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- Last week, BBCAMERICA.com launched our own music section, Tunes From the Thames, and we've included several top 10 lists featuring the best of British pop music. Do have a look around: you may find many openings for discussion and heated debate.
The most potentially controversial list is the Top 10 Current British Artists in the U.S. After much hand-wringing, Coldplay and Radiohead were selected as our top two biggest UK artists. In that order. But that begs the question: should the imitator (Coldplay) really triumph over the originator (Radiohead)?
An argument could be made for Radiohead as No. 1: their longevity, their continued critical success, their hugely popular U.S. tours, and their innovation both musically and economically. Who else could launch an album as a name-your-own-price download online - and still hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 200 for their full-price, in-stores release?
Coldplay, on the other hand, has built a career re-writing Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" as sappy indie ballads. Creatively, Coldplay completely fails to measure up to Radiohead. However, commercially, Chris Martin and the boys could be the most successful UK rock group since Duran Duran.
So have at it: who's the biggest British artist in America today? Coldplay? Radiohead? Leona Lewis? Winehouse?
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Oops! Foregoing repetitions not a wry commentary on Coldplay's repetitiveness. Nay, just a reminder to be wary how ye refresh.
You've got it half right. The Radiohead song that Coldplay most clearly ripped off was the "High and Dry" which was immediately obvious to any discerning listener of the day. By the way, they've also um, nicked more than a bit from The Edge as well.
You've got it half right. The Radiohead song that Coldplay most clearly ripped off was the "High and Dry" which was immediately obvious to any discerning listener of the day. By the way, they've also um, nicked more than a bit from The Edge as well.
You've got it half right. The Radiohead song that Coldplay most clearly ripped off was the "High and Dry" which was immediately obvious to any discerning listener of the day. By the way, they've also um, nicked more than a bit from The Edge as well.
You've got it half right. The Radiohead song that Coldplay most clearly ripped off was the "High and Dry" which was immediately obvious to any discerning listener of the day. By the way, they've also um, nicked more than a bit from The Edge as well.
Wow! Who wrote this article?! Thom Yorke?? Coldplay has certainly been influenced by Radiohead. But Radiohead has (in several occasions even come out and said it) that they've been copying earlier bands like Bowie and Talking Heads. Nothing is absolutely original.
wow. I am blown away at how bad this article is. I like both bands but Coldplay is better in my opinion. Their songs are bigger and better written. Radiohead are British but do NOT sound the same. Sorry.
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Poor journalistic standard. People are tired of hearing Coldplay being compared to Radiohead and being called worse. You'd have to be deaf not to realise the bands make totally different music. And Coldplay and Radiohead the two BIGGESTS bands form the UK? What does that even mean? Taht they have the most members? And what about Oasis and U2? Again, poor journalistic standard.
PS for the record I love both bands, but how can you compare them when they are completely differnt styles of music. Coldplay have not built their career trying to emulate 'Fake Plastic trees'. After their so called trilogy of albums, Viva takes them in a different direction and is innovative in it's own right....