Radiohead Is Overrated
Is there a flavor of music snob from the last few decades more insufferable than Radiohead fans? The band should have been a one-and-done. If “Creep” had been their only thing, I’d say they were among the great one-hit wonders of the ’90s. Even “The Bends” has some good songs on it. But starting with “OK Computer,” Radiohead’s studied noncommercialism got more and more contrived. And almost 20 years later, “Kid A” is still the platonic ideal of the musical emperor’s new clothes. — Darren Barlow.