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Old 02-21-2014, 08:09 AM   #2011 (permalink)
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Radiohead does have an annoying fanbase.
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Old 02-21-2014, 08:12 AM   #2012 (permalink)
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Thom Yorke is god! or so i hear.. >_>

i just see a really talented musician with a weird eye
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For me, Radiohead are really not my style (maybe it's Thom's voice) and possibly for those who are critical of them they are a pinnacle of The Alternative Rocker Complaint as Image, but at least they carry things off with an intelligence and innovation. I can find some ways to say that they're over-rated or on auto-pilot, but that's more of a personal opinion than anything else. For what they have contributed to music, however, all of that is set aside.

I like The Bends and OK Computer, and they achieved the feat of actually surviving one of the worst singles of The 90's, "Pop Is Dead" and the Early 90's criticisms of "Nirvana-Lite". A lesser band would have been sent down the river with the likes of Kingmaker (and I remember when Thom was wearing the Bowl Cut!). They may have over-zealous fans, but then again a lot of bands do, and in this age of Idols and Clear Channels that claim to "Heart" Radio, at least there's an alternative.

I don't know if I responded to the original question back in the first post, but that's my thought on Radiohead who seem to be seen as over-rated for understandable reasons although with a lack of historical perspective that can actually bring a little more understanding to what they do which has earned them their fans.
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REM is incredibly overrated. I can't stand them.
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Oh god, yes. If you don't like Radiohead, it's apparently against the laws of life and you should be crushed with a giant boulder.

Or so I hear.
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I've not seen an annoying Radiohead fan in a good while.

It's probably because they have nothing to be arrogant about now given that Radiohead has released the same album 3 times in a row.
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REM is incredibly overrated. I can't stand them.
I'll definitely grant you that they haven't done anything worthwhile in over twenty years, but their first decade+ they made some great stuff.
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I'll definitely grant you that they haven't done anything worthwhile in over twenty years, but their first decade+ they made some great stuff.
It's just not my style I guess, because I don't like any of their material.

Joe Satriani is an overrated guitarist. He's clearly a very skilled player, but he never does anything interesting beyond Surfing With the Alien. Beyond that album I find his playing to be too pretentious for my liking. Oh yeah, I think he played a hand in mucking up Steve vai's style as well.
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I agree wholeheartedly about late REM which consists of mostly all of the big songs, early REM are one of my favourite bands though. So. Central Rain man, what a song.
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Early REM - Chronic town through about Document is just about the greatest music ever. After that not so much.

As far as overrated, Joni Mitchell. Never got it.
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