Radiohead Kinda Sucks

on November 24, 2009

Thom Yorke: Does this make me look sucky?

Totally dope. Or just dopey.

As much as we think 1993‘s “Creep” is one of the great singles of all time, Radiohead since then has been a vastly overrated juggernaut of self-indulgence.

We’re so happy someone else finally came out and said it.  SPIN.com ran a great piece this week on “top rock myths debunked.”  Radiohead was #1 with a bullet:

Myth No. 1: Radiohead Can Do No Wrong

Fact: Radiohead kinda blow.

They’re the vanguard of music, a post-rock think tank, the absolute state of the art.

They’ve also been righteous, giving a confused music world a moral center. So we sit, wearing headphones and frozen grins, and continue denying that guilty, nagging feeling that actually, in some ways, when you think about it…Radiohead kinda blow.

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