Hi Radiohead fans!

 

Which two-three Radiohead albums do you think I should buy? I have very little money. So I'm only probably going to buy two. Any suggestions?

 

I would say that if you are starting off that you should either get The Bends or In Rainbows. I feel that those are probably the easiest albums to get into.

Hi Radiohead fans!

 

Which two-three Radiohead albums do you think I should buy? I have very little money. So I'm only probably going to buy two. Any suggestions?

 

Start with The Bends, then move on to OK Computer, then In Rainbows, Hail To The Thief, Kid A and Amnesiac (the order of these last three isn't important). Ignore Pablo Honey, DON'T listen to the On a Friday songs.

Anybody want to buy my copies of the first 3 albums?

 

Cos I don't really need 2 copies of them

thanks guys. :nice: I already have downloaded a bunch of songs that I like, but I wanted to get a few of their albums... so tyvm.

Start with The Bends, then move on to OK Computer, then In Rainbows, Hail To The Thief, Kid A and Amnesiac (the order of these last three isn't important). Ignore Pablo Honey, DON'T listen to the On a Friday songs.

 

No. Never ignore Pablo Honey! It has its importance too.

I never had an opinion about Pablo Honey. It's just... there.

just so you all know, the full audio and transcript of the fan (italo) interview with Ed is availble on atease:

 

http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?showtopic=235066705&st=0

No. Never ignore Pablo Honey! It has its importance too.

 

Yes of course it's important, but I don't think it's the one album you have to go rush out and buy

Why do you guys think in their recent North American/Europe tour they didn't play a single song off of Pablo Honey?

other than creep, you mean?

Why do you guys think in their recent North American/Europe tour they didn't play a single song off of Pablo Honey?

 

Singing those songs would bring back memories of Thom's bleach blonde hair...and would be difficult emotionally to do.

yeah.

...I wouldn't mind seeing it bleach blonde again. For old time's sake.

Why do you guys think in their recent North American/Europe tour they didn't play a single song off of Pablo Honey?

well according to Italo's (atease member) interview with Ed, they feel that they are past Pablo Honey. I think why they played Creep in SA, is simply the band hasn't played shows there in like 14 years, so I guess they feel obliged to play that one. I still feel that creep with probably be the only PH song they will play, even though it was interesting to see the band pick Blow Out in Japan.

 

 

Of all the PH songs, I'd love to see Lurgee (that song doesn't feel very PH era to me)

Singing those songs would bring back memories of Thom's bleach blonde hair...and would be difficult emotionally to do.

 

:sick:

Singing those songs would bring back memories of Thom's bleach blonde hair...and would be difficult emotionally to do.

 

I am sorry for being non-informed, but why would that be bad and why would those songs be difficult emotionally to do?

I keep saying..... blooooowout

If they feel like they're past PH does that mean than in a couple years they'll be past The Bends, and then later still they'll be past OKC?

If they feel like they're past PH does that mean than in a couple years they'll be past The Bends, and then later still they'll be past OKC?

 

I don't think it's like that honestly. They've played songs off the Bends for years, yet if you look at the amount of PH songs, it's not even close. If you look at live performances, nearly all the songs have not been played since 95-98. If you look at songs from the Bends they still play them regularly. It's kind of like their early days. If you listen/read that interview with Italo, Ed talks that the band would never release their early days when they were known as "On a Friday". He said that that era was just a period of time to let the band grow and get themselves settled. I feel that PH is no exception in that it was an album just to get them started.

I would say that if you are starting off that you should either get The Bends or In Rainbows. I feel that those are probably the easiest albums to get into.

not exactly, it depends on each person, but if you like coldplay then definitively those are good options

not exactly, it depends on each person, but if you like coldplay then definitively those are good options

 

that's true... i was just assuming that they were a coldplay fan

Yep. I'd say for anybody who loves Coldplay trying to get into Radiohead, The Bends is the transitional album.

As objectionable as the comparisons are, there are a lot of similarities in the way the bands developed. They started off with one-hit wonders "Yellow" and "Creep" and while Radiohead were always a lotheavier than Coldplay, both bands stepped up to a sort of mainstream rock platform with their second albums. Along with that came straight-forward ballads...For example I see a certain similarity between "The Scientist" and "Fake Plastic trees" and a more distant comparison between "GPASUYF" and "High and Dry".

 

It's X&Y vs. O.K. Computer though that strikes me as very curious. Just from the titles alone you get a sort of Techno vibe, and both bands did integrate some electronica influences into these respective albums. Both albums are much more "futuristic" than their predecessors. And Coldplay's video for the song "Talk" (incidentally based off the melody of Kraftwerk's "Computer Love"), features a giant walking robot that looks like Marvin the Paranoid Android!

 

The sensation I got, is that while the two bands sound nothing like each-other, Coldplay has steadily followed Radioheads progress from a distance, sort of making Coldplay equivalents of radiohead albums. Viva la Vida was a much more creative album than X&Y with the Brian Eno intro on Violet Hill, the Jon Hopkins collab., an instrumental track, new instruments, three-part songs etc....

 

and while VLV is on the complete opposite side of the musical globe from Kid A. It could be taken as Coldplay's version of Radiohead's 4th LP.

 

You could even say "Prospekt's March" is their own abbreviated, "Amnesiac" :P. Since its mainly left over recordings from the album released less than a year later. ( "Now my feet won't touch the ground" and the as yet unheard "Famous Old Painters" also feature brass bands ).

 

Most of these are a stretch, and coldplay's are just as, or more influenced by U2 and other bands than Radiohead. But its something I wanted to point out.

As objectionable as the comparisons are, there are a lot of similarities in the way the bands developed. They started off with one-hit wonders "Yellow" and "Creep" and while Radiohead were always a lotheavier than Coldplay, both bands stepped up to a sort of mainstream rock platform with their second albums. Along with that came straight-forward ballads...For example I see a certain similarity between "The Scientist" and "Fake Plastic trees" and a more distant comparison between "GPASUYF" and "High and Dry".

 

It's X&Y vs. O.K. Computer though that strikes me as very curious. Just from the titles alone you get a sort of Techno vibe, and both bands did integrate some electronica influences into these respective albums. Both albums are much more "futuristic" than their predecessors. And Coldplay's video for the song "Talk" (incidentally based off the melody of Kraftwerk's "Computer Love"), features a giant walking robot that looks like Marvin the Paranoid Android!

 

The sensation I got, is that while the two bands sound nothing like each-other, Coldplay has steadily followed Radioheads progress from a distance, sort of making Coldplay equivalents of radiohead albums. Viva la Vida was a much more creative album than X&Y with the Brian Eno intro on Violet Hill, the Jon Hopkins collab., an instrumental track, new instruments, three-part songs etc....

 

and while VLV is on the complete opposite side of the musical globe from Kid A. It could be taken as Coldplay's version of Radiohead's 4th LP.

 

You could even say "Prospekt's March" is their own abbreviated, "Amnesiac" :P. Since its mainly left over recordings from the album released less than a year later. ( "Now my feet won't touch the ground" and the as yet unheard "Famous Old Painters" also feature brass bands ).

 

Most of these are a stretch, and coldplay's are just as, or more influenced by U2 and other bands than Radiohead. But its something I wanted to point out.

some interesting points that you bring up. I definitely think that coldplay have always been aiming to somehow follow Radiohead but not make it so apparent. I mean you can obviously tell that Coldplay are influenced by Radiohead, but it's not as if they copy them (like Oasis w/ the Beatles)

Yeah, I don't think Coldplay would be brave enough to try anything that would constitute copying or even sounding like Radiohead. But I think historically, before starting each album they would look at bands like U2 and Radiohead and take notes on their examples and the way they progressed from album to album. Like with X&Y, they never said "Okay, now let's try to write an album just like O.K. Computer!! (and fail)" But they may have been swayed by the concept of expanding in that direction.