thinking they're just some le deep rock band that peaked 20 years ago with cultist fans
they've got 30m monthly listeners on spotify
Thinking they're just some le deep rock band that peaked 20 years ago with cultist fans
How many of those are people who just listened to Creep?
They're a knockoff of CAN and even CAN were only ever not mainstream in The USA and today are sold at Newberry Comics.
no one thinks that
but im a creep...
im a weirdo...
I'd say about 15m, and if you add people who heard (rather than "listened" since most streams come from playlists) No Surprises it's around 20m
It was just U2 for those that were to contrarian to be into U2 at their pinnacle in 90's during the ZOOTV/ZOOROPA times.
"Kid A" came out 24 years ago.
All of them
Probably 90% it's by far their most popular song.
I always thought they were a britpop version of CAN,which was always weird to me because CAN aren't German and every other Britpop Band is based on like The Beatles,The Who,Small Faces mostly maybe The Kinks or The Hollies or some shit in there but absolutely all British Bands from The 60s. I guess maybe Britian and Germany aren't ad different ad I'm thinking they are or whatever but yeah. Generic Britpop Sound applied to CAN. That plus maybe some American Alternative Rock. All this said I do like U2 though.
Yeah they really fell off after Creep
Now that Anon Babble has moved on from Radiohead, we agree that no matter how many listeners they have on spotify it doesn't change the fact that Anon Babble has moved on from Radiohead.
Their listeners have been growing way faster than most 90s bands and their top songs are becoming increasingly more spread out after Creep. Last I checked some of their biggest songs like No Surprises were at about half of Creep's total listens, a while ago they were at like 1/10th. It feels like their popularity is bizarrely growing even though they haven't put out a single record in 8 fucking years. I have no idea why this might be happening either.
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Lol, They WISH they were CAN. They're just an U2 tribute band.
U2's pinnacle
Zooropa
At least try
Can you go 5 minutes without yapping about Can? Why are you Nico Sperg instead of Can Sperg?
Argue all you want but the ZOOTV Outside Broadcast Tour and ZOOROPA leg of said tour are still considered by many to be the greatest rock concert tour ever. U2 themselves still have not and will not eclipse it. 360 was grander...but did not have the cultural impact or soul that ZOOTV did.
no one cares about U2 anymore, even Radiohead's least popular album by far (King of Limbs) gets way more streams than Zooropa
Radiohead are pop
this hurts The Raped
But U2 ruled the world in the early 90's and that was my reference.
U2 are still the measuring stick
I mean even Radiohead themselves have always said they're pop and have been confused at the artsy label thrown at them.
U2 have Creep-level quality songs on every album
radiohead just have the one song of that caliber
Nobody gives a fuck about oyveydiohead any more
Pink Floyd call themselves pop too. it's a some kind of bizarre false modesty
Radiohead never had the kind of artistic, creative or commercial peaks that U2 have had
I dunno they've been pretty consistent about it, Pink Floyd's a clusterfuck of everything from self-fellation to self-despisement in comparison.
lol @ comparing U2 and Radiohead. U2 has been consistently mediocre forever. Radiohead had a streak of peak albums that destroy anything U2 has even dreamt of making.
I legitimately don't understand the U2 comparisons, they only kind of vaguely sort of sound like U2 on some songs from The Bends. Pablo Honey was too grungy and OK Computer was already veering off in a substantially different direction.
It's an old beef from The Bends/Zooropa days. I legitimately haven't seen anyone post about it or talk about it outside of Anon Babble in like 15 years now.
aren't they like super mainstream. who would think they're niche
U2 and Radiohead are the 2 best kept secrets in music
The comparison is all you have to do is make 1 action and a whole generation will turn on you.
U2 and the Itunes debacle
Thom and his stance and vocalization about the West bank. Zoomers are turning on them same way Millennials turned on U2
This, nobody has ever heard of these bands. You guy's wanna know another secret? Try looking up "REM" sometime or even... if you really wanna go deep... "Nirvana".
Radiohead is a fantastic band. You wouldn't think so with their dumb name
Zoomers are turning on them
Radiohead have never been more popular, normal people don't care about twitter drama
Radiohead have never been popular
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Thom yorke sounds exactly like Bono. Vaguely Operatic, Lots of Falsetto etc....
Also, both are Alt rock bands that incorporated electronic stuff in their music.
Ok Computer before OK computer
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Ok Computer before OK computer
Sounds like everything they made. they just put more glitches
I legitimately haven't seen anyone post about it or talk about it outside of Anon Babble in like 15 years now.
time is a harsh mistress
>they've got 30m monthly listeners on spotify
All Millennials, plus 2 Boomers and an Alpha who's doing a history project for school on the theme of "Looking Back @ The 1990's".