i picked up two radiohead cd's lately based on certain jmdlers and one
college kid who i'm very fond of who has a radiohead sticker on his bumper.
i did not like 'kid a' but did like 'ok computer'. last week when i drove
up state i listened to both cd's. i thought as i drove..kid a is like one
big song. you have to listen to it straight through and then it became like
pink floyd's dark side of the moon with a pearl jam twist. the pearl jam
twist was the the particular crunch of the one guitar. just the particular
sound is like pearl jam, not the style. it's a guitar player thing...you
hear a crunch and can identify with it to some other sound you've already
heard.
'ok computer' has a song called karma police which is a neat song with both
guitar and piano and a repeat lyric...this is what you get when you mess with
us.
ok, so running parallel to this is a list thread hashing this p.j. harvey
whom i've never heard but some heavy weights on the list were listing her new
one as a favorite for the year so i picked it up today. i get two minutes
into in and i think...patti smith. i get five or six songs into it and i
think...yes..patti smith only with a sublte techno touch. almost that clear
techno of radiohead. then song 7 comes on,,,this mess we're in... and i hear
the voice and sure enough, it's the dude from radiohead who repeats on ok
computer..this is what you get when you mess with us.
so i get the radiohead cd and look for the credits. go ahead and try and
make sense of a radiohead cd jacket. doesn't happen. finally in ok computer
i find the guys name and it is thom yorke who is credited on the pj harvey
cd.
i like the pj harvey but it is kind of dark for me. i don't know what her
connection is with radiohead but their sound is in her cd ..stories from
the... and i could hear that sound in the earlier tracks before i heard the
voice of thom yorke singing on track 7. so she must spend a some of time
listening to radiohead.
it always amazes me when i see how much we influence each other with our
music.
patrick
np. jann arden - could i be your girl
