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day 3.

today i discovered something. i am not a fan of radiohead.

i like to listen to their radio-friendly singles. songs like the bends and fake plastic trees are fine. but it almost pained me to sit patiently through the entire the bends album today. i actually started and stopped on three separate occasions before i forced myself to focus and listen to the entire thing. honestly, i was cleaning while listening, and i didn't really pay attention to it (this isn't to say i haven't heard the album before, but the purpose of this project is to really pay attention and revisit with these albums, not listen to them in passing or as background noise) the first time through, so i tried again after i decided to stop cleaning for the night, and almost fell asleep.

on both listens, i got to track 8-my iron lung-and was hoping that it was the last song on the album, but both times i realized that i still had four to go.

its not that radiohead is a bad band. i wouldn't go around making fun of them with the same attitude as i do bands like nickelback (i cant, in good faith, call them a band. sorry if you like them. that's just not music, and its definitely not something id like to torture my ears with.), but at the same time, i don't hold them in the same regard or on the same pedestal as some people that I've met in my lifetime.

I've seen radiohead live. i saw them at bonnaroo a few summers ago. the set was average. i was way more impressed with tom petty that summer. i didn't hate it. it wasn't the worst thing id seen that weekend. it just...it was just average.

that's how i feel about radiohead in general, i think. thom yorke is no dope. i just feel like maybe sometimes i need to be on dope to listen to an entire album straight through. maybe that's the problem. maybe i don't "get it" because I'm not a pot head. i don't know.

the album did have its highlights for me. of course, it was stuff that i already knew i liked, and its the stuff I've already mentioned in this post. fake plastic trees.  the bends. high and dry. given the chance, id probably listen the shit out of a greatest hits album. i just cant find it in my musical heart to care enough about the other tracks to sit through an entire album.