2066 wrote:Well, I wasn't referring to how much Radiohead sounds musically like Faust. I was pointing out to my friends that Radiohead and Faust share some traits. If I were to stretch it I could point out musical similarities. But I'm not into stuff like that. It's just that some younger, less musically educated people than myself seem to think that Radiohead has formed in some sort of vacuum apart from everything else. They are part of a musical heritage that goes back quite a bit. There are now a few more Faust fans because of little ol' me!PublicImage wrote:I don't hear how Faust is at all similar to Radiohead, other than the fact that both groups use synthesisers and guitars. Unless I'm missing something? Which Faust songs bear any resemblance to Idioteque, How To Disappear Completely, The Pyramid Song, 2+2=5, The National Anthem or Pack't Like Sardines in a Crush'd Tin Box? Faust probably influenced them, but I find their influence hard to spot on any Radiohead song, in all honesty.
The closest to Krautrock that Radiohead have come is their cover of The Thief by Can, which I don't think is very good.
Yes. But neither Faust or Pink Floyd produced 2 albums of pop-rock songs, then spazzed out and produced musicless lyricless albums full of electronic analogue noises (for which the action of Crawling up their own asses might not be out the question?). Did Thom Yorke have a stroke or something. Perhaps it was never diagnosed. Maybe he's happier that way.