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Originally posted by neil
Some of their stuff just takes a while to kinda sink in. Then you really start to get an appreciation for the more eccentric sounding stuff. |
Well, eccentric doesn't bother me. What does is how hyped they are. All my friends are like "You'll love them". The thing is I tend not to like something when it's pushed onto me but rather when I discover it on my own.
For example, in 1990 or 91 a friend played of me Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine. My response? "Turn that Paula Abdul synth-crap off!" About 4 years later I found NiN on my own and realized what a first-class moron I was.
When everyone started screaming "Radiohead!", I was really afraid of the same thing happening only, this time, what if I'm so turned off by the hype I *never* appreciate them.
I call this the Jerry McGuire syndrome, BTW. I saw JM on opening weekend. I liked it. A lot. Then, as the weeks passed, it go so over-hyped that I can now not stand the film! It was good, but not as good as everyone made it out to be.
I'm afraid that I'll be disappointed unless I discover it on my own when I'm ready and open to it.
The opprotunity to discover Radiohead came a few weeks ago when I just bumped into this CD at my ex's house. I borrowed it from her and listened to it when I was ready. Much to my suprise I had heard a fair amount of the record already without even knowing it. More importantly, I liked what I heard. The songs were strong on thier own yet still made a strong impression as an album. To me an album is more than a simple colelction of songs, it is a work of art that is made up of smaller works. I rarely listen to songs, but rather, I listen to whole albums.
Bends, I found, to be a great album. Now I'm ready to discover their other works of art.