I keep stressing this point because I really can't shake the sense that Radiohead is a band that strongly requires an emotional investment if one is to adore their output on the whole. It wasn't until summer of 2001, after the band had released Amnesiac, that I ever heard a Radiohead album (I had seen Radiohead's infamous performance of "National Anthem" on Saturday Night Live, but at the time it confused me more than anything), and by this time it was pretty much too late for me to form a deep emotional bond with the band. My high school musical love was The Moody Blues, and my early college years were almost exclusively spent assimilating various classic rock and art rock bands. I didn't care at all about rock and pop music until late 1995, and even after then I spent a number of years stuck in a "modern music is always inferior to older music" mindset. I've known more than a few people for whom Radiohead is an essential part of who they are, both because of the quality of the music and because of when in their lives the various albums came out, and that could have easily been the case with me as well.Īlas, that's not how it happened. I would have gotten swept up in the anthemic stylings of The Bends as a freshman, and I would have grown with the band as they moved into the more epic guitar rock of OK Computer (before my senior year) and then in the direction of electronica with Kid A (junior year of college) and Amnesiac (before my senior year of college). In an alternate universe, I would have identified with the angst and self-revulsion of "Creep" when that song came out when I was in the 7th grade. As a teenager growing up in the 1990's, I was the band's target audience an angsty, disillusioned, awkward teenage male. Radiohead Completely confused by the rating system? Go here for an explanation.īy all rights, I should be a Radiohead fanatic.
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