boulez May 9, 2016 0 It seems there's a time in every white, male, middle class, suburban millennial's life where we, usually around the age of 13, fall in love with Radiohead. It's a perfectly natural reaction. Their melodramatic, angst-ridden screeds against vague ideas of corporate evil and heads of state fit perfectly into our newly minted interests in things we can hardly begin to understand. But you don't need to understand much to fully appreciate being holed up in your bedroom listening to Let Down on blast on our iPod alarm clock radio while thinking about your crush in Algebra who looked at you for a full 2 seconds that day. For their part, Radiohead has done well in transitioning these 13 y/os with burgeoning interests in music to transition to less juvenile acts. They've aped Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Can, etc and thusly led their teenage fans down that road. Fast forward to their latest, 'A Moon Shaped Pool'. Radiohead seem to have given up on appropriating genuinely interesting music in favor of rehashing what sounds like a mishmash of Coldplay's greatest hits. For any well-learned, well-listened educated person the fact that the album is bad is not surprising. Radiohead have never produced a genuinely good album in their careers.
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Henry Anderson
But, still, they served a valuable purpose in the lives of music fans by leading them to greener pastures. With their ninth record instead they give them the finger and point to A.M.-radio-Superbowl-halftime-life-insurance-commercial ""rock"" music. Rock in scare quotes because as much as they still retain their love for guitars and drums and bass this is the most flaccid sound ever produced from an ostensibly uproarious art form. I mean, Steely Dan managed to make tepid rock music sound nice by combining it with white-people-jazz and a supreme ear for melody but I can't say anything as redeeming for this heap Radiohead has put out. It's mid-tempo background music for 50 minutes. I almost don't want to call this music. 'Music' has the import of art. This sounds like computer-generated sound for playing in department stores meant to keep young shoplifters out of the store by boring them to tears.
Anthony Ortiz
>dat racebaiting
Sage
Michael Collins
only a white person would alienate black people by saying they're weird for liking radiohead in the pursuit of criticizing white people
Jace Reyes
>saying they're weird for liking radiohead they didnt say that
Evan Wood
oh Sup Forums
you just can't let yourself enjoy anything, can you?
Jordan Fisher
the review is solid. Eat it, you radiohead lover.
Ethan Harris
>sincerely comparing this to Coldplay >"solid"
wew lad
Ian Stewart
>Quite possible the most redundant and obvious form of trolling on this board and still replying
wew lad
Dominic Green
based boulez btfoing redditeurs from the grave
Levi Myers
so this is just a troll topic then
l8r m8
Josiah Davis
>Reddithead BTFO
Adrian Hill
>thought this was about Pierre Boulez
Carson Morales
It's not trolling. Your reddit is showing. How old are you? 18? 19 perhaps?
Joshua Gomez
Spot on tbqh
Cameron Kelly
GOOOOOOOES TO SHOW YOU WHAT A MOON CAN DO
Liam Anderson
roasted
Austin Long
This is amazing
David Sanchez
9.3 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly 9.1 D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah 8.9 Frank Ocean Channel Orange 8.8 Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown 8.8 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Despite being 13% of the population, blacks have made the best 5 records of the decade. What's your excuse white cucks?
Colton Ross
>Anaïs Mitchell Think you'll find she's white m80
Ethan Harris
can't tell if bait or not. either way here is your (you) OP
