Pink Floyd vs Radiohead

The Bends kinda sounds like "Fearless" from Meddle.

Do you mean the song or the album? I think the song "The Bends" sounds like a lot of anthemic rock music from the 20 years that precede it and really has more in common with other British rock of the same time than it does with "Fearless". It would never occur to me to compare it to "Fearless" instead of, say, "Live Forever" by Oasis. I can see it a little with "Lucky" but really, "How to Disappear Completely" is the only song that made me think of Pink Floyd in the way that, say, the White Stripes make me think of Zeppelin or the Stones at times.

Ha, unless you were being sarcastic and I missed it.

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"where's me?"

GO HOME BONO

for the love of god just stay the fuck out of this for once bono

Well, yeah, on the first couple of albums, the U2 influence is far more apparent to me than the Pink Floyd influence.

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HFS at that Radiohead album cover pict with the dudes

someone plz sb Bono

I hated HATED floyd in the '80s or whenever my human memories started kicking in, and now I quite like a few albums (dsotm has only just grown on me this week, after decades of trying). based on that ridiculously long slow burn, I'm taking floyd over radiohead.

btw I'm convinced the fact that a shitty local radio station played floyd NON STOP for something like 10 years had something to do with my earlier hatred. it's near impossible to enjoy anything when it's rammed down your throat to that degree.

I've got no beef with radiohead, but pink floyd rules, so this isn't really any kind of contest at all.

huh, Dark Side vs OKC is basically Clash of the Serious Bullshit Titans im humble o, but AA's testimony has made me rethink. fwiw, the instrumental tracks + Us and Them are p much amongst the scarce redeemable tracks from post-Meddle Floyd.

Yeah if you can get past the popular radio hits (which never bothered me but I always hear that they turned loads of ppl off) -- then definitely, DEF dig well back in the catalog for u will be pleasantly surprised.
IMO.

Or turned off completely for life. Either way. A worthwhile exercise.

Honestly I kind of had a similar but opposite experience with Radiohead -- had a carpool friend who listened to Kid A on every car trip I swear for at least a month. I will always associate getting in his car in the morning with the opening drones of 'Everything In Its Right Place'.

I couldn't listen to Radiohead for years after that. But eventually calmed down to where I can now hear Kid A and not get involuntary facial twitches

Can't wait for The Prodigy vs Skrillex poll.

Well Radiohead are overrated, nowhere near as good as some people say, they blatantly steal other people's ideas and profit off them, Thom Yorker is 40% objectionable, but a lot of their music is very good and I enjoy it.

Pink Floyd, though, are actively fucking horrible and nasty and abysmal, so there you go.

Radiohead. They've never been my Favourite Band Ever but I was 14 when The Bends came out and since then they've always been there, putting out records that range from 'pretty good' to 'excellent'. Pink Floyd's best stuff is great too but they don't mean anywhere near as much to me as a band. Looking at it another way, I don't love any Floyd album as mucn as OK Computer or In Rainbows and Radiohead have never released anything as awful as The Final Cut.

R radiohead are more consistent. Pink food has a lot of clunkers. I mean, FreeFour? Fuck that. But radiohead doesn't have anything that emotionally resonates with me. I can accept them as being "good" or whatever, but it's never memorable.

Pink Food? Awes..

Anyways, FreeFour sounds like half man half biscuit.

Yeah, I got a new phone.

lol at this thread

I think what Imago was trying to say before you guys berated the living shit out of him was that Radiohead has a very cerebral approach to their music, where Pink Floyd has a more emotional approach. In Myers-Briggs terms, Thinking vs. Feeling. It has nothing to do with how the music is written; it has to do with the way it is expressed. Radiohead is for the most part grounded and often clinical even when they are at their most experimental; Pink Floyd in their prime is blasting you through the cosmos of your inner psyche.

all this said with the caveat that I don't know any Radiohead past Amnesiac.

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(also, can i just ask why people so rude when they have a simple and unimportant disagreement?)

i think it's part of the regional charm

maybe it's that internet anonymity thing where everyone feels compelled to be a douchebag in the comments section because no one has to actually look at anyone in the face when they're being a total tool

pink floyd is the worst band in history

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I don't know how "experimental" and "grounded" explain what goes on in either band's music.

then i wonder what words you would find relevant. please let me know so I can tell you you're an idiot and wrong for having whatever reaction you have.

they often write long songs about pigs and shit

Radiohead rules, eff all you haters

Animalssssssss god still gets me emotional

I like radiohead

I don't even like pink floyd that much, but pretending pink floyd is the best band ever us awesome

Pink floyd rules!

Actually I like both pink floyd and the doors more now than I have in years though, I'm reverting to 13

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Now zeppelin, I would take both these bands down to the river and drown them in a burlap sack to save zeppelin

I like how these bands get people all hot & bothered.

never figured out why the Floyd has a rep for being braniac music ; does it? not even sure. saw one of my college profs baked at a floyd show in the 90s, didn't usually see profs at shows. certainly Radiohead is student music

that being said

PINK FLOYD RULES

LOL Radiohead, voted Floyd of course

never figured out why the Floyd has a rep for being braniac music

Back in the day rock music was still mainly blues based. The blues was a given and it was what a band added to it that could make them special and why you would check them out. The Floyd is also just a seventies blues jam band, but one with a stellar keyboard player that could catapult the band right into space. Rick Wright's playing is very close to that of Hans Joachim Roedelius - for instance - and definitely a part of the 'kosmische' element of krautrock. That isn't brainy music in the way that it is complex, it is brainy in that it transports your conscious way out there man.

Of course listening back now to Pink Floyd with 40 years of pop music passed, the electronic element is not very 'out there' anymore and it is 'just' the blues that steals the attention (negative to some, I'm sure).

The Floyd is also just a seventies blues jam band, but one with a stellar keyboard player that could catapult the band right into space.

I think you'll find they'd already been to space and back in the 1967

Like that period wasn't blues based either?

Yes, but it wasn't (only) a stellar keyboard player who catapulted them into space then

Fair enough.
That is true.

Yeah glad they moved beyond that stupid blues into complex and ”brainy” music

Did they?

I'm taking issue with your apparent opinion that blues is somehow less intelligent, complex, and must somehow be transcended in favor of european art rock