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>Without the hype Radiohead's In Rainbows (Radiohead, 2007) would simply be a mediocre attempt at making slightly adventurous classic rock music. Abandoning their pretenses of innovation and futurism, Radiohead returned to their rock roots with a guitar-driven album that features precious few electronic/digital effects. This is U2-style arena-rock for the 2000s. The syncopated blues-soul shuffle 15 Step the half-baked hard-rock of Bodysnatchers (reminiscent of pathetic attempts by the Beatles to reinvent themselves in the age of Cream) or Faust Arp, a Beatles-esque elegy that has been heard countless times in the history of pop music, are not only inferior material by any standard: they are plain amateurish. To make matters worse, the album includes a whole set of sub-pop ballads, from the slow Nude (a long unreleased song, originally titled Big Ideas) to the even more moronic All I Need and House of Cards. >Redeeming the album from utter mediocrity are Jigsaw Falling Into Place, by far the best song, the kind of feverish dance-rock that Inxs specialized in, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, a tender song a` la Coldplay that gradually builds emotioinal momentum, Reckoner, a languid soul lament over a hypnotic polyrhythm and a Moody Blues-esque string section, and finally the piano-driven Videotape, the melodic peak of the album and the one ballad that has something original to say. But it's way too little. >Any critic who hails this album as a masterpiece must be missing 99% of the music released in the same month.
>”Oh my god dude, listen to the WORDS! Listen to what this guy is SAYING! He had a dispute with another person and he just explained with lyrics why he is actually COOLER than that person! This is what music is all about! Can you believe he just SAID that? So frickin’ cool! I’m gonna keep bumpin’ his shit so I can follow how this personal drama unfolds!”
That is what music is to you? That’s the extent of your intelligence? That’s the depth of your thinking and life experience? That’s what you give your time, attention and energy to?
Shut the fuck up you fatherless, suburban white faggots. You aren’t “part of the culture”. You never will be. Black people will never accept you or think you’re cool. You can stop seeking their approval now.