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03-03-2016, 07:50 AM | #1 |
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the bands unique appeal
(This sort of thread may already exist, if so you have my profound apologies)
Since the early 1990s I honestly can't think of any other band that was remotely like SP. They were out there carving their niche and they did it incredibly well. No other group would or could pull off the grandeur of MCIS Last edited by qwerty sp : 03-04-2016 at 03:32 AM. |
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03-03-2016, 10:19 AM | #2 |
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Just listen to Hummer. No one else can do anything like Hummer
The tight, hypnotic drum/bass intro, the guitar coming in with nut bends and shit, crescendos inside crescendos, then a complete 180 to a smooth, jazzy outro with amazing, beautiful guitar parts There is no other song like Hummer. |
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03-03-2016, 10:50 AM | #3 |
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Radiohead?
OK Computer is quite grand In fact OK Computer is maybe a greater accomplishment than MCIS biases aside |
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03-03-2016, 11:44 AM | #4 | ||
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to be honest, i haven't listened to the last album or two... 'hail the the thief' runied it for me. |
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03-03-2016, 11:52 AM | #5 |
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Hail to the Thief is amazing imo
My favorite Radiohead album I think 2000s Radiohead actually surpassed 90s Radiohead on many levels it's not at all like SP |
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03-03-2016, 03:11 PM | #6 |
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03-03-2016, 04:46 PM | #7 |
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Radiohead>SP
objectively. Virtuoso man child who tapped into teenage angst to get popular vs. the smartest band to be able to sell out arenas within the last 20 years That's why Radiohead is still able to make good music well into their 40's, they're just smart dudes |
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03-03-2016, 05:29 PM | #8 |
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03-03-2016, 09:05 PM | #9 |
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I never liked The Band. Sounds like civil war reenactment music.
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03-03-2016, 09:44 PM | #10 |
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03-03-2016, 11:47 PM | #11 | |
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i'd say as a solitary songwriter, corgan might be slightly better than thom yorke, if only for how prolific and diverse he was. but as collaborators, radiohead are definitely better, smarter, and more musical than corgan could ever be. |
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03-04-2016, 12:35 AM | #12 |
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Radiohead's OK computer was a great concept album (about alienation and capitalism- am I right?)
But no one was doing those quixotic high-romantic songs apart from SP |
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03-04-2016, 01:58 AM | #13 |
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I agree with OP. I'm not aware of any other band with more shades and colors and strange unnameable emotional nuances in their vast catalogue. That's why I'm here.
Also for the support group camaraderie re bill's downward artistic spiral Oh and radioheads a kickass and interesting band IMO but nowhere fucking near as entertaining and meaningful to me as the best of SP |
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03-04-2016, 03:39 AM | #14 |
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original SP could give a soundtrack to teenage crushes especially SD and MCIS
Maybe The Cure was the most similar to SP Last edited by qwerty sp : 03-04-2016 at 03:47 AM. |
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03-04-2016, 11:30 AM | #15 |
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Also, Elphenor, your radiohead>SP "objectively" theorem strikes me as tantamount to positing that brain>heart. Which, ok, maybe sometimes but certainly not always
Sure, Radiohead's more consistently cerebral and so (I guess) "smart" like you say, but that also lends a certain coldness/sterility to their tunes IMO. Whereas the best of SP is so hot/close and candid and emotionally spot-on that sometimes I can't even stand it |
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03-04-2016, 09:53 PM | #16 |
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Silverchair's catalogue is pretty diverse. Not sure whether it's at the level of SP, but it's close.
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03-04-2016, 10:05 PM | #17 |
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03-05-2016, 12:37 AM | #18 |
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03-05-2016, 02:24 AM | #19 |
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SP was/is better than Radiohead easily. The reaction that people who hate SP have to Billy's voice is the reaction I have to Thom's voice.
Gish > Pablo Honey (great debut by SP, so-so debut by Radiohead) Siamese Dream > The Bends (genre defining album by SP, and a collection of "pretty good songs" by Radiohead) Mellon Collie > OK Computer (both epic albums, but come on...you can't top MCIS) Adore = Kid A (both turning points, Kid A was more critically lauded but CAN already did all this shit in the 70's) Machina = Hail to the Thief (the difficult album) Zeitgeist < In Rainbows (yeah, they won this one) Oceania = King of Limbs (they both sucked) |
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03-05-2016, 02:26 AM | #20 |
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hmmmm no
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03-05-2016, 04:40 AM | #21 |
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03-05-2016, 05:20 AM | #22 |
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03-05-2016, 09:33 AM | #23 |
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Gaydiohead is just like latter day shit pumpkins, where everything is all obtuse and inaccessible on purpose.
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03-05-2016, 09:36 AM | #24 |
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Billy Corgan can write better songs than Radiohead. Radiohead doesn't have one good song, Billy has at least 25 great songs
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03-05-2016, 10:30 AM | #25 | |
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03-05-2016, 10:49 AM | #26 |
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03-05-2016, 10:51 AM | #28 |
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03-05-2016, 10:57 AM | #29 |
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lol at "Can already did this in the 70's"
Can wasn't even the first band to do it As if there exists a single thing SP did that wasn't already done by a band in the 70's |
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03-05-2016, 12:22 PM | #30 |
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The band's unique appeal is they are great musically and convey the feeling of being a kid in the midwest from a broken home who grew up feeling like no one loved them. I mean that's most of us right? If not I don't know what horrible things were done to you as a youngster to make you attracted to this stuff.
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