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radiohead - when did the penny drop for you?
O.K. I admit I didn't get Radiohead at all really until I saw the Jools Holland special in 2001. When did the penny drop for you?
http://midnightpunk.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/radiohead-the-penny-drops/
to reply to a tedious jag thread or not...
when I saw them live on the Kid A tour in 2000. had never really given them much time before, but they really were very very very very very good. went out and bought OK Computer the following day.
much agreed...
I agree strongly that the earlier material made sense post Kid A. I'm not sure what a "jag thread" is... apologies if i've done something wrong by linking my blog - I figured it explained my question in full...
don't worry
its all fakeplastictunes' fault
well,
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?
I was trying to find that 'how to reply' image you or someone made.
All I found was this: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/3857665
http://i42.tinypic.com/35ldhl3.jpg
*thanks to theShipment
Nice, though the one I'm thinking of is so old it was from the 'Peach-Era' of DiS colour schemes.
Funnily enough, it was on jools holland...
...they were performing Airbag, and everything just went 'click' into place. I seem to remember them performing Paranoid Android on the same show. Had a ropey taped copy of OK Computer within the week, and the rest is personal history....
I saw the video for Just on The Chart Show when I was 11
Bought The Bends on cassette shortly after it came out and listened to it on my Sony Walkman, replacing The Lighthouse Family as my album of choice at the time.
Oh wait, it was sort of this
except I wasn't 11, obviously. And I certainly didn't have a fucking Lighthouse Family CD to replace either.
Lighthouse Family Cassette
Ocean Drive, the debut album.
well I
randomly bought ok computer and thought hey paranoid android is a huge tune...then started listening a little more then some of the bends and then I knew they were very good.
"Just" video...
Again, much agreed about the "Just" video. It's a powerful video to a great track. Musically, the first time I listened to it I was so glad when the guitar cut loose at the end. One of the bands best ever tracks...
Well i realised that they weren't the be all and end all of music
and the greatest most inventive blah blah blah, when i stopped being a whinny teenager around the time hail to the thief came out.
They're a pretty good band though i guess
bought planet telex / high and dry single on a whim
high and dry kissed me; planet telex luked in the background on repeated listens proceeded to rip my clothes off and do bad things to me.
The Bends followed and a full blown love affair was born
Ok Computer clicked instantly.
Kid A took things to another level, etc.
Good reply
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?
'luked' should be "lurked"
I had to get REALLY depressed as a teenager before things 'clicked'.
Empress Ballroom - Blackpool
yeah, i'm a latecomer
i was listening to Now 34 [citation needed] on my Discman
and heard this incredibly emotional song, that made me well up like a babby. And i thought, this is the thing that music should do to you. This is something that every piece of music should do to you. That piece of music was Paranoid Android
Several years later, i left adolescence
Glastonbury 2003 coverage.
about 20 odd years ago....
when i first heard Creep.....ave some of that young un
In Rainbows
Only I still don't think of Radiohead as one of my favorite bands, so the penny really didn't drop that far.
Radiohead occupy a weird territory in my head, one where I admire them more than I'm compelled to pull out their records recreationally.
Simple answer: OK Computer.
Bought on tape at the recommendation of an old salesperson in a basement shop. True story.
And now you GET Radiohead?
Can you explain it to me then? I mean, OK, they were all "we'll not be a guitar band anymore" & that was cool for 2002, but where to now? I've been to Bjorkville and Jonsitown. I'M BORED. AREN'T YOU?
Fake Plastic Trees
I'm not as big a Radiohead fan as most on these boards but that's an outstanding song. Then there was a brief period after OK Computer where I absolutely loved them. I gradually lost interest after that though.
Incidentally I really hate the word "get' in terms of liking bands and films.
I heard Creep on a compilation
Thought it was pretty good. I bought the Bends when it came out but cannot remember for the life of me why, I was quite young at the time and probably just bought something I recognised when at my monthly trip into town record shopping. Loved it, listened to it to death on my walkman. I bought OK Computer when it came out, ditto. Loved Kid A (discman this time). After that, somehow I have lost my love of Radiohead, nothing has remotely interested me as much as those. I've even gone off OK Computer quite a bit, what did I ever see in Karma Police?
similar for me
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.
Re Karma Police
it's all about the "For a minute there I lost myself" bit.
they have a couple of ok videos
i guess
Copied The Bends from Solihull library on a whim and listened to it
repeatedly on my walkman whilst doing my paper round for years. Totally loved it. Then got the Paranoid Android 7" in Edinborough and was well impressed, saw them on the OK computer tour and they blew me away - probably helped they were supported by Teenage Fanclub! Kid A then happened and it was amazing too. Never quite been as in love with them since that time though.
Yes! This! To the library taping experience
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.
The opening chords of Planet Telex
and the first time I heard the lull in Talk Show Host. Being a self-absorbed teenager, this song did wonders. Still probably my favourite song by them.
Being self absorbed and listening to Radiohead is the best teenage experience ever
You're right
If the press didn't bum them so much, I'd realise I was wrong in liking them all along.
As opposed to... Not trying to be different? You've got to be trolling.
t try to be different
I had the 'Just' single when I was younger but I didn't really fall in love with them till
Kid A was released to be honest, I thought they were just ok. I later became obsessed (just before In Rainbows came out) and they became my favourite band for a time.
Kid A: full of MASSIVE IBEEFA BANGERS
How To Get Cunted Completely
Idioteque
No
trolling because you think that people only like Radiohead because critics have a hard-on for them. Like it's impossible that critics and listeners love their albums because they're... Well... Good?
Fair enough. I'm not being cynical or anything when I ask this, but what kind of music do you like?
I just got trolled by a themed account
jfc
well done
obvious troll is obvious.
Come on KiK
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
WE WROTE THIS ALBUM WHEN WE WERE ON THE DOLE, M8
propa bands
with propa haircuts making propa music
the penny remains lodged in
I have given them several chances, and they have a couple of nice tunes, but I just don't love them.
It is a bit much
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.
Leeds Festival 2009
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?
In that Reading/Leeds couplet
they played Creep in Reading but not Leeds, so you chose the right one then. :)
The only well known songs they played at Leeds were Just, There There and Paranoid Android
But the visuals and lighting were so hypnotising. The stage looked brilliant. I don't mind bands keeping it simple with their stage setups like the Manics or Springsteen but this was just wonderful.
And I was stone cold sober whilst watching them too!
The people who gush about Creep aren't the people who praise them for pushing boundaries.
The people who gush about Creep are the people who go on about they've spent the last 11 years being "pretentious wankers" and "need to start playing guitars again".
seeing them on the smash hits poll winners party circa 1995
thinking there is a corporate indie band who will do anything to succeed, not for me
I like pretty much everything they've done
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.
You're not the only one
The Daily Mail, is IMO, the greatest thing they've released in years
Prove Yourself played on the breakfast show on Radio 1
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
But at least you have an original pressing of the Drill EP
Which is probably worth a few quid.
you'd think so eh?
it was on tape and it died :(
Ohhhhhh... you literally played it to death!
I'd kind of forgotten that was even possible. The good ol' days, eh?
indeed
in fairness tapes were an absolute pain in the butt - got chewed up by walkmans cheaply made in Taiwan all the time! Vinyl too - that feeling of dread of getting the needle on the spinning record, clutching the receipt while waiting for scratches, jumps in the record - CDs were comparatively trouble-free in comparison.
That said - when they came out we were told that we could eat jam off them and use them as frisbees and they would still play fine...
The Bends at V2006 on tv.
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.
I loved the bends as a teenager and OK Computer
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.
about and at
still think they have the best b-sides
about NOT at, not AND at
Inside My Head
Great song.
Fifteen steps, then a penny drop
mid-nineties
halcyon days
Pop is dead
What do I win?
Where's my parade etc?
I used to think they were just a whiney Radio 1 type band..
..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.
When I heard 'Creep' round my friend's house
I then taped 'The Bends' off my neighbour's CD. Went off them after tat, because they're really not that good.
Oh actually, I went to see them on the OK Computer tour
It was, at that point, the most boring gig I'd ever been to. That's when I started going off them. Then at university there was a bellend in halls who used to play Karma Police on his acoustic guitar, that was the final nail in the er, coffin of my liking of Radiohead.
You say "It was, at that point, the most boring gig I'd ever been to"
implying that you have been to a more boring gig since then. Could you tell me what that was please?
As mentioned in another thread today, The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeroes tour
Honourable mentions: Richard Hawley, The National at Primavera (2011), and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci at Reading (2000).
Although The National are absolved because I was standing at the back and not really paying attention
Thank you
This information is extremely useful.
Let's show my age
It was when you could sometimes hear a preview of a new album on headphones in a record shop. I listened to about half of The Bends on a listening post. It was then a day one purchase despite me being a broke student.
The other day when I heard Motion Picture Soundtrack for the first time
I just got what the fuss was about!
hearing them on the radio live at Galway in 1996
I liked creep and a few of their singles before but that gig really blew me away. I went to see them in Dublin the next year a few weeks after OK Computer came out and a week before the Glastonbury gig. It was probably the best gig I've been to and although I loved their other albums and I've seen them live since I think that was their peak.
On the school bus with my mates in 1993
One of my friends was into heavy metal, the other into reggae and me into rock. So we were trying to agree on something we all think was cool, and then suddenly 'Creep' blasted out of the radio. Neither of us knew the song nor the band before that instant but it surely ended our little argument.
Heard Creep in 1992
but it wasn't till I heard Anyone Can Play Guitar when Pablo Honey came out that I really sat up and listened. Strangely enough, it was on a tape playing on the school bus...
It was the other way around for me
I went from obsessive to not listening to them very rarely.
argh doesn't make sense
I listen to them rarely compared to when I was a teenager.