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Thought this would be an interesting video for folks here. I can wholeheartedly agree with his take on the first album in this video but after that I start to disagree. It’s kind of funny to me that he profiles Kid A and then points to In Rainbows afterwards, because the latter is Radiohead’s most overhyped album to me. At the time it came out I found it a pretty disappointing followup to Hail to the Thief and I think it’s lasting significance is much more the marketing than the album itself.

He does acknowledge something that comes up when you’re first really getting into music. It’s hard to really appreciate groundbreaking albums decades later if you weren’t there for them. I can understand that Gen Z folks weren’t there for In The Aeroplane over the Sea so they might not get how it was so different from anything else at the time. But the album he focuses on that the most with this topic is The Velvet Underground and Nico which is like… that’s probably a top 10 of all time for me. And not only that but it’s basically the poster child for sleeper hits. So many other albums from that era that are considered classics got the recognition they deserved at the time, but this one was blackballed back then, so in that light I’d almost say it’s underrated.

Tau Stephanus, Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller, bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica (1931-2026) has passed out of form. Spare a moment to reflect on the life of this pioneer of the Neo-Gnostic movement.

http://www.gnosis.org/LAWeekly.htm

When I took over this sub a few years ago I didn’t realize there were already r/esotericism and r/esotericoccult that already cover basically the same topics and are more active than this sub. So then I decided to let it just “go to seed.”

But if anyone here has ideas for a new direction to take the sub in, I’m quite open to adding some new mods and letting you have at it.