Bloody Math Rock

Been trying to get myself to like Thom Yorke's The Eraser. For months. Yorke's the brains of Radiohead, seeing them through the pop-rock of Pablo Honey to the experimentations of OK Computer, to the weird-shit stuff you hear on Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief.

And well, The Eraser is the same kind of weird-shit stuff. Only weirder-shit. Well, you could say that the disjointed beats and weird time signatures are quirky and a breath of fresh air. But well. I don't like it. They could write those weird-shit stuff until the cows come home, but I'd rather have the typical 4/4 time signature, verse--bridge-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus-verse-chorus-chorus kinda stuff. Harrowdown Hill is sorta OK - if you ignore the weird time signature, but the rest just makes you want to wear down your 'next track' button.

Musical taste is so much about peer pressure and acceptance. You can't be caught dead liking Avril Lavinge and Dream Theatre at the same time. Or mentioning Blink-182 and Sepultra in the same sentence. But well, sometimes, no matter how much our peers love the stuff - and how much we want to like the stuff - it's just not us, no?

I don't bother listening to Thom Yorke anymore.