Radiohead or Beck?

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Please choose one or the other and tell me why.

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead for many different reasons I don't have time to get into right now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. I'll take too little irony over too much, so, Radiohead.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

I'll take the ironic (i.e., Beck) over the morose, contra joseph. Although both have their place.

― Chris Wright (DrFunktronic), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead. Mainly for Kid A, which I prefer to all Beck albums, plus the possibility that Radiohead's later stuff will 'grow on me.'

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

This thread = Christgau's nightmare

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

"Nothing for me today, thank you."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Christgau digs Beck! Several albums got in A-'s or higher, Guero got a high Honorable Mention. He just didn't like Sea Change. And he's given mild praise to everything Radiohead's done from Kid A on too.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead, because of "OK Computer"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 June 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead, even if Kid A were their only album. I actually love Beck's older stuff ("Bad Energy" from Golden Feelings freaks me out; some great stuff off of One Foot in the Grave), and I think that Odelay was one of the higher points of 90s pop, but I've never found myself listening to anything over and over again. Plus, his ties to Scientology are kind of creepy, although I might respect him more if he made a Scientologist concept album.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 2 June 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Indifference towards Beck vs. active dislike of Radiohead = Beck.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 2 June 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead--more consistently interesting, less faddish.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 2 June 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Beck had more auspicious beginnings, but Radiohead was quite the come-from-behinder. Pablo Honey to The Bends has to be one of the biggest leaps ever made between albums.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 2 June 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

beck stopped being fun with odelay. radiohead continue to be fun (though hail... was less fun).

― b b, Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

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