Why we can call Radiohead a prog rock band imo...

I'm from the UK and I was 15 when OK Computer came out, and let me tell you, it was a seriously big deal. Suddenly experimentation and long multi-section songs weren't instant grounds for derision and mockery, thanks to songs like "Paranoid Android". It wasn't necessarily to everyone's taste, but more or less everyone who got really, really into OK Computer became interested in exploring other obscure music. In my case it led to prog, in other people's cases it led in other directions, but still, it was an eye-opener to a generation otherwise brought up on Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis, neither of whom I have much time for (though I will always loudly defend the merits of Pulp, who were sheer geniuses.)

lazland wrote: Without a doubt prog related, but my opinion of the band has sharply reduced lately. Like most prog fans, I found The Bends & OK Computer utter genius. Kid A, I thought, was a brave counterpoint to these, a statement, if you like, of not being buttonholed. However, thereafter, I've found it all a bit of a bore.

Radiohead are a modern progressive rock band as long as you are happy to change the definition from the sound of ELP,Yes,Genesis etc.They don't do bombast though but they do do emotion

Average band imo

Slaughternalia wrote: What difference does it make? Prog, not prog. It's awesome music either way

don't matter how to call it, it's just crap.

Harry Hood wrote: Because this album exists and Kid A sounds kind of like it.

In many way, Kid A IS like Krautrock and 'Head were influenced by it.  On topic, it would be a whole lot simpler if we split all prog into art rock and experimental rock because that's what it boils down to.  I don't understand the artificial distinction between say Elton John (his 70s work) and Supertramp and then, going further towards prog, Genesis.  The word "progressive" is a misnomer and terribly confusing when applied to classify music into genres.  At least, art rock or experimental rock tell you more about the nature of the music and casts aside the age old debate of whether or not it has progressed music, blah blah.  But I am guessing if you do that, you can't have a dozen sub genres and we know music listeners just love a hundreds of sub genres to confuse the s*** out of newbies.


Edited by rogerthat - June 25 2011 at 23:24

This is about the difference between Prog and Progressive Rock.  It's a lot of opinion but there have been multiple threads on it: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=64471

I personally consider Radiohead progressive and experimental but not really prog in the traditional sense.

I don't consider Radiohead prog much at all.  Perhaps experimental rock at most.

However, I love OK Computer and gave it 5 stars.

wow I bet my_left_brain never expected his thread to provoke a PA therapeutic be-in    

Triceratopsoil wrote: Tony R wrote: Pssst, but WE did. Aye, and it's a fine thing you gents caught that rash of hooliganism before the OP had to see it.

If he has email notifications turned on he will have seen every one of them.