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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
That is what i love about music. Every one hears it different. To me videotape is one of songs that immediately picks up my spirits in a positive way. I remember how blown away i was when i first heard it from the 2006 tour.
And i agree. I was definitely thinking more of the instrumentation
Soulless?? Whoa. There is no shame in personalizing music. That is kind of the point yes? I just disagreed with your premise that radiohead is somehow "going for" gloomy. I think they lole life itself are more complex than that
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I'm not trying to shit on the band. I just ... I guess I have a long and kind of painful story, and Radiohead's music has been a huge part of that story.
For instance, I first fell in love with Radiohead at the same time (down to the month) that I fell in love for the first time. Real, deeply confusing, frustratingly beautiful love, with a person, a friend, who is still a close friend to this day but never became more than that. This was ~20 years ago.
I met her, after I got to know her I actually had a moment where the climax of "Fake plastic trees" just went off in my head, and I realized that I was in love for the first time. We had a weird kind of will they/won't they semi-courtship over the next few years, and Radiohead soundtracked all of that.
So the band is kind of inexorably tied to the heartbreak for me. And later, songs like Motion Picture Soundtrack and True Love Waits defined another era of heartbreak entirely, as did There There (the line "just cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there" is linked to another doomed romantic encounter). So I'm definitely seeing things through my own bias.
I will always love the band, but they're just too emotionally exhausting for me in too many different ways, and I find myself digging their remixes and more techno-infused songs more than anything else.
Same goes for Modest Mouse, circa Lonesome Crowded West.
I guess "True Love Waits" is a pretty straightforward love song. It's melancholy, but not depressing. Has bits of hope in it.
Believe me I wish I could go back in time to when I took solace in the feelings these songs brought out in me. I have a similar relationship with Yo La Tengo, though for entirely different reasons.
I'll surely but the new album, as I've done with everything else the band's ever released, because I'm a lifer. But I think Radiohead has been relegated to 2nd or 3rd tier favorite band of mine. If all of Sonin Youth's albums were as emotionally bleak and exhausting as, say, Evol, SY wouldn't be my favorite band. I'd like to see Radiohead make a Daydream Nation or Murray Street kind of album, where beauty ruled, and all the parts interlocked to create something that *I* could hear as truly uplifting.