I think, for a time (OK Computer through Amnesiac), they were making by far the most innovative music of any commercially successful band. HTtT and In Rainbows have obviously been a step down, but they're still worth hearing.

It's kind of a miracle from a band who made an album as mind-numbingly mediocre as Pablo Honey. Though I disagree with a lot of other people here about The Bends, I think it's really great.

The comparisons made earlier in the thread to Coldplay and Travis are really baffling to me - how you can compare predictably boring sludge like that to a band that actually bothered to take risks is beyond me.

In Rainbows is "obviously a step down" my buttocks. The "experimental" electronic and noisy tendencies of Kid A and Amnesiac aren't present, but the composition is beyond belief.

I haven't really gotten into "In Rainbows", but it's not bad. Maybe when I hear it not as a 160kb mp3 I'll change my mind.

Pasta wrote:Eh, comparing using the term Art-Fag to describe some rich British pop-stars to "dropping N-Bombs" seems a little knee jerk.

Doncha think?

Oh, I don't know. Don't mean to be the PC police.

In either case "There Will Be Blood" rules.

ergo space pig wrote:I haven't really gotten into "In Rainbows", but it's not bad. Maybe when I hear it not as a 160kb mp3 I'll change my mind.

Hear it loud, with a good sound system, and, ideally, a pretty member of the appropriate gender.