cdollaz

Homogenic is shit compared to the 2 before it.

Supermallet

Debut and Post are both great, but Homogenic took Bjork's art to another level. OK Computer is, imo, the weak link in between two much better albums (The Bends and Kid A).

Mordred

I liked Pablo Honey and absolutely love The Bends, but I've never understand the praise for OK Computer or Kid A. I'm pretty sure I never bothered listening to another Radiohead album after trying a couple times to get into those.

EddieMoney

Kid A>>>OK Computer=The Bends=In Rainbows>>>Hail to the Thief>>>Insomniac>>>The King of Limbs>>>Pablo Honey

2+2=5

DRG

I loved "Creep" and a few other tracks from Pablo Honey, but with each progressive album they seemed to go further and further from my personal taste. I like Kid A was the last one I sampled and I just didn't get the appeal at all. I know 'Idioteque' is loved by critics but I find it borderline unlistenable

Jonno2006

Really? Going down the 'oh it's so cool' to like them route?

This forum is filled with threads and posts of pretentious people so proud that they just saw live 3 bands or artists that no one has ever heard of(which of course makes them automatically awesome). Where it's only cool to like OLD music or new super obscure hipster shit.

Personally i have actually loved Radiohead since 1995, i love every album for different reasons. I got hooked with OK Computer (still is one of my fav albums of all time)

As a rock fan yes of course i much prefer the rockier stuff of the 90's over the 'weirder' recent stuff but i really enjoy Thom's voice and always have so to me that's a big draw.

But of course there is no such thing as a bad opinion, and even those 'pretentious' people i talked about before are still allowed to enjoy their obscure music, i just found it funny coming from this forum where i notice alot of what i just mentioned :P

Mabuse

I like Radiohead. I recognize their brilliance but would not name them among my favorite artists. OK Computer and Kid A are billiant. One thing has never changed: I hated Creep the first time I heard it in 1995 and I still hate it today. Awful song. I can't believe they catapulted to fame with that thing. It annoys me that radio still spins it all the time in regular rotation but won't play anything else from the same era or newer stuff.

Troy Stiffler

I like Radiohead. In my gut. I just like it. Their music puts me in a trance and I like to think about stories to go with the music.

I listen to Kid A and everything. I got my Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Weezer (the first three albums), and some others. That stuff never gets old for me.

And I still don't know half the lyrics. Sing clearly, motherfucker.

CRM114

Wilco Being There

EddieMoney

That was 1996.

Hiro11

Nah.

CRM114

Yep. Sorry.

boc4ever

I didn't really think they were anything special when Pablo Honey came out. However, Ok Computer and Kid A changed my opinion. When the re-issues came out, I bought all of them while BMG was going under and I'm glad I did. They aren't a band I listen to frequently, but when I get in the mood for them, the music is really satisfying.

Numanoid

Why isn't "Drugs" a poll choice?

Jeraden

I bought into Radiohead way back when they first came out with Creep in the 90s, and got Pablo Honey. It was ok, nothing that great. Bends came out - really enjoyed that one. Now I considered myself a huge Radiohead fan. OK Computer next, still my absolute favorite album from them, and what vaulted them into being my "favorite band" when people would ask me at the time.
Then Kid A comes out, and I wanted soooo much to get into it, it's my favorite band after all. And I just couldn't. Ok, 1 dud album (to me at least) that's ok, then Amnesiac - same thing, I'm thinking, what happened, it just seems like.... noise. So after that I pretty much gave up on them and pretended they broke up after OK Computer. I never even listened to In Rainbows, though a lot of people on here seem to like it, so maybe I'll have to give it a listen.

The Black

My favorite band in the world.
My father was also a fan, and Radiohead was the last band we ever saw live together, so they'll always hold a very special place in my heart. The king of limbs did nothing for me though, although Lotus Flower was a great song.

This performace is worth checking out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZl6BRY9IYQ

Sondheim

I'd say I love them, but I'd obviously only be pretending because I want to be one of the cool kids (which also explains why I spend most of my time listening to classical and Broadway music.)

In greater seriousness, I don't love everything Radiohead has done, but I do think they're pretty great. OK Computer and Kid A are my two absolute favorites, and I listen to them on a regular basis (though, oddly, if I'm in the mood to listen to one I'm usually not in the mood to listen to the other.) I also love Hail to the Thief and In Rainbows. I was never able to get into The Bends, and Amnesiac and The King of Limbs are pretty hit-and-miss for me.

I don't think I've even listened to Pablo Honey all the way through.

As for why I like them - to go along with what troystiffler said, it mostly just connects with me on a gut level. I really "dig" their sound, and so I listen to it - it has nothing to do with their allegedly "deep social commentary" or whatever. The same applies for most of the music I listen to on a regular basis.

Giles

Thom pretty much ditched the melodies after 'OK Computer' - after that I've lost interest in them - their electric-rock noddling in the albums that followed I found highly pretentious and just outright boring.

Sondheim

Damn. I listened to "Idioteque" like a hundred times in a row when I first started getting into Kid A - I can still put it on at any time and enjoy it. It's a bizarrely exhilarating song that I don't think I'll ever grow tired of. (Yes, I realize that "exhilarating" is a weird word to use to describe a song that's apparently about war or nuclear holocaust or something like that.) And yes, I realize these are all just personal opinions.

Then again, I have an extremely high tolerance for "noisiness" in music. I don't find Radiohead particularly "out there" in terms of musical experimentation - there are bands and musicians I like that are much less melodic and that have far less interest in traditional musical structure in general.

JeffTheAlpaca

Avril Lavigne likes them

"Singing radiohead at the top of our lungs
With the boombox blaring as we're falling in love"

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Chaza

I liked them through Kid A and HTTF to a lesser degree, haven't really enjoyed much after that. I've seen them live every tour since OK Computer, but the last show I saw was pretty disappointing. They used to be my favorite band, now I could care less about Thom's solo stuff, and really don't care if they release any more music as I just don't enjoy what they're doing. And I like a lot of Electronic music, I just don't think that they do it well.

Mikael79

Sounds like you have a future as a music reviewer.

astrochimp

Why does anyone worry about why other people like certain music? How do you know what my ears hear? I'm 43, never was cool and now it doesn't matter. I love Radiohead. I put on my headphones and their music gives my ears great pleasure.

My best friend is 39 and has no idea who RH is.

CRM114

I think it's a reaction to the ridiculous statements like comparing Radiohead to Pink Floyd.

orangecrush

I agree. Pink Floyd is way worse than Radiohead.