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its all fakeplastictunes' fault

this is a discussion forum, so you should be posting your explanations here, so as to facilitate discussion. you know. this just looks like you're attempting to drive traffic to your blog.

secondly, you press "reply" on the post you're replying to, then it appears below yours, rather than just in the big list. see?

except I wasn't 11, obviously. And I certainly didn't have a fucking Lighthouse Family CD to replace either.

I like the reply. I guess it encapsulates "The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A" as a trilogy. A trilogy with a twist, does it go further? I'd rate In Rainbows as their best album, I'm guessing I'm in a minority here?

Mixed up and dropped a few tracks from kid A / amnesiac to make a single album and then lost interest thereafter. Weirdly, I got into HTTT a few years after it came out and it's the only album I go back to. The whole In Rainbows / King Of Limbs lovefest I just don't get.

it's all about the "For a minute there I lost myself" bit.

I can't even calculate the music education I had based on taping CDs from the library, specifically Chester library. It was the pre-internet file sharing situation. I even remember the first time borrowing a CD saying to the librarian 'am I allowed to tape this without getting into trouble?'

I went into Chester library over Chrimbo and they've still got the same Big Star and Johnny Cash CDs that I borrowed 12 years ago! I wonder how many people have got the same pleasures as me over the same bit of plastic.

On topic, I got Pablo Honey out of the library on cassette, The Bends on CD and then I was old enough to swap my paper round for Somerfield shelf stacking to buy OK Computer myself on CD. Anything after that can get to fuck. The penny dropped when I heard 'Anyone can play guitar' on the Evening Session. The band post OK Computer do absolutely nothing for me.

Like Opera, I'm still expecting the penny to drop about Radiohead Kid A onwards when I'm a lot older and a do a face palm that I was so daft not to 'get it'. Tho I doubt it.

jfc

this is your most tedious work yet.

"I seem to be one of the few people who dares to challenge the Status Quo by criticising them"

:'D

with propa haircuts making propa music

I have given them several chances, and they have a couple of nice tunes, but I just don't love them.

for someone to say that people only like Radiohead because the music press do. But whether they would give some of their latest stuff a chance if it wasn't a Radiohead record is debateable. Same goes for any big band though really.

I wasn't a huge fan of them up until this point, as I kept highlighting to my mates who were all up for seeing them. I just couldn't get into them, but I ended up choosing to see them because, well, Lostprophets and La Roux, who are shit, were both on at the same time and I'd heard good things about Radiohead as a live band.

One of the finest live performances I'd seen hands down. Just phenomenal, and within weeks I was listening to Paranoid Android on repeat.

I still think Creep is ridiculously overrated (the same people who gush about Creep, the most simple song they've written, tend to be those who happen to praise Radiohead for pushing musical boundaries). However, Pablo Honey is such an underrated album. Stop Whispering is fucking superb. For all the times they've been branded as "downbeat" and "miserable" this is one of the most uplifting songs I've heard.

But OK Computer is my favourite. I might listen to it after The Holy Bible and before This Is Hardcore as part of a 90s trilogy...should I throw any nearby razors in the bin?

thinking there is a corporate indie band who will do anything to succeed, not for me

but it is just me that's secretly a bit happy that the two new tracks they put out are a little more, erm, tune-based?

OK OK, I'm getting old.

Jaw hit floor - I played the Drill EP to death and bored my mates with it. I then saw them support Kingmaker at Leicester Uni (with about 20 other people) and saw them another 3 times that year. They played a free gig at Nottingham Trent Uni!

I thought Pablo Honey was a little underwhelming and Pop Is Dead awful - I moved to France for a bit and forgot about them.

When I came back to England The Bends was being hailed as a masterpiece...missed some bragging rights there

I was 13, that was pretty much the thing that got me into radiohead, though I didn't really appreciate their post Kid A output till I was 15/16.

Would dance around the room air guitaring to My Iron Lung, then I sort of turned off music for ages. Spent then a lot of time listening to shit bands like The Killers (though also Gorillaz so not all bad), then In Rainbows came out and listened to it on repeat for ages, then went back and rediscovered Kid A and everything, saw them live in 08 in Manchester and was blown away (amoung my first concerts if you can believe it) and again at leedsfest 09 My broader music obsession rather blossomed from my growing obsession with radiohead.

Radiohead gradually dipped off into becoming another band among peers but always somewhat special for being the first, and still the one where I know the most trivia at.

halcyon days

What do I win?
Where's my parade etc?

..they are, right?! Jokes. Didn't really give them much of a chance.

HOWEVER, I was big into AFX/Squarepusher/Autechre/BoC 2002 ish, and a mate suggested I listened to Everything in Its Right Place and Idioteque. Could not believe that this was the same band! So I started with Kid A, fell in love with it, then moved backwards through their other releases and realised how great they were. By the time HTTT was released they were my favourite band -- I've since grown out of them a little, but still look forward to their new releases.