nogojones
spelling is overrated
How can you say that when they sound so alike? I struggle to tell one for the other
Radiohead - good?
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Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Which Radiohead albums have you listened to?
nogojones
spelling is overrated
I'm not sure. Friends (well acquaintances) have played me some of them. I think OK Computer may have been one (but then again, that one may have been from Coldplay). It's all just one big mush in my mind
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Try some of Radiohead's newer stuff, i.e. anything released in the last twenty years 
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
As much as I loved OK Computer at the time, the stuff that came after that is generally a huge leap forward.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
A lot of middling 'indie' bands (Coldplay, Travis) took The Bends and, to some extent, OK Computer as templates, but Radiohead then way out-manoeuvred them.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
I've just skimmed through some of their newer stuff:Try some of Radiohead's newer stuff, i.e. anything released in the last twenty years
Pyramid song, knives out, Karma police... It's all the same.
I feel bad, because so many people seem to think they have something going for them, but it illudes me. I listen to a lot dance music and I can understand why people who don't like it say it all sounds the same. I just can't see why people hate on Coldplay so much, when it sounds just as banal as Radiohead
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
You need to sharpen your listening skills!
Most of their better stuff needs a few listens anyway - you won't get it immediately. I'd also argue that the electronic/dance community are more into Radiohead/Thom Yorke now than the indie/rock community.Coldplay are more a straight pop band now (so I hear
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neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Each to their own I guess. Maybe they're just not for you.
I thought Coldplay's first two or three albums were ok, but they're quite of their time and I wouldn't go back to listen to them in their entirety now. I'd say the same about Pablo Honey and The Bends, but everything from OK Computer onwards still sound great now and I regularly listen to them.
Radiohead are much more experimental these days (look at some of the stuff Jonny Greenwood has on stage
), so I don't really see the comparison to Coldplay now.
savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
No comparison to Coldplay whatsoever. Where the hell did that come from?
For me The Bends is the best British Guitar based album of the 90's. Still gives the chills to this day. OK Computer and everything after just don't reach that same spot for me.
For me The Bends is the best British Guitar based album of the 90's. Still gives the chills to this day. OK Computer and everything after just don't reach that same spot for me.
the first Coldplay album was heavily influenced by early Radiohead, but that's about all.
Sweet FA
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Basically Coldplay never got better than Yellow and Radiohead got way better than No Surprises.
(I like both those tunes btw, just Coldplay had one idea and Radiohead had loads. Although maybe their ideas had already been had by other similar bands like Floyd about 100 years before. They're all a bit wanky though.)
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retribution
Jack of Dubs
Radiohead have been releasing quality recordings of sessions and gigs on YouTube recently. Last night we watched their 2018 concert in Sao Paolo. Turned the lights off, cranked the speakers. An excellent experience in rona times 
editor
hiraethified
Interesting cover and article (if you ignore the click baity title)
www.theguardian.com
Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times
Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music – and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Interesting cover and article (if you ignore the click baity title)
Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times
Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music – and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world
I'm aware of the cover. It's good but in no way better than the original (like I once heard a certain 6 music DJ claim). Part of the genius of the original is the rippling guitar.
skyscraper101
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Good cover. In Rainbows was their last good full album IMO. Partly recorded at my old school too. Pop fact.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Old bloke covering "No surprises".
Great stuff
Great stuff
I've warmed to Radiohead a bit since this thread was posted. They're still not a band that excites me, but they're good at what they do and they are more varied than I thought they were. Johnny Greenwood has done some good soundtracks too. They're put on a pedestal by some and it's tempting to try to knock them off, but that's always a silly urge.
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shambler
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Radiohead might be one of the better guitar bands of the 90s - but that's not saying very much. The 90s was a poor decade for guitar music. Most of the interesting music of the 90s was electronic or sample based. Radiohead's best claim to fame is that they did something slightly original in the genre of boring guitar music for and by white men. They eeked it out a bit longer. Well done but no thanks.
To summarise: whiny, screechy, turgid, depressing nonsense.
To summarise: whiny, screechy, turgid, depressing nonsense.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Their 90s vinyl is worth buckets....
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Ah, that explains it to me now. If they'd kept the music fast, Got Tom to sing at a normal speed then chipmunked him up tp 160, it would have probably been bangin'.
Off to search soundcloud now for donk remixes of Radiohead songs
It's a cute little riff, but the song needs something a bit more to justify even its quite short length and Thom Yorke sounds like a strangled goat. My sense is that they got better in the noughties. I'm going to check out In Rainbows.
Yeah I'm loving the Ondes Martenot on 15 Step.
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