"Radiohead are so good it scares me"

The Things They (not just Michael Stipe) Say About Radiohead

This is a page devoted to things that have been said about a certain band I might have mentioned more than once in passing earlier (if you don't know who I'm talking about than I may as well give up now). Here you will find quotations from books, magazines, newspapers, the Radiohead mailing list and anywhere else I could find that said something lovely about that band. Just because it's nice to wallow in the praise that's being heaped on them these days. If anyone's got anything they think is worth adding then i'd love to hear from you, (a little click here should do the trick). Feel free to wallow at will now......

"Deeply weird bunch, Radiohead. Insular, posh, irrationally paranoid, yet capable of creating achingly beautiful songs resplendent with mind-warping sonic tricks."
Q

"1995's The Bends is a masterpiece......definitively modern, and instantly timeless"
The Independent

"No matter how dark the subject, Radiohead never lose sight of the fact that you need a decent hook to hang it on"
Hot Press

"It was a rare treat to interview a man whose intelligence and magnetic aura are matched only by his humility and thoughtfulness"
The Trigger, on Thom Yorke(who else?)

"It's powerful, bruised, majestically desperate record full of frighteningly good songs"
Q on The Bends

"The greatest rock band on God's Earth this very second"
Melody Maker

"Radiohead aren't really a part of britpop, not in my opinion. They're off in another city somewhere, and I'm glad that I live there."
Ryan Hadley

"With "OK Computer" the group demonstrates a maturity and brilliance that will invigorate your faith in music once again"
Mr. Showbiz

"It's a remarkable feeling to listen to a CD and feel dead and alive all at once. Radiohead pulls it off because behind every wincing revelation, there's a sense of incredible relief - witness Let Down's expanding space that finally explodes in euphoric tones. A dark marvel from one of the decade's standout acts."
The Vancouver Sun, on OK Computer

"Whether it's the savage roar of the group's three guitarists or the insistent piano that pushes tracks like the haunting "Karma Police," Radiohead unleashes perfectly crafted pop songs that are as unnerving as they are lovely."
People Magazine

"It requires your full atention from start to finish to fully appreciate it's master strokes; indeed, it's the echoes of these weighty pop symphonies that help to identify this as a musical landmark in it's own right. It will be hard for any band to top this astounding album before the end of this century, at least."
The Band Magazine, on OKC

"Radiohead make body music that circumvents the head to reach the spirit...it feels utterly contemporary, an achievement few mainstream guitar bands can claim."
Spin

"From opening track "Airbag," the music works like a gentle tide, lapping and lapping and lapping at your ear until it's tugged you all the way in......Brimming with sensations, breathing with emotion, "OK Computer" is a sonic masterpiece."
The Detroit Free Press

"A new Radiohead single is like Christmas coming early"
Head Cleaner

"I've listened to OK Computer five times now, and I think it's majestic"
Mr O'Brien senior

"They've delivered a miracle of millennial claustrophobia and twitching paranoia, an angry and compassionate statement of the dislocated individual"
The Independent on OKC

"'Paranoid Android' has probably already blown your mind into tiny little bits via the beautiful madness of the current Radio 1 playlist. What you won't know is that, in a month or so, the album, 'OK Computer' is going to come into your life, sweep up those tiny little bits, put your mind back together again and then blow it all over again. Just for a laugh. Just because it can."
Melody Maker

"Music this dark, moody, evocative and intoxicating simply hasn't penetrated the pop mainstream since the heyday of Nirvana"
Hot Press

"Tongiht will see Radiohead carve out a fresh new chapter in their history, and fill it with some of the most eloquent and moving musical language ever coined"
NME on the Barcelona Zeleste concert

"Radiohead are payig no attention to polite convention. They are cruising at warp factor ten, trailing sleighbells, synthesisers, whole bloody choirs of angels, and an entire neo-Freudian thesis in their wake. 'OK', you ask? It's awesome"
Vox on OKC

"The year's greatest song"
NME on Paranoid Android

"Every word sounds achingly sincere, every note spewed from the heart - and yet it roots itself firmly in a world of steel, glass, Random Access Memory and prickly-skinned paranoia"
Select on OKC

"Fortunately, Radiohead are here to calm the savage swine with songs from their celestial, mesmerising, liquid-crystal masterpiece of an LP, 'OK Computer'"
VOX on the Torhout Festival

"This isn't the new.....anybody. This is the first and last Radiohead"
Parlophone's A Flavour Of The Label

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