I have yet to hear anything from radiohead apart from their two or three big radio hits. I need to put them on the Check Out List. OKComputer seems super highly rated at ratemymusic or whatever that site is called.

I play "In Rainbows" & "Pablo Honey" pretty regularly.  

I'm a big Radiohead fan - Pablo Honey really intrigued me when it came out, it was like Britpop on steroids. Have lost track of them over the years, so I should definitely listen to their discography again. Will take me a week, but it'll be worth it 

Radiohead is probably the closest I got to having a The Beatles or a Pink Floyd-band in my life. As in being "my band" that I sort of followed from the very start and matured together along with. Much like the band themselves I've outgrown Pablo Honey and The Bends (the latter album is still very good, solid - but it doesn't exite me in the same way as everything that came after). I'm as big of a fan as ever of anything post their first two - including every B-side, bonus discs etc... Albums and songs I didn't think of as all that while brand new gets better with each new listen. 

-I now think "A Moon Shaped Pool" is up there with "Kid A" and "In Rainbows". Love "Amnesiac" just as much, but I wish they had included The Amazing Sounds of Orgy and Kinetic (both from the "Pyramid Song EP") over Pulk/pull Revolving Doors and Hunting Bears. While waiting for them to release a follow up album, I listen to "Wall of Eyes" by The Smile (for those who don't know: 2/3rds Radiohead and 1/3rd Sons of Kemet).

Thems is next.

I disagree here. I also do not know what you mean by "the expectations of prog". If there is a genre where the rules are not fixed, it's the progressive genre (and its subgenres). 

As for prog being uncool, it's fine, it's meant to be that. Also, what are the cool genres?! 

Radiohead are progressive in the way they create music, in their out of the box thinking & attitude. That has always existed in prog music. 

Not exactly one for Radiohead ... for some reason. I've always been a lot more on to the Europeans and other folks in different countries whose output, for me, is far more interesting and worth a listen than some of the "regulars" that always have been added to PA ... 

But I don't really know what is causing anything. I think the changes into the "numbers", and concerns over the top this or that kinda takes things away from your hands or mine, and the comments, often make me think that I am not listening to enough things ... when in the end, it is almost exactly as all the others, and just a different note here and there ... same process, same solo, same rock'n'roll line up ... and little to really show up some far out musicianship, other than yet another flying fingers on the strings or keyboard. 

I kinda thing, and I can not substantiate any of it, that the commercial side of things is hurting, and that some of the materials added, are, in the end, confusing the issues and the designs, but that's more of a thought than ... a reality, I'm sure.

I have not frequented the other websites at all, and many of them, just aren't for me ... in some cases, the folks are not allowed to do anything, and those folks being considered important in terms of numbers, is a bit of a joke for me ... based on what? Imaginary invalids and fans? 

I would like to see PA get "stronger" in terms of their definitions and abilities, and while I like the fact that admins also "participate", I would think that those folks would have less "opinions" about music per se, so their appeal is very subjective within PA ... but I seem to find that some would rather participate here and there as if to validate their standing. Maybe PA needs one or two more folks, but it not being a paid position (afaik), this would be a difficult thing ... but I would caution someone trying hard to get himself positioned as an important member of PA due to his postings and numbers ... I keep thinking that PA, has never been about the "numbers" and I think it should continue not being so. 

PA, and Progressive Music, or Progressive Rock, has to maintain a certain amount of independence from the numbers and from the "majority" ... but I'm not sure that we will ever get away from the JT fan, the Yes fan, the ELP fan ... and so on ... and have these folks find a way to make sure the new generation appreciates, and learns about it ... when the postings are about "preferences", I think this most important detail, seems to be left behind ... we need to celebrate all the music, not just the ones that we thought were the top this or that ... the very commercial attitude that this music wanted to get rid of some 52/53 years ago ... as if we had not learned a lot or noticed much, because so much of the stuff from those days mentioned, was not a "hit" ... which is, in a way, how folks look at all that music these days.

The world was a different place in 1969 when King Crimson released their debut. The sixties spawned an attitude that allied with new technology freed up a new attitude. But it was COMMERCIAL. LZ, ELP, Tull, Yes, Floyd etc sold huge amounts of albums and played massive stadiums. It wasn't some small enterprise in someones back garden. Radiohead are also commercial and sell albums. Good luck to them. They've done it the right way and actually are the most progressive mainstream band of the last 30 years representing the original spirit and independence of prog of the early seventies, not just stylewise (occasionally) but in attitude. IMO

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For some reason, there is no appeal in them for me at all ... I like the wide open style here on PA, and I'll revisit the other sites, but I found many of them way too restrictive for my tastes. 

I'll recheck Radiohead again, though my international listing is gonna take a hit ... I always check Andrea's and Damo's posts in their spots ... a lot of music in there ... and the only sad thing on the Italian scene is that it is starting to sound the same ... with the same instruments and lineups ... I miss the variety, and was sad when I heard recent Banco and then recent PFM, and then ... recent Acqua Fragile, and while they have nice things, they really are not that great ... and maybe their time is over and done. It started feeling like they had to do something just to show they are still alive ... I have these moments in my writing, and I end up throwing it away ... I like the freedom to not feel attached to anything, when it comes to my writing. Maybe one day I will show it, but just like a lot of my notes and details on improvisation here ... it's a tough area, and some folks are responding out of touch with the doing of it, and comparing it to their "mental" process ... what I am writing has nothing to do with the mental process ... it is the stuff, that creates a mental process later, I think! But some of the examples, I mention, get ignored so fast ... it's weird ... the art for me is in those moments ... and some folks keep thinking that all moments have to have meaning ... they don't! The meanings come AFTER ... and this is something that FANS do not like to accept and fight viciously!

I'd completely forgotten about Amnesiac. I was Optimistic of a good follow-up to OK Computer, but lost interest in Radiohead after buying their dismal Kid A album. 

In Rainbows (2007) is great. 

Agreed.  Although Hail to the Thief is a step down in quality among this set IMO.