I see nothing whiney in Thom Yorke...Paranoid maybe, but still ultimately overshadowed by one of his own admirers--The eminent Scott Walker, who actually manages to perplex and frighten the same critics who give every Radiohead album like 10 stars. And it's that extra edge, that extra dimension of unbridled, unrelenting terror that is both worldly and otherworldly that does ultimately make one question one gets passed for "deep" these days.
I think music reviews are pretty pointless, depressing affairs in general, anyway; as if "taste" could somehow be transmuted by all verbose justifications for what a small collection of individuals thinks is "important" for reasons that are perverse to me in that they are not rooted in aesthetics, but in some dettached principle of what it would be most seemly for them to approve of, vs. how stingingly it can be taken apart.
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Date: 2007-01-15 09:01 pm (UTC)And it's that extra edge, that extra dimension of unbridled, unrelenting terror that is both worldly and otherworldly that does ultimately make one question one gets passed for "deep" these days.
I think music reviews are pretty pointless, depressing affairs in general, anyway; as if "taste" could somehow be transmuted by all verbose justifications for what a small collection of individuals thinks is "important" for reasons that are perverse to me in that they are not rooted in aesthetics, but in some dettached principle of what it would be most seemly for them to approve of, vs. how stingingly it can be taken apart.