Yes it’s true, we love Radiohead, and while we can’t wait for the next album we do sort of hope it’ll be the proper follow up to OK computer that everyone expected in 2001. It’s not that we don’t like the craziness of their most recent works, but guitarist Ed O’Brian does promise that each new album will “be more like the bends” and then everyone gets all excited, and then all confused, when some crazy electronic album comes out.
Back before KID A came out everyone pretty much had OK Computer’s follow up mapped out in their heads. It would include such great tracks, often played live but never released, as Nude, Man-O-war, True Love Waits and Reckoner. But a month or so before good ol’ RH started playing the likes of Everything in its right place and National Anthem on tour and Radiohead fans were kinda shocked, and the Music press were even more shocked when the album came out.
Needless to say Ed has made his usual “more like the bends” promise about Radiohead’s album that should be out later this year, and www.greenplastic.com has a list of songs they are working on, including Nude and Reckoner. Let’s hope they make the final cut.
Honestly, I thought Hail to the Thief was pretty damned good, although there were a few tracks in the middle that threw me off. But "2+2=5," "Backdrifts," "A Punch-Up at a Wedding," and "A Wolf at the Door" were great among others. Less like The Bends, and more like Hail the the Thief, I say. The Bends was too rocky.
But I guess there's a natural divide among Radiohead fans... Those who like the rock and those who like the experiments. I like to think I'm more in the middle, with a leaning towards experiments.
But hell, I'm sure we can all agree on "Creep," right?
Bring back nothing. A band not afraid to annoy their fans in making something that is mind bending is always a good thing. Pushing things forward and never backwards hey? Can be obviously interpreted as just making dire pretencious tripe? But some of my favourite songs are of their later albums, longevity is always a great thing. And if you want a sure fire anthem then look at the back catalogue you have plenty of instant hits of them to keep you happy.
If they 'make another bends or OK' woopy do. Just hope they in consistant in pushing boundaries and warping the boundaries of their fan base.
Bring back nothing. A band not afraid to annoy their fans in making something that is mind bending is always a good thing. Pushing things forward and never backwards hey? Can be obviously interpreted as just making dire pretencious tripe? But some of my favourite songs are of their later albums, longevity is always a great thing. And if you want a sure fire anthem then look at the back catalogue you have plenty of instant hits of them to keep you happy.
