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Poll Question: Which band has more prog. elements?
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Radiohead by several leagues.
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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 25 2007 at 13:39
Originally posted by BroSpence BroSpence wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I can't stand Primus... funky, slappin' bass lines don't make music.... Odd rhythms don't make music.... A weird singer doesn't make music.... MUSIC makes music....Radiohead has much more of that.... Primus is the showing-off band of the alternative crowd....


Actually all the things you listed make music.  Music doesn't make music, it is music and can not be created by its own self.  Radiohead had just as much music in them as Primus does.  Also Radiohead is the centerpiece of the alternative crowd incase you weren't aware.


You should have thought about these few things...

Thom Yorke is VERY weird.

Radiohead uses odd rhythms.

And Colin Greenwood has made plenty of funky basslines although he does not employ as much slapping and tapping as Les Claypool. 

Primus makes music they feel good about and comfortable with.  If they feel that making odd rhythms or soloing adds their creation thats fine! Its not like they're go off on 3 minutes solos that go nowhere.
 
Well, I really didn't realize that Yorke is also very weird in a way...Tongue
 
The thing is, Primus' music for me sounds like a joke, an interesting joke, but a joke. I'm sorry, it's my take on them. That doesn't mean they suck. That means that, for me, they suck...Tongue.... (though I couldn't deny that at least they suck with originality and with a tremendous bassist and drummer...Big%20smile).....
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Points: 12600 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 25 2007 at 14:10
Primus SUCKS!
 
easy choice for me.
 
 
(only if Radiohead had a different singer- well, I'd still choose Primus)Smile



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Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2007 at 02:43

I'm sure Radiohead's got more prog in it, even thought i havn't heard them, but i love PRIMUS!
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Originally posted by Matt Dickens Matt Dickens wrote:

Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

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Primus sucks
 
 
So you like'em, eh?Big%20smile
 
yes, i love primus.Tongue
 
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Has anyone heard Eleven by Primus?
Thats odd time's so i don't see the argument there.
 
I don't know. That Radiohead just makes me either want to not do anything EVER again and be depressed, or be semi enlightened.
but as for elements of prog. Primus has a little more things going for them in prog sence.
When i think Progressive, i think it means that someone is doing something that no one else has seen or heard before. It's new.  It's original. Primus did that. They dared to do it. I don't think Radiohead is rather "revolutionary" so to say.
Primus for me.
 
 
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Did anyone think that both were at a same level of "progressive rock"? I mean they both are but not for the same reasons or not in the same way. I think progressive art is a very wide term. And in my opinion, you cannot compare these bands.
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Radiohead for me just on the strength of OK Computer. I like Primus....I wish that Les didn't leave the group hanging with Antipop. Hardly an album that a band wants to be remembered for.
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Points: 2819 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2007 at 01:34
I like Primus for there unique sound....but they have only written a few good songs. Radiohead doesn't make sense to me....BLEH.
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