After all this time...

[Shift]

of knowing about Radiohead, I have only today been truely touched by their incredible genious. I have already listened to OK Computer beforehand I really liked it, but today I listened to Kid A, and its electronica style really touched in only the way Muse has done. Gonna listen to their other albums tommorow.

This is why I adore alternative and progressive, because you can try all sorts of things with the music, Radiohead and Muse are definately gonna be forming the basis for my new band. Just for more info, Radiohead are now back together, and are in the process of writing another album, and a side note also, Muse are also in the process of writing their sixth album to be released next year

 

[Viperidae]

And remember, Thom Yorke loves LP5. You must too. So... OK yeah, shameless plug.

 

[knut]

They're okay. A few particular stand out tracks, alot of meh and some so-so stuff. Like his solo album, The Eraser, quite abit though.

 

[Septih]

of knowing about Radiohead, I have only today been truely touched by their incredible genious. I have already listened to OK Computer beforehand I really liked it, but today I listened to Kid A, and its electronica style really touched in only the way Muse has done. Gonna listen to their other albums tommorow.

This is why I adore alternative and progressive, because you can try all sorts of things with the music, Radiohead and Muse are definately gonna be forming the basis for my new band. Just for more info, Radiohead are now back together, and are in the process of writing another album, and a side note also, Muse are also in the process of writing their sixth album to be released next year

Muse have a fifth album? Or are you including hullabaloo?

 

[Bad^Hat]

Muse need to bring out another live DVD. Oh yes they do.

 

[Ennui]

Radiohead is an amazing band. Shift, once you've saturated yourself with OK Computer and Kid A, check out Amnesiac - it's a phenomenal album.

 

[Shift]

Muse have a fifth album? Or are you including hullabaloo?

yeha hullabaloo is classed as an album lol. And Ennui, I decided to go back to their routes with Pablo Honey, amazing how they have transformed in sound over time, but 'One' and of course 'Creep' are amazing songs. What I really want is 'The Bends' but Ive lost the copy. Mainly because when Muse first came out with 'Showbiz' they were critised for sounding too much radiohead, wanna test that theory, not to mention 'Street Spirit' is probably my favourite song.

 

[JNightshade]

Make SURE you "buy" ( >_> ) the I Might Be Wrong live album. The live version of Like Spinning Plates is probably the most beautiful song I've ever heard.

 

[Qonfused]

And remember, Thom Yorke loves LP5. You must too. So... OK yeah, shameless plug.

Just gtfo.

Radiohead is amazing, from what I've heard. Unfortunately I don't have any albums. I'll need to buy some.

 

[Shift]

Listened to Amnesiac, COM LAG and Hail to the Thief, all truely brilliant. 2+2=5 and Wolf at the Door were songs of epic proportions

And Nightshade, just youtube'd it, and I couldn't agree more

 

[Zephos]

yeha hullabaloo is classed as an album lol. And Ennui, I decided to go back to their routes with Pablo Honey, amazing how they have transformed in sound over time, but 'One' and of course 'Creep' are amazing songs. What I really want is 'The Bends' but Ive lost the copy. Mainly because when Muse first came out with 'Showbiz' they were critised for sounding too much radiohead, wanna test that theory, not to mention 'Street Spirit' is probably my favourite song.

Yeah, I've heard a few Muse songs that sound like two Radiohead songs mashed together, wouldn't call it a rip-off... but it sounds hauntingly similar.

Listening to "I Might be Wrong" and "Like Spinning Plates" makes me want to purchase Amnesiac now :x (Already have OK Computer, Kid A and HttT).

 

[Absinthe]

Kid A was a life-altering album for me. It completely changed how I thought about music and what I expected from future albums/artists I listened to from that day forward.

And I hated it when I first gave it a listen. I had previously been fed on a diet of Limp Bizkit, Korn, and Eminem. So the first things that popped into my head were:

What the ****?
What's this toybox-sounding shit?
What the hell is he saying?
More synthesizers? **** fail!
So slow...
WHERE'S THE GUITAR.
I'M NOT GETTING PUMPED ENOUGH. SCREW IT. WHERE'S MY COPY OF "THREE DOLLAR BILL, Y'ALL".

I then threw the CD into my drawer and didn't look at it again until about three months later. I was bored at home, had nothing to do, was bored of listening to all my other stuff, so I gave it another shot. Maybe it was because of my largely sensory-deprived environment where I just had no choice but to let the music wash over me, but after listening to it all the way through, it instantly became one of my favorites, and everything I'd listened to before became difficult to turn back to.

Kid A is the shit. If you disagree, **** you too. Kid A is the reason I listen to and enjoy most of the artists I have in my collection today. It gave me an appreciation for minimalism and pacing. It endeared me to electronica, which I had previously written off entirely as cheap, easy, and inferior to "real" instrumentation.

OK Computer was an amazing album too. But it didn't have the same magic as Kid A had for me.

 

[Shift]

Feel exactly the same, OK Computer was one of those revolutionary albums and just perfectly made, but Kid A's songs were just so atmospheric, and a lot of them had me in a trance almost. My dad is a massive fan of Radiohead, he said Kid A was critised for being too different and was classed as their worst, and I was like 'wtf?', just shows that a lot of music critics nowadays just cant recognise genious when it appears.

Saw a live performance of them last night and this old tape my dad had, back in 1994 after they released 'The Bends', playing songs from that and 'Pablo Honey', and it was saw raw and almost grunge like, but there was something about the way they played and the sound that just made my jaw drop. Creep, Street Spirit and Blow Out were amazing lol.

 

[Absinthe]

I've rarely heard Kid A classified as their worst. That honor usually goes to Pablo Honey.

I mean, there certainly was a lot of criticism because of its significant departure from previous albums, but on the whole I remember it being critically successful as well as financially (which nobody expected).

 

[SimonomiS]

Hold up, where's the legion of Radiohead fans hating on you for liking Muse/Creep?

 

[Ennui]

lol. I personally would call Pablo Honey my least favorite album - my favorite being either Kid A or Amnesiac.

I second what JN said about the I Might Be Wrong live album. It's essential.

 

[Stigmata]

Pablo Honey is awful. Everything else is various amounts of amazing.

 

[Shift]

I agree, apart from 'One' and 'Creep', Pablo Honey was pretty meh. Learned Street Spirit, Airbag and Paranoid Android in the last hour, cant believe their simplicity, emphasises their genious, simple yet ****ing effective.

 

[Ennui]

I can listen to Pablo Honey and enjoy it, but it's put to shame by The Bends.

 

[Dalamari]

The Bends is my favorite album, I can listen to any song on it 100 times over and still love it

 

[Dinkleberry]

I'd consider myself a fan of radiohead, but preferred Kid A and Amnesiac (both were recorded in the same session I believe) to OK Computer. Then I got the My Iron Lung EP which I really liked (acoustic stuff), then the clincher was when Hail to the Thief came out. It sort of brought together the best of elements from their previous stuff. Later I got the Bends and Pablo Honey but don't listen to them because I think they've been surpassed by later stuff.

Also think Muse is a poor man's Radiohead, but that's just me