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[i]Its great because the production is fantastic and it doesn't get caiught up in some childish self-important message to society like OK Computer. The most potentially creative bands of our time have been lost to the pretentious belief that they had to make a statement to society - U2, Rage and Radiohead as prime examples. Rage has put out fiour musically fantastic records, yet all of De La Rocha's lyrics combined don't have the force of 30 seconds of
Dylan's "Hurricane" or "Masters of War." Its a hell of a thing to wrote a damn fine protest song - folks like Bono, Strummer, De La Rocha, the Radiohead singer and Springsteen aren't qualified and shouldn't try.
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The last two Radiohead albums don't contain any noticeable "message" or protest. And OK Computer only does so in some general, non-explicit technology-skeptic sort of way (and who the hell can tell anyway as you can usually barely understand what he is singing). Radiohead remains one of the few bands of the moment who are actually willing to make their next album different from the last, which is something of a feet in the music world of today.
