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dude, what's your problem? can't handle my sarcasm about your wonderful band radiohead?

The emperor has no clothes. Look behind the curtain, Dorothy. Etc.

-Stathis

Get Amnesiac. Kid A is all right once you get into it, but Amnesiac is sincerely the best thing Radiohead have done to date. It's better than The Bends, OK Computer and My Iron Lung (well worth it for the fabulous Bside collection - the only Radiohead album I have loved unconditionally from the start). Get Amnesiac, and listen to it for a day or so, and you should be well and truly hooked.

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I too believe The Bends and OK Computer to be the best albums of the 90s. Amnesiac is still better. All previous unease at the Kid A direction is now cleared up for me...

You don't get it. You're not supposed to compare the albums. If you were supposed to compare them, they would be similar. You must look at them as a whole and understand their synchronicity. Five seperate albums, operating in completely seperate dimesions of space and time, but all resonating together. Radiohead understand the potential intelligence of the universe and simply exploite it. You're all thinking about it too much. Just appreciate them all as a whole, not the individual pieces.

How can Radiohead not be the best band in existence at this time? I urge everyone to listen to all of their songs, and thus all of their albums, in order to get a picture of the band as a whole. Radiohead is not a band which can be judged by listening to only one or two of its songs (i.e. Britney Spears, Backdoor Boys, N'Stink, any 'Rap Metal,' Metal or Pop band). The listener must experience the Radiohead sound as a journey, the sum of the parts. Every song represents a piece of a currently unfinished puzzle. Every song I hear, whether I like it or not, leaves me drooling in anticipation for the next piece of the puzzle. The problem is that so many people are simply incapable of understanding the intricacies and beauty of Radiohead's music, therefore these people listen to pop-culture drivel which they can easily comprehend. That particular phenomenon is why most pop-culture bands are around for 3 years, at the maximum, and then are never heard from again except to be featured on the inanely simple "E!" channel as a "Where Are They Now?" episode. I have sympathy for these dolts, these simpletons, these incurable followers of all things shiny and pretty. I do not, however, empathise with these weak minded fools. It pains me to say that the majority of the citizens of the U.S. fall into the "dolt" category, and therefore our airwaves will forever be overrun with asinine music aimed at those with no capacity to appreciate or even recognise real art.

would that be the hail to the thief that was stolen and released before it was complete?

cse: I'm not ready to agree or disagree. I just finally got the CD this week. as with all of their albums, for me, it needs many listenings before I can begin to react at all.