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Originally Posted by Stu
I still think it's far too early to be making such assertions. It's been 2 days since its release, and to be saying it is or isnt a classic is just silly. Radiohead albums are known to be slow burners - I didnt really dig In Rainbows, Amnesiac or Kid A until months after their respective releases.
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Disagree entirely. Radiohead are not so inaccessible such that their albums are worthy of being characterized "slow burners". Radiohead is, essentially, pop. Even Thom Yorke would say so. Pop is the aim. It's supposed to be gratifying without too much effort on the listener's part to see "beyond the surface" so to speak.
It is, I believe, a very grave misunderstanding of Radiohead to see their music as being difficult. This is born witness to by the general reaction to it. For example, most people either loved or hated In Rainbows from the word go. If anything, what was more commonly seen was that people were waxing lyrical over it to start off with, only to be saying a few months down the line that it wasn't quite so great as they'd initially felt.
Neither was Kid A difficult. It was only judged as such because it wasn't what OK Computer fans had expected or wanted. Hail To The Thief is a bunch of easy tracks. Amnesiac is perhaps 'difficult', but simply because it's mostly a bunch of rubbish B-material from the Kid A sessions.
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