its the way you listen to them. sometimes you just need to chill out and sit back and listen to the classy tunes of arabs digging the ground beneath us!!!

He's right, you know. I find using my ears works best.

what?

Dont mind him. He's got issue problems.

it seems a little more advanced than that. i wonder does he confuse himself, but back to the issue itself, wat do people think? are radiohead not just a little too depressing?

I'm sure he'll be fine once he gets the Junior Cert outta the way.

as long as one cant repeat it, he should be fine

i hope so.

hey listen man, its really hard to have a discussion when you keep interjecting with irelevant and useless points. jeez man ur ruining it for the rest of us. just grow up

I love Radiohead and would have OK Computer as my all time #1. But it is a little bit zeitgeisty with all the pre-millenial angst. Despite that I still think that it's full of great songs and musically unparallelled. I don't find them too depressing, maybe if you asked me to listen to this album I'd agree,

I still listen to Ok Computer. Amazing album, amazing. Blew me away when I first heard it. Left it for a while, then listened to it again(when I was a little older and wiser), even more amazing. Takes you on quite a journey that album does. I've never found Radiohead depressing. I never find good music depressing. Radiohead are boring? thats just wrong. But there ya are that's just my opinion. I don't give a s**te about Q lists. Like I said on this forum before, Stop giving credence to the British press, for f**ks sake.,

perhaps, its time to concentrate on the irish music press!?

the best radiohead album for me is kid a, as a complete work it sits together better than ok computer does - to my ears anyway! ok computer is (nonetheless) a wonderful album and the further we move away from its release the more evident it's importance will be imho as for the depressing tag that habitually surfaces when radiohead are being discussed, it simply doesn't wash! for me radiohead's music is genius and so, irrespective of it's subject matter, it is always uplifting. that famous cs lewis quote 'we read to know we're not alone' applies not only to literature but to music, film, theatre etc. and no matter how downbeat or 'depressing' a subject can be the fact that somewhere in there is a flicker of recognition of ourselves, our collective plight as humans, is something to be comforted by (at least in some part non?) anyway i digress, in terms of listening to radiohead, despite them being one of my favourite bands, i rarely ever listen to them but when i do it is a stark reminder of just how far ahead of the pack they are.....in many ways they are the yardstick!

I haven't listened to Radiohead in yonks but i wouldn't call their music depressing. It's relevant, it's angsty, it's meditative and it's a benchmark. Actually, i'm long over-due a revisit. Played the hell out of both The Bends and OK Computer and that's probably why i haven't been back in so long. I wouldn't be able to pick a "Number 1" album of all time because it would change every day. I always try to resist the urge to compartmentalise and order but sometimes it gets the better of me. The Irish Music Press? Meh! I find, in general, that the staples tend to be fawning and sycophantic when it comes to Irish bands even if they are s**te bands. Especially Hot-Press. Some of the free mags are okay and Foggy Notions (previous thread refers i think) is probably the best IMHO but it needs to grow bigger balls and get personal rather than trying to present a neutral view of the artists it covers. I like opinions whether i disagree with them or not.