Best bands that people have lazily compared to Radiohead

Music Radiohead
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You can also discuss any bands that actually did want to write songs that sound like Radiohead too, just so king as they were or are a good band

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QUICK! Edit your OP to remove the racial slur!!!

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Hahha, oh dear, thanks for the proof reading.

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“It’s what I do.”

Now, as to your question.

I have variously heard Rush, Tool, The Deftones and Muse referred to as “the metal Radiohead”.

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What about Trent ‘i’m know there’s a Kid A in me somewhere’ Reznor?

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For what it’s worth, I got into NIN after hearing the opening track of With Teeth, which is very Kid A.

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Good, so we’ll keep him/them in the thread.

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When the latest Bon Iver came out I remember hearing a lot of people or reviews make some sort of “Kid A” for a new generation statement. That line always infuriated me but he’s good.

People are also always doing the “Deja Entendu” = “The Bends” and “Devil and God” = “OKC” for Brand New.

I hear the Deftones and Tool ones a lot too.

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Have Liars ever been compared to Radiohead? WIXIW = Kid A

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I think the first Muse album brought a lot of it on, with fairly good reason, but since then they’ve been a pretty different band.

There was loads of shit like jj72 back in the day that was VERY derivative.

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Have heard Wilco and Grandaddy both described as ‘American Radioheads’ - in many ways lazy comparisons but in Grandaddy’s case especially there are some similarities (beyond them both being GOATs)

Also remember reading a Q review of Bloc Party’s Intimacy (I was too young to know better!) and it made some horrendous sweeping generalisation that the Coldplay/Muse generation of bands were Bends-era acolytes where as Bloc Party et. al were the Kid A-worshippers. Mind boggling

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Tool
Opeth
Anathema

And some others have all been called ‘metal’s answer to radiohead’

Edit
Didnt read thread

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Yup, pretty sure I’ve heard this comparison before, particularly in relation to WIXIW.

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And there it is!

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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

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The Icelandic band Low Roar remind me of In Rainbows-era Radiohead. They’ve got 3 decent albums now.

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Still a cracking album, Liars have new music out soon apparently.

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Both feature heavily in the best movie ever, Clueless.

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Interesting. not sure what I wanted from this thread, but I’ll give them a listen.

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Because if you had, you’d realise your error in not naming Deftones in your list?