Thread: What are your opinions on Thom Yorke?
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Old 07-15-2011, 02:13 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by Buzzkill View Post
Nobody under the age of 35 gives a shit about U2, no offense. And they use tons of electronic distortion in most of their songs now, not that I've ever listened to more than 45 seconds of a U2 song.

And, at least in 2009, Muse sold more CD's and sold out more concerts (100k+ per arena in some cases) than any other band.

What rock acts on those Billboard Manstream Rock charts are you talking about that "us Americans love"? And what influence do they have? The Black Keys took their sound directly from late 1960s blues. I wouldn't say they are influential.

Here are the following Top 10 bands for Rock Songs on the Billboard charts:

Foo Fighters, Seether, Foster the People, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Avenged Sevenfold, Incubus.

Nobody cares about Incubus anymore, Foster the People are pure electro-rock, don't know anything aobut Seether, Death Cab is emo-folk, and Black Keys are, well, I already talked about them.

Dunno what you're talking about.
The main thing I dislike about the likes of Thom Yorke/Radiohead fans btw, the overwhelming false sense of superiority, this horribly deluded sense that music can only be made one way and for one purpose and that is to please a certain, specific type of fan

And lol "no offense", because the fact I listed them means I must care what anybody thinks about them as opposed to simply realizing they're "bigger" than every band you've listed, the fact Muse are opening for U2 on the highest grossing concert tour in history later this year gives that one away. And what do you mean "what influence do they have?". Simply making somebody pick up and guitar and learn how to play is influencing music. And even if we're specifically talking about influencing other artists, I'm not about to list anybody that you could consider influenced by Radiohead. U2, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Avenged Sevenfold, Seether, AC/DC, Metallica, Bon Jovi, The Stones and so on. Those are the bands I'm talking about, the ones Average Joe Jeans could name. Whether most of them are actually any good or not or whether you care about any of them is completely irrelevant, your artistic and creative preference isn't any kind of factor in deciding how big or influential a band is. It's just typical self righteous nonsense from your "hipster" variety of music fan.
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