Everyone likes Radiohead. For all intents and purposes, Radiohead might very well be the Beatles of the '90's & 00's.
Now before the old schoolers go crazy about me and my daring to compare the Fab Four to a group of dudes who looked like some of them havn't seen a shaving razor in awhile (read:Tom Yorke), let me explain.
The Beatles are considered the masters of Pop music. They wrote songs that everybody knows, not just the wierd high school teachers who only listen to oldies stations in their classroom. Either through voluntary subjection or unwilling auditory force, I challenge you to name one person who does not know at least three Beatles songs. Yes, "Hey Jude", "Hello Goodbye", and "Let It Be" count. I mean c'mon, "Hello Goodbye" in on a Target commercial. You just can't get any more osmosis song learning than that.
Now think about Radiohead. Everyone knows "Karma Police". Everyone knows "Creep". These songs are just as genre defining and innovating as anything The Beatles did. Personally, I think that 2003's Hail To the Thief is one of the best albums ever made, but thats just me.
DOWNLOAD THESE (legally!): 2+2=5, Hail to the Thief, Paranoid Andriod, Exit Music (For A Film)
Now before the old schoolers go crazy about me and my daring to compare the Fab Four to a group of dudes who looked like some of them havn't seen a shaving razor in awhile (read:Tom Yorke), let me explain.
The Beatles are considered the masters of Pop music. They wrote songs that everybody knows, not just the wierd high school teachers who only listen to oldies stations in their classroom. Either through voluntary subjection or unwilling auditory force, I challenge you to name one person who does not know at least three Beatles songs. Yes, "Hey Jude", "Hello Goodbye", and "Let It Be" count. I mean c'mon, "Hello Goodbye" in on a Target commercial. You just can't get any more osmosis song learning than that.
Now think about Radiohead. Everyone knows "Karma Police". Everyone knows "Creep". These songs are just as genre defining and innovating as anything The Beatles did. Personally, I think that 2003's Hail To the Thief is one of the best albums ever made, but thats just me.
DOWNLOAD THESE (legally!): 2+2=5, Hail to the Thief, Paranoid Andriod, Exit Music (For A Film)
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