Pink Floyd vs Radiohead

pink floyd is secretly a terrible band

love large chunks of material by both of these

voting Floyd because come on

Radiohead is terrible, no secret there.

Don't think they'd work as well as an accompaniment to pot, acid.

The only time Radiohead ever sounded anything LIKE Pink Floyd to me was on 'Subterranean Homesick Alien'... and possibly 'How To Disappear Completely', but that's about it.

Floyd shits on Radiohead from a great height.

From a great heeeiiiiiiiighht heeeeiiiiiiiiiiiight!

EZ Snappin OTM.

'How To Disappear Completely'

That's the only one that sounds like Pink Floyd to me. And they really don't have the same level of mass popularity that Pink Floyd has/had, especially when it comes to their weirder stuff.

who will lex vote for

has he heard of pink floyd

The great log in the sky

The only time Radiohead ever sounded anything LIKE Pink Floyd to me was on 'Subterranean Homesick Alien'... and possibly 'How To Disappear Completely', but that's about it.

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:03 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not about what they sound like, they don't really sound like pink floyd but it's just more the place they occupy is the same IMO

i think radiohead has become a sort of cultural institution as "good weird music" for normals by now, like pink floyd used to be in the 80s and 90s for kids

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:52 PM (4 minutes ago)

by now = by 1997

So tying things together with the discussion on the 'middle age' thread, I was going to say that the comparison is unfair because Pink Floyd was together for much longer than Radiohead has been. Then I realized that Pablo Honey will be 20 years old this year and basically all of Pink Floyd's canonical material was completed within the 20 years from 1967-1987.

If the question is who I prefer, I think I lean a little towards Radiohead for what they've done with rhythm and guitar sounds in a pop/rock/electronica context. (PF were pretty predictable rhythmically much of the time, despite the 7/4 groove in "Money".) I have a little more personal attachment to Radiohead's music, although I really like much of what Pink Floyd did up through Wish You Were Here.

Also unfair in that Floyd had three lead voices while Radiohead love depends on how you feel about Thom's moping.

I remember a lot of "OK Computer is the new Dark Side of the Moon" talk back in the day. That was some serious bullshit.

Pink Floyd
why?
PINK FLOYD RULES
PINK FLOYD RULES
PINK FLOYD RULES
PINK FLOYD RULES
PINK FLOYD RULES
PINK FLOYD RULES
PINK FLOYD RULES
PINK FLOYD RULES

come at me, radioheads

<3 HOTS

pink floyd is just the boringest music

radiohead is ok but pink floyd rules

when I was a kid and had never heard pink floyd I thought it was gonna be this crazy wild drug music but it's music for sleepy old people

your mind has to be strong enough to cope with what's happening maaaaaan

if you like that weaksauce radiohead bleep bloop stuff then I guess that's ok, shrug

so tired
http://files.sharenator.com/51463Pink_Floyd_Momentary_Lapse_of_Worst_Place_To_Sleep-s400x300-142646-580.jpg

lol come on VG, Radiohead has some seriously amazing material

it's just... they aren't Pink Floyd, who have some seriously amazing material of all-time

both these bands have some great stuff and some garbage, voting for PF easy though

lol I actually do like a lot of radiohead, I'm trollin

but pink floyd RULES and I stand by that

Obviously I'm voting for Pink Floyd here. Radiohead isn't one of my least favorite bands, but OTOH Pink Floyd is one of my all time favorite bands...

I mean, Radiohead has never released anything as awesome as Animals.

pink floyd is secretly a terrible band

― iatee, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:00 PM (45 minutes ago)

iatee is not-so-secretly always wrong.

And they really don't have the same level of mass popularity that Pink Floyd has/had, especially when it comes to their weirder stuff.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:06 (36 minutes ago)

this is the main thing that separates them

pink floyd attained full spectrum dominance with the most suburban of suburbanites, radiohead just never got that big

and probably nobody could reprise that role these days anyway

shit gets real when iatee zings something as being for old people

are 14 year olds these days going through "radiohead phases" or are they still just getting into the Floyd.

recently realized what a hottie young david gilmour was

http://newspaper.li/static/cbc9d6455e672112c2cb3dd10b11402a.jpg

that's why waters hated him so

hey there pretty lady

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'interstellar overdrive' is more of a genuine mindfuck than any radiohead song. hell, i kind of think 'bike' is, too.

we should just vote on hotness level

i guess that greenwood chap is p fetching

thom vs. waters? hmmm

gilmour was smokin back in the oldentimes

wcc now feeling a disturbance in the force xp

personally, as far as Floyd goes, imo the song to beat is One Of These Days.
You cannae fuckin top that

Cannot. Be. Done.

'have a cigar' is also way funnier of a capitalist-putdown than 'paranoid android.'

it's a hilarious capitalist putdown that makes me want to go to sleep

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/893667/thom-yorke-2010_article_story_main.jpg

it's a hilarious capitalist putdown that makes me want to go to sleep

― iatee, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:57 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Get a load of this fuckin' guy"

http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/English/aaFeaturesImages2010/david-gilmour_about-face.jpg

Iatee, have you listened to much pre-DSotM Pink Floyd? I agree that their most popular material is not wildly adventurous.

I thought we determined only Pet Shop Boys wrote good songs about capitalism.

"we"

Radiohead is OK, but Floyd is for the children.

gilmour + barret twofer as far as handsomeness goes - that has to settle it, floyd wins

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WHO WILL RULE

THE ULTIMATE ART ROCK BAND CHALLENGE

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ILM in less than an hour ^^^^^^^^^

shiiitttttttttttt

just realized ilx polls at 5 p.m. here which gives them additional gravity imo

if floyd doesn't win this I'm burning the whole place down

a vote for radiohead is a vote for cold gruel, icy showers, and arithmetic at 6 a.m.

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al leong otm

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

R U L E S

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RULEZ!!!

This was still way too close.

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feel bad for the 81 who don't realize PINK FLOYD RULES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=appPeNLjkPE

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/14/19806695_e587452ded_z.jpg?zz=1

thank you for restoring my faith, ilm

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even johnny rotten would've voted for PF i bet

set the controls for the heart of SUCK IT

exposed before their peers

Give it another 10 years and Radiohead wins this.

NEVAR

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hahah

my guess? most of the people voting radiohead were trolls from the goon squad.

oh shit, better vote

fuck

Who was ground down in the end.
Who was found dead on the phone.
Who was dragged down by the stone.

81 ppl need to be trained not to spit in the fan

I voted... Pink Floyd rules.

Someone needs to make an animated gif of the Battersea pig with the Deal With It sunglasses

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/35500/Roger-Waters-Double-Vision-35571.jpg

that is freaking me ouuuut

I want to see two sets of deal with it glasses animate onto the relics double eye dude

enough with the gifs. we need to clear this place out, throw up some oil slides and crank Saucerful of Secrets.

SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUUUUUUUNN

^

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rip kevin ayers

wonder if I should listen to Sheep to celebrate

...this bullshit

https://soundcloud.com/peterkruder/peter-kruder-pink-floyd-mix

That mix is the tits.

hey it's been real chatting with everyone here about music but I think this cowboy just found a place where he'll feel more at home talking about good music

https://www.facebook.com/PF.TB.LZ.TD

AN OPEN LETTER TO RADIOHEAD

April 23, 2017
London, April 24th 2017

Dear Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway,

You’re listed to play Tel Aviv in July this year.

We’d like to ask you to think again – because by playing in Israel you’ll be playing in a state where, UN rapporteurs say, ‘a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people’.

We understand you’ve been approached already by Palestinian campaigners. They’ve asked you to respect their call for a cultural boycott of Israel, and you’ve turned them down. Since Radiohead campaigns for freedom for the Tibetans, we’re wondering why you’d turn down a request to stand up for another people under foreign occupation. And since Radiohead fronted a gig for the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we’re wondering why you’d ignore a call to stand against the denial of those rights when it comes to the Palestinians.

Radiohead once issued a statement saying: ‘Without the work of organisations like Amnesty International, the Universal Declaration would be mere rhetoric’. You’ve clearly read Amnesty’s reports, so you’ll know that Israel denies freedom to the Palestinians under occupation, who can’t live where they want, can’t travel as they please, who get detained (and often tortured) without charge or trial, and can’t even use Facebook without surveillance, censorship and arrest.

In asking you not to perform in Israel, Palestinians have appealed to you to take one small step to help pressure Israel to end its violation of basic rights and international law. Surely if making a stand against the politics of division, of discrimination and of hate means anything at all, it means standing against it everywhere – and that has to include what happens to Palestinians every day. Otherwise the rest is, to use your words, ‘mere rhetoric’.

You may think that sharing the bill with Israeli musicians Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis, who play Jewish-Arabic music, will make everything OK. It won’t, any more than ‘mixed’ performances in South Africa brought closer the end of the apartheid regime. Please do what artists did in South Africa’s era of oppression: stay away, until apartheid is over.

Yours,

Tunde Adebimpe, musician, TV on the Radio
Conrad Atkinson, artist
Richard Barrett, composer
David Calder, actor
Julie Christie, actor
Selma Dabbagh, writer
William Dalrymple, historian, writer and broadcaster
April De Angelis, playwright
Shane Dempsey, theatre director
Laurence Dreyfus, musician and director, Phantasm Viol Consort
Geoff Dyer, writer
Eve Ensler, playwright
Bella Freud, fashion designer
Douglas Hart, musician and director
Charles Hayward, musician
Remi Kanazi, performance poet
Peter Kennard, artist
Peter Kosminsky, writer/director/producer
Hari Kunzru, writer
Paul Laverty, screenwriter
Mike Leigh, writer/director
Ken Loach, director
Lowkey, musician
Miriam Margolyes, actor
Kika Markham, actor
Elli Medeiros, musician
Pauline Melville, writer and actor
Roger Michell, director
China Miéville, writer
Thurston Moore, musician
Maxine Peake, actor
Dave Randall, musician
Ian Rickson, director
Michael Rosen, writer and broadcaster
Alexei Sayle, comedian and writer
James Schamus, screenwriter, director and producer
Nick Seymour, musician, Crowded House
Adrian Sherwood, record producer
Juliet Stevenson, actor
Ricky Tomlinson, actor
Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa
Alice Walker, writer
Harriet Walter, actor
Roger Waters, musician
Susan Wooldridge, actor and author
Robert Wyatt, musician
Young Fathers, musicians

https://artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2017/04/23/an-open-letter-to-radiohead/

Alexei Sayle ?!?

He's still around?

Ugh there's a lost worth polling

dangit, i had the chance to start a new radiohead poll and i blew it

I'm trying to figure out which of these two bands discographies contains the most laughs. At least Roger Waters had a good reason for his misery, what's Radiohead's excuse?

Thom Yorke is eternally cursed to look like the homunculus of Mads Mikkelsen's character in Valhalla Rising