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Artists that you HATE (that everybody else likes!!)
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I think a lot of people are just deterred by Thom's voice. I think it's great myself but I suppose it does have an inherent whine to it. Radiohead are far from public school boys making whingey music imo. Musically they're one of the only bands who I can say that each member is a smart unit in themselves and what they bring to the table.
Maybe it's that OK Computer very much dealt with the idea of paranoia and helplessness in a modern dystopia. I have to say that whilst this isn't life, it encapsulates a lot of people's very real fears of the direction the world is taking. They are making fantastic music but the lyrics are making statements and Thom's version of the ambiguous verse that verges on just abstract suggestions frees it from the idea that he's preaching through his music.
Take:
While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance
And this just feels like spinning plates
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land
And this just feels like spinning plates
Our bodies floating down the muddy river
Now the music in that is savage. It's I Will played backwards I believe. I'm a huge fan of ambient music and this is ambient with a real sinister vibe. The lyrics are there making no real statement at all yet each line is hugely suggestive. It's far from gothic poetry or self indulgent **** in my opinion and in the end it's a lovely almost painterly track that most can relate to from just watching television.
As for Thom being a w*nker in Meeting People is Easy, I really don't reckon he is. He was just being treated like a Rockstar (most of whom ARE w*nkers) when he clearly didn't think of himself as one. Watch him onstage and you can see how into it he is and they definitely appreciate their fans. No band their size does so much to interact with them and to please them. The guy heckling him just seemed like a complete window licker.
All in all, I don't buy it when people says they say they don't like them because they're whingey. I think people just hate them because a lot of people love them, and they don't want to understand why. I've met so many people who said they hated them until they heard one or two tracks that they actually liked and then went to explore them more. At the same time I can accept people not being into that style of music.0 -
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DEF LEPPARD - Walking "Shark Sandwich" review.
MARK RONSON - Should have a trumpet stuck his jaxy.
TOOL - No time for them at all.
M. PEOPLE!!! - Luckily enough they're gone now but they were HUGE ( in terms of popularity not height) in the 90's.
RUPUBLIC OF LOOSE, ASLAN, THE CORONAS, CHRISTY ****in' MOORE- I could name loads more overrated Irish acts that I dislike.
Not an artist now but a song that annoys me would be the national anthem "Amhran na bhfiann" and "Irelands Call" to boot I'm not a fan of them being played at the end of social occasions....though I should add I'm not a fan of any national anthem or the idea of a nations anthem.
Ha it really does feel great to get that off the chest!!
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