iTunes/last.fm) -

Favorite song musically - The Bends

Favorite song lyrically – Bones

Favorite line of the album - "I used to fly like Peter Pan, all the children flew when i touched their hands" and " I keep falling over I keep passing out when i see a face like you"

Most overrated song - High and Dry

Most underrated song - Planet Telex

Current favorite - Black Star

Favorite when you first listened to the album - High and Dry

 

What song best exemplifies each of the members off the album

Thom -Dont know them well enough to say

Jonny -

Ed -

Phil -

Colin –

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Yeah I have and it ain't bad, but after OK Computer they started being all pretentious, thinking they were the best when they clearly weren't. They missed a great opportunity to be absolutely mega like U2 and they missed the boat with the downright awful, boring Kid A. It's a shame as they're talented but they are so far up their own arses these days.

 

watching race cars go aroud in circles is exciting too!!!!!

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The Bends wasn't even the greatest album that year. Everyone know s it was Morning Glory by Oasis. Everbody seems to own a copy of that album but I don't know anyone who has The Bends. Radiohead are overrated, pretentious, snobbish suicidal shit!

 

You'd need friends to know anybody who owns the Bends.

 

 

P.S. Oasis are has beens.

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Oasis comment: ouch.

 

Everybody I know (Coldplayers aside) who owns Oasis albums owns The Bends.

But maybe that's because I have only one musically literate friend.... and I made her get every Radiohead album.

 

*sulk*

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Favorite song – My Iron Lung

Least favorite song – (nice dream)

Most listened to song (iTunes/last.fm) - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Least listened to song (iTunes/last.fm) - Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was

Favorite song musically - Bones

Favorite song lyrically – Just

Favorite line of the album - You do it to yourself, just you, you and no-one else

Most overrated song - High And Dry

Most underrated song - Sulk

Current favorite - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Favorite when you first listened to the album - Just

 

What song best exemplifies each of the members off the album

Thom - Street Spirit

Jonny - Just

The rest - no idea, they're all good

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