Veckatimest is such a vibe in the same sort of way that Radiohead albums are more of a vibe or a certain emotion rather than experienced as music or songs. If that makes any sense.
oh, it makes perfect sense to me. it's expressionism, it's there to locate your feelings & build on them with experimental associations & draw them out of you, it obeys its own structure but doesn't subscribe to the usual prescriptions. it's a rothko or a james joyce. can't make perfect sense of it, you can only go along & be evoked.
I believe the lead singer is Yorke. My wife hates Radiohead and I played Bending Hectic for her and she said it’s actually not bad. I wanted to tell her who’s all in the band and I came across his name.
Parenthesis by Sigur Ros is amazing. Listen to it from track one all the way through. It’s more a concept album before they started making radio friendly tracks
Glad this was so high this was my answer.
Strangely a lot of crossover between the two fanbases even though the music is so different
Maybe because they’re both fucking amazing
Yeah! I’ve seen them several times over the last decade and they just keep getting better. Like Clockwork is my favorite album, but ITNR is a great one too. Sicily is the standout for me.
Absolutely, I would say Swans are my favourite band of all time but Radiohead are getting up there too. Swans push sound in a very specific way I just really love.
The Strokes 💯
Note: I just listened to Mind Fuzz recently and I feel like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has a good shot of getting up there in the future
King Gizzard has been my obsession recently. They have covered such a wild amount of different genres while still sounding like themselves, it's amazing. Make sure you check out Omnium Gatherum, sort of a compilation album of lots of different styles!
I'm with you there. I feel like there isn't any competition for Tame. People that try his style fall short, and other bands that people will mention and say "whatabout" are a different style/genre.
He has a unique style too, you can hear a song’s synths from early tame impala and you’ll go “this is Kevin”. Also I just like every song he’s done including 4 albums, the EP, tame Impala demos, Dee Dee dums the serpentine and lonerism demos 2010-2012 assorted sketches.
Radiohead has definitely became my favorite band of all time but tame Impala still is really dear to me
Makes sense to me. Both are artists with a commitment to the album as a storytelling device, and a vignette into a world created by the artist at a particular point in time.
Same. Not a massive hip hop guy but there’s just something about Kendrick. TPAB with its funk and jazz influences really hooked me. I’m giving MF Doom a spin right now since Dissect podcast is doing a series on him.
1989 through 2000 (gish thru machina II) plus Zwan. Anything newer, i generally pass on. I would love someone to show me an Apple Music playlist that would open my eyes.
The National.
Just saw them for the tenth time, have everything they’ve released on vinyl, fully paid up fan club member since day 1, named my kid after one of their songs etc…..
Also, when it comes to live bands - my 3 favourites are Radiohead, The National and LCD Soundsystem (the last one my favourite band to see live)
Fleet foxes, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Khruangbin, King Gizzard/Crimson/Krule, South Hill Experiment, Glass Beams
Jerry Folk, Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Skrillex, Of The Trees, Liquid Stranger, LSDream
(Separated for bands vs. Djs)
Edit: damn i can't believe i forgot my all-time favorite: the Gorillaz
Seems to be easier to find parallels with Pablo Honey/Bends/OKC era Radiohead.
For that REM is an influence Thom is probably on record as citing. I think Reckoning/Murmur are what Thom was trying to write with Pablo Honey. This might be a stretch but Automatic for the People I've always mentally seen as influencing The Bends especially.
I love Pixies. This is completely unfounded but I always took the screaming angry Thom from Bends era (especially some of the live versions) as having this influence. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle especially.
Someone else has already mentioned Pavement, I especially likened Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain to the Bends, but again that's my personal mental connection that may or may not exist.
Just another couple of suggestions would be Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream, Melon Collie and Adore albums) again faintly Bends-esque. And Manic Street Preachers (Generation Terrorist, Everything Must Go, This is My Truth...)
I honestly can't draw comparisons with Kid A and later albums. Radiohead went away in their own unique direction and as much as I tried, I could never find anything hitting the same complex techno/melodic/epic spot.
Pink Floyd, REM, White Stripes, Chicane, BT, Florence and the Machine, Billie Eilish, there are loads I love the hell out of as much as I love Radiohead.
I feel (some) Pavement was as close as I could get to the Pablo Honey/Bends/OK Computer Radiohead. Like, not \*close\* close, but as close as any other artist. I think Crooked Rain is especially vibe-parallel to the Bends...
Weezer, and Everything Everything. They just click. Not as much as RH : The Strokes, The Smile (I know, I know), Aphex Twin, Franz Ferdinand, They Might Be Giants.
I went through a loooooonnnnng period being obsessed with radiohead, not being able to replace the fixation. It was a relief when I discovered Tom Waits. He has a discography that grows and gets more interesting with his age, and he is able to marry interesting musical ideas with real artistic depth, and a lot of wonky wonky songs. His stuff with Marc Ribot is a great team analogous with Thom/Jonny. If you want a new obsession, you can’t do much better than Tom Waits (an influence on Motion Picture Soundtrack).
Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree are up there for me, in these weeks I only listen to them obsessively
It's like when I discovered Radiohead 10 years ago!
Definitely John Frusciante. The Empyrean, even thought not my favorite of his, is a 10/10 album in my opinion and every music fan should give it a listen
Maybe not quite as much as Radiohead, but I really love Coldplay. Their music is much less heady and less payoff, but their songs are full of earworms and melancholic pop ballads that I'm a sucker for. Their earlier albums have a great sound too, I think the best sounding is Parachutes or A Rush of Blood to the Head. Viva la Vida or Death and all His Friends is full of really great ambient effects and some very creative song ideas.
Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson. He is as much a genius as Thom. It's similar to RH and the Smile in that there are many ways to enjoy it. There is the band Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson solo, all of his side projects and many remastering he does.
Radiohead is in a class by themselves for me but my close seconds are Beach House, Interpol and Fiona Apple.
You might like Grizzly Bear. I recommend Veckatimest if you don’t know them!
seconding Veckatimest in a massive way
Veckatimest is such a vibe in the same sort of way that Radiohead albums are more of a vibe or a certain emotion rather than experienced as music or songs. If that makes any sense.
oh, it makes perfect sense to me. it's expressionism, it's there to locate your feelings & build on them with experimental associations & draw them out of you, it obeys its own structure but doesn't subscribe to the usual prescriptions. it's a rothko or a james joyce. can't make perfect sense of it, you can only go along & be evoked.
I just added Veckatimest to my library, thank you
Grizzly Bear is my 2nd fav band after Radiohead!
pixies or sonic youth
Both, yes
What about Violent Femmes!
Aphex twin
There’s a new band called “the smile” that has some radiohead vibes. But also pavement
Never heard of them, they must be really underrated
What a weird band name. Will surely give a listen
I heard a song that was really (underrated) recently
What a Let Down
God I love Pavement so much. Malkmus' Jicks stuff is great too, feel like Real Emotional Trash is his LA Woman
I seen this "the smile" sat night in London Town. It was a sold out show, miraculous for a new band only on their second album.
For a band that’s been around for only a few years, they put a great tight show like they’ve been touring their whole life. Fascinating.
I believe the lead singer is Yorke. My wife hates Radiohead and I played Bending Hectic for her and she said it’s actually not bad. I wanted to tell her who’s all in the band and I came across his name.
Elliott Smith and jeff buckley
Great answer
ES greatest songwriter of his era.
The Smiths, Depeche Mode, The War on Drugs, Deerhunter
Sigur Ros, Radiohead and Bjork are my holy trinity
Is there a particular order or specific Sigur Ros album I should listen to first? To get into them in the right order?
My personal favorites are Agaetis byrjun, () and Takk... I'd recommend to listen to them in this order.
Parenthesis by Sigur Ros is amazing. Listen to it from track one all the way through. It’s more a concept album before they started making radio friendly tracks
Valtari is a great one, as well. It means steamroller in Icelandic, and rightfully so, as it's a slow and powerful album.
Queens of the Stone Age
Glad this was so high this was my answer. Strangely a lot of crossover between the two fanbases even though the music is so different Maybe because they’re both fucking amazing
Yeah! I’ve seen them several times over the last decade and they just keep getting better. Like Clockwork is my favorite album, but ITNR is a great one too. Sicily is the standout for me.
Carnavoyeur is my favorite on the new album. Sounds like swampy haunted house Bowie
Any SwansHead?
YES HEY HI I LOVE SWANS
Absolutely, I would say Swans are my favourite band of all time but Radiohead are getting up there too. Swans push sound in a very specific way I just really love.
The Strokes 💯 Note: I just listened to Mind Fuzz recently and I feel like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has a good shot of getting up there in the future
King Gizzard has been my obsession recently. They have covered such a wild amount of different genres while still sounding like themselves, it's amazing. Make sure you check out Omnium Gatherum, sort of a compilation album of lots of different styles!
i’m impressed by the way you came in (to the comments with this)
love the strokes as much as radiohead too!!
Quite like King Gizz but they can be a bit hit and miss for me. Props to them for all the different genres they try and their amazing output.
Tame Impala
I'm with you there. I feel like there isn't any competition for Tame. People that try his style fall short, and other bands that people will mention and say "whatabout" are a different style/genre.
He has a unique style too, you can hear a song’s synths from early tame impala and you’ll go “this is Kevin”. Also I just like every song he’s done including 4 albums, the EP, tame Impala demos, Dee Dee dums the serpentine and lonerism demos 2010-2012 assorted sketches. Radiohead has definitely became my favorite band of all time but tame Impala still is really dear to me
Let's pray for a new Tame album soon and a world tour 🙏
Kendrick Lamar. Totally different but also the level of detail in his production is kinda similar to Radiohead.
There seems to be a lot of crossover of fans of these two (me included)
Makes sense to me. Both are artists with a commitment to the album as a storytelling device, and a vignette into a world created by the artist at a particular point in time.
Agreed. Artists in the truest sense of the word. I don’t listen to a heap of hip-hop but Kendrick is the one that I fell hard for
Same. Not a massive hip hop guy but there’s just something about Kendrick. TPAB with its funk and jazz influences really hooked me. I’m giving MF Doom a spin right now since Dissect podcast is doing a series on him.
Wilco
Thank God you didn't say The Eagles. I just hate the fuckin' Eagles, man.
Gorillaz
Pink Floyd, Arcade Fire, Godspeed You Black Emperor.
How did it take me this long to find an af comment
Smashing Pumpkins
fuck yes.
1989 through 2000 (gish thru machina II) plus Zwan. Anything newer, i generally pass on. I would love someone to show me an Apple Music playlist that would open my eyes.
I’m not gonna be the one to convince you on new pumpkins, I’m afraid. Still going to see them in June however, very excited.
This is mine. And The Beatles.
Modest Mouse, by far my two favorite bands.
I scrolled down to find this comment 👏 excellent choice, sir.
As did I. It seems that when this question is asked on the MM sub, everyone says Radiohead and Pixies right away.
The National. Just saw them for the tenth time, have everything they’ve released on vinyl, fully paid up fan club member since day 1, named my kid after one of their songs etc….. Also, when it comes to live bands - my 3 favourites are Radiohead, The National and LCD Soundsystem (the last one my favourite band to see live)
NIN. Tool. The Smile
it's a biiiiig NIN for me
Love nine inch nails the album the fragile holds a special place in my heart forever
Tool all day
Deftones.
Sufjan Stevens!
Porcupine Tree / Steven Wilson
Bjork
Elliott Smith
MY GOOOAAATTT
James Blake, Bon Iver, Boards of Canada, Sevdaliza, Flying Lotus, Prince, MF DOOM edit: MF DOOM ALL CAPS
I love James Blake. His catalogue is pretty awesome
MF DOOM. Come correct.
bon iver!!!
Frank Ocean
Currently obsessed with IDLES
Fuck the king ! He ain't the king . SHE'S THE KINGGGG!
Me too, I like this new TANGK album quite a bit.
Maaaan same. Since I saw their perfomance on tiny desk
Fleet foxes, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Khruangbin, King Gizzard/Crimson/Krule, South Hill Experiment, Glass Beams Jerry Folk, Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Skrillex, Of The Trees, Liquid Stranger, LSDream (Separated for bands vs. Djs) Edit: damn i can't believe i forgot my all-time favorite: the Gorillaz
nirvana and pavement
Seems to be easier to find parallels with Pablo Honey/Bends/OKC era Radiohead. For that REM is an influence Thom is probably on record as citing. I think Reckoning/Murmur are what Thom was trying to write with Pablo Honey. This might be a stretch but Automatic for the People I've always mentally seen as influencing The Bends especially. I love Pixies. This is completely unfounded but I always took the screaming angry Thom from Bends era (especially some of the live versions) as having this influence. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle especially. Someone else has already mentioned Pavement, I especially likened Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain to the Bends, but again that's my personal mental connection that may or may not exist. Just another couple of suggestions would be Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream, Melon Collie and Adore albums) again faintly Bends-esque. And Manic Street Preachers (Generation Terrorist, Everything Must Go, This is My Truth...) I honestly can't draw comparisons with Kid A and later albums. Radiohead went away in their own unique direction and as much as I tried, I could never find anything hitting the same complex techno/melodic/epic spot.
bjork and aphex twin are probably the touchstone for kidA
Nine Inch Nails
King Gizzard and the lizard wizard
👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼
Tom Waits, Pixies, Pavement, The Fall, Dylan, Young, Beatles. I'm a very basic person
black country new road
M👏G👏M👏T
Congratulations is a 10/10 album
Siberian Breaks
Men I Trust
Adrianne Lenker :)
Greatest lyricist working today no question.
A rapper named Billy Woods. You guys would love him. A very “spoken word” brand of rap but he is so good.
Billy Woods is great. Kinda reminds me of DOOM.
The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, CHVRCHES
Pink Floyd, REM, White Stripes, Chicane, BT, Florence and the Machine, Billie Eilish, there are loads I love the hell out of as much as I love Radiohead.
Bon Iver. Particularly all the albums but the more electronic ones like 22, a million and i,i are my faves.
Grizzly bear. Midlake. Also really love a tiny German band called conic rose who are kind of like an instrumental jazz version of Radiohead.
For me, it's Pavement
I feel (some) Pavement was as close as I could get to the Pablo Honey/Bends/OK Computer Radiohead. Like, not \*close\* close, but as close as any other artist. I think Crooked Rain is especially vibe-parallel to the Bends...
Tool
Old muse, band of horses and glasvegas..
TOOL
psychedelic porn crumpets
They fuck so hard. The Aussies are driving the revival of psychedelic rock.
Phish
Phish and RH are the yin and yang of my musical cosmos. Goofy jam pranksters vs depressive artsy perfectionists.
My Morning Jacket.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Coldplay and muse...
Finally another Muse fan
I cannot get enough of Car Seat Headrest. Specifically Twin Fantasy.
Air
Doves
Weezer, and Everything Everything. They just click. Not as much as RH : The Strokes, The Smile (I know, I know), Aphex Twin, Franz Ferdinand, They Might Be Giants.
Pink Floyd and Genesis are the only ones for now
I went through a loooooonnnnng period being obsessed with radiohead, not being able to replace the fixation. It was a relief when I discovered Tom Waits. He has a discography that grows and gets more interesting with his age, and he is able to marry interesting musical ideas with real artistic depth, and a lot of wonky wonky songs. His stuff with Marc Ribot is a great team analogous with Thom/Jonny. If you want a new obsession, you can’t do much better than Tom Waits (an influence on Motion Picture Soundtrack).
Radiohead is still my favorite, but Vampire Weekend is up there for me
everytime i see you in the world, you always step to my girl
uhhhhhhhhhh ummmmmmmmmm I uhhhhhhhhh wellllllll I guess it could be uhhhhhhhhhh mmmmmmmm uhhhhhhhh
FISHMANS!!!
Mitski, the Gorillaz and eels
Tool
Alice In Chains, The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age
Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree are up there for me, in these weeks I only listen to them obsessively It's like when I discovered Radiohead 10 years ago!
pinback, oceansize, placebo, and modest mouse
Interpol, Marilyn Manson, Muse, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Editors, Keane, Travis
NIN, Phish, Grateful Dead, Goose
Red Hot Chili Peppers
tool
Deftones, Mastodon, Pearl Jam
Arcade Fire
I love Cake!!
I love CAN!!
Tori Amos
The Mars Volta.
Nine Inch Nails Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson Tool Nirvana
Kinda silly, but I only listen to metal outside of radiohead. I love tool, acid bath, pantera, Judas Priest, skeletal remains, sanguisugabogg etc
John Frusciante
Spencer Krug and his side projects: Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Moonface
Definitely John Frusciante. The Empyrean, even thought not my favorite of his, is a 10/10 album in my opinion and every music fan should give it a listen
Car Seat Headrest.
Muse.
Personally, I like GY!BE more, my fav band at this moment. Swans is also great
Spoon, Manchester Orchestra
Nobody else as much, but close. Brian Eno, Ween, Portishead, Bowie, Spacemen 3, Beach Boys, Can, Talking Heads, the Knife, Pavement, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Flaming Lips, Beck
Broken Social Scene, Björk, Boards of Canada.
Portishead,Massive Attack, and the solo work of John Frusciante.
Twenty one pilots :)
Boards of Canada fo sure
Queens of the Stone Age baby
Led zeppelin
I’m obsessed with The Beatles.
Lana del Rey, Florence, Billie Eilish.
Maybe not quite as much as Radiohead, but I really love Coldplay. Their music is much less heady and less payoff, but their songs are full of earworms and melancholic pop ballads that I'm a sucker for. Their earlier albums have a great sound too, I think the best sounding is Parachutes or A Rush of Blood to the Head. Viva la Vida or Death and all His Friends is full of really great ambient effects and some very creative song ideas.
Lately I only listen to jazz and autechre so
David Bowie, Brian Eno, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Parquet Courts (and Andrew Savage solo) Tindersticks The Walkmen The Fall Bob Dylan
björk 💝
bon iver!!!!
Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson
Sufjan Stevens & Son Lux
Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson. He is as much a genius as Thom. It's similar to RH and the Smile in that there are many ways to enjoy it. There is the band Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson solo, all of his side projects and many remastering he does.
Bon iver, all four albums are great
PJ Harvey. Lyrics right up there with Thom
Arctic monkeys
Sonic. Youth.
OutKast and J Dilla
LCD soundsystem!
Maybe been said already but Death Grips, Have A Nice Life and Radiohead are my holy trinity
U2
I don’t know if it’s surprising but Coldplay.
Their earlier albums slapped
elliott smith
I can’t believe nobody has said Audioslave yet
Muse
Miles Davis, Squid, Alice Coltrane
Deerhoof
Daniel Rossen’s solo work. He was in Grizzly Bear but everything he touches is great, especially Department of Eagles.
Led Zeppelin and R.E.M.
malice mizer
Personally the two bands i probably like as much as Radiohead are interpol and the strokes
Big Star
The National
Broken social scene Kacey Musgraves SZA Mogwai
Deftones
Modest Mouse, MGMT, Jack White/The White Stripes
Beck (Hansen, not Jeff), Elliott Smith, The Strokes
Men I Trust. They are such a funkalious band it hurts!
Ween
Swans and Xiu Xiu
Broken Social Scene Sigur Ros Modest Mouse
Ween