Kevin Purdy

Only Thom Yorke can properly express the disillusionment
generated by his recent headlines.

I didn’t really notice that I had an AM station on my car radio while I was driving home tonight … until I heard a CBS News announcer say this:

Well, those looking to escape the “Karma Police” have their chance … the band Radiohead is asking fans to …

And you probably know the rest of the story, despite head-scratching lines like that. It’s cheesy and kind of sad, yet somehow not the worst one out there! Inspired Sickly fascinated, I ventured into the relevance-clutching music journalism (and blogging!) to see if there was anything even better worse. Here’s the bounty:

• OK, Now What, Mr. Computer?: Cinema Blend reaches just beyond the lengths of anything relevant to the story to pull out this gem. Saved only by the fact that it is, after all, a pretty ridiculously great album.
• What’s at the end of Radiohead’s Rainbows?: Points for actually mentioning the underlying news that the world’s most critically-acclaimed band is releasing a new disc. Demerits for making the boys from Oxfordshire into leprechauns.
• RADIOHEADING IN A NEW DIRECTION: NY Post headlines are like fresh guacamole — you always forget how good they are until the next time you sample one.
• Radiohead’s digital album: Priceless: What a clever, funny headline.
• Radiohead’s Rainbows Ready to Shine: Much like E! itself, it’s kind of phoned-in and doesn’t really tell you anything you didn’t know. So, in a way, kind of perfect.

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