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"For anyone with a nostalgic attachment to the notion that rock music is a medium for meaningful artistic expression capable of shaping the wider culture, the B
by Bahamut 10y ago
"For anyone with a nostalgic attachment to the notion that rock music is a medium for meaningful artistic expression capable of shaping the wider culture, the British band Radiohead is either a beacon of hope or the last bearer of the torch"
This is quite pretentious - I don't view them as either, and I care about artisticness in rock.
There are plenty of artists out in the wild experimenting with new genres of rock, and creating new movements (albeit most haven't reached popular culture excepting maybe the emergence of chiptune production techniques in popular music, including in rock, but other genres such as hip hop as well).
Music isn't about influencing popular culture necessarily -that is incidental. Any attachment to such a notion is vapid.
- douche 10y agoRadiohead is rock music? No, just, no. I never understood why people liked Radiohead, aside from it perhaps being the hipster band to like for a while five or ten years ago.
- lgieron 10y agoI like them because it's (to me) the most gorgeous music I've heard in my life.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoI'm fascinated because I should like Radiohead, because they do the kinds of things I'd usually be interested in - experiments with Max, and so on. And clearly a lot of people like them. But I just can't stand the music. To me, it sounds like the artistic equivalent of wet grey cardboard. I wish I could hear what people are hearing. But whatever it is, it's just not there for me. Edit: To add, I've long suspected that there's a weird imprinting process in music. You literally imprint on the music and bands that affect you emotionally when puberty hits. To outsiders it looks like a generational thing, but in fact it's more physiological - your idea of "good music" literally gets burned into your brain, and triggers a more generic set of "this is good music" neural pathways that everyone shares.
- mercer 10y agoThe subjectivity of taste fascinates me. I can totally understand someone hating Radiohead. I'm very sensitive to vocals, and I'm not really sure why I can get past Thom Yorke's voice, where it's kept me from listening to many other artists or bands that I really want to like.