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Radiohead smashes!!

deja_vroom

13:10 / 19.11.01

A quote from the guy from Limp Bizkit in Rolling Stone:
"We were trying to write the new album and Wes [Borland, the guitarist who quit] was writing very eclectic stuff, and he became very, very obsessed with Radiohead."
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So they not only make great music, they also cripple stupid bands!
gotta love these weirdos!

suds

13:30 / 19.11.01

they also inspire insepid boring trite such as coldplay and travis. grrr.

deja_vroom

13:34 / 19.11.01

good point.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

15:29 / 19.11.01

quote:Originally posted by suds:
they also inspire insepid boring trite such as coldplay and travis. grrr.

are you sure? I don't get the impression that those bands even like Radiohead post-The Bends. Radiohead seems to be invoked when they come up simply for the fact that Thom Yorke at one point wrote "Fake Plastic Trees", it's just lazy journalism turned into a lazy marketing hook...

The fact that Wes Borland was kicked out of Limp Bizkit cos he loved Radiohead makes me smile so much... I always knew that the guy in the robot makeup was a bit too arty to be in that band...

deja_vroom

15:47 / 19.11.01

Explaining myself better, I don't think Radiohead "inspired" bands like the one suds cited, but I think they might have "inspired", however unwillingly, a certain marketing strategy, an approach intendend to make profit upon a certain niche that Radiohead created in the pop scenario - the emotional balladry, the falsetto thing etc.
Personally I think that what pushes Radiohead (The Bends/OK Computer era) over the edge is their innate gift to make stuff tha is beautiful as much as it's haunting. Coldplay - which I even like a bit - are great, talented pop composers, and that's it.
The thing about Limp Bizkit really made my day... Fred Durst pacing to and fro in their multi-millionaire rehearsal studio:
"Where's Wes, I wanna show him this new riff I made on the B string..."
"Uh, he's right over there, boss... and he's got an acoustic guitar with him..."
"WHA-WHAT?"

Ronald Thomas Clontle

15:50 / 19.11.01

I don't think Coldplay sound even a little bit like Radiohead, but they do sound A LOT like the Dave Matthews Band, enough so that I once heard a song on the radio and had to figure out which band it was, and ultimately it turned out to be Coldplay.. the giveaway was the lack of horns & strings & black people.

Coldplay: has one good song
Dave Matthews Band: has six good songs

I think it'd be funnier if rather than an acoustic guitar, Durst found Borland with an Onde Martenot, a transistor radio and a vocoder...

[ 19-11-2001: Message edited by: Flux = LOVE ]

suds

07:35 / 20.11.01

yeah, what imperador de jade said.
i think that these bands are third rate versions of radiohead. they sing all sad and, like jade said, it's a 'certain niche that radiohead created in the pop scenario - the emotional balladry, the falsetto thing.'
i couldn't have put it better myself.
radiohead's popularity has willingly or not, brought on a dirge to the uk pop scene. the bloke from travis and the bloke from coldplay don't seem to have the same energy and love for the music that shows when they sing that thom seems to.
i'm not the biggest radiohead fan. i still think that the film 'meeting people is easy' is one huge joke, and that when the camera went off the boys of radiohead would run around oxford with party hats on, having food fights.
yeah.
but i digress...

Pin

11:03 / 22.11.01

Um, anyone else know that Wes is also a massive Ahpex Twin fan?

Seems fitting he left... I'm glad. Maybe he'll be better now...

Basil

11:24 / 22.11.01

To make things really better, they should all declare their love for backwards masked Elton John songs and all leave the band.

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