Muse.

I have every muse vinyl on 7" (Including the signed, unsigned, and american versions of muscle museum). I trump Zefan ;)

I dread to think how much money I spent collecting that....
 
benneh said:
Muse are a poor mans Radiohead. I felt obliged to say that (I'm not trolling honest!).
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I couldnt think of two more different bands to be honest.

I mean, i cant stand Radiohead, but I love Muse.

I wouldnt listen to Radiohead if you paid me.
 
atpbx said:
I couldnt think of two more different bands to be honest.
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Ok, lets not get carried away. There are obvious comparrisons to be made between the two bands. Firstly, the vocal style is different but undeniably similar. Secondly, the lyrics can have some similar themes (notably those of a 'depressing' nature).

They also however differ hugely. Muse is clearly a rock guitar driven band with most songs being spearheaded by some juggernaut riffs. There are many references to classical composing throughout their discography.

Radiohead tend to let the guitar play a less dominant role with far mellower songs. Radiohead also are more experimental in their songwriting and are prone to using electronic and computer based equipment in their compositions.

To say that Muse are a Radiohead clone is massively ignorent. To say that the bands are nothing like each other is to be in denial.

I mean, i cant stand Radiohead, but I love Muse.

I wouldnt listen to Radiohead if you paid me.
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I suggest you buy Ok Computer, its a phenomenal album.
 
Nitefly said:
I suggest you buy Ok Computer, its a phenomenal album.
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No, it isnt.
:(

I know Dr David Thorpe is a joke character and just done for laugh at Something awfull, and the joke is that some people agree with what he writes.
However, you've got to give the writer credit for his article on Radiohead:

"Even with a perfectly respectable one-hit wonder, the newt-faced boy and his merry band of twiddlers weren't content. They had to furrow their pale brows and set about making an album that would captivate the critics (or at least one that would have more than one song that anyone would remember in 5 years). What they eventually **** out (directly into the mouths of those critics) was The Bends, which gained popularity for such songs as "Fake Plastic Trees," which was presumably some sort of ham-fisted attempt to convey a message about the angst of the modern world. Luckily, the business-savvy boys of Radiohead kept it vague enough that even the most vapid black-haired hipster **** could project some sort of rudimentary vestige of meaning onto it. Their record label paid the requisite $50 bribe to the slack-jawed heroin addicts at New Musical Express for a good review. While I'm not currently in a masochistic enough mood to look up the reviews, they undoubtedly proclaimed it "staggeringly mature" or perhaps "a bold proclamation of artistic intent; impossible to ignore." Radiohead had their critical success, the British music press had a fresh armful of junk, and everyone was happy.

For their next trick of mass public deception, Radiohead decided to embark on a cosmic journey into the center of Neo-Pink-Floydian masturbatory pretension with OK Computer, the first in a series of Radiohead concept albums entirely lacking in concepts. They once again took MTV and modern rock radio by storm, this time with a long and tedious single called Paranoid Android. It was basically Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, weirded up about 80% and without the element of irony that made it at least bearable as something to smirk at. It featured an adorable video (which was seemingly animated with Mario Paint) in which, appropriately, a pale and skinny man engaged in entirely meaningless and surreal exploits. The song was typical of the album; it was a tale told by five idiots, full of sound and fury but signifying nothing. Their prog-rock gambit was successful; rather than being cornered into admitting that they were too stupid to understand the album, fans and music journalists instead just assumed it had some sort of deep and profound meaning, and showered it with simpering praise that still reverberates today on a thousand Internet nerd colonies. A million brainwashed converts were left yearning for more Radiohead like lambkins for the teat."
 
atpbx said:
No, it isnt.
:(

I know Dr David Thorpe is a joke character and just done for laugh at Something awfull, and the joke is that some people agree with what he writes.
However, you've got to give the writer credit for his article on Radiohead:

"Even with a perfectly respectable one-hit wonder, the newt-faced boy and his merry band of twiddlers weren't content. They had to furrow their pale brows and set about making an album that would captivate the critics (or at least one that would have more than one song that anyone would remember in 5 years). What they eventually **** out (directly into the mouths of those critics) was The Bends, which gained popularity for such songs as "Fake Plastic Trees," which was presumably some sort of ham-fisted attempt to convey a message about the angst of the mode? rn world. Luckily, the business-savvy boys of Radiohead kept it vague enough that even the most vapid black-haired hipster **** could project some sort of rudimentary vestige of meaning onto it. Their record label paid the requisite $50 bribe to the slack-jawed heroin addicts at New Musical Express for a good review. While I'm not currently in a masochistic enough mood to look up the reviews, they undoubtedly proclaimed it "staggeringly mature" or perhaps "a bold proclamation of artistic intent; impossible to ignore." Radiohead had their critical success, the British music press had a fresh armful of junk, and everyone was happy.

For their next trick of mass public deception, Radiohead decided to embark on a cosmic journey into the center of Neo-Pink-Floydian masturbatory pretension with OK Computer, the first in a series of Radiohead concept albums entirely lacking in concepts. They once again took MTV and modern rock radio by storm, this time with a long and tedious single called Paranoid Android. It was basically Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, weirded up about 80% and without the element of irony that made it at least bearable as something to smirk at. It featured an adorable video (which was seemingly animated with Mario Paint) in which, appropriately, a pale and skinny man engaged in entirely meaningless and surreal exploits. The song was typical of the album; it was a tale told by five idiots, full of sound and fury but signifying nothing. Their prog-rock gambit was successful; rather than being cornered into admitting that they were too stupid to understand the album, fans and music journalists instead just assumed it had some sort of deep and profound meaning, and showered it with simpering praise that still reverberates today on a thousand Internet nerd colonies. A million brainwashed converts were left yearning for more Radiohead like lambkins for the teat."
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How can you give someone credit for that? If you mean credit for his writing style and good use of nit picking, then yes - it's a good article. But if you mean giving credit because he raises valid points- then you are sorely mistaken. I'm not a great Radiohead fan myself but you have to respect them as musicians, they produced some quality material in those 2 specific albums which are a great treat for your ear's. Sure they might not be writing Shakespearean dialogue to go with it but I'll be damned if that merits them the lable of "crap".
Have a little respect for all musicians, even if they are Muse or Radiohead, even hip hop artists who bother to create their own samples with instruments and make decent beats - to pop music where the singers combine with synthy music to very much tickle your senses.
All i'm saying is that you should respect them for musicians, the fact they can and have produced good music (even if it isn't to your liking).

Who do you like? If you are a fan of the Led Zep, did you know they are massive cover artists, no, I mean plagiarists ? :p Everyones got their bad with their good.
 
Mr.Orb said:
I wouldn't call EP's albums. Muse have 4 albums, one soundtrack (b-sides) and i think 6 ep's.
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Nor would I, but those two are well worthy of a mention.

Whats with this Muse/Radiohead fan hate - its ridiculous! I like them both and I am sure most music fans do.
 
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