06-10-2003 16:20									#1
	The most pretentious record review ever? Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

I mean, I'm not that well versed in pretentio-journalism, but this has to rank somewhere up there: Radiohead: Kid A

It's from Pitchfork Media. Naturally.

	06-10-2003 17:02									#2
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You actually read record reviews?

PS: After reading the review, I know why I never read reviews!

	06-10-2003 17:05									#3
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Not as a matter of course. However, I was pointed to the direction of this... umm, masterpiece? No, masturbiece.

	06-10-2003 17:07									#4
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Well, perhaps the guy doesn't have enough talent to be a proper journalist, so he concentrates on making record reviews like this one now

	06-10-2003 17:29									#5
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Radiohead fans.

	06-10-2003 18:16									#6
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I thought this was a poll, and was going to reply: "anything by snappy"...

	06-10-2003 18:44									#7
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How weird ... so was I.

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Dito that!

	06-10-2003 19:47									#9
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Isn't that a press release?

	06-10-2003 19:54									#10
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"The experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax. It's an album of sparking paradox. It's cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite yet 48 minutes."

Self-parody!!!

	06-10-2003 20:01									#11
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They forgot "arousing yet impotent"

	06-10-2003 20:24									#12
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It's a good disc that I hated upon first listening.

There shtick is getting old, though. There's only so much existential angst I can stomach.

	06-10-2003 20:39									#13
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet They forgot "arousing yet impotent"

When will we start getting "black yet white?"

	06-10-2003 20:41									#14
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quote: It's an album of sparking paradox. It's cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite yet 48 minutes.

Those are not paradoxes. Those are contradictions.

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	06-10-2003 21:00									#16
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"it's clear that Radiohead must be the greatest band alive, if not the best since you know who. Breathing people made this record!"

1. No, I don't "know who".

2. If breathing is all that's required to produce a brilliant record, I wouldn't be too proud if I were Mr. Yorke. Obviously, all his fans are undead zombies, or they'd be in greatest-band-in-the-world bands, too.

	06-10-2003 21:28									#17
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I had a nasty feeling it was going to be one of mine.

	06-10-2003 21:36									#18
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Kid A is a great album, though.

	06-10-2003 21:41									#19
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Meh. Bends and OK Computer were better.

	06-10-2003 21:42									#20
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Lester Bangs wannabe.

	06-10-2003 21:44									#21
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet Meh. Bends and OK Computer were better.

I liked OK Computer better, but rank Kid A above Bends.

	07-10-2003 00:09									#22
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Having just come back from Florence, with an apartment on the Piazza Sante Croce, I must say the area can bring about that sort of emotional spouting in men. It is a magnificent place. The effect even seeing a duo perform there was quite significant, so I can imagine seeing Radiohead in a place like that would be quite special. Also Kid A is a great album. However the man does take it way to far.

	07-10-2003 00:18									#23
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*cough* one hit wonder

	07-10-2003 00:28									#24
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Who? Radiohead?

	07-10-2003 02:25									#25
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Love them or hate them, they can hardly be described as a one-hit wonder. Is it 5 or 6 high-selling albums they've had so far?

	07-10-2003 02:28									#26
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From a US perspective they certainly were one-hit wonders IIRC, with "Creep" of course. Goes to show that, except for that one slip of judgement with Craap, americans have way better taste than Old Europe.

	07-10-2003 02:31									#27
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The Bends is, right now, my favorite.

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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet Love them or hate them, they can hardly be described as a one-hit wonder. Is it 5 or 6 high-selling albums they've had so far?

7: Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, I Might Be Wrong and Hail to the Thief.

quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed From a US perspective they certainly were one-hit wonders IIRC, with "Creep" of course. Goes to show that, except for that one slip of judgement with Craap, americans have way better taste than Old Europe.

So the fact that OK Computer, Kid A, Hail to the Thief and I think Amnesiac too all got to number 1 in the US album charts means they're one hit wonders?

	07-10-2003 02:45									#29
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Don't distract Buck with facts when he's on his soapbox Drogue, it's very rude.

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quote: Kid A, Amnesiac, I Might Be Wrong and Hail to the Thief

?

I thought "I might be wrong" was the name of a track from Amnesiac, not an album. Or have I missed one....? I know they released a couple in a very short space of time...