oh no, i said too much

i actually didn't play radiohead for a while on sunday afternoon. i played rem instead.

i like rem, i like the songs, the place they take me back to. but i am now officially spoiled by radiohead. rem sounds simple to me, musically. there is not the rich texture and complex guitar parts as there is in radiohead songs.

this is not to say rem has bad songs. just that i must stop comparing anyone to radiohead. i should just have two categories: radiohead and everyone else. then i can rate all the "everyone elses" as good or bad, better or best. but radiohead are outside that rating. i can think of nothing, save some late beatles work, that i can listen to over and over again, and still hear something i hadn't heard before - that's what radiohead music is.

i played ok computer repeatedly for about two months while i wrote to it and i kept (and keep) discovering new elements in each song.

so, sorry rem. i love "stand" and "end of the world as we know it" and others. but it's not the same love i have for radiohead's music. a separate love all its own.