Controversial opinions on metal
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Okay so after listening to all the songs linked, my feeling is that Radiohead are enjoyable in moderation, but 4 songs one after the other was a little monotonous for me.
They certainly have talent though, crafting emotional depth with what sounds like quite a simplistic structure, so I can't sympathise with that line of thought.
I can always appreciate it when emotionally complex music springs forth from something simple.
They certainly have talent though, crafting emotional depth with what sounds like quite a simplistic structure, so I can't sympathise with that line of thought.
I can always appreciate it when emotionally complex music springs forth from something simple.
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this is easily my favourite radiohead song FWIW. play it loud!
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Yeah, this and Optimistic are probably my two favourite Radiohead tracks.
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The pyramid song? I just watched that and there is no guitar in it that I noticed, just special sound effects like would hear on a film.
The pyramid song? I just watched that and there is no guitar in it that I noticed, just special sound effects like would hear on a film.
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There is guitar in that song.
A quick Google search also shows that the guitar player of Radiohead arranged the strings and played the ondes Martenot in this song, which is the instrument that you hear prominently.
As I stated already, it's clear that Radiohead uses scales in their music, and this particular song uses one in an arrangement made by the guitarist you claimed does not understand them.
Well, unless its the guitarist whom is playing it on a piano. You need to understand what the discussion of scales with them is about before making sarcastic comments, as it makes you look foolish, not me.
I said a concert I saw, the guitarist played no scales, it was a long time ago, maybe 20 years. I havent listened to them since as I find them very boring. I wouldnt and dont ever have a desire to play a Radiohead song. It isnt my cup of Tea. I do like Artistic music, and I can see that this is artistic, but theres something basic and simple about it, I am not fooled easily.
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Johnny Greenwood plays multiple instruments, arranges Radiohead's music, is responsible for much of the sampling/electronic stuff, and scores movie soundtracks, so I'm pretty sure he knows what a scale is.
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Thinking about this, what does it even mean? Do you mean their songs never incorporate motifs that conform to a given scale? Do you mean he never played any solos? What did this observation of yours actually consist of?
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I'm not familiar with their oldest music (or much of their music at all), but I sincerely doubt that none of it contains musical scales. Someone more familiar with songs from that era could probably provide examples of songs and the scales used in them.
What he does now, and what he did on the concert I saw is not the same then. My statement remains true, he played no scales on the concert I saw. You see I dont make shit up, what you get from me is the truth. I dont have an ego like some people on here seem to have. You cant make a statement about anything without someone arguing about it for pages of threads, and the motive is generally arrogance and to try to appear to others that you know more and are more intelligent than others. On the pyramid song, and I have now heard it once, there isnt a distinct guitar on it at all, it will be heavily disguised through effects or be a non standard instrument, but to a casual listener to that song, a standard guitar sound doesnt seem to happen.
Well, late one night I got home and there was Radiohead on telly, a concert, and being a guitarist I watched it, and what struck me was that a lot of his guitar work ( whomever the guitarist is called ) seemed to play just arpegios around chord shapes, I didnt see him play a single scale run through the concert whenever he was on camera. And his guitar work was so basic, he had to be self-taught. I have seen hundreds of concerts of various guitarists and this one was extremely poor. This was about 20 years ago or so probably.
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It's such a stupid statement that I don't even know how to go about questioning it.
When he was on camera on the concert I saw no scales on it. His guitar work was very individual and Id say he was self-taught and not very versatile. If I remember he was using a telecaster. His G major power chord in the `Creep` song was used to good effect with volume and created an interesting mood, but he was using one finger and sort of running it up and down the neck on some of the songs I saw. This is 20 years ago so I cant be enetirely accurate but thats what I remember. When he was playing he moved one finger up the neck.
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Technicality isn't really a consideration for me when deciding whether to like a band or not, so this doesn't really bother me. I wouldn't say his guitar work is basic, but no, he doesn't shred like Eddie Van Halen, you're right. It would sound a bit weird if he did, though.
You come across as very arrogant. You need to discuss things and not put yourself forward in posts as being an expert on things and act aloof.
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