why'd don't you post some songs/youtube clips to PULL the people in to the subject? i have no idea who this guy is but i was already to press PLAY and learn.
oh NOW you tell me Grimes and her pussy rings was on that boat! that Jarvis lecture woulda freaked me out with giddiness, he's the freaking James Bond of all post 70s british music. (sorry Bryan Ferry, you try too hard)
Marr's just amazing, Morrissey has gotten all the 'pub' the last 20 yrs but Marr is just the same amazing Marr as ever. It's still too bad he's never really joined with someone to make a really BIG band, but there's still time as it appears he's got great genes...perhaps Radiohead could add a 3rd/4th guitarist???
oh it is, sorry i've learned to not read their stupid write ups haha...they're normally just their own stupid interpretations from a 23 yr old music fan/non musician pov.
sigh the only thing good i can say is this MIGHT get some kids wanting to investigate Alice In Chains so it might do some good, cause i guess if this was the first time i've ever heard this i'd still think it was good...even though it's really not. and guitar-wise, its really bugging me he's skipping a chord in that main part and skipping to the last one, spose to be Em/G/D/C i believe, he's skipping that quick D. (and yes music nerd D FLAT i know i know haha, 1/2 step down derrr)
oh GOD...don't ruin Nutshell for me?! sighhhh...fine i'll give it a 20 second listen but fuck me...it's a great song and it's easy to play and it's powerful BUT with the wrong vocalist, ie HIM, it's gonna come off like 'that cancer movie kid' covering Nirvana...
Whoever signed off on them doing an instagram video needs to be...well we can't say THAT word right now but you know...how about 'bitch slapped?' ontop of that the song is just sadly not that good, hopefully this is just a C grade album primer and they have at least a few better nuggets stowed away. this song sounds just like a leftover Laye track from the last album they ever did with him, except with NO Layne, i e horrible sounding w/out that edge.
PUSSY RING POWER!!!!!!! weird though that they'd love the Grimes album that much yet have LDR so much lower...and Ariel Pink has a new album and Sgum hasn't hyped it to hell?! YET?!
Nice to see the love for First Aid Kit, those girls are teen Swede magic:) And EmmyLou is without question the Song of the Year...where's Lana though? Ride added to her album makes it clearly top 15 worthy, that's a bad omission.
i'll reply to myself since they won't let me retort to you...All the singers you just listed i can promise you will never EVER claim to be great vocalists, they sing because they CAN, in tune, and with fairly distinctive styles...but that doesn't mean one is a great vocalist. talents musician overall etc, sure, but that's about it. Homme's a great guy but his vox are pretty boring overall, not exactly mr dynamic, same with Grohl, who is basically the king of yelling in-tune. And you can bet I like Oasis all you want, the only song by them i ever liked was Supersonic, Liam's a worthless nasally singing prick, he's literally turning into Bob Dylan if you've heard him on live lately-see Letterman etc. But like I said, there's way more HQ female vocalists out there than male. David Gilmore's always been a boring singer too, lots of famous good musicians are boring singers who barely 'get the job done.' But if the songs are good enough, people can look past it.
hahahahaha, that's funny. Lanegan went from normal cool 90s singer to thinking he's Leonard Cohen now, vomit city. Homme is someone who sings while he plays great guitar, probably more out of laziness than anything else. If you can find an article somewhere where he claims to be a great singer (or anyone else) let me know. The other 2 i'm not cool enough to know, but there were lots of other singers too, way too many lightweights who are all basically has-beens and were never that great in the first place. If I were them i'd go for more HQ female singers, a lot more of them than male out there, Karen O anyone, Shirley, PJ, Ladytron, Goldfrapp...
unkle went to poop as soon as they branched way out with the guest vocalist they'd use, they went from ian brown thom yorke and richard ashcroft to all these worthless american band singers, that's when they totally lost me...plus the songs just weren't that good. they lost that EDGE...that eye of the tiger, they need to go train with apollo creed i tell ya what.
Andre 3000=the black Axl Rose...i'm surprised it's taking THIS long for the hate to finally start coming out. ya know this IS 2012 Dre...you don't have to do a FULL album to appease the fans if you don't want to, just release long singles or eps or one off singles w/a couple cute vids here n there.
Someone should DJ for all the angry Obama haters making their giant caravan trek to Canada...i'd save the Curb Your Enthusiasm song for the very end when they're told to "Get lost ya hosers!" :)
I would've left off Just Can't Get Enough....cute song but that came out when they were trying to be a new wave pop act...it's like Creep being on a top 10 BEST Radiohead songs list....yes some people would still wanna include it BUT it doesn't belong. I woulda replaced it with Strangelove or Question of Lust.
HTTT live track are better than the Bends live, but barely...but The Bends will always have my heart, it's so good. and most the songs are fairly simple especially compared to OK Computer, but yet SO pure.
Those Bends videos though still make me swoon....totally take me right back to 1996, the peak of videos and MTV actually being "GOOD!" 120 minutes, live in studio performances...'those were the dayyyys.' god the music biz is so fucked now compared to then, it's sad.
How many bands out there even have 7-8 albums WORTH ranking and fighting over? Most you'd fight over the top 3, and say screw it to the rest, this is what Radiohead so great, the amazing high quality. And yeah, their guts to totally change from album to album...most other artists who try that trick I wanna choke (cough PJ Harvey cough).
1) OK Computer...name me ONE other album ever made where the first SIX songs each punch you in the face with flawless perfection...i'll never get over it. THEN you get a mini-break in the middle to get your bearings back, then they give you the knockout punch w/ the last 4 tracks, including the most perfect closing track ever. I think of that album as an amazing book or movie, where you always tear up at the end...cause you want it to keep going.
2) The Bends- I listened to the Bends for a year and never got sick of it, it really grabs you after a few listens through...you don't even really notice Sulk and Black Star the first few listens, or get the genius of My Iron Lung cause you're too under the spell of Fake Plastic Trees, The Bends, High and Dry and Street Spirit. And if you think High and Dry has lost it's taste, either re-watch the awesome video OR even better, the last 20 mins of The Newsroom (episode 1 or 2, can't remember) where they play High n Dry in the background...it's amazing and adds a ton of power to the moment. Oh and if you need a reason to cement The Bends at #2, just toss in the MOUNTAIN of A+ b sides they churned out for this album...amazing. Songs that not only would be on anyone else's album, but 1/2 would be SINGLE worthy.
3) Hail to the Thief. Radiohead was right, a few songs less AND a couple more weeks putting the oldschool RH shine on this album and it would be thought of surely as another masterpiece. The reason this album deserves #3 is because the songs made for flawless/instantly perfect LIVE tracks, and they're still favorites cause they sound so great...There There, Where I End and You Begin, We Suck Young Blood, 2+2=5, Scatterbrain, Go to Sleep, Myxomatosis, Sit Down Stand Up, AND The Gloaming are all brilliant when you hear them live, and jesus they were at their peak on that tour, FLAWLESS.
4) Kid A. amazing, powerful, way way ahead of it's time...Muse WISHES they could make an album like this haha. My only beef is it kinda dies off the last 3rd after the amazing first few tracks through Idioteque. (and it's a couple tracks short of feeling like a full album)
5-7=TIE! The King Of Limbs/Amnesiac/In Rainbows. I really think these 3 albums are pretty much equal. Right now cause it's 'freshest' I like King of Limbs best, i love the edginess of it and even though it's pretty DJ Thom Yorke-ified, Codex, Lotus Flower and my favorite Separator really bring it some nice soul. And if you add in a few other tracks like someone else did above, Hearing Damage, The Butcher and the other few one-off tracks they've released the past year or 2, it really makes for an awesome listening experience.
In Rainbows i'll always hate and love...overall it's missing some MEAT, the songs sound way too similar and that is boring, BUT the great songs are still there. All I Need is flawless and powerful, Nude is everyone's oldschool unreleased favorite from the late 90s and is brilliant even though us oldschool fans like the Hammond Organ version 100x better than the stripped down version, BUT at least they finally recorded it. Weird Fishes is great, sounds amazing live, and Videotape is a classic Thom pretty one.
Then there's 'the forgotten album' Amnesiac. I hardly ever listen to Amnesiac unless i make my own CDR where i mix Kid A tracks with it i must admit, BUT....Spinning Plates will always be a favorite, especially the live version on piano, brilliant:) You and Whose Army is another perfect live track, everyone who's seen them live knows why haha, cause of mr comedian Yorke using that fish eye lens camera next to his piano to ham it up:) I also loved Crushed Like Sardines live, the live version they sped it up with Colin Greenwood using a nice fuzzy bass, very cool. Dollars and Cents is still cool live, Pyramid Song is def one of the prettiest songs ever, even though it never sounds as good live as on cd ironically...with most the other songs being the reverse. AND then there's Life in a Glass House, how genius are Radiohead to actually have a dixie band put that classic 'nawlins' sound on a song and it actually WORKS?! (MUAH, delicious.)
and of course 8) is Pablo Honey, simply cause it's Radiohead's DEMO ALBUM, essentially. They were kids in the studio, no idea how to record, weren't teamed up with Nigel Godrich yet, Thom was still scared to truly SING. (cough cough JEFF BUCKLEY anyone? everyone knows that story right? RH saw Jeff live in london whilST recording The Bends, and it gave Thom the encouragement to go in THAT NIGHT and record the vocals to Fake Plastic Trees, i LOVE that story...as I still love Jeff Buckley to death). I think someday for a laugh they should re-record this album, cause if it were only recorded better it'd be pretty great, Thinking About You/You, Creep and Stop Whispering are all very good songs, so's Lurgee...and once again cuz it's Radiohead, some of their b sides from this time are way better than the album tracks-Stupid Car, Faithless the Wonderboy, Coke Babies, Banana Co and Killer Cars:)
he is underrated but NOT in the metal world, they smartly worship him and he finally has his own signature G&L guitar too, i'm so tempted to get one haha, i used to drool over that guitar in their videos...
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