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01-10-2009, 02:47 AM | #1941 (permalink) | |||
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I don't get Porcupine Tree at all, I was intrigued by one of their albums on first listen but it grew old after a few more. It's alright, but nothing I'd listen to, and very very much ripped off.
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01-10-2009, 05:59 AM | #1942 (permalink) |
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Don't sound anything like Radiohead.
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01-10-2009, 06:05 AM | #1943 (permalink) |
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Dear lord if i ever hear this comparison again i'm going to put my head through a window. Lazy lazy lazy. When Radiohead decide to release an album of crowd-pleasing pure rock tunes please tell me.
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01-10-2009, 06:06 AM | #1944 (permalink) | ||
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I don't think early PT sounds much like Floyd at all, but at least I get the comparison, but Genesis? That one kinda came out of nowhere. While I agree that they're not innovaters, I don't know another band that sounds like them. The Floyd/Porcupine Tree comparisons are just as vague and groundless as the Floyd/Radiohead comparisons. Floyd don't have the f*cking patent on mellow and trippy music. Nor does mellow and trippy music translate to a complete rip-off of Pink Floyd. Quote:
I love bands like PT, TMV, Tool and Muse. And I find that people who hate these bands fall into one of the following groups. 1. Prog hating hipsters 2. Prog fans who dislike all the newer prog bands that don't fall into the Dream Theater mold Both annoy me a lot. It's easy to tell that some of you are the former and others are the latter. |
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01-10-2009, 09:00 AM | #1945 (permalink) | |
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It's the neo-prog stuff that's mostly garbage and intolerable. And that's not because I have some diehard vendetta against prog, it's just because it's derivative without improving at all on the old stuff, and the songs tend to be overly long snoozers. |
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01-10-2009, 09:05 AM | #1946 (permalink) |
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I agree about neo prog. I tried getting into bands like IQ and Arena but just couldn't. And I never really understood the appeal of Marillion, progarchives freaking worships these guys for some reason.
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01-10-2009, 09:06 AM | #1947 (permalink) | |
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I do think Muse have plainly been partly influenced by the more anthemic side of early Radiohead releases. But yeah, the bands don't really sound alike. I take issue though which the insinuation that Muse create albums of crowd-pleasing pure rock tunes. I don't think that's really true, or rather that it's not generally true of the band. The one exception might be Black Holes & Revelations, but even then, I don't think it was quite as banal as warranting being called 'an album of crowd-pleasing pure rock tunes'. I'd argue that Radiohead came closer to fulfilling that initiative with The Bends than Muse ever have with any of their albums. |
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01-10-2009, 09:14 AM | #1948 (permalink) | ||
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Yes, what the hell is with the Marillion obsession, and Dream Theater bore the hell out of me. I like TMV a hell of a lot, but that's the only well known recent prog band that's really caught my eye. That's of course if you don't include progressive metal, although I have problems calling Opeth prog metal, and I their most recent effort. My problem is that I haven't actually looked for modern prog yet.
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01-10-2009, 09:19 AM | #1949 (permalink) | |||
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01-10-2009, 09:23 AM | #1950 (permalink) | |
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I know it's extreme to say that Muse's albums are completely upbeat rock songs, even BHAR has it's more experimental moments, but for the most part they're full of them consistently, whereas Radiohead had the first 3 albums at the most like that and then moved on. |
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