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That is preposterous to say Radiohead has had zero impact on music culture. "No noticeable influence on mainstream music?" Ha! What a joke. Coldplay anyone? and a thousand other bands. Keane, Travis, Idlewild, Aphex Twin, Muse, Air, Aim, Bright Eyes, Talib Kweli, Fiona Apple, Massive Attack, Jay Z, N.E.R.D., the Liars, Kylie Minogue, Modest Mouse, Dizzee Rascall, The Mercury Program, Kelis, The Shins, Sigur Ros, The Streets, Mogwai, The Postal Service, Zero 7, Beck. I don't care who sold more albums. Radiohead influences the musicians and the artists. Kid A's use of "electronics and quirky instruments" alone changed the face of music, especially hip hop. Loops, samples, treated vocals. Pharrell Williams took it and ran, as he has stated so many times. My point is Radiohead influences the artists, the sound engineers, the software companies. The bands that sound most like Nirvana came before Nirvana. Nirvana had huge influence on popular culture, but not on music culture, as in the artists sound. Sure, everyone loves In Utero to death, but that doesn't mean they want to sound like it. Everyone sounds just a little like Radiohead these days. Maybe because Radiohead has had 3 totally different sounds. On a sidenote, a few Radiohead albums have achieved multi-platinum status. Also, 3 of Radiohead's last 4 albums debuted at #1. AND, Radiohead sells out stadiums the size of which Nirvana never dreamed of in life. I hate Dave Matthews, and shudder to think he is influenced by Radiohead, but I'll let him sum up my feelings. "Every time I buy a Radiohead album, I have a moment where I say to myself, "Maybe this is the one that will suck." But it never does. I wonder if it's even possible for them to be bad on record. It belittles Radiohead to describe their music as having "hooks." Their music talks to you, in a real way. It can take you down a quiet street before it drops a beautiful musical bomb on you. It can build to where you think the whole thing will crumble beneath its own weight -- and then Thom Yorke will sing some melody that just cuts your heart out of your chest. There's a point on the album Kid A where I start feeling claustrophobic, stuck in a barbed-wire jungle -- and then I suddenly fall out and I'm sitting by a pool with birds singing. Radiohead can do all of these things in a moment, and it drives me f---ing crazy. My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me feel like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song -- let alone album after album. And every time, they raise their finger to the press and the critics and say, "Nothing we do is for you!" They followed their most critically acclaimed record, OK Computer, with their most radical change, Kid A. It's not that they're indifferent: It's that the strength of character in their music is beyond their control. Seeing them perform makes me even angrier. No matter how much they let go in their shows, they never lose their clarity. There's no point where Jonny Greenwood or Ed O'Brien will suddenly look up and say, "Where the f--- are we?" There are no train wrecks in Radiohead; every album and performance is wrenching. God, these guys have suffered, or they can fake it like nobody else." -DAVE MATTHEWS Thanks, Neil Cavie 97-01

Yeah, but with DCI Season Pass you get ALL San Antonio APD's for free, so to speak. That's a lot of music.

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In reply to Cavies 99' That was on purpose. It was a 'visual solo' of a guy messing up, making an awww schucks motion, and going back into the form as a joke. It was there all year. Neil Cavie 97-01

Back in the day when I marched in Cavies all we did was listen to hip hip, but mostly just rap. I'd like to see the people who claim rap takes no talent try to rap. Then we'd really see what a talentless hack looks like. There is hardly a lyricist, singer, or writer that can hold a candle to The Streets aka Mike Skinner. You can find TONS of hip hop that is a thousand times more musical than anything being written for symphanies today. The musicality of hip hop is what drives people in drum corps to it, and the precision of it. Rappers are usually great singers, but text in rap is irrisitable. So much text can be written into one hip hop song, verses the 10 or 15 repetitive thoughts most bands drone over and over. Neil Cavie Euph 97-01