My only beef with Radiohead

Radiohead makes some of the most beautiful music of any modern rock band on the planet. Their intelligent interstellar musings are the soundtrack of every college student's lonely nights. My one complaint is that they don't rock out enough. "Bodysnatchers", the "hardest" song on their most recent In Rainbows, is Radiohead at their best: churning crunchy guitars that squeal and moan on Johnny Greenwood's command sending Thom Yorke's vocals running for their lives. This type of fury seems to be happening less and less in Radiohead's career and it saddens me so. Please guys, if you are out there listening....rock like it's 1995 again.

The First of the Funeral

It starts like sunshine through your window on the nicest day of the year. A cool breeze of piano keys and guitar chords rustles your hair as you open your eyes to the lyrics. You get up and put on a 5 year old pair of jeans you your favorite t-shirt and walk down to the coffee shop. Then you walk back home, get into your Japanese-made car and drive. Where? You don't know. Do you care? No. Anything and everything will happen today. It's a day that religious peoples would call a revelation. It's a day where you might leave and never come back. "Neighborhood #1" by the Arcade Fire is this day every time I hear it. Funeral, the album it appears on, is a religious experience and this is the first hallelujah.