Petition to take Radiohead off Progarchi

Surely it must be....

Exit Music (For A Film)

by Radiohead!!!!! (or Brad Mehldau)

 The point isnt wether we love or hate Radiohead...its just that with their inclusion, i believe the site will now struggle to set certain bounderies on" what is and isnt prog". Of cource there are no set bounderies (if we consider bands like Tool or Styx), but this is also going to make things alot harder for the admins in perticular...but it seems that the admins have taken their stand and they are here to stay...and as hard as that is for me...i can accept that. As creator of the thread:

THE END

Again, too many people want to keep prog all 'specialised' so it's only them who like it. Look how much it anoys them when a 'popular' band get in!

I heard a description on an amazon reviews that Prog had to be 'weird', surely no one agrees with that? To me, prog is rock that is just more complex, technical, different and ambitious. Other wise tracks like this have to become just rock, when they are certainly something different.

Next: ELO!

Pleease!!!

Assumption: If Ok Computer was released in 1973, nobody would have doubted it's relation to prog. Paranoid Android is most definitely a prog song, because of its unusual stracture, complex and polyphonic arrangement and unstable time signatures. The rest of the album as well, is very prog oriented. Almost all of the songs are harmonically complex, prog influences in sound (the fender rhodes, mellotron, and such) and in an overall the album's atmosphere is conceptic.

 The polyrhythmics of In Limbo, the impossible syncopation of Pyramid Song, the dense composition of 2+2=5, and the extensive polyphonic arrangements, make Radiohead relevant to the progressive rock world. True, their esthetics are more inclined to their origins of alternative rock, but that also varies with the electronic experimentalism of Idioteque, Backdrifters etc, and occasionally even to jazz, on You and whose Army and In a Glass House.

Radiohead is not a downright progressive rock band, never claimed to be, but their attempt for originality often carries them into this world, which creates a hybrid I like to call "Alternative progressive rock".

P.S

Did anybody listen to Jonny Greenwood's work on the OST of "Bodysong"? That album is completely avant-garde rock, mixed with a tad of jazz and electronics, and mostly sounds like RIO.

It's done. You're just scared of how people like me are going to write 5 star prog reviews for Kid A.

Tough.

Gaston

M@X wrote: They are here to stay guys....

Although I'm not in the opinion that they are prog, way to make a stand