A change of location needed?

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   I'd like to mull this over at some later date after I've sat down and played all the RH CD's I own in sequence (to me honest it's a while since I last played The Bends, Kid A & OK Computer, though Pablo Honey, Amnesiac & Hail to the Theif get regular spins depending upon my mood).  It will be intersting to see what next years album will be like.

I haven't discussed with Micky stuff we'd like to kick out of xover, we are concentrating on bands to add or transfer in at the moement - I think we'll need a to-do list. 

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Dean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575	Posted: September 21 2007 at 05:25
	I'd like to mull this over at some later date after I've sat down and played all the RH CD's I own in sequence (to me honest it's a while since I last played The Bends, Kid A & OK Computer, though Pablo Honey, Amnesiac & Hail to the Theif get regular spins depending upon my mood). It will be intersting to see what next years album will be like. I haven't discussed with Micky stuff we'd like to kick out of xover, we are concentrating on bands to add or transfer in at the moement - I think we'll need a to-do list.
	What?

Raff Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24438	Posted: September 21 2007 at 01:07
	Perhaps you should bring the issue to the attention of the Crossover team. For what I can tell you, Micky believes they are prog, and he's not going to move them anywhere else for the time being. You see, as I have tried to point out time and again (to very little success, I have to say...), the notion of what is prog and what isn't is highly subjective. I know many forum members disagree with Radiohead being considered 100% prog - however, there are about as many who think they are. This is one of the reasons why we have genre teams. It's quite obvious they can't make everybody happy about their choices, but this is one of the limits of classification in the arts.

bhikkhu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 06 2006 Location: A² Michigan Status: Offline Points: 5109	Posted: September 21 2007 at 00:42
	But what are the other sub-genres they are crossing into? Do they do Symphonic, Folk, Metal, Neo, or even Italian? Seems to me that (if they must be in a true prog genre) they should be where other ambient, or electronic artists are. Anything else they have done has been universally agreed upon as not prog.
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moreitsythanyou Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: April 23 2006 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 11682	Posted: September 20 2007 at 22:01
	No. Leave it to me to defend Radiohead's progressiveness, but they are perfect in Crossover Prog. They certainly have the sophistication, experimentalism, and complexity to remain a crossover prog band, yet with the shorter song structure and pop influence that is outlined in the definition for crossover prog. Honestly, they can make a really complex song musically sound close to a typical brit-rock song, but it's not. The definite progressive influence is always there from OK Computer (well, maybe not every song) to today.
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sircosick Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 29 2007 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 1264	Posted: September 20 2007 at 21:55
	Honestly, I expected a change of location of Radiohead after the split up of the term Art-rock. They keep remaining in Crossover prog..... well, I could make a poll of this, but I think I've done it more than once..... So, my central though is that Radiohead should be moved from their actual genre, crossover prog, to prog related. The reasons were already explained along a pair of years and there's really no need to dilate them..... they're simply not 100% prog. I doubted if this topic is well-placed here (is it a relevant improvement to the site?), but I think there's no problem, you can move it...... but that's my idea. Commentaries?
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