Radiohead vs. Muse vs. Porcupine Tree

Elderflower Man wrote: Muse and Radiohead didn't write Anesthetize.

^^^
Indeed.

ergaster wrote: Elderflower Man wrote: Muse and Radiohead didn't write Anesthetize. ^^^ Indeed.

Anesthetize is indeed a masterpiece but Radiohead also made some prog masterpieces like Paranoid Android and  Pyramid Song and Muse made prog masterpieces like New Born and Citizen Erased. I'm a big fan of Porcupine Tree. Don't get me wrong but compared to Muse and Radiohead, they just don't have as much diversity in their music. But I guess that's because PT is more traditional prog whereas Muse and Radiohead are "new-prog" or "prog-lite".

This is a tough one.  I freakin love P-Tree.   But I think I love Radiohead just a hairs breath more.  Two amazing bands.   It stands to reason that P-Tree would get more votes on a Prog site, because theyr'e more Proggy than Radiohead.  But Radiohead still qualifies. 

i see there is no need to vote

i can't anyway

PT

Elderflower Man wrote: Muse and Radiohead didn't write Anesthetize.

hahaha, and this is great!!!

no one will ever write anesthetize


Edited by parapet - November 30 2010 at 01:57

I heard some Muse and thought they will be just the thing for those who have not heard Queen or Rush...
 
Radiohead, well, they were so worried about being labelled (by theuK press and they know very well that a label can be a millstone in a fashion / ephemeral type world) as a prog band 'cause of punk negative connotations (stil!!)  that when an OK PC/Mac song finishes it sounds like an edit to me. As if they were afraid to develop their music instrumentally. DIsappointing ways to finish some good ideas... Kid A has some good moments - all thanks to the totally under-publicised European RIO /Avant scene. Still there's some hope for progressive rock in the mainstream.

P Tree. Thought the Incident was a non-Incident. Very disappointed. Mind you I was also  the one person who didn't like his solo album either. Still, with shed loads of great albums and lots of live issues/ DVDs/ oddities to fleece, er, I mean contribute to the fanbase's music collections P Tree get this still every which way.

But it's good to know bands try on many fronts to develop rock music. In fact with the music biz in it's 65% loss of $$$ in 10 years, artistic rock may be the ony way to go.

OK, I was channel surfing and just caught the last half of a fairly recent Muse concert.  I liked them.  I'm thinking for this poll you should have put in The Pineapple Thief instead of Porcupine Tree and you'd have three bands with a similar sound.

Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree, no contest at all.

Edited by Horizons - April 04 2011 at 19:18

Horizons wrote: Porcupine Tree, no contest at all. Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape > Anesthetize

This man has good tase in his PTree.