The Bends Vs Ok Computer

[mccole]

I was fully on board with your post at this point



You lost me in spectacular fashion with this though

Haha Coldplay was a joke!

 

[Prevenger17]

I’ll probably get called a hipster but I prefer their more experimental electronic stuff but again that comes down to the fact that I find guitar music incredibly stale for the most part. Part of the reason Radiohead have managed to continue to stay relevant is because they also got bored of traditional guitar music and wanted to expand and develop their sound.

Utter utter hipster

 

[longers]

That is a shame, I do feel for you there. Get some Mars Volta in you.

Im generalising tbh, I do still listen to some guitar based music but generally needs to have a lot going on sonically to keep me interested, needs to not 'sound' like a traditional 4 piece rock/indie band for starters.

Stuff like this I can get down to. I'll check out Mars Volta, I know they are meant to be good for what they do. I don't mind stuff like Sigur Ros and Explosions In The Sky either.

 

[MikeH72]

Im generalising tbh, I do still listen to some guitar based music but generally needs to have a lot going on sonically to keep me interested, needs to not 'sound' like a traditional 4 piece rock band for starters.

Stuff like this I can get down to. I'll check out Mars Volta, I know they are meant to be good for what they do. I don't mind stuff like Sigur Ros and Explosions In The Sky either.

Nice sounding track that. If you're a post-rock fan I'd recommend a band called Oceansize, you might have heard of them. Specifically the album Frames if you're into the longer instrumentally-focused stuff.

Realise I've gone way off topic but who cares, it's music, I could talk about it all day every day. Just boss isn't it.

 

[SerenityNigh]

The Bends is fabulous but OK Computer by a mile. It’s a top all-time album.

 

[SerenityNigh]

..never heard of either, had no idea what the thread was about. You should listen to a bit of Dean Martin.

Dean Martin drinks Yorketinis

 

[SerenityNigh]

Like asking which child you love more. Impossible.

Have more kids

 

[SerenityNigh]

Definitely not with their later stuff. Personally I love the Bends and OK Computer, but have seriously struggled to get into any of their post-2000 material. It's not like I have a phobia of experimental music, I listen to a lot of prog rock, post rock and metal, and outside-the-box stuff like Faith No More. But every time I've tried to get into something like Kid A or In Rainbows I have such an indifference towards it. I feel like I've heard everything on it already, but done better.

Hail to the Thief?

 

[MikeH72]

Hail to the Thief?

Never given it a shot to be honest, same with King of Limbs and the latest album. I gravitated towards In Rainbows because of how highly acclaimed it is, but alas, not for me.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Never given it a shot to be honest, same with King of Limbs and the latest album. I gravitated towards In Rainbows because of how highly acclaimed it is, but alas, not for me.

It’s very good, and quite rocky*. Took me some time to get into, but it’s the one that still surprises me most I think (no doubt in part because I didn’t like it at the time.)

*For post OK stuff

 

[ilikecheese]

OK Computer mostly for being groundbreaking and not being The Bends 2.

It was risky but vaulted them into the Pantheon of greats.

Street Spirit could live on a few of their records comfortably though.

 

[navidson]

Aren't they all very P4K bands?

Ha, possibly some of them - but you get the distinct impression that they talk about 'guitar' bands with an almost apologetic shrug

 

[Blue 1]

Prefer listening to The Bends, both are good records, but Radiohead are one of the most overrated bands of all time, and if I'm going to go back to one of their albums these days, it's most likely to be In Rainbows.

OK Computer seems to top so many "best of all time" or " best of decade" lists, but it wasn't even the best record of 1997. That was "Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space".

 

[Khalekan]

Both excellent but OK Computer came out and smashed the whole Britpop world apart.

Look at Blur and Oasis, that album destroyed them, musicially. The 4 piece has never been the same and raised the bar which only The Strokes, Libertines and Coldplay have come near.

lol @ Coldplay getting anywhere near a “raised bar”.

The very epitome of latter day MOR Dad Rock.

 

[Prevenger17]

but generally needs to have a lot going on sonically to keep me interested

Utter utter utter hipster