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Re: (TV) i'm a reasonable man, get off Radiohead's case.....



before I begin, someone on this list mentioned they were transcribing thelonius monk to the guitar. I can't remember who it was. Anyone?

Maurice - thank you for referring me to Zorn's _Naked City_ - *Much* appreciated.

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From: Eric Veillette <ericgv@hotmail.com>

> I see a certain similarity between Johnny Greenwood's playing to Tom's, and even a certain similarity between Thom and Tom's voices.

frankly i don't see much evidence of either Eric-much as i love Tom
Verlaine's voice (for its charm and tech limitations as anything else) >the guy can never hold a candle vocally to Yorke's tremulous choirboy >warble and as for the guitaring i 'd have to say that Greenwood ( a >big favourite of mine) seems much more in thrall to someone like John >Mc Geoch or even Hendrix (esp the way he experiments with the latest >digi fx) than TV.


Ok, I'll stick with you on the guitar one. I listened to OK Computer again last night (haven't done so in about a year), and I decided to pull the guitar comment. (maybe I was just trying to get some TV content into that:P) When it comes to voice, the 'certain' similarity I see is in the high treble range they both tend to use. Having heard Radiohead before I ever heard Television (sometime in 95, i think?) The first thing that came to mind when I heard Verlaine was that he reminded me of Yorke.

i think it's really lame that so many people are currently taking >cheap pops at Radiohead for trying to do something a bit different and >less "rock"- it speaks volumes about how conservative and smallminded >most record buyers have become - RH's last two records actually remind >me a lot of Bowie esp late 70's Bowie and the way he appropriated >influences from the fringes of the avantgarde and brought them into >the mainstream - i really wish more people did this -it's the >lifeblood of most good popular music..

I'm not taking a cheap shot here, man. I just don't dig the two last albums they've put out. I picked up both of them, _Kid A_ I never really liked, and as it stands, I still don't really like _Amnesiac_. But who knows, it might grow on me in a couple months. And if it doesn't, well, I'll just wait until they put out something else. _The Bends_ is still one of my favorite albums of all time.



personally i love kidA and amnesiac, i think the fact that such a big
selling major label act is prepared to take such chances with their >fanbase and not pander to them in these dull corporate times should be >heartily applauded - my only criticism of RH would be that they just >lighten up a bit sometimes...


And I do applaud them for trying out new things. Hell knows we all need to hear it once every so often. If not, we'd probably think "Lyin' Eyes" was groundbreaking.


>I'd say, in fact,
> that they are probably one of the greatest mainstream bands of the 90's.

???!!!!!!!!

sure.


> However, this "trying too desperately to sound like a rock band" >thing has got to go.

what are you on about here man?...i would have thought that Bon Jovi is a more fitting example of a band "trying too desperately to sound >like a rock band" no?

forgive me on that. I actually meant to say "Trying too desperately NOT to sound like a rock band".
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