![]() ![]() Has a record ever inspired a more insipid generation of imitators? Travis, Muse, Athlete, Snow Patrol, Kodaline, Turin Brakes… We could go on. You’d have to be off your trolley not to like it. It would take a stony heart not to be swayed by My Iron Lung’s plummeting guitar hook, the crestfallen Jeff Buckley-isms of High and Dry, the forlorn expression Yorke maintains as he is pushed around a dystopian supermarket in the Fake Plastic Trees video. March 13th marks the 25th anniversary of what some – though surely not all – Radiohead fans regard as the band’s crowning moment, The Bends, an album that still stands up today. When asked by Mojo magazine in 2006 if he had “any time” for Coldplay and their kindred simperers Travis, for instance, he shot back that it’s “the choice between, you know, machine gun or pistol by, you know, execution, isn’t it?” It is also true that Yorke has made a face whenever invited to comment publicly on Coldplay’s debt to Radiohead. The first time Thom Yorke, Radiohead’s frontman, heard Coldplay’s song Yellow he put his head in his hands, sighed and whispered: “What have I done?” Or so goes the apocryphal story.īut what is indisputable is that Coldplay took the soggiest bits of Radiohead and parlayed them into a global stardom. ![]()
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