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View Poll Results: Favorite Radiohead Album?
Pablo Honey 17 2.80%
The Bends 97 15.95%
OK Computer 218 35.86%
Kid A 129 21.22%
Amnesiac 30 4.93%
Hail to the Thief 30 4.93%
In Rainbows 85 13.98%
The King of Limbs 2 0.33%
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Old 03-22-2012, 07:48 PM   #3671 (permalink)
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When you make an album and it flows cohesively. Listening to the single tracks isn't the same with Radiohead. Nirvana makes albums but their albums were a collection of singles basically.

I would say Pink Floyd and other more progressive/artsy/complex are usually what I would consider album rock.
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Old 03-22-2012, 10:59 PM   #3672 (permalink)
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Album Rock simply does not exist, unless you're talking about American radio... I assume this is your way of describing a particular band's appeal?

Radiohead are certainly a band that's measured on the strength of their albums, but that isn't to say that individually their songs don't stand up. They're great on both fronts, they just aren't marketed in a single format.
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Old 03-22-2012, 11:21 PM   #3673 (permalink)
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Album rock is just a generic term applied to bands that make albums rather than collections of singles. It exists to whoever wants to use the term. I could just as easily substantiate an argument that music or any of it's genres don't exist, so let's not get into a hair-splitting war.
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Old 03-22-2012, 11:26 PM   #3674 (permalink)
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I don't like the name. Don't non rock bands make albums too?
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Old 03-22-2012, 11:33 PM   #3675 (permalink)
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Everyone who releases an album makes an album. It's a broad term that a lot of people use. It's not really the point. Why do you insist on fixating on a term, whether you like it or not? Just talk about Radiohead. This isn't the "Petty semantics thread for boring circular logic arguments".

Last I will comment on the subject, because it will just go in circles and cause headaches for people who, you know, want to talk about Radiohead.
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Old 03-23-2012, 12:19 AM   #3676 (permalink)
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i just got Glastonbury Festival 2003 two days

it's good, though i wasn't really in the mood for it yesterday and switched it off after "Go to Sleep" (2/3rds of the way in)
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Old 03-23-2012, 01:58 AM   #3677 (permalink)
 
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They're not that heavy since after OK Computer. They're amazing album rock/art rock, but heavy they are not.
Well yes obviously... looks like my joke on jayshredz got lost on some.
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Old 03-23-2012, 07:31 AM   #3678 (permalink)
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Well yes obviously... looks like my joke on jayshredz got lost on some.
Hahaha...well, damn, we may have had a Radiohead convert otherwise.
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Hahaha...well, damn, we may have had a Radiohead convert otherwise.
I wonder if he did go and listen to Kid A. Maybe the quiet minimalism of the album and its electronic beats made his brain combust.

It must have been about a year now since I last listened to The King Of Limbs. My opinion of it at the time was of indifference and disappointment and I just stopped listening to it. I'm going to give it a spin now and see what difference a year makes.
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Old 03-23-2012, 07:17 PM   #3680 (permalink)
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i listened to it and i have to say that i may have a new favorite band.

i mean there were like no killer guitar riffs or sing along choruses but i feel like i really have a feel for electronic music now.
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