Rush - Moving Pictures or Radiohead - OK Computer?

Moving Pictures any and everyday. I have no idea what the best is from Rush. Actually I have no idea what the worst is - although I'm afraid Test For Echo and I did not get along. Oh well.

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OK PC / Mac - never again. What is the appeal? Wanna be cultural ('90s DSOTM?) I mean... ok the rhythm section were competent... but... b.f.d.

Finnforest wrote: I'll take any Rush album over Radiohead.  I just cannot get into Radiohead no matter how I try.

It's hard to compare Rush to Radiohead. For me, Radiohead is an alternative rock/experimental rock/Intelligent dance music band. Radiohead denied being part of the progressive rock genre. Their songs have deep lyrics, and sometimes odd time signatures, but they don't kinda have that 70s prog sound. They are prog related.
IMO Moving Pictures is a really good album, one of the best of the 80s. You hear an updated version of the 70s prog rock sound, and they execute it very well.
As for OKC, I dare to say it's better. Just a little bit better than MP. Because every sound I hear in OKC is placed perfectly, and there is a concept running through the album (Radiohead denied that the album is a concept album), there is a common theme. Thom Yorke examines this theme. The sound of this album? In this album, you hear a wide range of influences, ranging from 60s rock (Electioneering) to musique concrete (Fitter Happier) In my personal opinion, I prefer Ok Computer. Moving Pictures comes close.

micky wrote: Kespuzzuo wrote: It's hard to compare Rush to Radiohead. For me, Radiohead is an alternative rock/experimental rock/Intelligent dance music band. Radiohead denied being part of the progressive rock genre. Their songs have deep lyrics, and sometimes odd time signatures, but they don't kinda have that 70s prog sound. They are prog related. IMO Moving Pictures is a really good album, one of the best of the 80s. You hear an updated version of the 70s prog rock sound, and they execute it very well. As for OKC, I dare to say it's better. Just a little bit better than MP. Because every sound I hear in OKC is placed perfectly, and there is a concept running through the album (Radiohead denied that the album is a concept album), there is a common theme. Thom Yorke examines this theme. The sound of this album? In this album, you hear a wide range of influences, ranging from 60s rock (Electioneering) to musique concrete (Fitter Happier) In my personal opinion, I prefer Ok Computer. Moving Pictures comes close. there is something about OK Computer..... good try to try to put a finger on what it was. Rush is a good group... Moving Pictures a great rock album. However it is merely one of many great rock albums. OK Computer is a special kind of great of modern rock and modern progressive rock specifically. That is why many have it as one of the greatest albums of modern prog rock. It is much more than a great rock album.  Good try to try to explain why. My wife would be better than me to try to explain why...she is the brains.. I am just the soul.... but I don't think she agrees with me. She doesn't see the album the same way I do. No shame in that.  As always with music.. is isn't the brain it connects with.. but the soul and that is goddamned hard to put into words and is HIGHLY individualistic. Good try though. Here.. have a couple more McClappies...

Though I can see OK Computer's greatness (as well as its status as one of one of the most influential modern albums), it just doesn't connect with me the way its follow-up, Kid A, does. Sometimes there is just no explanation for our connection (or lack thereof) for a particular album or song.

As regards Moving Pictures, it is a great album, though I think its best tracks are those that don't get as much exposure - namely "Witch Hunt", "The Camera Eye" and "Vital Signs". On the other hand, I find it a bit puzzling that many people think it is more "prog" (as far as you can measure such things) than OK Computer. Neither of them, in my humble opinion, has much to share with traditional prog - unless you count the label attached to the band.

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Apples and pears anyone? :D

Prog or non prog modern prog or modern rock.....who cares?

Moving Pictures by light years. OK C has influenced some, but nothing like the influence MP has had on all rock genres, and will continue long after Radiohead is forgotten.

Add another "I'd take any Rush album over any Radiohead album."

I do like Radiohead okay, but compared to Rush? No contest. Rush is a top 50ish artist for me. Radiohead wouldn't be above 1500 at best.

Omg I can't touch this one.

Finnforest wrote: I'll take any Rush album over Radiohead.  I just cannot get into Radiohead no matter how I try.

This . . .

Love both but I find OK Computer has a more interesting story to tell. There is a sort of samey-ness about MP in that everything is hard rocking and grooving.  Nothing wrong with that, it's a lot of fun to listen to.  But OC throws up a wider variety of shades.  Though...I feel it's taken them until Moon Shaped Pool to make the album they probably wanted to make at the time but couldn't.  Johnny Greenwood was yet to reach those heights with his arrangements and in the intervening time Radiohead have become even more confident about slowing it right down.  They care even less now about trying to please everyone than they did at the time and they had already come a long way from Creep by the time of OK Computer.  It could be why Moon Shaped Pool is full of unreleased songs polished up to the desired Radiohead specs.