radiohead album ratings from a true patrician

>pablo honey equal to kid a
>better than the bends, httt, in rainbows, tkol, amsp

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>>72096004
he's not wrong

i'm triggered as fuck

>Amnesiac in the top 2

He's got the right idea

Radiohead, the most hyped and probably the most over-rated band of the decade, upped the ante for studio trickery. They had begun as third-rate disciples of the Smiths, and albums such as Pablo Honey (1993) and The Bends (1995) that were cauldrons of Brit-pop cliches. Then OK Computer (1997) happened and the word "chic" took on a new meaning. The album was a masterpiece of faux avantgarde (of pretending to be avantgarde while playing mellow pop music). It was, more properly, a new link in the chain of production artifices that changed the way pop music "sounds": the Beatles' Sgt Pepper, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Michael Jackson's Thriller. Despite the massive doses of magniloquent epos a` la U2 and of facile pathos a` la David Bowie, the album's mannerism led to the same excesses that detracted from late Pink Floyd's albums (lush textures, languid melodies, drowsy chanting). Since thee production aspects of music were beginning to prevail over the music itself, it was just about natural to make them "the" music. The sound of Kid A (2000) had decomposed and absorbed countless new perfumes, like a carcass in the woods. All sounds were processed and mixed, including the vocals. Radiohead moved as close to electronica as possible without actually endorsing it. Radiohead became masters of the artificial, masters of minimizing the emotional content of very complex structures.

>>72096016
get Scaruffi's dick off your mouth nigger

>>72096004
Enjoy your faux-experimental

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scaruffi is a pedo and the biggest music critic hack of all time as evidenced by this abysmal list, stop memeing him into faux relevancy

>>72096144
>and the biggest music critic hack of all time
that would be christgay

what's his reasoning for having pablo honey tied for 3rd in their discography? i'd like to hear it.

>>72096209
He usually inflates band's/musician's first album.

>>72095954
>In Rainbows so low
Why?

>>72096317
Without the hype Radiohead's In Rainbows (Radiohead, 2007) would simply be a mediocre attempt at making slightly adventurous classic rock music. Abandoning their pretenses of innovation and futurism, Radiohead returned to their rock roots with a guitar-driven album that features precious few electronic/digital effects. This is U2-style arena-rock for the 2000s. The syncopated blues-soul shuffle 15 Step the half-baked hard-rock of Bodysnatchers (reminiscent of pathetic attempts by the Beatles to reinvent themselves in the age of Cream) or Faust Arp, a Beatles-esque elegy that has been heard countless times in the history of pop music, are not only inferior material by any standard: they are plain amateurish. To make matters worse, the album includes a whole set of sub-pop ballads, from the slow Nude (a long unreleased song, originally titled Big Ideas) to the even more moronic All I Need and House of Cards.
Redeeming the album from utter mediocrity are Jigsaw Falling Into Place, by far the best song, the kind of feverish dance-rock that Inxs specialized in, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, a tender song a` la Coldplay that gradually builds emotioinal momentum, Reckoner, a languid soul lament over a hypnotic polyrhythm and a Moody Blues-esque string section, and finally the piano-driven Videotape, the melodic peak of the album and the one ballad that has something original to say. But it's way too little. Any critic who hails this album as a masterpiece must be missing 99% of the music released in the same month.

>>72096369
>unironically comparing radiohead to coldplay as if coldplay isn't radiohead for moms
why does anyone on this board validate an insane old man's ramblings

>>72095954
Could some dick rider please give this old ass faggot some cash to hire a decent designer + programmer and revamp his website? It's only missing Comic Sans for it to be considered visual cancer.