Radiohead

My musical obsession of the past year has been Radiohead. When I was a teenager I would fix the larger part of my attention on one band at a time. In my twenties I thoguht I'd grown out of this but I found recently that I've returned to the same pattern. I need to immerse myself in one sound, one idiom, for a long time in order to understand it. The harder the music the longer it takes. By difficulty I don't mean musical complexity, but more my own personal index of accessability. My last band was King's-X who I learned a lot about when I learned to play about 20% of their output, at least one song from each album. Naturally the first thing I discovered when doing this was the personal writing and playing style of the artist but what remains with me is the disconnect between what sounds interesting or moving and how it is played. This increases my natural awe for music.