Radiohead: Are They Overrated? Let's Discuss 

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Watch King of limbs from the Basement and then ask yourself are they overrated.

The overrated/underrated debate is always an interesting one. I'd actually say they're generally properly rated. It's hard to deny how talented they are, especially Jonny Greenwood. Their albums are so diverse that two of them might resonate with one person and two completely different ones might resonate with another, and I think that diversity is what makes them great. Being a Radiohead fan, I personally think they are probably the best band of their generation, but I'm not surprised when someone else doesn't see it that way. I'm glad you gave "In Rainbows" a listen, and I totally agree about Reckoner. It's a song that keeps moving towards the top of my favorites.

I’m 71. Best band since the Beatles. The Smile even better. Ever changing. Not for everybody obviously.

At the risk of coming across as “main stream” my love lies with the first 3 albums alone. I’m borderline obsessed with “Ok Computer” & equally enthralled with tracks like “Just” from “The Bends”. Hauntingly melancholic indulgence at its very best. I have no love but respect what came after & it doesn’t take away from the seminal brilliance that came before. I’m just happy the stuff I love so much exists & nothing can take those tracks away.

I absolutely adore Radiohead and I do not care what other people think or say about Radiohead fans. The only album I have an issue with is King of Limbs but all the others would appear in my top 20 albums of all time. I must add that I was in I.T and my home is pretty organised. However, I am in a long term relationship and not a geek 😂 in fact I have never played a video game. 4:07 For me, I am attracted to music, films and books that may be described as surreal, dark or slightly depressing (The Hours is a film favourite and that is not the happiest film ever) listening to Radiohead does not make me depressed, it lifts me spiritually. Also, I hate Oasis with all my heart.😂

I'm a die hard RH fan and I think Kid A is bemusingly overrated. I like its bold rebelliousness, but it's nowhere near their best. But as a band, are they overrated? No I don't think so. Every album has at least 1 song that most other bands can only dream of writing.

By no means are they overrated. Except their first album which is not properly focused they have not made a bad album yet (let’s leave KOL out). In my opinion, after albums like The Bends, OKC, In Rainbows, KidA/Amnesiac or A Moon Shaped Pool they deserve all the praise they have been given. What other band can showcase such huge talent these days?

Great video. I'm in my 50's and love Radiohead but I totally get where your coming from. I think they do attract a lot of fans (?) for whom the band are more of a lifestyle choice, than them actually caring for the music. The sort of people who own Kind Of Blue and a couple of Coltrane albums so they can tell people they like Jazz

I feel much the same as you do, Barry. I was managing a CD store when "Pablo Honey" was released, and most of my staff and myself thought it was interesting, and an overall enjoyable addition to the in-store playlist. We all loved "The Bends", and I specifically went nuts over "OK Computer". I have not liked anything since. Unlike yourself, I have found that (given my age) my attention span is waning these days. I do not have the patience to listen to something multiple times through, before (hopefully) it potentially "clicks" with me. Unfortunately, I give most new albums even less time now than I ever did in the past. I rarely circle back and try to "force myself" to like something, if my initial impression is 'uninteresting'. I have not listened to all of Radiohead's further releases, as my "to be listened to pile" is perpetually growing, faster than I can keep up. Succinctly put, once a band deploys a turd, I'll give them 1 chance to grab my attention again. If they don't, they're dead. It would take someone such as yourself, or another friend or trusting acquaintance's "nudge" to get me to give the band in question another chance. Perhaps I'm also getting to be even more grumpy than you claim to be. With my list of annoyances numbering in the thousands, I'm strongly considering authoring a book... but I digress. Great review, as always!!! You hit the nail on the head... once again!!!

If we carefully look at their whole discography,I think we can make a parallel with Talk Talk...bands with the will to go ahead,not repeating a formula,embracing the idea of unknown territories...so how to expect the same level of appreciation album after album?...after "ok computer" they were stuck...how to escape a beast like that?...let's see if we can write something from that blank page... challenging yourself is in my opinion the heart of true artists...a question of honesty too...different albums...different emotions...colors...thoughts...lyrics...to my ears,Radiohead has captured something essential of the modern chaos ...hard to explain...but I can feel it...non-sens,desparation,sadness,violence ,all the s**t...they've helped me in this life...in a big way when I was in a s***ty situation ...between 1996-2001 thank you Tom Yorke and Coe,you've looked at the world as it is and speak about it in a powerful way

I'm a big Radiohead fan. I at least "like" every album. They are always musically challenging, and aesthetically challenging, which I appreciate in the same way I enjoy challenging books or films. I thought every album from the first one to Hail to the Thief advanced in some way. I felt that after the kind of arena rock we heard on the first two, and then the deepening experimentation on the next three, Hail to the Thief really blended the rock nature of the early stuff with the electronica and weirdness of Kid A and Amnesiac. I can never decide if OK Computer belongs more with the Bends group or with the Kid A group. And then In rainbows was a real highwater mark, post-OK Computer. An improvement of Thief, but of a similar ilk. I found the subsequent ones interesting, but King of Limbs was a little opaque even for me. My daughter loves it! And Moon Shaped Pool is good music, enjoyable listening (especially "Daydreaming") but then I was starting o miss a little of the heavier qualities of the odler stuff. As a good friend of mine said, "Would it hurt them to rock a little?"

For me. Yes. Very.

Radiohead are one of the best bands of all time, and Kid A syncs to the Wall-E movie.. even the cover looks like the Wall-E movie. That's a sign that they are important.

I wrote my masters thesis listening to The Bends and I still passed. Kid A totally shook me to the core. When I got it home and played it, I couldn’t get past How To Disappear Completely - it was so great. Kid A came out in 2000 (not 1999) and for me it remains the greatest album since all four digits changed. I should at this point admit to being a big fan of Joy Division and Kraftwerk and I enjoy artists such as Aphex Twin, so Kid A wasn’t such a big leap. Some Radiohead songs are incredibly beautiful. They have within their midst Jonny Greenwood who is a truly remarkable composer. So, to answer the question, it isn’t possible to over rate Radiohead.

Agree. I say things like: Radiohead are brilliant. But I am, of course, only referring to The Bends.

I don't think Radiohead are over-rated, per se, there's just a lingering critical misdirection towards the very, very good but not as very, very good as they could later be, OK Computer. The Bends was better than OK Computer. They're band that like a challenge and they rise to it most times - unlike the other band that liked a challenge, Pink Floyd, who most always met it with sterile, risk-free pabulum.

No abuse here, it, as many say, are our differences of opinion that make the world go around. As a big progger and attracted to the avante garde, I completely dismissed thier first album as boring, however I was intrigued by The Bends, enthralled by Ok Computer and finally entranced by the majesty of Kid A. Amnesiac was actually a bridge too far for me, but I love the remainder of thier output. Not overated in my book.

I loved your video and I love Radiohead sometimes bands just don't resonate with certain people. I love Yes and ELP and Rush but I never really liked King Crimson that much it was interesting musically but I actually find few of their songs all that engaging. I will say Radiohead define the grower catagory as far as rock bands go and seeing them live made a huge difference even Kid A and Amnesiac transfer really well to a live setting as does The King Of Limbs.

They were never a favourite band of mine (as a Zappa devotee, could hear him snicker from beyond the grave!). 2nd and 3rd album - excellent, and for some reason Kid A really got its hooks into me, must have been my (herbally enhanced?) state of mind at 1st listen. Nothing since had anything like the same impact.

Radiohead are the most important progressive rock band of the last 30 years by some distance

Radiohead are not overrated; they're just crap.

Yes, yes they are the Emperors new clothes.

Appreciate the discussion. I do enjoy talks about a band being under or over rated because a lot of it doesn't depend at all on the band's music, but partly on the start text they put forward and partly on how it's received and shared by fans. I would agree that they are overrated, and they're easily one of my favourite bands, but have put out some of my least favourite works as well. I think those who say that everything they do is genius and so deep and mathematical are simply trying to act as a sort of gate keeper, saying 'You must be this smart to enter.' I think fans of some like Tool, Zappa, and even Muse can be much the same. I just say enjoy what you like, dislike what you dislike, and that doesn't make your opinion on a band any more valid, and it doesn't make the band any better than another.

"Cyborg farts.." That was really funny lol. I'm definitely not one of those RH fans that gets defensive if someone criticizes them. Music is subjective afterall, and I totally get why they might not be someone's proverbial cup of tea.. I can confidently state that they are my favorite band and give my reasoning, though. I've been listening/experiencing them since I had Pablo, Honey on a cassette tape. They are 1 of only two artists that I can keep on permanent rotation, never get sick of--and continue to discover new things within the compositions I'd never discovered before upon repeated listens.. This has been proven over many years for me, yet I continue to go back to them again and again and again. Isn't that sort of the test for something that is considered classic?? They have always hit me on an intellectual as well as emotional level and its rare for me to find music that does both, consistently over time.. Thanks for the video XO

I never understood why they thought the electronic thing on Kid A was original, I think thom heard Aphex Twin and was completely brainwashed.

In Rainbows is one of the greatest albums of all time and much better than Ok Computer or The Bends, both of which old farts seem drawn to the most because they haven't yet strayed too far from what they are used to

I like this band too much to ever call them overrated. They’re clearly not a band that’s going to appeal to everyone, but I find it hard to overlook the pure innovation of this group. Ok Computer is quite amazing, however I’ve discovered “ The Bends “ as being my personal favorite. I love the perfect balance between both the melancholy and accelerated edge of that album. And I’ve heard of “ In Rainbows “ but I really owe it to myself to explore that one in it’s entirety.

AMNESIAC is possibly my favourite Radiohead album up there with IN RAINBOWS and A MOON SHAPED POOL. An overrated band? I don't know. Definitely one of my favourite bands that dominated the music world from the 90s and beyond.

Whenever I listen to Radiohead I marvel at their creativity regardless of good I think the music is.

I think Radiohead veer between genius (The Bends and OK Computer) and garbage (Kid A and King of Limbs). They aren’t afraid to experiment andstrike gold on occasion which is to their credit. More recently I personally love In Rainbows and Moon Shaped Pool.

Thought they were overrated until In Rainbows came out. Respect and love the break from their established style. Mature song writing and clever rhythms. And it flows as an entire album. Not one boring moment on it. The Basement recordings of it on RU-vid is outstanding.

Any band this side of The Beatles that experiments like Radiohead did are bound to alienate some listeners. For my part, both In Rainbows and A Moon Shaped Pool are both excellent, and Reckoner is a song for the alt.rock ages. Also there are gems to be found here and there on virtually all of the albums... even the ones that try one's patience.

Very beautiful tree tunnel painting.

Bends and ok computer are stunning and not overrated, however everyone since is and not to my taste.

Kid a isn’t for everyone, simply because people have different sensibilities, to me its the best they’ve done and the album is perfect from beginning to end. But then i’m someone who likes things when they are difficult to get into, usually the more mainstream the less interested i am. Its my second favourite album of all time (first one being Vespertine by Björk) everyone comes from a different musical background as well. Appreciation of music is of course subjective but there is still at some point a form of consensus to say when something is great, i don’t think RH is overrated, i think people are annoyed to hear them being praised because they put their own ego onto their work and cant see them for who they are. A lot of people believed that Kid A was just Radiohead trying to be clever, when of course people were not present during the process and dont know the intention behind, where it’s coming from. Its always funny to me these kind of comments, cause people saying that are only talking about themselves really, if it feels too clever to some.. well maybe it is, doenst mean it’s pretentious. I believe these guys are humble people and are simply being true to themselves, i believe they work with authenticity. The other half are people who are more « classic rock » aficionados and can’t get over the fact that a band has the freedom to drop their guitars and do something different, i think in general people should stop expecting things from artists or putting a label on what they do cause it prevents them to receive something new for what it is when in it comes out. So i would say that RH isnt overrated, they are THAT great, they’re just not for everyone.

What do you think of The Smile? It would be great to see a review on here

I agree. In Rainbows is the best from their "electronic phase"

Radiohead are probably my 2nd favourite band of all time, I may be bias but I think that no other band can demand such critique from both ends of the spectrum. Some think they are absolute musical geniuses (me included), and others dare not bare another second of listening to them. I think ultimately, regardless of whatever band or artist, it comes down to how you interpret their music. It comes down to personal understanding and experiences. I'm not even in my 20's, have only been a fan of rock and metal music for 1.5 years (if you could even consider half of Radiohead's songs as rock,) and yet I still seem to understand where they come from and just how unique and musically genius their songwriting is. I don't think there will ever be another Radiohead (take it as a negative but I see it as a positive). Their entire discography is so diverse and unpredictable if you were to guess what one album would sound like from the other, some people love that, others not so much. Some people see them as a doomer band, I see them as a band that is down to Earth, keeps it real, and perfectly portrays some of society's issues. I'm not saying that people need to love Radiohead but for the most part, the meanings behind their songs are very relatable to society and I think people should at least take the time to try to understand them, because once you do, it really opens your eyes. One final thing, as much I love Radiohead, I have nothing against anyone who doesn't like them, the band at least deserves respect and recognition. I couldn't care if someone doesn't see the band the same way I do, it's their loss. BTW, I always find the Radiohead fan stereotypes so funny.

I'm one of those people who didn't like Kid A all that much when it came out (no one else did either at first). I gave them an extended break and happened upon the brilliant basement session for In Rainbows 8 years later or so. Now when I am in the right state of mind I can get into Kid A but it will never be my favorite. I do really like Hail To The Thief and I love In Rainbows I like IR even more than OKC. The King Of Limbs is not among my favorite records by them either although the basement session for it is pretty great. Music is subjective I will never understand why people get upset if their favorite band doesn't click with someone else. When I listen to the Beatles now it's a very different vibe than when I was in my early teens and it was almost all I listened to their older stuff sounds quite dated by overall it's still brilliant. I feel the same way about Radiohead in fact they remind me of the Beatles their musical evoloution is almost the same so I can understand why some people like the earlier stuff and some people think they did their best work after OKC.

Don’t think. So hombre … jeez one of the best bands ever!

After reading numerous reviews rating OK Computer as a classic, I gave it several listens. I was relieved when it was over each time. It did nothing for me. Then I read about the Kid A and the Kraftwerk influence. As fan fan of Kraftwerk/Tangerine Dream/Klaus Schulze since the mid-70s, I just didn’t see it in Kid A. And, I couldn’t stand the song, Creep. I really need give them another try, but I was very unimpressed with these two albums so far. I’m probably missing something here…

Writing a three-minute pop/rock song that people love is extremely difficult and as a skill, is entirely underrated. After "OK Computer", Radiohead thought they were above writing hit singles. They might look down their coke-filled noses at the mere mortals that can populate the charts, but I just think they're pricks.

Agree with you sir, enjoying your wit as always. (I'll ask again: is it you or Mrs. Classic Album Review who is the painter ?).

TALK TALK all done before Radiohead

Sometimes true genius doesn't produce a perfect...constant quality work...anyway if you compose something as magical as "ok computer" I mean you can stop (lol)...job done...perfect ....you're in the Pantheon

I do respect your opinions although not always agreeing with your summations but I attribute that to that positive effect of discourse on any subject. However as the possible progenitor of music heresy I disagree with your assessment of Hail to theThief. Perhaps its the result of sonic overload on my part but I consider this and In Rainbows their best work. Hail to the Thief incited me to buy all the previous work to that point and nothing struck me with the same impact. I do respect Thom York and co. companies efforts, especially Jonny Greenwood, to till unfamiliar territory but your assessment I believe is the result of daring to explore. Something I David Bowie was and is the patron saint of. Damn my Catholic upbringing is showing once again.

No I don't think Radiohead are overrated. I agree it would be nice for them to make a guitar album again like The Bends. Their side project The Smile use guitars more, who I also like.

Thom York uses his voice so effectively - like a musical instrument. It always stands out to me. He raises a lot of their otherwise minor works to a whole other level.

Radiohead could have played it safe and continued making albums in the vein of OK Computer and The Bends but they instead chose to make the music they wanted to make. I only wish more bands would do this rather than repeating a successful formula for the $$. In Rainbows is my favourite, followed closely by Kid A and OK Computer.

In rainbows and Hail to the thief are for me masterpieces and if I play one I play the other straight after.

Rating a band, and by extension considering them under- or overrated, never meant much to me personally. Except maybe when Bon Jovi got into the R&R Hall of Fame, that was a travesty, removing whatever small amount of respect I had left for that institution. Granted, the "rating thing" is a big part of your work on this channel, Barry, which I am quite fond of, because even your disses are done with a cheeky nod and a wink, signalling that you never take yourself all that seriously. Anyway, music, like all art, is so subjective. I love OK Computer, am very fond of In Rainbows, and the rest of Radiohead's output, I could really take or leave, other than a song or three on each album that I quite like. Even The Bends doesn't really click with me as a whole. But ever since Radiohead became the absolute favorite band of my son (now 18 years old), I've listened to a lot more of them, through his ears in a way, and they've grown on me... I think they're one of those bands that are really slow-growers, like say, Captain Beefheart, who took me many years and attempts to lock into, but now I'm all the way there. I say: follow your own tastes, everyone; indulge in the music you like, and who cares what anyone else thinks? You can always use headphones, if your choices are offending anyone you care about. And speaking of Beefheart, I anxiously await your ranking video for those albums, Barry!

Well lets put it this way, if I could only own 2 Radiohead albums, I know which ones I’d pick…

I must admit Radiohead lost me after OK Computer. A bit too Clever-Cloggory (kudos for using this phrase) for me.

Like many I'm a huge fan of Radioheads first 3 albums and would comfortably put 'The Bends' in my top 10 albums of the 90s. However, I never quite got the fuss over Kid A or anything the band has produced thereafter. I've found some parts of In Rainbows enjoyable but generally found very little to get excited about. I suppose in some respects Radiohead's trajectory represents an inversion of the way Genesis' sound and style changed post Peter Gabriel. Instead of the complexity of prog we got more commercial pop-oriented material. On the flipside Radiohead went from a bit of a hit machine that everyone could get behind to the darling of critics and some slightly snobbish fans. Those of us who saw Kid A as an unwelcome departure from their previous sound are merely fodder for snark.

Yes

I never got passed the first three albums. Very often play The Bends which is one of my favourite albums ever. Sadly lost interest with Kid A onwards

Started listening to them rather late; picked up OK Comp when it came out and was floored. Loved it...Started working backwards and loved The Bends etc. Then when the next one was released (Kid A) I ran right out and bought it. Insert the sound of air leaking here. Boring noise...Tried the next one as well (Amnesiac); just as bad. My collection ended at OK Comp. I get the idea on anti-popular, anti-commercial, but it appears to be at the expense of anti-good music. What a bummer. As a side note, the video for live in Astoria is phenomenal...At the height of "good"..."great" and they all seem to be enjoying performing. Worth checking out.

I agree with Kid A onwards, but In Rainbows was good and the last LP Moon shaped pool. Live there a different animal, the Kid A stuff comes alive. I recommend finding them at Reading 2009 video, they tarilor there setlist to the rock audience, even start with Creep which they wont play normally. GREAT gid, as is Glasto ones

Absolutely spot on appraisal 👍🕶

I have The Bends and OK Computer and they're both fine albums, but I very rarely feel the need to play them now. I'm not sure why that is.

The most underrated members of the band are the drummer and the bassist. They really should not be overlooked. Better live.

Amnesiac.I had forgotten about that album.

Great as a rock band. I love OK Computer. They lost me after that one to be honest.

Do i see the evidence of a fellow artist over your right shoulder? As for Radiohead.... in the same 'bemused' drawer as Muse and, forgive me, Rush?

Peaked for me with The Bends, bits of OK Computer are not bad but since then they just disappeared down a black hole, seemingly becoming a Can tribute band at times...

I have a personal infatuation with math rock bands. A friend of mine used to constantly ask me "If you like bands with odd time signatures, why don't you like Radiohead or Tool?" My answer was simple. Radiohead and Tool have a completely different sound and style than the bands I enjoy. Is Radiohead overrated? I honestly haven't given them much listen, nor do I feel like I need to. The songs I have heard, I'm not interested. Overrated? I don't know. Overhyped? Yes.

Each to their own, over rated, definitely not. Radiohead are one of the greatest bands ever but then I think Oasis are s**t, so what do I know. Some people just don't get it, some people don't get Penderecki either, so be it. Us Radiohead fans can enjoy it on our own, that's OK by me.

I was unsure of Kid A on it's release but got to appreciate it much more after the release of Amnesiac which I loved. For me, they had become the best band of the new millennium.

I like some of their albums and I'm always keen to listen to any new releases. OK Computer, Amnesiac and In Rainbows are my 3 favourites. The Bends, Kid A and A Moon Shaped Pool are very good and I can take or leave the rest.

'Watching re-runs of Blakes 7 and Pornhub' - love it! I love Radiohead, especially Kid A and Amnesiac but over-earnest pomposity should be punctured from time to time

I'm shocked. Folks disagree on the merits of music, books, art, etc. Long live peaceful disagreement.

Sometimes paraphrasing a pointless maxim seems appropriate. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Appropriately rated. Follow-up band, The Smile, underrated

I never liked them, but did give them the benefit of the doubt and tried to listen to them. I couldn't hack them, they reminded me of Leonard Cohen with guitar riffs.

I love Radiohead!!!! Overrated? Perhaps a smidge…

Yes. Besides the first 6 songs of OK Computer and a smattering of other tracks, York’s unintelligibility and the pretentiousness of the music just makes it fail to have an emotional connection for me.

Why do you keep making toilet jokes on your videos? Most of us grew past that stage when we left primary school. Radiohead are underrated. Stuart

I think some of their fans have a way of overhyping some of their catalogue and they have a bit of an issue with any band that has vague similarities to them but I love a majority of Radiohead's catalogue in spite of that. I do still view The Bends all the way through In Rainbows as a rather great six album, but it's not music for everybody and it's something you have to go in with a specific frame of mind. Kid A and Amnesiac surprisingly grabbed me pretty early on but I also was a bit later to the catalogue and I like some electronic music here and there so I lucked out on that front.

Best band ever. Not overrated at all.

I think they suffer (for better AND worse) from a weird case of overserious perception. Kid A is, by and large, an experimental album, very obviously resulting from anxiety over the enormous success OK Computer had. Radiohead themselves never presented it as the second coming of Christ, just the result of trying to find inspiration in a different direction from what they became famous for. So the most hardcore fans treat it as some kind of Mona Lisa it was never intended to be, and the most vicious haters treat it as the most pretentious album of all time. I just see it as the first step in radical experimentation that, for once, happened under the limelight. It continued with Amnesiac and its B-sides, and then they slowly returned to their rock roots, incorporating learnings from those experiments, first on Hail To The Thief, which is bloated with a bit too many ideas, then finely really refined on In Rainbows. Seen as a whole, that run of five albums (from OK Computer to In Rainbows) makes perfect sense to me. Of course, Kid A is disjointed because it tries to juggle fully-formed songs and experiments that are more akin to interludes, but the actual songs, my oh my! If How To Disappear Completely doesn't move you... I think Amnesiac is even superior, even though it's even weirder. But maybe that's precisely why. We can't really fault a band for not meeting any expectations when they were precisely trying to break free from them. The King Of Limbs is unbearable to me, though.

They showed real promise from the very beginning up to OK Computer. By that time they were not overrated at all. By Kid A they become a monster of their own making and became overrated. When they started to mess with electronics they lost their ground. They shaped the infamous post rock genre that continues to put me in an instant lethargic state. At that time they grew the fanbase we know now. The "fan" base that despises Pablo Honey and the significance that album had when it was released.

God YES!

I loved Radiohead up till In Rainbows. That was the album that made me give up on them..

The title was enough for me to comment. I never saw the attraction. The band hates the song creep, but it’s the best thing I’ve heard from them personally. history will forget Radiohead.

Love them! But…not big fan Pablo Honey ‘tho. Why didn’t you include Moon Shaped Pool, it’s magnificent. A fair review that reflects some of my record collecting pals’ opinions. It’s a band you love or not, for many it seems.

A heartfelt "Yea". One album does the trick for me, The Bends, a little of them goes a long way.

The Bends was genius, the absolute epitome of All killer No Filler. Unfortunately my wife is a huge Radiohead fan and the only times I’ve heard the other albums is on long car journeys when she insists on singing along to them…kind of puts me off the rest of their oeuvre I have to say…

I do like Radiohead, but I also enjoy a bit of naughty irreverence and well-aimed barbed shots at sacred cows. I don’t know why people get their feathers ruffled when someone criticises their favourite artists, especially when executed with humour.

Radiohead are dreadful nowadays. I enjoyed the first three records at the time, but afterwards I really had gone off them.

i'm with you. First three and I'm out.

"The National Anthem", "How to Disappear Completely", "Pyramid Song", "House of Cards" 💜....

This review made me smile. (Pun intended). I just saw The Smile. Kid A has magical moments. Radiohead have 6 great albums or so. Kid A is one I still listen to regularly.

You are talking about awaiting loads and loads of abuse. While you did the same to Radiohead fans in this video. I normally like your delivery, but I think this is bad style.

Not overrated but I'm in complete agreement with you on their post-OK, Computer recordings. Some infrequent gems that are almost lost amid a lot of electronic naval-gazing.

I agree. I thought OK Computer was an absolute masterpiece and it's still one of my all time favourites. But I found Kid A practically unlistenable- dito Hail to the Thief, which I got for Christmas one year-wish I hadn't!

Radiohead are often compared to Pink Floyd. Now they sound nothing like Floyd but where they are similar is that they make unconventional conventional music. Well they did with The Bends and OK Computer.

No doubt about their talent. I went through a phase of listening to them a lot too. My issue with them is they do tend to take themselves far too seriously and there is only so much wallowing in self-inflicted misery that I can take before I question the real wisdom or authenticity of it.

The masters of flog rock, and I love it.

Loved the bends, couldn't find OK computer anywhere in my soul.