Is it ok to not like Radiohead?

[LMP]

Axver had a four day heart attack...a day for each chamber. At the autopsy, they said his heart looked like a basketball filled with ricotta cheese.

 

[phillyfan26]

Axver breast feeds John Madden.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

Modification of other people's quotes, is grounds for banning, except if you are Axver.

um nope.. i canz change quotez if i wanna.

 

[RedRocksU2]

User:Axver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


wow, he is a god.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Radio who...

 

[LMP]

To answer Carlos' original question, yes, it's okay to not like Radiohead. You'll be missing out on some awesome, awesome stuff, and Thom's lazy eye, but at least you've got your 19%.

 

[Zoomerang96]

Why do people who don't like Radiohead consistently seem to be bigger douchebags about it than the supposed "stereotypical asshole Radiohead fans"?

yeah, i've been wondering that for a while too.

 

[mad1]

why would it not be okay?

just because Bang and Clatter have a few threads highly devoted to a handful of Groups that if you say 'Hey, know what? Radiohead suck BOLLOX!' - that you will be attacked?

hell no, you get respect for admitting your true feelings.

I mean, I like couple of their songs but Im not seriously so into them I would tattoo Thom Yorke on my breast or anything.

ya know?

f*k it.

 

[Salome]

for me it's the same as my current Fleet Foxes predicament
I recognise it's good, but I get bored by it quickly
nothing all that engaging for me

at least Fleet Foxes fans are less militant than Radiohead fans used to be
so all's good

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I'll say what I always say, I like Radiohead, I really do, but more often than not it's the Radiohead superfans that tend to turn me off. I'm not going to bow down to Thom Yorke and proclaim every album the greatest thing of all time, but I'm not going to say they suck for argument's sake.

 

[RedRocksU2]

the thread went down to 4 stars.

 

[Diemen]

I concur.

I'll say what I always say, I like Radiohead, I really do, but more often than not it's the Radiohead superfans that tend to turn me off. I'm not going to bow down to Thom Yorke and proclaim every album the greatest thing of all time, but I'm not going to say they suck for argument's sake.

Well said.

 

[pepokiss]

what's not ok is to not like Rush

 

[intedomine]

Not liking Radiohead for years was the biggest mistake of my life. They're awesome. If you don't like them, try again.

Biggest. Mistake. Of my life. Read that again. I've fucked shit up before too.

Not liking Radiohead is a mistake.

A mistake.

A huge mistake.

See, I kinda regret getting into Radiohead reasonably deep. As much as I appreciate their shit and listen to it a fair bit, I find quite a few of their songs profoundly distasteful. It's not so much that I don't like these songs, because they do sound good, but only in an ear-candy or fan-boy way, and are ultmately depressing and lack any kind of feel-good factor, which is not good for one's well-being.....

Melatonin, Knives Out, Morning Bell, Street Spirit, The Trickster, Creep, Backdrifts, 15 Step fit this category for me. Something sickening about them....

 

[cobl04]

Why, oh why, did you people have to bring Radiohead into a thread about the fact that Axver taught Charles Atlas how to smash weights.

 

[MadForIt]

Every time i meet Radiohead fans, i get a lecture about how they changed music etc

I never met a fan who says yea top band and then moved on to the next topic of conversation. I am generalising here but most of the fans i have met like to complicate everything and they like Sci-fi which i cant stand. They like to think to much about Everything!

They are good - some amazing tunes, some awful depressing cack as well

NO great albums - 4 good ones (bends, ok Com, Kid A and In rainbows which i finally have got into)

Their type of music is not the type of stuff you'd get in the pub or whilst walking in shopping centres

 

[lazarus]

Par for the course.

 

[LemonMelon]

At least he didn't mention Oasis in his post.

 

[MadForIt]

At least he didn't mention Oasis in his post.

It ok, other people do it for me now

 

[LemonMelon]

It ok, other people do it for me now

I've heard that if you chant Noel Gallagher's name three times in succession, he suddenly appears and tells you to stop fucking talking about him.

If you do the same thing with Thom Yorke, he just starts crying.

 

[MadForIt]

I've heard that if you chant Noel Gallagher's name three times in succession, he suddenly appears and tells you to stop fucking talking about him.

If you do the same thing with Thom Yorke, he just starts crying.

Better than chanting Biggy Smalls then....

YouTube - South Park Biggie Smalls

 

[RedRocksU2]

 

[LMP]

I am generalising here but most of the fans i have met like to complicate everything and they like Sci-fi which i cant stand. They like to think to much about Everything!

Aw hell naw.

 

[phillyfan26]

Thinking's bad, man. "To much" of it'll kill ya.

(I'm generalizing, of course.)

 

[LMP]

Especially when it's about Everything.

 

[intedomine]

Every time i meet Radiohead fans, i get a lecture about how they changed music etc

I never met a fan who says yea top band and then moved on to the next topic of conversation. I am generalising here but most of the fans i have met like to complicate everything and they like Sci-fi which i cant stand. They like to think to much about Everything!
They are good - some amazing tunes, some awful depressing cack as well

NO great albums - 4 good ones (bends, ok Com, Kid A and In rainbows which i finally have got into)

Their type of music is not the type of stuff you'd get in the pub or whilst walking in shopping centres

Sci-Fi is hein, I agree.

I wouldn't say RADIOHEAD fans think that much about stuff. They are quite silent in my experience. Usually they are hardcore lefties who are so set in their ways they tend to be angry at everything in the world, against everyone, introverted people, who aren't fun to make eye contact or socialise with. They just sit there in their little corner of the train in their HTTT t-shirt which doesn't fit nice and slimly, daydreaming of misery, and not in a cool way like a Joy Division way, but in a rather sad way.....

I am generalising here....

 

[lazarus]

Yeah, you're generalizing. Like when I say that Oasis fans are cro-magnon hooligans who wouldn't know good literature or good music if it came up and fisted them in the ass, and are content to listen to watered-down, derivative pap while they headbutt each other in pubs.

 

[MikeyJB]

Yeah, you're generalizing. Like when I say that Oasis fans are cro-magnon hooligans who wouldn't know good literature or good music if it came up and fisted them in the ass, and are content to listen to watered-down, derivative pap while they headbutt each other in pubs.

But then so many other bands have appealed to the same fan base that you have generalised. The whole punk movement for one.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Sci-Fi is hein, I agree.

I wouldn't say RADIOHEAD fans think that much about stuff. They are quite silent in my experience. Usually they are hardcore lefties who are so set in their ways they tend to be angry at everything in the world, against everyone, introverted people, who aren't fun to make eye contact or socialise with. They just sit there in their little corner of the train in their HTTT t-shirt which doesn't fit nice and slimly, daydreaming of misery, and not in a cool way like a Joy Division way, but in a rather sad way.....

I am generalising here....

Having met a number of Radiohead fans from Interference, as well as tons outside of here, not to mention all the people waiting in line at the shows and seated around me, I can say this is one of the most ridiculous things I've read in here.

 

[lazarus]

JG, Consider