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I have thought and said and written and felt so much about this band that I don’t know what else to say, and all I can think to ask is, did Radiohead open my mind or forcibly shut it? Did they show me a wondrous universe outside myself, or did they help me build a wondrous universe crammed inside my own head where I could spend the vast majority of my time to the near-total exclusion of the outside world?
What I also know is that back then, paging through somebody’s CD book was the single most intimate activity you could engage in with another human being. It
then he takes a final, ragged, generation-defining breath. “NIGHT THROUGH.” But stop. We have to stop. We have to stop at “THE WHOLE.” He can’t ever take the breath. If he takes the breath the song keeps going, and the song ends, and the CD ends, and we leave the room, and everyone keeps getting older all the time, and we’re older now, too, and then suddenly we’re on the school bus at the corner of East Union and North Harmony, right in front of our old junior high, when the radio tells us that he’s gone. What do you mean he’s already gone by the time the Unplugged CD comes out, before he
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Dre especially is one of the gnarlier How to Separate the Art from the Artist challenges in music history. My advice: Don’t ever forget any of that, but that doesn’t mean you have to think about it all the time,
