Radiohead
Radiohead are a Alternative Rock/Electronic/Experimental band headed by Thom Yorke that was primarily popular in the 90's with their famous albums OK Computer and The Bends, and songs such as Creep (Pablo Honey), Just (The Bends), Paranoid Android (OK Computer), Karma Police (OK Computer) and No Surprises (OK Computer).
Some critics often cite Muse as Radiohead's sound-alikes, although fans generally consider all similarities to be vague if not irritating, and that they were dissolved with the release of Origin of Symmetry.
Similarities includes facts such Matt Bellamy & Thom Yorke (Radiohead's singer) had declared being influenced by the singer Jeff Buckley, the progressive rock influences in both band's music, that both bands worked with the aclaimed rock music producer John Leckie & that, as most of the 90's bands, Muse & Radiohead started as post-grunge and alternative rock bands.
Muse considers such squalid comparisions to be "lazy journalism." http://i49.tinypic.com/2qs3y80.jpg
Fragment of an interview featured on the November 2000 issue of Q Magazine:
"Showbiz turned out to be a robust, impressive album full of rock theatrics, a neat line in lyrical doom, and an operatic lead vocal that rivals Freddie Mercury for arch dramatics. Mind you, there is no getting away from the fact that it sounds shockingly similar to both Radiohead and Jeff Buckley, and accusation which dogs Muse wherever they go.
Bellamy rolls his eyes and says he'd "rather not comment on that". After much pestering he gives in, but will only refer to Readiohead as "that band".
What I will says is that, while working on The Bends, John Leckie [the producer Muse share with Radiohead] and that band went to see Jeff Buckley in concert and came away hugely influenced. Well, I've also seen Jeff Buckley in concert, and I'm also influenced by him. As far as that other band are concerned, I like a couple of songs here and there, but that's as far as it goes, really. They don't do much for me. Personally speaking, I don't think we sound anything like them at all. Live, especially."
And here, to be fair, he does have a point. At the two shows Q witnesses - one in Leipzig, the other a day earlier in an old World War II [?] camp near Frankfurt - Muse rock like bastards. Close your eyes and for the first 10 minutes they almost bring to mind Rage Against The Machine before mutating into Metallica." http://www.musewiki.org/Q_2000-11_%E2%80%93_Do_Not_Feed_the_Band http://www.musewiki.org/images/Q_2000-11_c.jpg
In a band's interview featured in the February 22 1999 issue of NME the interviewer (Mark Beaumont) said various times that Muse is a band that "sounds exactly like Radiohead" about this Matt Bellamy answered:
"We don't want to get pingeonholded so easily."
"it's too easy to say you sounds like this, you sound like that," says Chris "People don't listen to the stuff enough to make up their own mind about it."
"we take our influences from lots 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
Matt Bellamy never had met Radiohead, except of Colin (Radiohead´s bass player) & he says that he is "cool." http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/11052001-microcuts_team_meet_matthew_bellamy.php
"Matt is very intersted in new technological tones: he likes Björk very much, or stills Amnesiac, Radiohead's last album, but he doesn't likes Kid A at all."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 excisting 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 doin 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
What are your 5 favourite bands of all time?
Matt: Primus, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Deftones, Rage Against The Machine.
Dom : Limp bizkit, Radiohead, Pavement, dEUS, Smashing Pumpkins.
Chris: Helmet, Korn, Deftones, The Beach Boys, Nirvana.
http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/1999/07/
Do you feel any pressure to try and sound "less Radiohead"?
Matt: no.
Dom: no.
Chris: no.
http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/1999/07/
Bellamy is bored of the Radiohead comparissions, especially since he doesn't consider that Muse & Radiohead plays the same kind of music, but he preffers takes'em as a compliment. http://www.microcuts.net/uk/news/archives/11052001-microcuts_team_meet_matthew_bellamy.php
What do you say to all those people who compare Muse to Radiohead?
Matt: "Cheers. I'm more interested in the bit about hair than Radiohead. I don't really think about it." Dom:"I want to lay 'em out! Bang. On the floor." http://www.rocketbabydolls.com/nmemagazinequestions.html
In an interview with the Italian magazine, Panorama, Matt and Dom were asked about if are there any relation between Muse & Radiohead.
Matt replied: “If you want to know just how strong our relationship with Radiohead is, ask Dom here. He’s on splendid terms with Thom Yorke.”
To which Dom replied: “Splendid terms my arse. I respect them musically, but the last time I met him we almost started a fight; he treated me badly, looking down on me. Matt, do you spread around this bollocks?”