Connections: between black butts and glittery confetti (6 of 9)
So radio and TV started to lose their appeal. Exciting rock ’n’ roll got buried beneath the mainstream again. Luckily, Radiohead had grown over the years and still kept making exciting stuff that broke through the surface. Around the break of the century other new bands started to rise that, at first, got the stamp ‘Radiohead-clone’. Coldplay and Muse both admittedly had certain qualities that reminded me of the emotional aspects Radiohead had delivered to me so well years before. But soon it emerged that those two bands were to become superstars by themselves. And Radiohead had moved on so stunningly with ‘Kid A’, that they didn’t even sound like themselves anymore.
A lonely cry in the desert
Besides those two great new bands, I started to feel I lost touch though. After radio and TV, the magazines that I had stuck to for information began to write about stuff that didn’t excite me as much as before. The only source for new music was now friends. Having quit school, those were starting to go down in numbers too, so in the end, when I finally had my first band, I was down to only one friend, a band mate, who shared some genuine musical taste. And then that ended too, and I fell into a dry spell. I fell back on new releases of bands I already knew and maybe the odd connected thing here or there.
A new period started… (ctd. tomorrow)