things i want to put my finger on

[sulky_youth]

i think i figured out what radiohead is. it's surreal. they are very surreal, they take raw emotions and translate them lyrically into (characteristically male) abstractions of emotion, and embed them into surreal, straying melodies. it's the need to stray from the raw emotion that i don't like. it's an elaboration that creates distance. (yet

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[_scarlet_ibis_]

Johnny Marr loves 'em. When I met him (yes, I'm talking about it AGAIN) he wanted to talk about them. He so wanted me to like them. His eyes lit up when he asked if I liked them. I wanted to apologize for not, but didn't.

Yes, I see this. You are astute. Raw emotion upsets people. I don't understand it.

[sulky_youth]

well, i find it interesting that he should like them, because in my eyes his construction of music is exactly the opposite. his work in the smiths exemplifies directly capturing emotion in melody, without abstraction. for example, meat is murder which always stands out to me in terms of his work on it, is to me, the musical antithesis of radiohead. it is direct, active, furious and beautiful.

it has puzzled me that i can find elements of their work that i like (because i can), but i can now see the elements i like jump out as raw and traditional sonically. whenever it strays from that, i dislike it again. i find something unnerving about it. i find the indirect emotion- the abstraction, extremely uncomfortable, actually.