Muse

Got in a discussion with some friends today - one of them has become a big Muse fan, and he mentioned, as many people have, that they remind him of Radiohead.

Partly it's because I'm a Radiohead fan, but I don't see it.  Their singer's voice sounds kinda like Thom Yorke, but that's it.  It's like Creed and Pearl Jam - I guess the singers sound a little similar, but that's where it stops for me.  (My friends also say that Creed and Pearl Jam sound alike, and don't get how I don't hear it)

The opposite end of the equation is that the Silversun Pickups sound, to me, like early Smashing Pumpkins.  No one else hears it.  To me, "Rhinoceros" was the template for the Pickups - not that they aren't original, but the guitar tone, everything - it's all right there.

We decided that I just don't hear music like a lot of other people.  I think it has something to do with being a musician - you listen more to the guitar parts, and how the music is put together, and you don't hear more superficial aspects of the music.  Maybe.