It's great fun to read your descriptions, Chris, you've got a rich selection. I've also been a fan of Wilco, I feel like I've got the lyrics to "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" probably all memorized, but many of your selections are entirely new to me. I'm intrigued to check out Jake Blount and also Trampling Turtles. As for Radiohead- yes, no question, worth all the respect. To me there's an aspect of them that leaves me cold, almost as if the passion and brilliance of the musical artistry has something, despite all its apparent depth, that's hollow or even resigned (that's how I feel about both "Idiotechque" and "Fake Plastic Trees" anyway, both of them have a grandeur that's reaching toward something insightful and apocalyptic but that still leaves me hollow because of what seems resigned about them...)
I think you’re right about Radiohead. Their world-weary pessimism was the perfect foil to pre-9/11 naïveté. It’s different now, however. Still...they’re obviously great, and I’m still hoping for another IN RAINBOWS, which was a beautiful album.
As requested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Tbl1Vh9Qh2KK1NoA1foj4?si=u9MrxQ9sTkGuFwq0p59ZZg
It's great fun to read your descriptions, Chris, you've got a rich selection. I've also been a fan of Wilco, I feel like I've got the lyrics to "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" probably all memorized, but many of your selections are entirely new to me. I'm intrigued to check out Jake Blount and also Trampling Turtles. As for Radiohead- yes, no question, worth all the respect. To me there's an aspect of them that leaves me cold, almost as if the passion and brilliance of the musical artistry has something, despite all its apparent depth, that's hollow or even resigned (that's how I feel about both "Idiotechque" and "Fake Plastic Trees" anyway, both of them have a grandeur that's reaching toward something insightful and apocalyptic but that still leaves me hollow because of what seems resigned about them...)
I think you’re right about Radiohead. Their world-weary pessimism was the perfect foil to pre-9/11 naïveté. It’s different now, however. Still...they’re obviously great, and I’m still hoping for another IN RAINBOWS, which was a beautiful album.