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May 16, 2007
Roxy Music bracket: Planet Telex (3) v Life In A Glass House (14)
Planet Telex
The Bends (3) Let me take the liberty to state that this is my historic favorite song. I truly adore this song. Will you let me down? Now, onto the objective: this song perfectly sums up the Radiohead lyrics-tonality conundrum. Pretend you don't know English (or the lyrics), how exultant, exuberant, and hopeful does this song sound? It's pure affirmation. Oh, what's that? He repeats how everyone and everything is broken? Let me look that up in the dictionary. That bad? Oh, ok.
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Life in a Glass House
Amnesiac (14) This -- and "You and Whose Army" -- are like Radiohead's Luddite songs. Hey, look at how technology and our information/communications swarm are consuming us. Let's pretend we're a tired speakeasy band. Yes, this is my croon. Deal with it.
Posted by Keith O'Brien at May 16, 2007 11:21 AM
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i dont want to be sketchy or bitchy, but planet telex is a horrible song. horrible. i feel like it got votes simply because of the presentation.
Posted by: dan vaughn at May 17, 2007 11:31 PM
I doubt very much that that is true. What a waste of time it would be to spend time voting something on the pithy description I wrote. Also, the songs are below for anyone to hear. If it is crap, it will not progress far.
Posted by: Keith O'Brien at May 18, 2007 08:11 AM
I've always considered "Glass House" to be RH's "I'm Keith Hernandez*" moment. If any band other than Radiohead had released "Life in a Glass House", I mean note-for-note the very same song, it would have been universally panned as gimmicky and conceited.
If REM did this, everyone** would have said that they had completely lost it. If U2 had done this, everyone would have said that they are a bunch of money hungry fools. If the Pixies had done this, everyone would have called it a joke. Radiohead does it, and it's somehow respectable.
Radiohead has become like George W. Bush; it is pretty much impossible for them to lose their base.
*For eponymous reasons, we should see about getting the former Mets firstbaseman to be the official celebrity spokesperson for this site.
**Or everyone who cares about such things, namely, us.
Posted by: Randall Monty at May 18, 2007 08:48 AM
