Mark

I love it :cool: So confusing though haha

That's not all that clear.

As this post notes though, that's plenty of time to pick up new influences. You might expect it to be more different. Not that it matters to me, though. A bloody fantastic record is still a bloody fantastic record, 22-year wait or not.

Very kind of you to say so. :D And very kind of everyone to give me thanks for that, I've never said something so popular on here :P I really want to do a series now with other well-known faces of music, but I'm not sure I have the time or rap consistency.

Dude TARDISes were grown, you can't build them... :P

THAT IS SO COOL

THIS ^ Thank you :D Genre is unimportant; it builds boundaries between types of fans. All music should unite us, regardless of its sound. We should base on quality.

I'm actually not that much of a Gatiss fan, though I know I'm almost completely alone in that view. All of his stories (The Unquiet Dead, The Idiot's Lantern, The Lazarus Experiment, Victory of the Daleks and Night Terrors) contain some kind of reveal, but it's not an "omg" moment like in a Moffat episode. They always resolve how I'd expect them to, too. If there's one thing Gatiss is good for, it's that he nails historical episodes more than any other writer of the new series. He's just a bit... boring. His Sherlock work however is masterful.

What's wrong with wanting your favourite band to release a great album? Catering for my tastes would be In Rainbows II, but I wouldn't want that, as that's no progression. And my name's Mark, for future reference, I know it must be a ballache typing out "mrkjhnwht".

It's alright, I just want one more great album before they finish. Three masterpieces in three decades would just be... unheard of.

In Rainbows?

I'd take post-2000 Radiohead to pre-2000 Radiohead every time.

Coldplay aren't indie dammit, sell outs sell outs Rihanna synths seeeeellllllllllllll oooouuuutttsssssssssssssss

Thom Yorke though would have this look on his face:

Sorry. Often, I misplace my swag. ... Chris: It’s Chris Martin bitch, you know who it is, I’m friends with Jay and Beyoncé, and hey, I’m doing Gwyneth! Play Glasto when I want and I sell out stadiums, but hey, I’m still a normal guy, I’m even vegetarian, I’m a charmer, my music puts a smile on your face, everybody wants to be in my motherfucking place, I’ve got millions of fans, and I’m loved by girls: make no mistake about it, I still rule the world. Thom: Chris, you’ve ripped off my band too many times, but you ain’t got the beats, and you ain’t got the rhymes, And Mylo Xyloto? What pretentious shit is that? Kid A means more and it was picked out of a hat. Your daughter’s called Apple, but you’re more Microsoft: your fans are forty something, middle class and posh; I could write better music with Chris Brown and a kazoo. You’re pathetic; not even I can fix you. Chris: Thom Yorke telling me my fans are middle class? Don’t you come from Oxford? You pompous arse. Pretentious? Isn’t King of Limbs about a tree? You’re a creep, when are you gonna disappear completely? You’re as boring as a fart and as geeky as Star Trek, you put the “idiot” in Idioteque, and as for naming my own fucking price; I wouldn’t listen if you paid me, it’s not quite Paradise. Thom: Paradise? You’re joking right? That shit is mind-numbing; I’ve been Pitchfork album of the decade, two times running. I’m effortlessly cool, when I’m dancing like a fool, but when you’re singing with Rihanna, I can almost see you drool, and disappear? You and whose army gonna make me? If I didn’t know better, I’d say “I think you’re crazy”; and girls only like you ‘cause they think you’re gay, I’ll always much prefer Travis to Coldplay: you crashed after Rush, and you’ve long been dead, you’re incomparable to the mighty Radiohead.

Exactly like the new My Bloody Valentine album.

It was alright, I just want one more Radiohead album to feel like a true event. A pinnacle of the year, an album that we'll still talk about years later.

Thanks :D I'm so doing a rap battle between Chris and Thom. <3

:o Radiohead rap song please. "If you're having girl problems, I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems, like the environment I got Jonny G stealing the "h" from my name, and all those hipster pricks in my fanbase, the shame! Rock critics who don't like Amnesiac, I'm from the ghettos of Oxford, what kinda talk is that? If you grew up like me, with a lazy eye, you'd understand why I'm such a miserable guy, I'm like "fuck you everyone, you don't understand me" if you don't like my lyrics, you can kiss my Grammys, got beef with radio, no we don't get along if they don't play my hits, well name your price for my songs and Tumblr users stealing Lotus Flower gifs just to try and get more likes, reblogs and hits, fuckers I don't know what you take me as so just understand the intelligence that Thom Yorke has I wrote OK Computer fucker, I ain't dumb, I got 99 problems like the environment."

I should probably be more excited about this than I am... ...please just be better than TKOL :\

Yeah, but you haven't actually told me the conventions of a rock song, which leads me to believe that you don't actually know, and you judge a song on how it sounds, not how it's constructed. In fact, when you talk about genre, you only mention the use of instruments; I've highlighted examples above. Rock is not about whether a song is played on guitar or not. Rock music, no matter the subgenre, is about the musicianship, the band set-up, and most of all the ethos. Having guitars helps - which, oh wait, Coldplay do - but rock and roll is and always has been more of a belief, a lifestyle, than just a genre. The Beatles always pushed rock music with their experimentation, and artists like David Bowie, Radiohead and Blur have continued this. I personally think Justin Timberlake is as much rockstar as a popstar. He pushes his music, has as much input as he possibly can, and writes it all himself. That's what rock means, to me. Just to repeat myself though, Mylo Xyloto was more than just the pop album you keep crassly labelling it; it included a Sigur Ros sample, ambient interludes, guitar riffs... it was in some ways, the most experimental thing that Coldplay have ever put out. It was commercial, but why do we have to keep defining an album by a single word? :(

It's Steven Moffat who's writing the special, and it's going to be 60 minutes long, apparently. Though I wish it was 90 minutes, like an episode of Sherlock :( If there isn't some kind of documentary, top 50 moments, or Doctor Who week in general on the BBC, I'd be very surprised. Good new though about the episode is that...

Don't know who that girl is in your photo, but she is fiiiiiiit.

What does make a song "rock" then? (And I'm not going by one critic at all, I'm saying that many critics enjoyed MX. I try not to make sweeping statements by saying that no one or everyone liked something.)