Radiohead

Radiohead are an Alternative Rock/Electronic band headed by Thom Yorke that was primarily popular in the 90s with The Bends and OK Computer, and with songs such as Creep (Pablo Honey), Just (The Bends), Fake Plastic Trees (The Bends), My Iron Lung (The Bends), Paranoid Android (OK Computer), Karma Police (OK Computer) and No Surprises (OK Computer). In the 00s Kid A and Amnesiac marked an evolution in Radiohead's musical style, as the group incorporated experimental electronic music, Krauftrock, post-punk and jazz influences

- Some critics often cite Muse as Radiohead's sound-alikes, althought fans generally consider all similarities to be vague if not irritating, and that they were dissolved with the release of Origin of Symmetry. Some similarities may include the similar singing style and vocal range of Matt Bellamy and Thom Yorke, and the progressive rock influences in both bands' music.

-Bellamy is bored of the Muse/Radiohead comparissions, especially since he does'nt consider that Muse & Radiohead plays the same type of music, but he preffers takes'em as a compliment. http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/11052001-microcuts_team_meet_matthew_bellamy.php

- Matt Bellamy never had met Radiohead, except of Colin (Radiohead´s bass player) & he says that is a "cool" person.http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/11052001-microcuts_team_meet_matthew_bellamy.php

- In a band's interview featured in the February 22 1999 issue of NME the interviewer (Mark Beaumont) said some times that Muse is a band that "sounds exactly like Radiohead" about this Matt Bellamy answered:

"we take our influences from a lot of American bands, like Nirvana, Matthew asserts. And, yeah Radiohead at the time of 'The Bends' were doing new things with guitar music that it's hard not to be influenced by. If that's your opinion, then fair enough, i just don't care." http://i49.tinypic.com/2qs3y80.jpg

In 1999 Dominic Howard mentioned Radiohead as one of his favorite bands:

http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/1999/07/

Matt Bellamy likes Radiohead's Amnesiac, but he doesn't like Kid A. http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/11052001-microcuts_team_meet_matthew_bellamy.php

In 2003 Matt Bellamy said: "There are two ways of making new music : You can do something totally new and refreshing or you can work on already existing concepts, adding things to it. The first thing is difficult to do, actually that's only possible with making new sounds with computers. The second way is just correcting things. Actually there's also a third option which is doing a little of both, Radiohead's Kid A is a good example of that. That's what we are doing, looking at the past and trying to make progress. http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/05042003-interview.php

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