This Isn't Happening Quotes

“I try to remind myself of how awesome downloading music used to be. Because now it's about as thrilling as ordering paper towels from Amazon. The more convenient that downloading became, the less fun it was.”
― Steven Hyden, This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century

“Millions of Gen-Xers and Millennials watched the fallout from Bush vs. Gore unfold in the news while Kid A droned on endlessly through their headphones. It was an eerily ideal soundtrack for what seemed like a darker, more foreboding time after the peace and prosperity of the ’90s—a gloomily disorienting fanfare for a new era. Though we had no way of knowing exactly how dark.”
― Steven Hyden, This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century

“The thought of Radiohead trashing a hotel room is like imagining the pope autographing Mother Teresa’s breasts.”
― Steven Hyden, This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century