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The thing about rock (all genres really, but rock especially) is that it encompasses a very, very wide range of music. The genre began as an amalgamation of blues, jazz, country, and pop music, and so rock has always welcomed the influence of other genres in its music. That's why there are so many subgenres of rock, from post-rock to pop rock to punk rock to shoegaze, defining what is and what isn't rock is really hard to do. Really, the only uniting factor seems to be "rock songs generally put a lot of focus on guitars" and that's hardly enough to specify a genre.
For me, rock is a certain kind of tone and feel...I don't really know how to describe it, but I can just sort of feel that a song is a rock song. In my opinion, Radiohead is not only a rock band, but I would call them a rock band over any other kind of genre because they usually make songs that I would consider rock songs. Clearly, they like to jump around genres a whole lot and trying to pin them down to one title isn't doing them justice.
So I usually refer to them as Alternative Rock, or just Alternative. Because what else do you call them? Maybe we should just call them a Radiohead band. That's it, they're a Radiohead band.
Well their first three albums can be considered Rock, the rest are just a rock sub genre like you mentioned. Similar to early Pink Floyd.
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maybe so
MAYBE NOT
Radiohead is the band you need them to be (?)
not the band we wanted them to be
depends what a band is
Depends on what your definition of the word "is" is.
Woah take it down a notch buddy! My brain can't keep up
idk
Dumb question. Obviously they don't use rocks.
Yeah they're a lemon band because they use lemons (Reckoner) and sing about sucking lemons.
Radiohead is punk rock. We may not think of them as that now, I forget from time to time, but that's what they are to me. Punk isn't a sound but a type of energy you bring to the music, most notably saying f*** you to the corrupt powers that be, and doing something musically different than mainstream.
First, we must define "rock"
Well, we look at socioeconomic status of Japan....
what is JUST/LIFT/PEARLY/MISTREATED
Sometimes
I think that radiohead it's a band that experiment a lot with their sound to put it just in one genre
Radiohead has released 4 (maybe 5 if you count HTTT) rock albums. So yeah, they are a rock band most of the time.
HTTT is almost certainly rock. Only non rock songs are th glming, Backdrifring, WSYB, SDSU
They are a rock band but I would say clearly that's not all they are. Life in a Glasshouse, Idioteque, and Daydreaming are not rock song.
Yes they are. Sure, they span plenty genres, but many rock artists (Pink Floyd, New Order, Can) do too. I think 75% of Radioheads songs are firmly rock songs.
Radiohead are an Alternative Rock band at core who make songs which incorporate electronic, symphonic, orchestral, jazz elements. The majority of their music is alternative rock. Everything up to OK Computer is alternative rock.
Then on Kid A that is mainly electronic (rock), jazz rock, ambient or symphonic rock. The alternative rock songs are Optimistic, In Limbo and one could argue Morning Bell.
On Amnesiac you have alternative rock songs in I Might Be Wrong, Knives Out, Morning Bell, Cut tooth, Transatlantic Drawl, Fog and you could say Pakt like Sardines and maybe You and Whose Army. Everything else is Electronic (rock) or jazz rock.
Hail to the Thief is an alternative rock album with some electronic songs like Sit Down Stand Up, Gloaming, We Suck Young Blood and Backdrifting which are either electronic or jazz. This is a rock album.
In Rainbows has alternative rock songs in Bodysnatchers, Nude, Weird Fishes, Reckoner, House of Cards, Jigsaw, Go Slowly, Up on the Ladder, Bangers and Mash and you could say All I Need. The rest are either electronic (15 Step) or piano or acoustic based.
TKOL is quite easily electronic (rock), the only exception is the slow piano based Codex. Then they had alternative rock songs around this era in These are my Twisted Words and Daily Mail.
A Moon Shaped Pool is probably symphonic rock, it has a lot of orchestra in the songs with a few electronic influences in some songs. There are a few piano or acoustic songs and the only really alternative rock songs you could really argue are Identikit, Ful Stop and Decks Dark.
So yes they are a rock band who sometimes makes songs in other genres but keep the roots of rock in their performance for instance Colin's bass and Thom's rocky voice.
this -- various types of Rock
Basically lol
yes, but you explained the types well
Art rock? I guess. Experimental rock has at this point become a super wide genre that I think you could count everything except like, half of kid a as rock.
Yes,but experimental rock, for instance songs like Decks Dark,The numbers and present tense feel like rock (at least to me) I guess you can put it like this rock is more of an attitude than a genre,so yeah I still consider Radiohead to be a rock band.
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Yes, even Thom would admit that its a Rock band. In fact he did just that in an interview on the BBC, Stylistically they are clearly very versatile though.
Art rock
Pop is dead, so ig rock
More pop then rock
Pop is dead
By that definition, every piece of music ever released is pop.
Unless you're listening to classical music or jazz or some kind of traditional, the music you're listening to is most likely some form of pop music.
This guy knows
No,just,no
What? You people are obnoxious. A lot of Radiohead songs are pop and/or rock.
I Am the Walrus is a pop song for crying out loud, get off your high horse.
I'm not saying pop is bad (dead) but I don't think that Radiohead is pop, not even indie pop and I'm a huge indie pop/rock fan. And because a band has a pop song does not mean that the entire band is pop. Beatles are considered one of the best if not the best Rock band of all time although an album like Sgt.pepper is a pop/pop rock album.
The Beatles were also a pop band. Things aren't as black and white as you're saying. Especially in the sixties when they were around, the music they put out was consistently labeled as pop. People would rather say "rock band" because "pop band" doesn't sound cool but in reality they're both.
Good grief, were you offended?
When I responded, u/ChromeTrooper66 was being downvoted and u/thevaginalshit was being upvoted. I was offended by the groupthink that I saw happening and felt the need to correct it.
If you skim to 13:30, I think you'll find that you are wrong.
they are a pop band