Bands like Radiohead and Coldplay are the greatest OVERHYPED bands ever?

[watthafuc]

i seriously cant think of any other band that gets more hype and is just plain... BLAH.. i mean everyone of their songs sound the same.. and they're both so whiney

[skanky80]

Radiohead are easily one of the best bands ever, you really just havent been listening if you think otherwise.

Coldplay are trash however.

[watthafuc]

Radiohead are easily one of the best bands ever, you really just havent been listening if you think otherwise.

Coldplay are trash however.
they are the exact same band

[Skee-lo]

Not really bothered about the argument as such, but....

Saying Radiohead songs all sound the same is plain wrong. Listen to Ok Computer then Kid A.

To be fair, Radiohead made probably the riskiest move of any band they're size (ever) with such a departure from the sound that made them popular by making Kid A.

And Coldplay - Parachutes is a very good album.

[eckohed]

I tried to get into Radiohead too, but just wasnt feelin much. Maybe I should spend some more time with their albums, but from what Ive heard I dont get the big fuss.

Can somebody up their best tracks or something? appreciate it

[InspectahGadget]

i seriously cant think of any other band that gets more hype and is just plain... BLAH.. i mean everyone of their songs sound the same.. and they're both so whiney

this is liek the 30th coldplay=radiohead thread ive seen
i'm gonna make a piss tastes the same as beer thread

[THE 101]

No it goes like this:

Radiohead - The greatest
Coldplay - OVERHYPED

[Paul Mooney]

yeah they both kinda suck

most of these ambient "experimenal" bands try to come off as deep, when in reality they have no technical skill on their instruments. Youll never hear and ill solos or mind boggling slap basslines form these bands....but they make a bunch of complicated noise with synths and drum machines and call it "cutting edge"

[Bone Daddy]

Not really bothered about the argument as such, but....

Saying Radiohead songs all sound the same is plain wrong. Listen to Ok Computer then Kid A.

To be fair, Radiohead made probably the riskiest move of any band they're size (ever) with such a departure from the sound that made them popular by making Kid A.

And Coldplay - Parachutes is a very good album.
You act as if Radiohead was taking a real risk, no. They aren't as big as people seem to think they are, they're a platinum band but not to U2 levels, sh!t they don't even sell like Coldplay. So any risk they take is mitigated by the fact that not that many people like them anyway.

[skanky80]

yeah they both kinda suck

most of these ambient "experimenal" bands try to come off as deep, when in reality they have no technical skill on their instruments. Youll never hear and ill solos or mind boggling slap basslines form these bands....but they make a bunch of complicated noise with synths and drum machines and call it "cutting edge"

Wow. You really have no clue about writing/making music do you?

[Skee-lo]

You act as if Radiohead was taking a real risk, no. They aren't as big as people seem to think they are, they're a platinum band but not to U2 levels, sh!t they don't even sell like Coldplay. So any risk they take is mitigated by the fact that not that many people like them anyway.


You're mixing your past and present tense up.

They AREN'T as big as U2 no, and they don't sell like Coldplay (Kid A was out like a couple of months after Parachutes came out here, later in America, so whats the point comparing sales?) This is 2006. I'm referring to 1997 - 2000. From about 1998 onwards everyone was waiting to hear what it sounded like, whether they were fans or not.

The amount of favourable critical reviews and press in general that Radiohead get (and got more at the time) + such a change in style + the huge time between OK Computer and Kid A meant it was a huge risk. Like you state, they hardly sell like Coldplay, and not that many people like them anymore, but they used to.

[Bone Daddy]

You're mixing your past and present tense up.

They AREN'T as big as U2 no, and they don't sell like Coldplay (Kid A was out like a couple of months after Parachutes came out here, later in America, so whats the point comparing sales?) This is 2006. I'm referring to 1997 - 2000. From about 1998 onwards everyone was waiting to hear what it sounded like, whether they were fans or not.

The amount of favourable critical reviews and press in general that Radiohead get (and got more at the time) + such a change in style + the huge time between OK Computer and Kid A meant it was a huge risk. Like you state, they hardly sell like Coldplay, and not that many people like them anymore, but they used to.
No, you're still wrong. In the US where we make the biggest impact on the music listening public, Radiohead has always sold right around plat.:past and present. They sell well with hipster-ish, wack ass mofo's who think that having Radiohead in their collection will make them seemm smarter ad more with the times, it doesn't you look like an asshole. OK Computer to Kid A is the smallest risk taking I've seen from a group with that reputation for experimentalism. Sh!t One Hot Minute from RHCP was a bigger risk and departure in sound than any album Radiohead has ever made.

[Skee-lo]

No, you're still wrong. In the US where we make the biggest impact on the music listening public, Radiohead has always sold right around plat.:past and present. They sell well with hipster-ish, wack ass mofo's who think that having Radiohead in their collection will make them seemm smarter ad more with the times, it doesn't you look like an asshole. OK Computer to Kid A is the smallest risk taking I've seen from a group with that reputation for experimentalism. Sh!t One Hot Minute from RHCP was a bigger risk and departure in sound than any album Radiohead has ever made.

Don't really think Radiohead are a hipster band, 'music snobs' maybe, but definitely not hipster. Hipster would be Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Lcd Soundsystem, Bloc Party etc.

Radiohead's reputation for experimentalism came from making the leap from Ok Computer to Kid A! So it clearly was substantial if it garnered them that reputation.

And to finish the argument off, OK Computer is generally regarded as one of the best albums ever, by commercial press, uncommercial press et al. So from making one of best album ever recorded, then moving to whats basically a new genre, is a big risk. Just because you don't really like Radiohead, doesn't mean you should deny that.

And for the record I don't like Kid A very much, or any of their albums thereafter either.

[infamous003]

I pulled out "Kid A" and "OK Computer" last week, and I can't stop listening to them. "Everything in its Right Place" is f*ckin' beautiful.

Coldplay, also a huge fan, just came back from a road trip to Toronto to see them at the ACC.....**** was unreal. Dudes are TIGHT live.

Both are equally dope, in their own ways. Coldplay is safe music, easy to sing along to. Radiohead are more daring, not really radio-friendly, and come on, how can you not like either of the above CDs?

And their videos are sick.....