I honestly hate Radiohead. Whiny, miserable, depressing music. Nails on a chalkboard.

My dream Radiohead show would feature Slash running onstage while Thom (pretentious “h”) Yorke is singing and giving him a Stone Cold Steve Austin stunner — WWE style. Yorke goes flying. Slash cracks a beer and starts up Paradise City.

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@chopaganda Did you like Orebolo playing "True Love Waits" ?
@chopaganda JFC, Chop. It's not even 11am EST on Monday and you've already won worst take of the week. Congrats!
@Evdude My post will make a lot of people who have hidden their Radiohead hate feel good. That’s all that counts.
@chopaganda just tell me you respect what they do and I'll leave you alone.
@Evdude Of course. I might even still have a tiny soft spot for OK Computer because it felt so different and fresh at the time.
@chopaganda @Evdude I’m glad y’all brought this up. Thom’s voice is as much a “push/pull” vocal as I can think of. On a way smaller scale, lots of my friends feel the same as you about Colin Meloy and The Decemberists. I enjoy their overall sound and lyrics while stomaching his vocalization. And...Tom Waits? Don’t get me started. Can’t do it. Nails on a living room-sized chalkboard for me. Hmm...maybe a future ranking topic?

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We all appreciate your service. Although Greenwood's soundtracks are great.

@chopaganda @Evdude chop, doing rhe people’s work.

@chopaganda Shots fired. Need to have battle lines drawn here on shakedown.

Only one can exist, and the other is erased from history;

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@chopaganda I'm not a fan either but it's 100% only due to Yorke's voice and lyrics. If they were an instrumental band I'd listen to them. I do find his voice viscerally unpleasant so it's not like this is even an aesthetic judgment. I just can't with that guy.

Dig Johnny Greenwood side hustles though. Too bad Yorke is in The Smile, Tom Skinner is one of the best drummers on earth

Would watch that show.

@chopaganda I love ‘em, but my wife calls it “slit-your-wrist” music.
@phimius @chopaganda I was a huge fan for many years, but my wife also hates them and I’ve actually come to understand why. It’s because it’s very cerebral (which music critics love) but it lacks heart, soul, passion, etc. My wife loves the latter (Janis Joplin is her favorite) but hates the former, sees it as phony and boring, and once I thought about in those terms, I kind of agreed.
@chopaganda I don't hate all of it, but it is pretty depressing and I find the vocals to be pretty annoying
@chopaganda This is a honeypot for bad music opinions. Thank you for your service.
@drewphish watch this: everything they did after Pablo Honey is a boring snoozefest.
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@chopaganda but somehow Pigeons Playing Ping Pong makes their music sound good

Check out this playlist “Pigeons Playing Radiohead ” I made on @nugsnet
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@chopaganda fair enough, but it's just so weird to hear Radiohead music sound happy
@chopaganda I love Radiohead but it's a heavy lift for sure. It's not easy and his voice can be a tough listen. There have been times when they've released new music and on my first few listens, I'm trying to figure out where the hell they are going. But man, once it clicks, damn... it's like a fine grated cheese on pasta. The Radiohead concerts I saw are among the greatest things I saw any band do and I've been seeing concerts since 1982.
@chopaganda omg, this take! Mad respect! Same, but don’t have the balls to take the proverbial slings and arrows.
@Phreba Post hard or go home

@chopaganda @Phreba Chiming in to say agreed, I’ve never understood the appeal of Radiohead at all. But don’t have the cojones Chop does to make the statement so publicly considering they are one of the most adored bands out there.

Guess I need to post harder!

@aburtch @chopaganda @Phreba heh. Trying saying you think Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen are just okay sometime. Not bad. Just not a fav. Just one or the other will explode more heads than leaving Scanners on an overnight loop

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I'll back you up on those two takes.

Neil Young - Has always been just a pure stream of consciousness writer. He opens his mouth and what he's thinking becomes a song. Sometimes it resonates and a hit album comes of it. But his overall batting average is low. Lots of duds in the catalog.

Bruce Springsteen - Earnestness personified. He has deep feelings and sings about them. Remove the earnestness from his voice/songwriting and you're left with nada

@aburtch @chopaganda @Phreba those takes make sense to me but it's not even that deep on my part. They catalogs just don't resonate with me like that. Neil has a bunch of songs I like and a couple albums that are impeccable. And I know Bruce is a highly charismatic performer who speaks powerfully to a specific group. I just don't connect with either on that level. And I don't dig Neil's noisy guitar jams. They just bore me 🤷‍♂️
@aburtch @chopaganda @Phreba Yup, definitely not for me. Johnny Cash covering "Creep" is the only thing I'm interested in their catalog.