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That was pretty good, and I can definitely hear that Radiohead was probably influenced by them and other similar bands. But come on, it's just not on the same level. It sounds like an early demo Radiohead might have made while still trying to find their sound. The great thing about Electronic era Radiohead, too, is just how many others influences they obviously have - there's IDM in there, jazz, Eno-esque ambient music, and they keep up the quality level right the way through every album.
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That wasn't one of Faust's better songs I just picked it out because it sounded the most Radiohead like. I wouldn't think you'd be able to appreciate the more experimental side of Krautrock bands anyway.
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Not basing it on you specifically I know that this kind of thing is a niche style and we are on a metal forum.
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KID A is the one radiohead album that does live up to the hype IMO. those are sophisticated, fluid soundscapes which come together into an organic whole defined by a distinctly modern set of neuroses. not that this is important at all but i know several krautrock fans who feel the same way.
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I've listened to it from beginning to end and I find it boring as hell and not very interesring. I can think of too many albums I find far more creative and interesting.
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I don't get the people who think Kid A is anything but a flash of genius. Yes it borrows from krautrock and jazz and electronica and all that but it borrows from SO MANY PLACES and weaves everything together into something ridiculously cohesive. Sure there were krautrock bands that drew inspiration from equally far and wide (for their time - obviously they couldn't include genres that didn't exist yet) but show me a krautrock band that manages to maintain Kid A's level of compositional elegance for the duration of a full album without slipping into a 15-minute improv.
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What do you have against improvs? Not sure I can show you anything because I don't think Kid A is elegant in the first place. How about Ege Bamyasi none of the tracks on the reach the 15 minute mak. It's not Krautrock but Another Green world blows Kid A out the water.
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Surprised and glad to see how many Radiohead fans there are on this forum, tbh I thought the overlap between metalheads and Radiohead listeners was virtually non-existent.
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Kid A is the Radiohead album I've given the most chances and I still find it pretty boring tbh.
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Listening again to Kid A there's some interesting music inside it however I have it has a hard time not losing me especially when it switches from one song to the other. I'm not sure if it's the execution or flow but I can't keep interested in it Also as I've mentioned I don't like his voice at all.
The only reason I gave them a chance is because some of their stuff was labled as artsy experimental but isn't Bends just plain alt rock?
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I wouldn't doubt it is but it seems like it'd be so outside my music taste there's no real reason to bother. I tried OK Computer and I didn't care for it either.
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I watched, or there was a concert on telly by them on late at night when I got home and was nothing else on, a concert from Radiohead and the guitarist he didnt use a single scale throughout the show, it was all just one note stuff, or chord based arpeggios, and he didnt seem at all conversant with a guitar in a taught or knowledge sense. That `creep` song if I remember he just played the `g major` chord, or whichever it is I cant recall right now, and that was about it. I mean, one would expect a guitarist to play scales. key of A or C , you know, in every song, he never used them. No runs at all, unlike myself whom had them next morning from the curry I wolfed down.
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