In a message dated 7/16/03 8:01:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
audities-owner@smoe.org writes:

> Someone said they thought it was the most influential album of the
> last ten year. I dunno, but then I don't listen to a lot of their
> contemporaries.

I didn't note who it was who said it, but I definitely concur, especially 
from my experience in seeing how buying patterns have shifted in record stores. 
But the greatest evidence may well be in an unlikely source--Phantom Planet's 
"The Guest", from last year. IMHO, that is the quintessential post-Radiohead 
power-pop disc (the band are huge fans) in that it does utilize very Bends-y 
bursts of guitar and synth washes, as well as mixes a certain *type* of moodiness 
in with the sunny pop songs. This doesn't mean "the guest" was anything more 
than a 'good' record (its often lyrically atrocious), but it does mean that it 
symbolizes just how much of an influence Radiohead have had. And for those 
who didn't *get* "The Guest", it's quite possible you just didn't get this 
development. --J