Alternative Weekend: Focus on Radiohead
I have been posting most weekends using @detlev’s #metalweekend tag, but my main love of music is progressive and alternative music. Some of my posts have included these songs, but I feel they are not keeping with the spirit of metal.
I will continue to post article’s using #metalweekend occasionally but feel I have more to offer regarding these other genre’s that I am more familiar with.
Introducing #alternativeweekend. Post an article that highlights THREE great songs that are either progressive or alternative and use the tag #alternativeweekend.
If you have a short story or something to offer regarding an opinion on your songs, then share it with us!
Are Radiohead mainstream or alternative? Listen to some of the material on Kid A or Hail to the Thief and then seriously tell me they are mainstream!
After OK Computer they went off the rails or did in my opinion. I held off listening to them until Hail to the Thief appeared and found that one very hard to crack.
'Where’s the guitars', I remember wondering? After their most coveted album ever they got locked in the cupboard for several years.
I’m finding some old Radiohead songs quite hard to find on YouTube. It’s like they have purged them off purposely.
Radiohead - There There (Hail to the Thief – 2003)
The first time I saw this video was in a hotel room in the Maldives. It was 2003 and we were on Bandos Island Resort. It was the most beautiful place I have ever visited, but one thing was missing.
Trust me, when visiting for THREE weeks an island that you can walk around in 20 minutes, you need to bring lots of entertainment.
Still I saw this music video on the big TV in our room, and it re-ignited my interest in a band that I fallen out of favour with.
The guitars were back, hallelujah!
Radiohead – Just (The Bends – 1996)
The Bends was my first real introduction to the band. I bought the CD and played it literally to death in 1996.
Why is the man lying on the floor, does anyone know? The video always intrigued me and I had to watch it all again just to remember. ‘Just’ is typical of the early sound of Radiohead and was also one of their hits.
I would have preferred another track from 'The Bends' but short of the singles, they are not on YouTube.
Radiohead – The Tourist (OK Computer – 1998)
No Radiohead article would be complete without a song from the masterful ‘OK Computer’ album. Just to show everyone they were not simply just a noisy guitar band, this album was filled with more ambient tracks.
Thom Yorke may not be the most visually stunning person, but he has a hell of a voice.
I’m amazed I found a full version of this that has not been removed. Watch it quick before it vanishes.
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I LOVED The Bends! But couldn't get into OK Computer at all. I must check out more of their recent stuff.
Black Star wasn't a single, was it? It was one of my favs.
I think Sulk was my top pick though
I have been playing The Bends and OK Computer all week just trying to get my feel for them again. It must be 10 years since I last played them.
I too didn't rate OK Computer on release, preferring the more rocky 'Bends'. In time I have come to appreciate it more. They are great at doing ambient songs, and Thom Yorke's voice really soars into them really well.
I love this band.
Now I actually really, genuinely loved Kid A (although Amnesiac did feel like the Kid A out-takes). Highly innovative, and the difference is just in the production – the live album was testament to this, IMHO.
I’ve had difficulty getting into them since. Subsequent albums just didn’t grab my attention the way The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A did. But that could also have been what my personal tastes evolved into through that time.
The most recent album Moon Shape Pool is the best since Kid A. It feels like what Hail To The Thief should’ve been as a natural evolution.
What did you think of the OK NOT OK release last year?
I think my favourite track is still Paranoid Android.
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I have to confess I have largely ignored them since 'Hail'. I tried to listen to 'Rainbows' and it just didn't click and one bad one tends to deter my from trying again.
Kid A is in my car, I should give it another go.
Yes LOVE Radiohead!!
Kid A holds a very special place in my heart, it was pretty much the album of my youth, well my early teens anyway!
And in my books, they are definitely not mainstream, great that they were known in the mainstream, but their songs were alternative as hell.
I wasn't a big fan of their more recent albums, but loved Lotus Flower
Your the second one that has mentioned 'Kid A'. I thought I had it in the card, but its not there. I will make sure I add it and put it on repeat until it sinks in.
Yup do! interested to see what you think :)
I saw them on pinkpop festival in the late 90s I believe.. I remember the performance being musicians who rather played behind the stage, I got a bit of a Nirvana flashback :) .... but they were awesome live ..
Lucky you too see them in the early days. Many of the YouTube material is live stuff, it does look good.
Radiohead is the best band for me. I never get tired of listening them.
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All that music AND '55 Chevy's? I think '55 and '56 were the best ever years for Detroit, hell, make that America. The Studebaker's and Packard's were good looking too.
That made the music a LOT better for me. Thanks!
It's wonderful to listen to The Tourist again, because I haven't played OK Computer for a while. I was travelling round the world when The Bends was released - I was aware of Creep, but didn't know it was by Radiohead for years. And I didn't really like it.
When I returned from my travels, I heard Paranoid Android and just loved it. I bought OK Computer, and I listened to it so many times that I knew the words of all the tracks.
I saw Radiohead live at Glasgow Green - probably in 2008 or 2007. They were just AMAZING.
My daughter recently caught on to 'Creep' and likes it. I have heard it far too many times but that heavy riff on the chorus still gets me.
Seems we have quite a lot in common on the music front!
We just have great taste. Great minds think alike!
Would Cage the Elephant be classified as alternative?
I would say so.
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