I suggest you give In Rainbows more of a try. It is very accessible, and really opens up after 4 or 5 listens. If you like The Bends and OK Computer, you should love In Rainbows.
Oh I have it, and a like a few tracks, I just didn't find it as enjoyable as those first 3 albums. I think I'm just getting old and don't care anymore, ha.
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Also, about hipsters listening to Radiohead, Radiohead is far too popular for hipsters.
I've come to realize that most people who who call others hipsters usually have no idea what a hipster even is. I mean just look at Flame of Liberty's response for proof. They group everything they hate together into one hipster ball of scorn, whether it makes any sense or not.
Just had a chance to listen to this, and it brought the same reaction as the last few albums....meh. I guess I'm just tired of the blippety bleeps and the whiny Yorke vocals, and wish they had more melodies like they did with the first few albums.
OK Computer is still the pinnacle of Radiohead for me, and honestly my favorite album from the 90s. It managed to be fresh and interesting, while not forgetting that music is supposed to be enjoyable too. The Bends and Pablo Honey are close right behind for me. The rest of them? There's always a song or two I like, but a good majority live somewhere between forgettable and annoying.
My thoughts exactly.
People keep telling me how Radiohead keeps "trying new things" with each album. But quite honestly all the new stuff sounds the same to me. Even the mood is the same, a mixture of depressed and angry vocals.
The King of Limbs isn't angry at all. In Rainbows had Bodysnatchers and perhaps Jigsaw which were angry. Radiohead's sound has a lot of hope in it lately. Hail to the Thief was very angry and depressed, I'll give you that.
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I suggest you give In Rainbows more of a try. It is very accessible, and really opens up after 4 or 5 listens. If you like The Bends and OK Computer, you should love In Rainbows.
Also, about hipsters listening to Radiohead, Radiohead is far too popular for hipsters. Actually, that was one of the early telltale signs of a hipster: a huge music fan (not your casual top 40 listener who) calling Radiohead overrated. A sort of hipster litmus test. Now, of course, being "hipster" is essentially the new mainstream with kids, so has pretty much lost any discernible meaning.
Hipsters view of Radiohead is hilarious. Difficult, music industry defying, and always maintaining their integrity, they are practically god's gift to hipsters. But ask any good hipster and they'll tell you how Radiohead is pretty good. Then throw some barely masked, hipster imaged pop music at them and they are fat kids at a candy store.
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I've listened to the album a few times now and I'm not really sure what to think. After the first listen if it was any band other than Radiohead, I probably wouldn't have bothered going any farther with it than that. But since it is my favourite band I gave it another chance, and found myself getting into some of the songs like Little By Little, Lotus Flower and Codex. I'm not sure I'll get more into it than that though. I think after the dust settles it'll probably be pretty far down on my list of top Radiohead albums. I'm still listening to it though.
People keep telling me how Radiohead keeps "trying new things" with each album. But quite honestly all the new stuff sounds the same to me. Even the mood is the same, a mixture of depressed and angry vocals.
Disagree. This album has a completely different mood. Feels a lot lighter than their usual stuff. Almost loungey and playful at times. Separator is one of the most "feel good" songs they've ever recorded. Lotus Flower is a pop/soul song.
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Just fell in love with this album. Liked it (a lot) from the first listen, but just now surpassed my "love" threshold. In a league with all the others now. (Except maybe Pablo Honey)
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"Yorke was born on 7 October, 1968, in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. At birth, his left eye was fixed shut; the doctors determined that the eye was paralyzed and that the condition was permanent. Yorke's parents took him to an eye specialist, who suggested a muscle graft. Yorke underwent five eye operations before he was six years old.[9] Yorke's father, a chemical equipment salesman, was hired by a firm in Scotland shortly after his son's birth and the family lived there until Yorke was seven. During this time Yorke had to wear a patch over his eye.[10] He has stated that the last surgery was "botched," giving him a drooping eyelid.[11]"
