Is Radiohead prog?

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   They are I think In the same corner as Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree. 
Strange, PT should be at least as big as Radiohead. PT is much better and more accesible as well, yet Radiohead has commercial succes.

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The Analog Kid Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: April 14 2004 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 64	Posted: May 10 2004 at 07:31
	They are I think In the same corner as Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree. Strange, PT should be at least as big as Radiohead. PT is much better and more accesible as well, yet Radiohead has commercial succes.

Joren Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 07 2004 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 6667	Posted: May 10 2004 at 05:30
	I don't think they're prog, but they ARE very experimental. Let's call them a VERY GOOD pop/rock band. But if you'd say that they ARE prog, I think I can live with that!

Certif1ed Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559	Posted: May 10 2004 at 03:18
	Radiohead have certainly written music that IS prog - all of OK Computer (not just Paranoid Android), and some of The Bends and the Iron Lung EP), but find it difficult to consider them a prog band. Before OK Computer they were essentially a "progressive Indie rock band" that wrote some stunning hit singles (Creep, Street Spirit, Iron Lung, High and Dry, Just), but they then went through a deeply experimental period. I think they realised that this was such a strong album that they had to completely smash apart everything they wrote or fall into the trap of writing "more of the same". Kid A and Amnesiac are albums I am still struggling to "get", as there would seem, on the surface, to be little musical craftsmanship in the same way as OK Computer. Hail to the Thief is a welcome return to the form of Pablo Honey - ie prog indie. OK Computer is only overrated in the same way that Dark Side of the Moon or Abbey Road are overrated, IMO

richardh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 28029	Posted: May 10 2004 at 02:31
	'Paranoid Android' is about as prog as you get but Radiohead don't really fit the 'prog' label musically most of the time although they are experimental in approach.I think of them as being a modern day Pink Floyd so given that PF are often regarded as Prog then the answer to the question must be YES!

Ivan_Melgar_M Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535	Posted: May 09 2004 at 23:51
	Prog' is not the exact term, I believe it's an overrated band. Iván

necromancing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: April 27 2004 Status: Offline Points: 39	Posted: May 09 2004 at 21:41
	How 'bout it ? Radiohead - prog or not prog? Edited by necromancing