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Radiohead 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
by douche 10y ago
Radiohead 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.