If You Could Change One Aspect Of Your Favourite Band

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So what would you change about your favourite band? Surely no one band is perfect enough for you not to find criticism. It could be anything from a band meraber to direction, album covers etc.

Pink Floyd

Roger Waters. More specifically his gradual taking over the band. To a certain extent we can blame both David Gilmour and Richard Wright for not contributing enough new material towarRAB the end but this then only fuelled Waters to assume more control. A whole band effort after the brilliant 'Animals' would have been very interesting. Instead we got the bore fest that is 'The Wall'.

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This might upset people but I think I would change Thom Yorke's voice. I think I might also change Colin Greenwood's style to maybe a bit more melodic/chord oriented. But besides that Radiohead is basically perfect.
 
The Church

Playing it safe. I know a lot of their fans were thrilled by Peter Koppes rejoining the band and by their subsequent return to their classic jangley 80s sound but I disagree with those people. When circumstances forced the band into being a three-piece and then a two-piece in the early and mid 90s it caused them to experiment and move in new directions with their sound. As a result they produced what I consider to be their three best albums: Priest=Aura, Sometime Anywhere and Magician Among the Spirits. Don't get me wrong, their new albums are pretty good too, but I think they'd have been amazing if they had continued trying to experiment instead of playing it safe.
 
Don't mind him, he's just pissed no one else likes QOTSA ;)

What would you change about Thom's voice though? I find that it's his presence that makes Radiohead who they are.
 
Radiohead

Compose a longer song for once. Your longest song (excluding Motion Picture Soundtrack which has like 3 minutes of unexplained dead silence) is Paranoid Android at 6:23. Make your 'Echoes.' I wanna see if you've got it in you.
 
They've been in my last.FM recommendations for a while and I've been hesitant to get into them for whatever reason. Any good place to start?
 
I would have liked to see where the Mothers had gone if Frank Zappa didnt oust the entire band. I realize he hired top notch pros to perform with him, and used different artists depending on what album he was making, but the original Mothers were a great band... We're Only in it for the Money exemplifies this, although all their albums from that period were great...
 
The lack of material Gilmour/Wright contributed in the later years is appalling. If Roger had done the same, Pink Floyd may have exhausted and broke up by WYWH/Animals.
 
Muse

They'd start evolving already! They haven't changed much since they started (though BH&R shows promise). From the sound of things, their new album just might be more spacey stadium rock, and while I'll probably love it, it won't be anything new on the sonic spectrum.
 
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