dave matthews on radiohead

[faketree 0]

As a lot of you know, I'm a huge Radiohead fan. Seen them live going on 13 times now, own all the albums and b-sides and download every concert i can get my hand on.i just read a quote by Dave Matthews about Radiohead and his nomination of them for some rolling stone top 100 greatest bands award. they got #73 i believe. but his take on radiohead is just so dead on for me that it was almost as if i wrote it myself.

"Every time I buy a Radiohead album, I have a moment where I say to myself, "Maybe this is the one that will suck." But it never does. I wonder if it's even possible for them to be bad on record.It belittles Radiohead to describe their music as having "hooks." Their music talks to you, in a real way. It can take you down a quiet street before it drops a beautiful musical bomb on you. It can build to where you think the whole thing will crumble beneath its own weight - and then Thom Yorke will sing some melody that just cuts your heart out of your chest. There's a point on the album Kid A where I start feeling claustrophobic, stuck in a barbed-wire jungle - and then I suddenly fall out and I'm sitting by a pool with birds singing. Radiohead can do all of these things in a moment, and it drives me ****ing crazy.My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me fell like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album. And every time, they raise their finger to the press and the critics and say, "Nothing we do is for you!". They followed their most critically acclaimed record, OK Computer, with their most radical change, Kid A. It's not that they're indifferent: It's just that the strength of character in their music is beyond their control.Seeing them perform makes me even angrier. No matter how much they let go in their shows, they never lose their clarity. There's no point where Jonny Greewood or Ed O'Brien will suddenly look up and say "Where the **** are we?" There are no train wrecks in Radiohead; every album and performance is wretching. God, these guys have suffered, or they can fake it like nobody else."

they really do make you say to yourself, 'not only can i not do anything better than these guys make music, but NOBODY can do anything better than they make music. they are just perfection in its essence. enough to make you go from banging your head against a wall one minute to ridiculously sad the next minute and the happiest person in the world a few minutes after that. best.band.ever.

[KDawgCometh 2]

for those who don't dig Hail to the Theif, you will in like five years. It will go down as one of the best rock albums of all time. Trust me, I'm a music afficicando,a nd I know great music when I hear it. THe album is just a little ahead of its time

[digitalmonkey 929]

Do they sing Mambo #5?

[NormanHaupt 0]

Do they sing Mambo #5?

lmaoI don't care for radiohead at all- but the only reason I clicked this thread was the mention of DMB. lol

[faketree 0]

Do they sing Mambo #5?

lmaoI don't care for radiohead at all- but the only reason I clicked this thread was the mention of DMB. lol

[jjdylan 0]

I'm a huge dmb fan, as well as a big radiohead fan....i read this the other day and had the same reaction as you, its dead on. Now time to go throw on OK Computer... 8)

[MDXS 0]

I don't like Dave Matthews or give much creedence to anything that comes out of his mouth, but that is a pretty good description. I wouldn't call Radiohead the best band ever, but I'd be interested to see what 72 bands were listed as better...or maybe not. Actually, I don't want to see. Those lists serve to irritate and/or infuriate me.

[faketree 0]

I wouldn't call Radiohead the best band ever.

I would.They are the best.