Determined to form his own conclusions, Greenwood listened to the likes of Genesis, King Crimson and Pink Floyd...

>Determined to form his own conclusions, Greenwood listened to the likes of Genesis, King Crimson and Pink Floyd, "though I didn't even bother with Yes, seeing as how they were met with so much derision."
>"It is all awful and terrible," Greenwood says, his brown eyes widening. "I found the one good Pink Floyd album, 'Meddle,' which is amazing, though that's supposedly the one that made Johnny Lydon say he hated them. I came out after listening to all these terrible Genesis records with the realizations that the Mellotron is a great instrument, and that you should never have a song with 'unicorn' in the title. So a few lessons were learned."
What did he mean by this?

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Reminder this is the same musician who made fun of his fans for demanding better quality than 160kbps MP3s

Respect the dude as a guitarist but he has some shitty opinions

it's pretty common to react badly upon encountering someone who does your shtick better than you

he isnt a fucking wanker
well, at least not much

Everyone on Radiohead hates their music getting called prog so it makes sense.

wtf i hate jonny greenwood now

yeah well he looks gay
so whatever dude

wtf I love jonny greenwood now

Radiohead would actually be better if greenwood took more influence from prog and actually let loose on a song once in a while. Everything about their music feels so reserved. Paranoid Android is a good example of a song where they actually jam out and it benefits the song.

The National Anthem lets itself go too and it's one of their best songs.

Burn city

I think they let go on a few tracks and it works really well for them when they do.

Reading this though, I'm guessing that is not Greenwood's decision. He's always seemed like a very technical, detail oriented guy, look at his solo on identikit for example, it's painfully clever.

>" guitars are like typewriters. It's technology, it's not something to be admired or worshipped. Like, oh, a washing machine or something. It does the job. You start seeing people putting them on walls as decorations and it's just... it's like putting a vacuum cleaner there. That's really bizarre for me. They're okay; they all sound the same, it's the brutal truth."
Based

wow so enigmatic i'll punch this nigga in the face if i ever see him

well at least he found the best Floyd album... still seems like a pretentious cunt though

I feel a little guilty for liking radiohead now

Surprised he didn't at least like King Crimson, who to me are very unlike other prog bands

I'm trying to find the source to this and all I can find is a website with the quote that says its from a 1997 rolling stone article

>they all sound the same

?????

quite based honestly
the only ones who disagree are the cuckprogs on here getting btfo

lol Radiohead 'letting go' is limp af imo i mean thom gets into it on idioteque and shit but i don't listen to Radiohead as a rock band that really fucks or anything.

>being retarded
thanks for the opinion buddy

what don't you like about prog specifically?

IM A WEIRDOOOOO

Which Radiohead album has the most effects pedals on it?

where did you get this and why isn't Nirvana in the most overrated? also half the "1990s" section are rated just fine (not over or under)

>where did you get this

piero's site scaruffi.com/music/best100.html

it's much easier to make a prog song when you know 5 scales and make 19 jarring key/time signature changes than it is to write an actual song.

and it's much MUCH easier if you consider how piss poor and straight up lazy-but-also-pretentious prog lyrics tend to be

these fucks try to be all clever but really I don't think one of them could write a great pop song if their mum's cunt depended on it.

and even if there were like five that could, the fact that they would decide to make retarded music anyway speaks volumes

>it's like putting a vacuum cleaner there
Radiohead is shoegaze, confirmed

that retard with the website stuck in the 90s with contrarian shit opinions that people here care about for no goddamn reason

another pleb destroyed by piero ''/ourguy/'' scaruffi

>complaining about lyrics
>Because they didn't choose to make shitty top 40s pop songs means that they couldn't make good music

okay
You're wrong though

this whole post sounds like you haven't actually listened to any prog (aside from maybe like dream theater or some shit) and you're just basing your criticism on what christgau or old rolling stone reviews or some shit say.

>these fucks try to be all clever but really I don't think one of them could write a great pop song if their mum's cunt depended on it.
please listen to pic related

Radiohead fucking sucks so

I would like to see anyone in Radiohead write something that comes close to Larks Tongues in Aspic part 1

Like 50% of prog is instrumental

Literally prog rock in a nutshell. Let's face it, it's a shitty dad rick genre.

>dad rick

what did morty mean by this

yeah, sorry they couldn't. Being able to (a) write your own songs and also (b) commercialize your music is the hardest thing to do in music. Most can just accomplish one or the other, this is not a hard or even a new concept to grasp. The problem with prog is that they choose route (a) and develop a retarded superiority complex when it's 1000% harder to be a Lorde/Swift/Kanye/whatever than to be a Porcupine Tree/Genesis/KC/bullshit, and we all know it. The former just have more talent despite not being as technically skilled (a one dimensional metric by which to grade music anyway) (also their lyrics are infinitely less cringy than your typical prog).

only good album is Breakfast in America and c'mon that's barely prog dude wrt to their earlier albums, and in any case they'd be the exception that proves the rule.

Well, I think the point is that people obsess about them too much when they're just tools.
I mean, every washing machine is different, technically, but if it washes your clothes, it's fine. That's all there is to it. Same for guitar.

>commercialize your music is the hardest thing to do in music
Red hot chili peppers is garbage and they were popular as fuck in the 90s

>it's 1000% harder to be a Lorde/Swift/Kanye/whatever than to be a Porcupine Tree/Genesis/KC/bullshit

Funny you should bring up taylor swift and Lorde when talking about bad lyrics. I think you're getting catchiness confused with quality, since most prog has WAY more re-listenability than your average swift or lorde album

I think you're just trying to sound smart on Sup Forums, an anonymous fucking imageboard.

>3 minutes of diet AnCo chime shit
>bring in muh horns
>Wow cool guitar riffs and bass noodles for a few mins
>halfway through it just switches to ambience with some strings thrown in
seriously if I hadn't known the name of this song from your post I'd assume its called "My Song 2"

>different opinion
>must be trying to sound smart
you've got it all wrong, I'm just trying to sound like an asshole

(You)

>bro it's just like a sculpture made out of rocks and stuff man who even cares

Probably OK Computer.

Is prog rock the equivalent of mods are to hipsters who are rockers?
P4k really hated prog rock too ,like the mars volta.
For some reason hipsters really hate prog rock

yeah, all of those posts are mine you fucking idiot what's your point

>hard to write a good pop song
G Em C D.
There, I've done it.

Prog is mostly white/european musicians, so it might be something to do with that. Hipsters hate that stuff.

but the mars volta is Latino and black as fuck


youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6svO2AQHw

My point is that your bait is simply exquisite.

Oh shit. I have no explanation then.
Maybe it's the toxic masculinity meme that leftists push?

Please tell me you're baiting.

>implying prog isn't left-wing
baka desu senpai

>Getting this invested in baiting

False equivalency, you are a faggot

Different user, you're a fucking idiot.

I think their big gripe with it is that prog rock took rock from the lower class, rock was about partying and drugs, then prog rock made it into like midd class pretension about....unicorns and guitar solos and like 20 hour songs.

King crimson is goat no matter what hipster trash says though

>that faggot frip removed everything from jew tube so only covers

youtube.com/watch?v=bZuDkVFQJBA

so is indie rock...

This is the only good post in this thread

>Like, oh, a washing machine or something
Fucking lmao

>different opinion
>must be trying to sound smart
>you've got it all wrong, I'm just trying to sound like an asshole
Just leave the thread people.

Lol all you're doing is pointing out elements of the song without explaining what makes any of it bad. You're a fucking moron hahaha

makes you think

>Different user
Sure.

look my subjective opinion is that it's shit but my point is that regardless of that it's objectively much easier to make than a hit top 40 point song.

pic v related, typical prog fan

I think prog was the closet rock came to high art. I dont think it wanted to be pop music, it wanted to have substance, not be some disposable product for teens.
Good art lasts through time, pop is disposable and marketed to teens who have short attention spans

youtube.com/watch?v=1EVGR6rSu0c

Lol. Are you rich now?? Have you ever really wrote songs

its real easy to make a pop song you idiot.

I dont think you ever read the manual

source pls

Whatever you say drooling moron.

yeah i cant find a good source either

>Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons admitted in an interview to reading The Manual and stated that he "took direct instructions from it.... Get yourself a studio, get a groove going, sing some absolute nonsense over the top, put a breakbeat behind it, and you're away! That's what I did! That's genuinely it. I read that, I noted down the golden rules of pop, and applied that to what we're doing and made sure that that always applies to everything we do. That way, we always come out with a sort of catchy hit number."

I've written a few, and out of the bunch I wrote, the one with the best reception has been the one with that chord progression. A song I wrote with the least amount of effort.

If I go off the deep end a believe that you're not just trolling...

The success of a song has little to nothing to do with its quality. A highly successful and popular artist, such as Miley Cyrus, could put out a harsh noise single tomorrow and just because people saw the name Miley Cyrus it would hit the top 40. By the same token, some no name user could write the objectively catchiest and most accessible pop song of all time and post it to their soundcloud and get 30 listens.

To the other point, standard 4 chord pop which follows patterns that have been proven to be successful over decades is easier than writing a good song in almost any other style. There's not much more to say about that, if you think otherwise then you are just wrong, but that's ok, we're all wrong sometimes.

Non of this matters though because you're just a tasty piece of bait that I choked on.

Pop music is garbage and easy to make, the band chumbawamba read the manual and created this big hit.
Also little known fact is that chumbawmba are actually a far left anarchist punk band.

Pop music is joke, seriously read the manual

youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

youtube.com/watch?v=kWLHpuLrpyk

prick

Nice you posted the chord progression of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

this

...

They're pretty similar to other prog bands (just read the lyrics) despite being probably the best

radiohead should remain a band of losers, so no

he's just talking about tastefulness

radiohead, eternal teenagers... never change

>What he meant by this
>My band found fame in 90s Britain when talking shit about the greatest bands of all time while simultaneously ripping them off wholesale was the edgiest shit you could do
He's like the Goldmember of the Britpop era.

I'm in Radiohead, isn't that weird?

Radiohead are the greatest band of all time. Everything Jonny says and does is genius. You are lucky to be alive in the same fucking dimension as him. Show some fucking respect.

Lizard is a fucking terrible album tho

they are a good band

wtf I have an opinion about Jonny Greenwood now

>Sup Forumstards fall for this bait
Embarrassing

There's literally no source why does this have 90+ replies?

It's on Citizen Insane, but it doesn't give a link to the article it's from
citizeninsane.eu/interconnex/yes.html

Literally who?

>It's le left! It's le PC culture

Literally who?

Does he have autism or something?

his head is literally a square wtf

Did he really say that? Wow

He is right on this one, guitars are tools. I don't understand people who name their guitars, extreme cringe.