OK... I'm gonna say it . Radiohead is whiney

[Dookus]

Sorry.... I know people think they're the Beatles, Elvis and Sinatra all wrapped up in one package. But mega-feh.

You're a rock star. Stop whining. SING, dammit.

[Donkeyboy75]

1. Put up your dukes, man.

Them's fightin' words

[Dookus]

6. I know, I know...

people just love that band for reasons I can't understand.

I've tried. I bought three of their CD's. I've listened to 'em. But sweet jesus in a sling, take a clue from Cobain. If all you can do is whine, off yourself.

[redqueen]

7. *GASP!*

*choke*... *sputter*... *cough*...

*thud*

[Donkeyboy75]

9. I like "The Bends" and thought they had done a good job on

"Amnesiac," but their other CDs are just, well, OK. But the two I like of theirs ROCK!

[redqueen]

11. What about Kid A????

Kid A is just "OK"?

:wow:

[Donkeyboy75]

15. Yep. Although that would be #3.

[redqueen]

2. But!

His whining is so beeeauteeful!

Bite your tongue!

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. And they haven't made a good record in a decade.

[redqueen]

5. You're a loony.

[St. Jarvitude]

34. You're kidding, right?

The Bends and Pablo Honey - their only albums released before 1996 - are their weakest by far. Pablo Honey was like every other "album" of the decade: one good track and filler around it.

The Bends is a little better and shows some major improvement in composition, but Radiohead fully matured as a great musical group with OK Computer and Kid A (and, to a lesser extent, Amnesiac, all were released after 1997.

[redqueen]

35. That's how I see it as well

I have both The Bends and Pablo Honey, and liked both, but wasn't raving over them yet. When OK Computer came out, I liked them more, but it was Kid A that floored me.

[rucky]

4. I can't believe we're both Democrats

we disagree on very nearly EVERYTHING else.

ouch!

[Ducks In A Row]

8. but he can whine in harmony

[Gothic Sponge]

10. I don't mind whining.

Some great bands had whiners:
The Cure
The Smiths
Violent Femmes
Dinosaur jr

[Dookus]

14. Every one of those bands

deserves a punch in the neck.

Don't get me fucking started on Morrissey...

[Donkeyboy75]

17. You're in trouble now. Fenris is gonna come after you.

[Gothic Sponge]

18. Blasphemy!!!!!

:)

[redqueen]

19. hehehehe

I'm with you GS, I love all those bands. :)

[NC_Nurse]

12. Yes, he's whiny

and I still like them...SO THERE!

[VolcanoJen]

13. And to think of the love I once had for you, my darling little sex-fish.

:-(

I'll fight ya to uphold the genius that is Radiohead,
JenJen

[Dookus]

16. Feh

I say... FEH!

my little coochmusket.

[Dookus]

20. And furthermore

I await the day Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant fulfill their suicide pact.

[redqueen]

22. Stipe I like

Merchant ... not so much. What is with that hip wiggling thing? My mom does that... ugh!

[arcos]

23. Michael Stipe used to be good...

I don't know why REM became so crappy after Automatic for the People.

[Dookus]

24. You nailed it

and like a sucker, I keep buying REM albums because I USED to love 'em. And they just manage to outsuck the last album each time.

[VolcanoJen]

29. 'k, cocksugar, I'll give you that much.

REM does possess an amazing ability to outsuck each album in a proportionate manner.

It's all been downhill since "Automatic For The People," if you ask me. Not that ya did. :D

[arcos]

30. I sold Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi

I needed a vacation but had no money, so I sold a bunch of CDs to a used CDs store. I still keep AFTP, though.

[Gothic Sponge]

26. I'll admit after AFTP their music hasn't been as good.....

However, i still love them and i'm looking forward to the new album.

[redqueen]

28. He's still a good singer

the songwriting's gone downhill though.

[arcos]

21. I'm not a huge fan, but Kid-A is a masterpiece...

And I've heard Heil to the Thief is really great too.

But nothing, ever, will beat Idioteque.

[redqueen]

25. I like everything on that album

but I must admit Idioteque is way up there. Love How to Disappear Completely as well.

[arcos]

31. and Morning Bell...

for me, those are the 3 best tracks on the album.

[redqueen]

32. Yes

Have to agree with that... one of my very favorite albums ever. Can't top Trespass, though.

[St. Jarvitude]

38. Motion Picture Soundtrack

Best use of organ EVER. Beautiful, haunting musical work. That goes for the whole album.

[St. Jarvitude]

36. Kid A is incredible

No other album I've listened to has such great flow. Yes, folks, that includes Dark Side of the Moon. When you listen to Kid A, you will understand.

[Pithlet]

27. Now you've done it

Something I disagree with you about. You're off my list of perfect DUers that always agree with me.

Actually, they are a bit whiney at times, and their newer stuff isn't so great, but I love OK Computer and The Bends.

[St. Jarvitude]

33. His vocal range beats 99.975% of what's out there mainstream

The composition talent of Radiohead is unmatched today by other "mainstream bands." I have a real hard time with people who say that Radiohead is not amazingly gifted musically.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Kid A is the best label album released since Houses of the Holy. Okay, maybe not that extreme - but definitely the best album of the 90s.

[flamingyouth]

37. I really don't like them

I think they're totally overrated. I'm the only person I know who thinks so.

Until you, Dookus! :D

[Dookus]

39. I know...

it's like saying you hate puppies or something. I think they're sometimes OK, but I don't get the deification.

[CanuckAmok]

40. Hmmm...a British pop group "whiney"? - I don't understand.

Okay, see if you can understand this:

England is a tiny island in the middle of the fucking Atlantic Ocean, where it rains every other day, has five TV stations, and gourmet cuisine consists of fried Mars bars and sheep brains on white toast.

All the beaches are made of pointy rocks instead of sand.

Most inhabitants' jaws are too small for their teeth.

In one generation, they've gone from being the dominant Empire on the globe to a marginalised colony of their own former colonies, and the most cheerful celebrity they've ever exported has been Morrissey.

Their beer is served warm.

They're still paying outstanding bills from Wold War 1.

The only cars they manufacture which don't break every day cost over $100,000.

They are ruled by a useless, inbred monarchy of foreigners, who owns 60% of the arable land in the Kingdom, and who's only likable member was senselessly killed by a drunk driver, in FRANCE of all places.

And they're not supposed to whine, why?!


And how do I know this? Because I. Am. British.

[RandomKoolzip]

41. They wrote exactly one (ONE) great song: "Electioneering."

Everything else is unrocking, glacial, muffled and uncommunicative. And frankly, pretty damn dull. I really don't get the appeal of music so introverted and stilted. Look up "overrated" in the dictionary, and there's a picture of Yorke, Greenwood, et. al. This generation's Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

But if ALL their songs rocked like "Electioneering," they'd be the best band on the planet.

On edit: And I bet that most rabid Radiohead fans don't like that song very much.