Radiohead

BoroMart said:
I accept that is your opinion, and good luck to you, but to claim it isn't intellectual is ridiculous. You cite 'complex chord structures' (I think you may mean progressions?), time signatures and changes and highly skilled musicians as some measure of intellectual musicians. So lets look at that:

radiohead chord progressions and key signatures are anything but like coldplay and are some of the most complex of any popular artist going. They regularly use what people would refer to as Jazz chords, and complex and challenging progressions (examples including the overplayed but brilliant Paranoid Android and Pyramid Song) they regularly use modes that would frighten Chris Martin all the way back to a lunch meeting with Rhianna such as Mixolydian and Phrygian.

Time Signatures, again Pyramid song is a great example of changing time signatures in radiohead songs, but Videotape is probabl;y the best example of how radiohead mess with time signatures, a song that 95% of people don't understand how to count to because it's a very fast song disguised as a very slow one. It's very, very clever.

As for multi-instrumentalists...well lets just look at one member of radiohead for starters, Johnny Greenwood, known as a guitarist, but also an excellent keyboard player, master of the Ondes Martenot, some of the best live use of a Kaoss Pad, multiple synthesizers and electronic instruments and tools, wrote his own sampling and sequencing software, plays the glockenspiel, several wind instruments and the viola...oh and he has scored multiple orchestral pieces. Every member of the band is a multi-instrumentalist and have released solo albums other than Colin Greenwood who only plays bass.

The music couldn't seriously be described as one paced either, some songs change pace mid song, others have hidden tempos, some are slow some are fast (not thrash metal fast, but faster than your average non-ballad pop song).

I respect your right find them dull, whiny or boring. But your other comments are factually incorrect to the point of ludicrous. Comparing with Coldplay shows a real lack of knowledge of radioheads work, they're chalk and cheese.
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Do you ever watch Dave Bennett’s Piano YouTube channel - he breaks down a lot of well known music and it’s used of modes, time signatures etc.

He does quite a bit on Radiohead too.
 
To be honest I’ve only heard one of their songs, that I’m aware of (the one featured in Father Ted)

I will have to check them out one day.
 
Warren music on YouTube is another guy who is a radiohead fantatic. He does great acoustic covers and guitar tutorials of radiohead music
 
Fave tracks are No Surprises and Karma Police

I have them on "follow" on Spotify but never really give them enough listening time so put their own playlist on yesterday and tbh it just passsed me by without any real stand out moments other than the 2 I listed above

Don`t dislike them but not really a go to band to listen to regularly
 
Have to say, I'm not too struck on the new track released yesterday. After such a big build up and a long wait I was just 'meh'!
 
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