Radiohead Minidisc

I was still listening to Iron Maiden in the 1990s, although with diminishing returns. I recall RATM, Pearl Jam and Faith No More were "new" and big. Achtung Baby had made U2 cool (rather than just annoying), so when Zooropa came out, students at my uni held an outdoor listening party in the quad. Good times. But rock was dying too. Grunge stuck the boot in and rap almost delivered the coup de grace. Almost.

Music returns to its primal states when it has no direction. The Balladier and the Metaler

I don't want to spoil your school memories Dysan, in fact I was referring to Wizard and Kurgan (one of those rare occasion when they are associated).
It must be this beautiful music who brought them together.

I was adding to the hypothesis.

We've all gone Radiohead Ga Ga

Or we're rushing Radioheadlong into it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NjISA-FIIA

These guys were also cool for a while -- probably the most accessible hip hop band for white Irish guys like me :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disposable_Heroes_of_Hiphoprisy

Other popular student bands like The Orb left me confused, alone, and frightened for the future. Those feelings have never really gone away, although can be alleviated by listening to the Rolling Stones and other dinosaur rock.

I was similarly stranded on my own little island while schoolmates lapped up all sorts of awful 90s stuff. I can listen to most of it with a sense of wonderful nostalgia now, but back then, I was really concerned.

No wonder Britpop happened. A whole generation breathed a big sign of relief at the stay of execution.

[QUOTE] [b]aristide1 wrote:[/b]

Art rock, alternative rock and experimental rock genres (with a touch of electronica and space rock) usually describe alienated music for alienated audience.
It's a surprise to me that people with allegedly high musical tastes talk about Radiohead and Muse.

Maybe your children used to listen this music and you empathize with them...[/QUOTE]
I actually introduced my Daughter to Muse and took her to her first Muse concert in 2007.
I had been following them since their early days, when my daughter was listening to the Spice Girls.
I still like Muse, I think they are a great band.
My Daughter later moved on to Radiohead, and I think I can safely say they are still probably one of her favourite bands to date.
She also moved on from physical releases, and I inherited almost every Radiohead album from her when she left home.
I have listened to them all, many times, and grew to like them a great deal.
This is how discovering music sometimes works, which doesn't surprise me at all.

Coincidentally, she is off with her mum tonight to see.........The Spice Girls.

[QUOTE] [b]aristide1 wrote:[/b]

Art rock, alternative rock and experimental rock genres (with a touch of electronica and space rock) usually describe alienated music for alienated audience.
It's a surprise to me that people with allegedly high musical tastes talk about Radiohead and Muse.

Maybe your children used to listen this music and you empathize with them, or you are an amateur musician who feels that your playing is as good if not better than theirs, etc.
Because I can't imagine you actually like this kind of anti-music.[/QUOTE]

"Anti-music", or more generally "anti-art", has been the go-to slur for the second-rate music critic utterly unable to comprehend what's placed before him since Eduard Hanslick.

The way you use the term alienation strongly suggests that you've heard it somewhere, didn't grasp its meaning quite fully enough, and are now delighted to have the opportunity to use it...only to *just* fail.

But at one point, you actually strike home and say something that, were it not obvious that you didn't mean it that way, would have been truly insightful:

[QUOTE]Because I can't imagine you actually like this kind of anti-music.[/QUOTE]

That's the whole point - you can't imagine it. This has nothing to do with the music (or "anti-music") in question, and everything with your utter inability or refusal to consider anything that falls outside your comfort zone. Although you (knowingly or unknowingly) combined a traditionalist conservative view of music with Marxist social theory, the irony is that you are doing so in the most petty-bourgeois way whilst feigning a kind of enlightened radicalism.

It truly is regrettable that you probably don't understand any of the above.

[QUOTE] [b]aristide1 wrote:[/b]

Art rock, alternative rock and experimental rock genres (with a touch of electronica and space rock) usually describe alienated music for alienated audience.
It's a surprise to me that people with allegedly high musical tastes talk about Radiohead and Muse.

Maybe your children used to listen this music and you empathize with them, or you are an amateur musician who feels that your playing is as good if not better than theirs, etc.
Because I can't imagine you actually like this kind of anti-music.[/QUOTE]

Haha, and idiots say I am trolling...
In reality this debile is trolling:
[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

They are the most important band of the past 25 years.
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Opinions are like Radiohead leaks. Everyone has 18 hour-long files of them.

I would like to give them a listen, I imagine.

[QUOTE] [b]The Kurgan wrote:[/b]

I would like to give them a listen, I imagine.[/QUOTE]

Highly recommend to have a listen.

Yeah it's great. Like I say, I'm not a huge huge fan but it's like an audio documentary - or flicking through a scrapbook. Recommended.

I've been thinking how I'd tackle it if it was, say, a similar volume of Bowie '71 / '72 material. Headphones on, sat on my beanbag eating crisps. Get into the 1970s, absorb the majesty.

So I've heard about the term alienation, don't now what it means but I'm delighted to use it. Are you serious thomasquinn?

You certainly don't miss any opportunity to present me in an unfavorable light, but despite the increased budget allocated for this purpose over time the result it totally opposite, believe me.
You only manage to define yourself as an intellectual stalker, a rare breed but not superior to the ordinary stalker, since your distilled comments display even more meanness and lack of truth.