patrick,
me, i love Radiohead. i could even apply that dreaded term "favourite" to
them.
i got into the band with the release of The Bends. that album was like a
soundtrack for teenagers around here. i found that it was the post nirvana
16 year olds that loved it. people that fell in two years too young to
catch the smashing poumpkins bug here got Radiohead. and although i love
nirvana and the pumpkins, they don't even compare to Radiohead.
i'm 20, the bends was released i guess in 1995 or thereabouts. im not too
sure off hand, but OKcomputer was released in 1997 wasnt it? so they fit
right into my mid teens.
by the time i got OKcomputer i had been throuhg the whole "alanis obsession"
that infected us in 1996/7. OKcomputer rapidly became one of my all time
favourite albums.
but they didnt have enough new material for me. so i went back to Pablo
Honey. not quite what the later two albums were, but very solid all the
same.
so, you asked do people in the UK like radiohead? i'm in Ireland, so it's
pretty much the same thing (i will admit that reluctantly on occasion:-)
poeple here tend to have some respect for Thom, Jonny, Colin and Ed.
respect for the talent of a band making the music they want to make. in
college circles, they are much loved. just about everyone i know loves
them, or respects them.
as for Creep.....that song is class. but it is the overplayed track. you
know, it's the one that everyone knows. Radiohead never perform this live
anymore. and have vowed never to do so again!
so when KIDA came out, i was a little apprehensive. i did of course buy it
the day it was put on the shelves in HMV! i went to the concert, and yet
again decided that this band go from strength to strength, and yet again i
applied taht term.....favourite!
GARRET
NP- Radiohead, Creep accoustic (this is of the "so VERY special" variety,
and appears on the My Iron Lung EP)
