Don’t let the title fool you, I don’t truly hate Radiohead. Why I remember back in ’93 driving down to Columbia, MO to visit an ol’ elementary school friend of mine and picking up Pablo Honey from Streetside Records. Putting the CD in my $60 portable CD player interfaced through the tape deck in my Renault hatchback.
In Iowa, they pronounced it Re-nault
Yeh, it rocked, it was different than grunge and it spoke to my latent brit-tard genes. A few scant years later I would see them in Toronto on the OK Computer tour during one of my IRC escapades. I remember liking the show, the heavy use of strobes and what not… of course, after this came Kid A and their new direction, and honestly I can’t say with certainty that I’ve ever listened to a complete album after OK Computer, I know I have them, and sometimes I’ll even put on Motion Picture Soundtrack, but really, things did change..
I know my flippant response to Kid A was “If I wanted to listen to that I’d listen to Aphex Twin”, and I don’t even know if that makes sense, beings I never even listened to Kid A beyond the aforementioned track. There is a high probability my disgust with Radiohead started around this era as thats when the Frat Chooches started to play them at every party to show that they weren’t a Chooch. Try as I might, I can’t claim to be without the ability to dislike things purely because they are popular. But this is the thing, Radiohead got _way_ more popular than they were good.
R x C < Q where R = Radiohead, C = Chooch listeners and Q is quality.
Anyway, I bring this up because that factory of douchebaggery Pitchfork has listed their top 200 albums of the aughts, and #1 is Kid A. Douchebags, I’d kick every one of them in the teeth.
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1 kim // Oct 17, 2009 at 9:01 AM
my neighbors had a renault sedan and i always thought it was a pretty sweet car. the kids had left crayons on the ledge under the back window, which had melted leaving a nice colorful swirly design on the carpet/upholstery stuff.
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