Sunday, April 5

Radiohead on Jonathan Ross (2008)

1 comment:

Metamatician said...

No comments on Mr Yorke & Co.?

I find Thom Yorke's voice control amazing. There are many singer who can hit high notes, a reasonable number who can sustain them in key or sing a whole song in such a high register, but most of these do it in the studio and drop an octave live (even the great David Bowie never goes very high anymore, nor does Bono, and Cornell's days singing in the stratosphere are over, he uses he throaty screams now.

But Yorke can belt out perfect-pitch, no tremolo (vibrato) notes of studio recoding room quality on a live television show and not flich. And of course the song is great, if sad, and the rest of the band are great as usual.

Radiohead really is head and shoulders above U2, Coldplay, and any other pretenders to the alt-rock throne right now. Their best competition, REM, fell off after Monster, and that's really been it.

Not to say there aren't great smaller acts that will rise to challenge them - of course there are. But Radiohead are at the absolute top of their game right now and most people would say so if asked, in the demographic they play to. Bowie hasn't come out with anything for ages, The Cranberries broke up, The Sundays are done, U2 is mediocre, Depeche Mode sucks now, The Cure is awesome but they are their own thing really, insulated from time and competition. The Pixies... The The Smiths... well The Smiths are one of the top 5 bands of all time, but they're been disbanded for 22 years! Ouch.

It's all about Radiohead right now for college rock types and it will take someone awfully mighty and original to knock them off. Bjork doesn't want to do it, so there's a big void in 2nd place right now. Correct me if you think I'm wrong?

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