Radioheadheads (what are Radiohead fans called) often seem to bang on about what a great album The Bends was and how it’s much much better than the overblown OK Computer.
- Who are Radiohead?
- Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass); Ed O’Brien (guitar, backing vocals); and Philip Selway (drums, percussion).
- What instruments do Radiohead play?
- Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The lead singer and lyrics writer of the band is Thom Yorke, who also plays guitar and piano. Thom is known for his high voiced singing style and the band is known for their different style of rock music. The band has five members, and three of them play guitar.
- How many Radiohead fans are there?
- Unlike most bands’ followings, Radiohead fans number in the hundreds of thousands, their fierce devotion to the group so extreme it invites ridicule from the uninitiated. Type “Radiohead fans are” into Google, and the top three suggestions are “pretentious,” “smart,” and “the worst.”
- What is a Radiohead fan’s persona?
- A Radiohead fan’s persona can be seen in a Reddit thread where users describe someone by their favorite album. OK Computer: “You scoff at all the sheeple around you,” “you like it when it rains because it makes everyone gloomy.”
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Is Radiohead considered pop?
Radiohead is one of the most distinctive bands in the world of pop, rock, and jazz music. The band has been going for more than 35 years now since the band was formed in 1985.
- Is Radiohead a Popmuziek?
- In Dutch, at least in my idiolect, popmuziek is a broad term that encompasses Rock, Soul, EDM, Metal, etc. Basically all modern western music that isn’t Jazz or Classical (and the latter includes modern classical music) is popmuziek and Radiohead is definitely belongs to that group. English unfortunately lacks such a broad term.
- Are Radiohead a rock band?
- The drummer Clive Deamer, who has recorded and performed with Radiohead since 2011, said Radiohead do not see themselves as a rock band and that their methodology is closer to jazz: “They deliberately try to avoid cliché and standard forms for the sake of the song … Rock bands don’t do that. It’s far more like a jazz mentality.”
- How popular is Radiohead?
- In my experience, Radiohead is very popular among people who are into more than just “popular” music—the songs you hear every day on the radio. They are well respected by almost everyone in the music business for their innovative spirit and musical ability. I think most people are introduced to Radiohead in college.
- Are Radiohead’s albums really that bad?
- The albums aren’t bad by any means but take some time and more than one listen to truly appreciate. Amnesiac’s Pyramid Song may just one of Radiohead’s best songs and Theif’s There There is probably the best alt-rock song they’ve produced since The Bends. Many fans felt worried the band had passed its prime.
Do Radiohead fans like Muse?
Many Radiohead fans consider Muse to be the closest band to Radiohead in terms of sound and style. The lead singer, Matt Bellamy, has a very similar voice to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. Songs like “Muscle Museum,” “Sunburn,” and “Sober” off their “Showbiz” album resemble Radiohead’s sound.
- Are Radiohead & Muse a good band?
- From the sounds of it, it seems like there is quite a lot of bad blood between the two bands, and it is probably here to stay. However, there is no doubt that Radiohead and Muse are among some of the most influential rock bands of all time.
- What did Radiohead’s Thom Yorke say about Muse?
- Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, too, had a lot to say about Muse. In an interview, when asked about what he thought of the music recommendation by the music streaming sites, Yorke said that he doesn’t rely on music algorithms at all. “If you like this, you’ll like this. And then it gives me… MUSE.”
- Why do people like Radiohead so much?
- Fans who like rock music can get hooked on Radiohead because of The Bends, while fans of electronic music can get hooked on Kid A. After getting hooked on just one album, fans may/will give the rest of the catalog a chance and so on. And the fanbase is growing even to this day.
- Is Muse a knock on Radiohead?
- That’s not a knock on Radiohead at all, they have relatively simple (though still pretty damn technical) songs but they make them work so very well. Muse just has incredible technical skill all around, see Invincible (guitar), Hysteria (bass), or Assassin (drums).
Why is Radiohead called The Smile?
The Smile take their name from the title of a poem by Ted Hughes. Yorke said it was “not the smile as in ‘ahh’, more the smile as in the guy who lies to you every day”.
- Is the Smile Radiohead-like?
- Backed by Skinner’s technically brilliant but unobtrusive timekeeping, The Smile present themselves on that song as the most un-Radiohead-like of propositions — a guitar-driven power trio! — that happens to sound, tantalizingly, like a version of Radiohead that Radiohead no longer is apparently interested in being.
- Who is Radiohead’s new band ‘The Smile’ at Glastonbury?
- A new band featuring members of Radiohead will be the special guests at Glastonbury’s live-streamed concert on Saturday, it has been revealed. Called The Smile, the band includes Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood, alongside jazz drummer Tom Skinner.
- Who are the Smile?
- The Smile are an English rock band comprising the Radiohead members Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, bass, keys) and Jonny Greenwood (guitar, bass, keys) with Tom Skinner (drums). They are produced by Nigel Godrich, Radiohead’s longtime producer. The band incorporate elements of post-punk, progressive rock, Afrobeat, and electronic music .
- What does the Smile sound like?
- The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis said the Smile “sound like a simultaneously more skeletal and knottier version of Radiohead”, incorporating progressive rock influences with unusual time signatures, complex riffs and “hard-driving” motorik psychedelia.
Who is the most talented in Radiohead?
Jonny is the most talented member of Radiohead, he’s always studying, always interested in doing new things, he has a very special personality, he’s a genius, his music deserves much more recognition.
Who is the guy with Radiohead?
Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays guitar and keyboards and is noted for his falsetto.
What song are Radiohead named after?
Radio Head
Radiohead named themselves after the Talking Heads song ‘Radio Head’, from the 1986 album ‘True Stories’.
