tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872489015822533224.post2160871370516076900..comments2022-03-29T23:08:11.606-04:00Comments on The Pennds: Radiohead and the Futurejaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360792834574232027noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872489015822533224.post-84514027248854347992010-03-30T15:50:06.534-04:002010-03-30T15:50:06.534-04:00I am of the mind that the only Radiohead album(s) ...I am of the mind that the only Radiohead album(s) deserving of a mid-life crisis tag are Kid A/Amnesiac. But I believe, to a certain extent, that that was sort of the point there. As for what they have left, I have a feeling they will be making music together (in one form or another) for a long long time. For nearly 20 years it has been the same guys in more or less the same roles in an ebb and flow of creativity. And while I don't think that Radiohead's future will play out like that *other* seminal British rock band that we haven't really talked about... you know, the one with the skinny guy who struts around and that really burnt out guitarist, existing more or less as a tour band, releasing albums that only sell a few hundred thousand but selling out stadium shows well into their 60's... I do believe that Radiohead has a lot left in the tank.jaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360792834574232027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872489015822533224.post-7999384257524334872010-03-29T15:24:21.949-04:002010-03-29T15:24:21.949-04:00I'm intrigued by the Beatles/Radiohead compari...I'm intrigued by the Beatles/Radiohead comparisons and Jared and I wrote a few questions dealing with that subject for the syllabus. However, I'm unclear on what you mean by termed the White Album a "mid-life crisis album." It was released in 1968, just 2 years before their breakup. Discounting Yellow Submarine, the Beatles only released two albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be before the group was dissolved, many of the tracks for those albums being recorded and conceived in those same sessions. In the same way that we view In Rainbows as Radiohead's more or less "back to basics" album, relying much less on studio artifice than much of their OK Computer and esp. Kid A/Amnesiac work, Abbey Road and Let It Be took similar approaches. After the esoteric White Album, Let It Be and Abbey Road, esp. the continously playing second side, is some of their tightest work as an ensemble. <br /><br />While a lot of their solo work would seem to portend a rift over musical direction, the band in interviews seem to be quite content playing with each other. While I see your point about a possible creative stagnation after such a long history of experimentation, I don't really see a breakup on the horizon, and would much more readily apply the "mid-life crisis" tag to Hail to the Thief than to the White album, which in my mind marked the zenith of both their creativity and their combustibility, and revealed tensions that would rapidly cause the band's break up.SWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17756937856276672626noreply@blogger.com