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Johnny C:
Seriously the rudeness needs to stop. I mean, sarcastic, ironic, and tongue-in-cheek, okay, funny, but being an ass isn't.

And you're allowed to be influenced by a band without sounding exactly like them, you know. I mean, I know I'm influenced by bands that sound nothing like the music I make, but I strive towards their lyrical style, or their recording aesthetic, or even their approach towards making music. Maybe I'm a special case, I dunno, but that's how I write. Is it conceivable that Radiohead, for example, likes something Nirvana did enough to imitate them a wee bit? Or is that hipster blasphemy?

sp2:

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The intro to Just is exceedingly grungy in a very Nirvana kind of way.  Same reliance on powerchords, same general chord progression, etc (basically it's a cross between Smells Like Teen Spirit and Aneurysm).  Several other songs on The Bends also have a very Nirvana style.  That's fine.  Not a big deal.  I'm not saying you have to love Nirvana or hate Radiohead.  I'm just saying that there is a definite Nirvana (and grunge in general) influence on about half the songs on that album.

Deal with it.

blindsuperhero:
The point is that there isn't. I am confident that the members of Radiohead have hardly ever listened to Nirvana, unlike the bands widely accepted as their influences; Just, or for that matter any song Radiohead have ever written, does not sound 'grungy' in the slightest. True, Just and Smells Like Teen Spirit both share a 'clean-guitar sound then drums' intro, and I suppose both feature similar instruments, sadly for you, played in COMPLETELY different ways (could you imagine Kurt Cobain playing like Johnny Greenwood? I sure couldn't), the lyrics, vocal style, tempo, rhythmic features, harmony, and just overall sound are both completely different. Radiohead owe as much to Nirvana as any band in the last 10 years who play guitars, i.e. not much at all.

Deal with it.

Interesting addendum: Listen to the start of 'Pete Jackson is Getting Married' by Less Than Jake (go on, this will be fun). Now listen to the intro to 'In Circles' by Sunny Day Real Estate. Weird, huh? But that is of course because Sunny Day Real Estate were heavily influenced by Less Than Jake.

heretic:
i listen to both radiohead and nirvana, (though nowadays mostly when Drunk with a capital unk) and i can hear where someone might be confused as to whether nirvana influenced radiohead or not. but, it's easy to think that a band influenced another when you hear them in a certain order in a certain frame of mind. i'm just going out on a llimb here but i'm guessing you were younger when nirvana was around, and maybe didn't have as strong a grasp of the subtleties of music. i know i didn't. but i don't think nirvana was too much of an influence on Radiohead, if any at all. certainly no more than just that era in general was.
for my money if you're gonna say Nirvana influenced Radiohead you might as well say they influenced just about every alt./grunge/rock band at the time.

Merkava:
I believe some consider The Bends to be the "anti-grundge" album, or the album that came along and kind of broke up the focus on grunge at that time.

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