Re: Q: Rock is dead? A: Radiohead

[Bjørn Ciggaar <ciggaar@warande.net>]

At 04:54 19-6-01 +0000, you wrote:
>>Sorry to disagree here. I saw Radiohead live a few weeks ago (I think it 
>>was the 4th of June), from like the 5th row center, and along with many 
>>others, I kinda dozed off... This isn't rock. This makes you fall asleep 
>>(hence the title "Amnesiac", I guess).
>>--------------------------------
>>I can't speak to their performance abilities and I will agree that
>they are nearly not rock.  It makes me think of keets' assertion that WAY 
>isn't rock.  Radiohead's most recent discs are awesome.  They are trying 
>to leave rock behind.
>
>I think Pete called them "monumentally talented."  Definitely they're 
>something different, and I think they have some radical ideas about music.
>
>And you're right, I don't think this is quite rock music, either.  That's 
>where you'll find it at the cd store, but this is a synthesis that's 
>unclassifiable.  You can hear elements of folk and country and techno, but 
>the rhythms are complex and intellectual so I think the effect you get is 
>something like jazz, which a cool medium.  That's why Bjorn thinks it's 
>boring.  Anybody think they're influenced by Depeche Mode?

I think someone called it Ambience music or something.

Cheers,

Bjørn Ciggaar
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