cardinalkarp wrote:I've tried listening to Radiohead more than a few times now and its just not my cup o' tea. The lead singers voice does nothing for me.
I had to build up to them.
If you take Kid A without listening to any radiohead, it's gonna be boring and make no sense.
If you listen to The Bends until you like it (which is probably my fav. Radiohead album still), then OK Computer, then Kid A, and suddenly Kid A sounds good. Or at least that's how it worked for me.
cardinalkarp wrote:I've tried listening to Radiohead more than a few times now and its just not my cup o' tea. The lead singers voice does nothing for me.
In all seriousness, that's what I can't get past. Take any other singer(even Billy Corgan, for crying out loud) and I probably wouldn't mind it at all. The music is rather innovative, though it tries a bit too hard.
cardinalkarp wrote:I've tried listening to Radiohead more than a few times now and its just not my cup o' tea. The lead singers voice does nothing for me.
In all seriousness, that's what I can't get past. Take any other singer(even Billy Corgan, for crying out loud) and I probably wouldn't mind it at all. The music is rather innovative, though it tries a bit too hard.
Well there you go. I was confused, but now I realize that people who like Radiohead and people who don't like Radiohead look for very different things in the music they listen to. Voice quality is way down on my priority list.
cardinalkarp wrote:I've tried listening to Radiohead more than a few times now and its just not my cup o' tea. The lead singers voice does nothing for me.
In all seriousness, that's what I can't get past. Take any other singer(even Billy Corgan, for crying out loud) and I probably wouldn't mind it at all. The music is rather innovative, though it tries a bit too hard.
Well there you go. I was confused, but now I realize that people who like Radiohead and people who don't like Radiohead look for very different things in the music they listen to. Voice quality is way down on my priority list.
I'm not saying that voice quality is the end all be all to me liking a band but I just find Radiohead's music to be very dull. Some songs are ok but overall I just can't get into them.
cardinalkarp wrote:I've tried listening to Radiohead more than a few times now and its just not my cup o' tea. The lead singers voice does nothing for me.
In all seriousness, that's what I can't get past. Take any other singer(even Billy Corgan, for crying out loud) and I probably wouldn't mind it at all. The music is rather innovative, though it tries a bit too hard.
Well there you go. I was confused, but now I realize that people who like Radiohead and people who don't like Radiohead look for very different things in the music they listen to. Voice quality is way down on my priority list.
It isn't that I listen for singers over music; I love instrumental stuff, Jazz, New Age, Classical, etc.
A singer can make or break a group in my eyes, though. Exceptions to this rule for me are rare. I don't find the music of Radiohead intriguing enough or friendly on the ears enough to make up for the singer, in this case. Besides, I was in an acapella group in college and we arranged and performed Paranoid Android, 2+2=5, and No Surprises over my tenure there. It got kind of old. No Surprises is probably my favorite Radiohead song I've heard, I'll admit. I can listen to that one.
cardinalkarp wrote:I've tried listening to Radiohead more than a few times now and its just not my cup o' tea. The lead singers voice does nothing for me.
In all seriousness, that's what I can't get past. Take any other singer(even Billy Corgan, for crying out loud) and I probably wouldn't mind it at all. The music is rather innovative, though it tries a bit too hard.
Well there you go. I was confused, but now I realize that people who like Radiohead and people who don't like Radiohead look for very different things in the music they listen to. Voice quality is way down on my priority list.
I'm not saying that voice quality is the end all be all to me liking a band but I just find Radiohead's music to be very dull. Some songs are ok but overall I just can't get into them.
That's cool, I definitely get that. The most important thing for me is that the music elicits an emotion in me. I like music that puts me in different moods and mindsets and plays like a soundtrack to whatever I'm doing. Radiohead definitely does that for me.
