For quite some time now I was wondering why there are no great artists/music/albums these days. Well after I had my first job, those fantastic years of engineering, college and even school of hard core music had waned waned down gradually. And also there used to be good music at that time - the pinkfloyds, direstraits, metallica, yanni, kenny g etc - rich in quality and variety and I had stopped.
listening to western music, concluding that not much new and innovative is created now a days.
I dont like hip hop, rap and the so called hard-core metal, except may be for the melodic metallica.
Soon realized that I had missed a great band all these days. It was radiohead.
I heard some songs in youtube and was impressed.
Straightaway purchased 2 albums - ok computer and rainbows.
Music is awesome. Thom Yorke is too good. The way he croons, make faces, hums and shouts is great. He is the backbone of Radiohead and his voice is terrific.
It gives a high that no other band is capable of giving - may be except for pink-floyd and metallica. A hard core pink-floyd fan I am, and the songs like - run like hell, comfortably numb, another brick in the wall, the show must go on- these are some of the timeless gems that are unpralleled and untouched. No competition. Same with some of the metallica gems like enter sandman, nothing else matters, unforgiven etc.
However if one wants to experience something of the same intensity or beyond and something in a different direction with no less intensity, it has to be the radioheads. This new band came to my rescue as I was getting thirstier and thirstier for new music and the music maniac in me was almost dying.
I could fine that strange feeling you get in pink-floyd, the enigma’s beat at times, the metallica’s high
and ofcourse there is that uniqueness to this band which means that its original and new.
I can’t play this at home becuase others feel noisy and irritating.
So the only way I hear this great band is when I am driving alone and blast the car-stereos to rev up my adrelaine. Earphones are of no use to this kind of music becuase that will cause head-pain. Loud speakers in an enclosed room gives you that incredible high and satisfaction that nothing else will. You will submerge in an ocean of blissful vibration for sure.
I am yet to try - the bends, amnesiac and other albums of the same band.
To all those music lovers who have never given a try to radiohead- Please give it a try. I am sure you will love it. To those who have already heard, I am sure you would agree to what I wrote.