While a Buckley influence is present, I’m saying that it’s minimal. There was some falsetto present on Pablo Honey. Since Buckley and Yorke became songwriters at roughly the same time, I would say that the similarities come from them having a similar group of influences, rather than one directly influencing the other. And the biggest evolution between the Bends and OK Computer was not the vocals, it was the music, IMHO.
Umm…we’re not going to get in trouble for leading this thread off topic, are we? :eek:
Yeah, we should probably drop this, because your first line I quoted abvce strikes me as conclusive evidence that you’ve never even heard of the musicians under discussion. As subjective as such things are, I can’t think of a statement I’ve ever come across in this forum that is, according to my own subjective opinion of course, more blatantly just wrong. To listen to post *Grace * Radiohead and not be just struck over the head by the vast and foundational, Buckley-driven shift in their style strikes me as, well, again, just unfathomably wrong. YM, of course, MV.
Maybe it’s because you did Radiohead first, and then Buckley after? I was a hardcore Buckley fanatic for more than a year before he released his first album, and there was nothing at all like him out there, anywhere. Then *Grace * came out, and over time I gradually started to hear his influence creeping into the styles of many, many other artists–chief among them, Radiohead. But I’ll drop it here, because again this kind of thing is so subjective.
I think he means that Radiohead’s music owed more to Jeff Buckley in 1995 than it does today. I’m not a Jeff Buckley expert but I don’t think his stuff sounded anything like Kid A or Hail to the Thief, so The Bends and to a lesser degree OK Computer probably made the influence much more clear.
No, it’s definitely the post *Bends * stuff that shows the influence: the soaring vocals, the lush melodies. Nobody was doing that anymore until Jeff came along. Before *Grace * came out, Radiohead was a pretty conventional boys-with-guitars band. Within a couple years of Grace, they were off in a new direction, which they’re still exploring today.
I would agree if the band you were comparing to U2 were Starsailor rather than Coldplay.
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There are bands every once in awhile that I am predisposed to dislike, then I hear a song by them that I do not KNOW is by them, then I hear it is by them and my entire opinion changes.
Coldplay is not one of those bands. As a matter of fact, I heard a song by them which was sort of lame, without knowing it was by them until after the fact. It just made me dislike them all the more.
* Black The Sun (1999)
* Watching Angels Mend (2001)
* Distant Light Distant Light (2003) is the third album released by Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lloyd. It has been certified platinum in Australia and had three top 40 singles taken from it.
If you like Coldplay there is a very good chance you will like Alex Lloyd.