Radiohead

I really love them, but unlike most people I don't seem to have a favorite album - seems to me there's a few really amazing songs on each album. I like all their songs, but I tend to skip over all the guitarry songs with some sort of political message - I've outgrown that stuff by now. The reason I like them so much is their specialty - absolutely beautiful, melancholy songs.

I'm not usually a big fan of this sort of music, either - at first I thought they were terribly dreary and depressing, but every time I listen to an album I appreciate another song more. A lot of people don't like Hail to the Thief at all, but I genuinely enjoyed it - it was different, yes, but not too drastic a change in quality or style. One of my favorite songs (There There) is on that album. Other favorites: Let Down, How to Disappear, Optimistic.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Usually when I listen to an album, I latch onto one or two tracks, really love and obsess over them, and then gloss over the rest of the album. Then days, weeks, or months later, I listen to the rest of the album again and latch onto one or two more. Depending on how much I like the band, this may keep happening until I like the entire album, or just the one time and I move on. I don't tend to be an album listener because I get too attached to a couple songs to listen to the disc the whole way through, but I also tend to pick songs that weren't the radio singles as my favorites.

I'm still not done doing this with Radiohead, there are a lot of songs I've only listened to once or twice.

There's nowhere I can't reach.