Petition to take Radiohead off Progarchi

seems about 50/50 now

Yeah get rid of them not that I dislike their music Ireally like it and own sevral of their CDs,but next thing you know we`ll have Cher and the Village People in the archives. Cher is playing the Bell Canada centre here in Montreal with the Village People as an opening act but due to prior obligations I can`t attend  You will notice that from various posts I`ve made over the past year or so I`m into a wide scope of musical styles ( Cher and the Village People were just a joke although I do like some of Cher`s music and I really like her intonation and voice control). However, there are some bands an artists who just don`t fit into the prog category and in my opinion Radio Head is not one of them.

Here we go once again with the what is/what is what isn`t prog debate.

the musical box wrote: Certif1ed wrote: OK Computer IS a prog album as much as Dark Side of the Moon. The Admins agree. Leave it alone and shut the f**k up.       Please? Accualy Cert, the reason the admins added them is because theyre sick of people like you f**king complaining about them " being prog" all the time. Just because you like something DOES NOT make it prog....God... If they were prog they would have been added ages ago! I think we should also add Primus and Steely Dan too! What a great idea! The fact is, if the admins TRULY believed Radiohead were prog, they would have added them long ago and wouldnt have had to put a justification for why they're on the site!!! Also, by adding Radiohead, the inclusion of countless other non/boarderline prog is inevitable and the site will eventually crumble.....good job guys!

I don't think they would have neccessarily been added ages ago, look at the Tea Party, hmm. I recall you wanting them to be added, but it is true that a line has to be drawn, which is why I'm Okay with Led Zeppelin being off the archives.

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

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

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.