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My cosmic dude, have you seen the sheer amount of Matt Berry's solo records? They're all great. Dude is a treasure.
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My cosmic dude, have you seen the sheer amount of Matt Berry's solo records? They're all great. Dude is a treasure.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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Oh yeah. I've followed Berry since he killed it on Garth Marenghi but had no idea he actually played like... real music... until a few years ago. It's all surprisingly good but Witchazel is my favorite.
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Lou was a better songwriter than singer (although I do like his singing).
He wrote good pop songs.
HandshakeLine
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Dude threw away songs that would have been hits for anyone else.
Colin Hay does a fantastic cover of this.
Colin Hay does a fantastic cover of this.
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Currently in a Radiohead mood today after hearing them first thing on the radio this morning. Just got through Pablo Honey and now have on The Bends.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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If you feel like checking out something basically the same but different Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood put out a new album under the name "The Smile" that is pretty damned good. Though if I'm the rest of Radiohead I'd kinda be like "what the hell guys?"
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The Bends is kind of criminally underrated in proportion to how overrated OK Computer is.
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Ha... I mean... I guess I couldn't quite go that far but it's definitely been worn out and as the years move along looks more like simply a stepping stone to the REAL career highlight.
When they played in Pittsburgh they busted out "Fake Plastic Trees" which I never saw coming and was very, very cool to witness.
When they played in Pittsburgh they busted out "Fake Plastic Trees" which I never saw coming and was very, very cool to witness.
HandshakeLine
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I think the Bends is pretty much full of great songs from start to finish. OK Computer has more interesting concepts and production, but lots of the songwriting is meh.
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I never really got in to Radiohead. Which is a little weird since all of my friends are obsessed with them.
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Tough for me to escape their influence since I was so big into them back in the day but they are definitely one of "those" bands that hipsters just won't shut up about. So I get why some people just kinda roll their eyes at the whole ordeal.
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I don't think I even gave them a listen until 2011 or 2012. Been a fan since.
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dunno man, it becomes one of those things when a masterpiece becomes so overated (more like overpopular) that becomes underated
skeptic: huh what?!). The only thing that comes to mind in comparison would be Murakami. I go back occasionally to it but it really is a masterpiece (and that kind of music is not my cup of tea)
HandshakeLine
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Not a bad take actually. I get it.dunno man, it becomes one of those things when a masterpiece becomes so overated (more like overpopular) that becomes underated
I think OK Computer is a brilliant album especially in terms of mixing electronics and rock (which was decidedly out of fashion then outside of say, NIN), but it's not one I put on and listen much, if ever. I respect it, I'm just not really into it, much like I respect the shit out of the Beatles, but I never pull out Sgt. Peppers to listen to.
And yeah, definitely the same with Murakami.
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Honestly, same. And it makes zero sense given what else I am generally into. I think I kind of became aware of Radiohead right around the time everyone got super obnoxiously into them so I avoided them out of spite.
The one thing I do like about Radiohead is the sheer lack of any giveashit. Any time folks started to kind of settle into what they thought Radiohead was it seems like they decided to deliberately veer hard left and that's kind of fun.
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I heard lamenting that the British Empire failed on my television tonight.
HandshakeLine
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I've got a plane and a train ride to Venice today and so I picked up Eric Davidson's (New Bomb Turks) history of the 80s/90s Garage Rock scene We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut 1988-2001 for my Kindle and there's a lot of Billy Childish in there. It's pretty great so far, but I'm only in the first few chapters.
HandshakeLine
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i have thought so many times over the years about that ridiculous spoken word segment in i found a reason. legitimately one of the most beautiful pop songs imaginable so lou had to rough it up a little.
as a contribution on the uncle lou front there is a new compilation of his earliest recordings coming out and this completely different version of men of good fortune shows him at his most dylanesque. it’s pretty devastating
