I like everything I've heard from Radiohead, but not enough to really listen to more of them.
Wait, I actually borrowed Kid A from the local library many years ago. I remember liking exactly one song, not sure which one. Then again, my musical taste has come a long way since then.
Also, I remember listening to In Rainbows in 2010, since it was available during the flight I was on. I liked it, but not enough to get my own copy, or even to listen to it ever again.
edited 20th Feb '15 2:33:47 PM by Xeroop
My problems with Radiohead? Too much of reverb and Thom Yorke's falsetto. Worse yet, they abuse them so much. Since they are highly revered as gods of indie music now, other indie bands that come after them Follow the Leader and abuse them as well.
Nevertheless, that doesn't stop me from enjoying "Kid A" and "In Rainbows". I have yet to listen to their other albums but I will.
Oh, the massively popular (and annoying) Let's Player and Youtube sensation Pew Die Pie once said that "In Rainbows" is his favorite album. Don't ask me how I know that.
Because it sounds as such; you could stick it in the opening of any anime Rom Com or Slice of Life and it'd fit completely. Even if it hasn't been used in any anime, it still has all the making of a typical Anime Theme Song.
And dude, let's be honest; anime theme songs that aren't "happy fast-tempo J-Pop with guitars and a string section/electronic drums and saw waves everywhere with lyrics about love or something like that" are the minority. That's why I appreciate the opening song Shinichiro Watanabe directed works such as Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo because they aren't like that. Or ones like Future Diary which are darker-sounding and whose lyrics are in-line with the show.
edited 23rd Feb '15 4:48:56 AM by PhysicalStamina
Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.As well as some of Tatsunoko Production's early themes; recall the fairly brassy theme to Speed Racer (which is equally so in both Japanese and English).
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."So, today I realized that The Modern Lovers is White Light White Heat without a drug-fueled orgy. Not sure which album I prefer, though.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1gfRhiz4boU
Does anyone recognize where this is from? (This is me replaying the tune. The original was a MIDI file using solo piano as well.)
All I know is that it was found on a Windows 95 or 98 computer, in the form of a MIDI file.
Edit: I think the name of the file may have been "progress.mid" or something like that.
edited 29th Mar '15 8:10:36 PM by GlennMagusHarvey
Listening to the new Nightwish album I realized their production has a certain pattern.
Their first vocalist Tarja Turunen, Finnish similarly to the rest of the band, recorded five albums with them before being kicked out.
The second vocalist, Swedish Anette Olzon, recorded two before meeting similar fate.
Now their vocalist is Dutch Floor Jansen, who has so far recorder one album with them.
My theory here is that each vocalist will only do half the work of the last one before being inevitably kicked out in favour of someone more 'exotic'. Soon Jansen will be kicked out, probably to be replaced by Italian Cristina Scabbia, who only manages to record an EP with the band before being replaced by someone else.
This will be the undoing of the band in the end: they'll have no time to actually record music, as they hunt new, more and more exotic singers for shorter and shorter musical bits, culminating with the death of songwriter Tuomas Holopainen, who gets offed by a random poisonous wildlife while wandering in a remote jungle to find a secluded tribe in search for the perfect voice for a 0.3 second sample.
edited 2nd Apr '15 3:04:43 PM by Xeroop

Speaking as someone who doesn't mind Radiohead, I agree, sort of. I mean, I can take it sometimes, but other times I just wanna be like, "Shut up, Thom Yorke". I think it was him that started that whole overly-emotional, whingey sounding voice thing that a lot of alt-rock bands have. Like The Fray. I can't listen to The Fray.