What is the deal with Radiohead?

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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    pdalowsky wrote:
    I mean this might not be the best thing to say, but Green day are alive and well after doing the same three cords for near on 20 years. U2 are hardly breaking new ground and remain at the forefront of rock......But radiohead - well like I say maybe its just me.

    So you'd rather listen to a band who is 'hardly breaking new ground'?

    U2 and Green Day (and, I would add Oasis) are still ridiculously famous for doing the same three chords over and over again. But they are also probably the most mediocre bands in the world... except for RHCP, who are also still 'famous' for not re-inventing the wheel.
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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,214
    no not rather listen to at all, I was highlighting these bands as being bands who have made albums that i have still enjoyed even though they havent started to totally reinvent themselves...
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    Tone wrote:
    I like Radiohead but, as a huge Muse fan, I'm really over them being compared to Radiohead... to me, they're totally different.


    This...

    and I prefer Muse by far. Radiohead is just one of those bands that I know is good musically and I kinda like, but somethings missing for me and I don;t see why they are considered as great as they are. Still, music is all about individual taste so more power to the Radiohead fans!
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  • HermanBloom
    HermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    I get them, but they suck; worst voice ever; whiny and pretentious music
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  • Bangers_n_mash
    Bangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    pdalowsky wrote:
    Radiohead were a great band, they lost the plot when they tried to fix something that wasnt broken, and went all experimental on us. In my view (which many strangely diaagree with) they made a total bollocks of it all. Went from being a worlds leading band to knocking wank records out with all kinds of electronica and no melody or what I would call song structure, and just basically wailing.

    In the live arena this is all different though, they are pretty damn good there. Although they are well off their peak even with that compared to 1995-1997, anyone who saw them then and now must surely agree??
    You mean if they just lazily wrote the same music over and over then you'd like them? :D
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  • Bangers_n_mash
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    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    No Radiohead thread is complete without this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsNJU0bfxe4
    Haha! Fins, that's one of the funniest videos on youtube. No matter how many times I watch it I still can't help laughing.
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  • dpmay
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    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    ... except for RHCP, who are also still 'famous' for not re-inventing the wheel.

    i don't think this is completely fair. listen to uplift mofo party plan and then stadium arcadium and see if you don't think that maybe they really are reinventing something...
  • Its Evolution Baby
    Its Evolution Baby Posts: 849
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    So you'd rather listen to a band who is 'hardly breaking new ground'?

    U2 and Green Day (and, I would add Oasis) are still ridiculously famous for doing the same three chords over and over again. But they are also probably the most mediocre bands in the world... except for RHCP, who are also still 'famous' for not re-inventing the wheel.

    Achtung Baby and Pop are more diverse then anything PJ has done. You can not like U2 but not being diverse is not there biggest issue.
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  • clark_kent
    clark_kent Posts: 166
    ramblinpony wrote:
    I don't get it. I respect Radiohead as musicians and as innovators and anything else their fans always say, but I just don't see how they are that good. I like some of their shit, and I think they have a unique sound (Kinda). However, being different and good are not mutually exclusive.

    Discuss.

    their last album was pretty good. but aside from ok computer, i have their best of comp and it's all i need. though i wish it had 'blow out' rather than the 2 shitty songs it took from pablo.
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  • Mike_Muse_Rage
    Mike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    Bangers'n'mash wrote:
    Haha! Fins, that's one of the funniest videos on youtube. No matter how many times I watch it I still can't help laughing.
    That pedal pressing bit is hilarious.
  • Igottago
    Igottago Posts: 483
    nathanastin wrote:
    I get them, but they suck; worst voice ever; whiny and pretentious music

    Yeah they need to be more macho and dumb.
  • emperor penguin
    emperor penguin Posts: 197
    their music sucks. there is nothing even resembling a human emotion in any album since ok computer.
    I like bands.
  • jammerfall
    jammerfall Posts: 908
    Cropduster84 wrote:
    They just have their own thing going on.....

    OK Computer and In Rainbows are awesome albums.....

    Throw "The Bends" in there and you have three awesome albums.
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  • clark_kent
    clark_kent Posts: 166
    Igottago wrote:
    Yeah they need to be more macho and dumb.

    no, they need to be more spontaneous and human and less robotic and lifeless.
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  • Strangest Tribe
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    ramblinpony wrote:
    I don't get it. I respect Radiohead as musicians and as innovators and anything else their fans always say, but I just don't see how they are that good. I like some of their shit, and I think they have a unique sound (Kinda). However, being different and good are not mutually exclusive.

    Discuss.

    I will Discuss that you don't get it and others do and that doesn't make you or them any better or worse for it.

    Personally, I believe that Radiohead (and namely Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood) are fucking artistic and musical geniuses but I'm not going to support your passion for a fucking argument if that's what you are after.
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  • drew0
    drew0 Posts: 943
    I love them, although I can see what you mean and do think they're overhyped. One of my favorite bands, just not nearly as good as some people make them out to be. I do get annoyed with a lot of their fans, to me a lot of them come off as snobbish like "Oh, you like Pearl Jam? Well I listen to Radiohead."
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  • catefrances
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    emperor penguin wrote:
    their music sucks. there is nothing even resembling a human emotion in any album since ok computer.

    hmmm then imo, youre not listening hard enough.
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  • emperor penguin
    emperor penguin Posts: 197
    catefrances wrote:
    hmmm then imo, youre not listening hard enough.


    I listened to in rainbows once then used the cd as a drink coaster where it could actually be useful by protecting my coffee table.
    I like bands.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    emperor penguin wrote:
    I listened to in rainbows once then used the cd as a drink coaster where it could actually be useful by protecting my coffee table.

    oh so witty. :rolleyes: :p
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    I never really cared for them until In Rainbows came out. I remember, I bought The Bends and OK Computer and listened to them casually but nothing really special. Then got Kid A and hated it.

    To be honest, it was just something new. Then after listening to some techno, I really enjoyed Kid A and then adapted to their style. It's one of those, you either love it or hate type of music. Honestly, I fucking love it. Radiohead rocks!

    Kid A, In Rainbows, OK Computer and Amnesiac are great albums i listen to regularly besides PJ. I now think that The Bends is generic alternative rock of the 90's so that album doesn't really do anything to me that much anymore. But the 4 albums I mentioned are incredible.

    So they've been around for nearly 15+ years now and only last year when I really started to love their music. It takes time. So hopefully, some of you might like it down the road. :)
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