If Radiohead has to come up in idm list discussion, the least I can do is
to recommend an album that, IMHO, must have had an enormous influence on
them that still is miles ahead of them today. Mainly, Talk Talk's
"Laughing Stock" from 1991.
For something that's sparse, at times intense, at times cold and wintery,
and mostly very moving, "Laughing Stock" does the job better than any
Radiohead that I've heard..(kudos to "Kid A" for being the closest).
Granted, "Laughing Stock" doesn't tread in the Idm-ey territory that "Kid
A" wets its feet in... Needless to say though, it is a bit of a departure
from their 80s material ("It's my Life", etc.).
The hardest thing to get used to is Mark Hollis's vocals... though if you
can deal with Thom Yorke's vocals, I guess you could deal with anything..
And the album just got reissued on an English label after being out of
print for many years.
As for Grandaddy, they're nice... but they're not doing anything that the
Flaming Lips or Pavement (and hence The Fall, Swell Maps, Tall Dwarfs, and
Velvet Underground) haven't done before. Cool, though, that yet another
band from the central valley of California has made it big in the UK.
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Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
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