Radiohead-Pink Floyd

danielheyes · January 2006

Oh, Jimmy wrote:

The Bends and Pablo Honey are really good imo. Some stuff on Hail to the Thief is plain scary. I dunno about the egos in Radiohead, but it seems they are overdoin things just to be different. They do push boundaries though, and that is whats important.

Very few bands come close to the greatness of Pink Floyd, and imo Radiohead isnt one of them.

exactly,to compare these with pink floyd is just plain lunatic........

it beggars belief!!

shahril · January 2006

danielheyes wrote:

exactly,to compare these with pink floyd is just plain lunatic........

it beggars belief!!

to be fair..u have to wait it out after a decade at least..to see how the music landscape has or has not changed to judge the 'greatness' of a band. dont u think pink floyd truly became great once people got the late 80s and they reflect on the great records they made..

im willing to bet that in 10-15 years time...when we look back at ok computer and kid a we'll see what great records they were..and to be fair..they really havent produced anything less than 'good' since then have they? u cant really have complains with any of the albums except for pablo honey which was same ol same ol normal stuff back then..

but from the bends up to HTTT, theyve produced good-great wouldn u say?

Oh, Jimmy · January 2006

shahril wrote:

to be fair..u have to wait it out after a decade at least..to see how the music landscape has or has not changed to judge the 'greatness' of a band. dont u think pink floyd truly became great once people got the late 80s and they reflect on the great records they made..

im willing to bet that in 10-15 years time...when we look back at ok computer and kid a we'll see what great records they were..and to be fair..they really havent produced anything less than 'good' since then have they? u cant really have complains with any of the albums except for pablo honey which was same ol same ol normal stuff back then..

but from the bends up to HTTT, theyve produced good-great wouldn u say?

The great British bands of the past, Floyd, Zeppelin, Beatles that branched out from the basic blues were treated with great irreverance. If they were perfoming new material, the crowd sat silently during the songs. People knew these bands were legendary even as they continued to put out new material.

Radiohead will be viewed as a great band, but not up to the legendary status of the big boys.

WES · January 2006

Being classified as legendary in this day in age is next to impossible...Almost everything has been done before...And when bands such as Radiohead, come out with something new and extremely great, people love comparing them to the legends like Pink Floyd...By comparing current bands to such acts of the past is totally illogical...The music scene has changed so much since floyd released dark side or the beatles created the white album....Those who rank the Bends and Pablo as Radioheads greatest albums are truely narrowminded...Those albums were Radiohead's foot in the door by creating the similar rock to the next mainstream band, which so many of you love and adore...Radiohead's truely became great with the release of OK Computer, and every release following it has been a step forward or at least on the same plane as OK....Consecutive release of such great, and amazingly differnt albums is extremely rare...And as much as I love Pearl Jam...the same cannot be said about them.....

Ill catch a fair amount of shit for this...But, please stop making these trivial comparisons between bands of the present, and those from 20 years ago....

Oh, Jimmy · January 2006

WES wrote:

Being classified as legendary in this day in age is next to impossible...Almost everything has been done before...And when bands such as Radiohead, come out with something new and extremely great, people love comparing them to the legends like Pink Floyd...By comparing current bands to such acts of the past is totally illogical...The music scene has changed so much since floyd released dark side or the beatles created the white album....Those who rank the Bends and Pablo as Radioheads greatest albums are truely narrowminded...Those albums were Radiohead's foot in the door by creating the similar rock to the next mainstream band, which so many of you love and adore...Radiohead's truely became great with the release of OK Computer, and every release following it has been a step forward or at least on the same plane as OK....Consecutive release of such great, and amazingly differnt albums is extremely rare...And as much as I love Pearl Jam...the same cannot be said about them.....

Ill catch a fair amount of shit for this...But, please stop making these trivial comparisons between bands of the present, and those from 20 years ago....

Changin doesnt necassarily mean good. Not to say that Radioheads output is weak, but it almost seems like they change for simple sake of changing.
With Radiohead there is no point of reference. Great bands have a familiarity about their albums, but also a great deal of change. They evolve they dont go from monkey to man in one album.
Not a comparison, but with Floyd you have the Syd and post Syd. You can listen to them and slowly hear Waters take control and Gilmour take second in command. You can put anything from Meddle to the Wall together and that same basic style is there.

Pearl Jam and toast · January 2006

Radiohead and Pink Floyd

they're both wayyyyyyyyyyy ahead of their comtemporaries.. and they're both brilliant... and english.

In fact, Radiohead are so good that anyone who says "they're so overrated,.. they suck.. (etc).." is labeled deaf and dumb in my book,... despite anything else they listen to. (Plus most of the people that seem to say that haven't actually listened to Radiohead....)

Radiohead and Pearl Jam are easily the two best active bands in the world right now. (smashing pumpkins will give them a run for it in April when they reunite

)

Pearl Jam and toast · January 2006

shahril wrote:

kid a and amnesiac were shite? come on!! u gotta be kidding me..

and HTTT was a solid record..i dont get how u can say that radiohead produced introspective arty bollocks...

how can u categorise something like kid a and amnesiac as that..theyve never been done before, it was truy groundbreaking.
and i respect their integrity in not doing ok computer 2. no 2 albums should sound the same...otherwise ull end up like oasis

Like i said.. "deaf and dumb"

i agree with you.

i think while HTTT broke through new areas of music they hadn't been to before, it still managed to find an amazing middle ground between records like Kid A, the Bends, and Ok Computer.

The Bends and Ok Computer are simply mindblowing.... but so are the rest of the albums...

Martoman · January 2006

Other bands that are ground breaking like Pink Floyd and Radiohead but don't seem to get as much attention:

CAN
Television
The Velvet Underground
Sonic Youth
KK Null
Acid Mothers Temple
Joy Division
The Pixies
My Bloody Valentine

Oh, Jimmy · January 2006

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

Radiohead and Pink Floyd

they're both wayyyyyyyyyyy ahead of their comtemporaries.. and they're both brilliant... and english.

In fact, Radiohead are so good that anyone who says "they're so overrated,.. they suck.. (etc).." is labeled deaf and dumb in my book,... despite anything else they listen to. (Plus most of the people that seem to say that haven't actually listened to Radiohead....)

Radiohead and Pearl Jam are easily the two best active bands in the world right now. (smashing pumpkins will give them a run for it in April when they reunite )

I would say, as of right now, the Black Crowes have to be up there. They were on a tear last year. Tool also deserves a mention. And honestly, the Mars Volta are blowin Tool and Radiohead outta the water as far as tripped out music goes, but then again neither has released an album since TMV formed.

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