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The most pretentious record review ever?
I mean, I'm not that well versed in pretentio-journalism, but this has to rank somewhere up there: Radiohead: Kid A
It's from Pitchfork Media. Naturally.
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"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world
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October 6, 2003, 08:02
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You actually read record reviews?
PS: After reading the review, I know why I never read reviews!
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October 6, 2003, 08:05
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Not as a matter of course. However, I was pointed to the direction of this... umm, masterpiece? No, masturbiece.
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"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world
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October 6, 2003, 08:07
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Well, perhaps the guy doesn't have enough talent to be a proper journalist, so he concentrates on making record reviews like this one now 
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October 6, 2003, 08:29
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Radiohead fans. 
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October 6, 2003, 09:16
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I thought this was a poll, and was going to reply: "anything by snappy"...
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October 6, 2003, 09:44
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How weird ... so was I.
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October 6, 2003, 10:13
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Dito that!
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October 6, 2003, 10:47
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Isn't that a press release?
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October 6, 2003, 10:54
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"The experience and emotions tied to listening to Kid A are like witnessing the stillborn birth of a child while simultaneously having the opportunity to see her play in the afterlife on Imax. It's an album of sparking paradox. It's cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite yet 48 minutes."
Self-parody!!!
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October 6, 2003, 11:01
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They forgot "arousing yet impotent"
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October 6, 2003, 11:24
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It's a good disc that I hated upon first listening.
There shtick is getting old, though. There's only so much existential angst I can stomach. 
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October 6, 2003, 11:39
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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
They forgot "arousing yet impotent"
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When will we start getting "black yet white?"
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October 6, 2003, 11:41
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It's an album of sparking paradox. It's cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike, infinite yet 48 minutes.
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Those are not paradoxes. Those are contradictions. 
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October 6, 2003, 11:48
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nm
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October 6, 2003, 12:00
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"it's clear that Radiohead must be the greatest band alive, if not the best since you know who. Breathing people made this record!"
1. No, I don't "know who".
2. If breathing is all that's required to produce a brilliant record, I wouldn't be too proud if I were Mr. Yorke. Obviously, all his fans are undead zombies, or they'd be in greatest-band-in-the-world bands, too.
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October 6, 2003, 12:28
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I had a nasty feeling it was going to be one of mine.
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October 6, 2003, 12:36
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Kid A is a great album, though. 
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October 6, 2003, 12:41
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Meh. Bends and OK Computer were better.
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October 6, 2003, 12:42
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Lester Bangs wannabe.
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October 6, 2003, 12:44
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Meh. Bends and OK Computer were better.
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I liked OK Computer better, but rank Kid A above Bends.
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October 6, 2003, 15:09
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Having just come back from Florence, with an apartment on the Piazza Sante Croce, I must say the area can bring about that sort of emotional spouting in men. It is a magnificent place. The effect even seeing a duo perform there was quite significant, so I can imagine seeing Radiohead in a place like that would be quite special. Also Kid A is a great album. However the man does take it way to far.
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October 6, 2003, 15:18
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*cough* one hit wonder
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October 6, 2003, 15:28
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Who? Radiohead? 
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Love them or hate them, they can hardly be described as a one-hit wonder. Is it 5 or 6 high-selling albums they've had so far?
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October 6, 2003, 17:28
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From a US perspective they certainly were one-hit wonders IIRC, with "Creep" of course. Goes to show that, except for that one slip of judgement with Craap, americans have way better taste than Old Europe.
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October 6, 2003, 17:31
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The Bends is, right now, my favorite.
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October 6, 2003, 17:39
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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Love them or hate them, they can hardly be described as a one-hit wonder. Is it 5 or 6 high-selling albums they've had so far?
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7: Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, I Might Be Wrong and Hail to the Thief.
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From a US perspective they certainly were one-hit wonders IIRC, with "Creep" of course. Goes to show that, except for that one slip of judgement with Craap, americans have way better taste than Old Europe.
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So the fact that OK Computer, Kid A, Hail to the Thief and I think Amnesiac too all got to number 1 in the US album charts means they're one hit wonders?
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October 6, 2003, 17:45
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Don't distract Buck with facts when he's on his soapbox Drogue, it's very rude.
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Kid A, Amnesiac, I Might Be Wrong and Hail to the Thief
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I thought "I might be wrong" was the name of a track from Amnesiac, not an album. Or have I missed one....? I know they released a couple in a very short space of time...
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