Radiohead changed my life one night under the influence as I listened to The Bends. I had heard OK Computer the year before and it was certainly mind altering, but The Bends took me to another universe. I was being born again. Twenty-five years ago this month, a pretty Portland girl put this CD on one night and took me away someplace. There's a chapter in my novel Highway Zero that pays tribute to that night, but it doesn't come close to the true feelings.
They lost me after the third album with all the beeps and whistles, except for an occasional composition. They lost the spirit of the first three albums as they went more and more electronic. I prefer instruments to computers.
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