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1LP Vinyl – XLLP780

The Bends marks the band’s first truly great album, a cohesive set of songs built around washy, U2-style guitars and disquieting lyrics that foreshadowed the themes they’d explore two years later on OK Computer. They’d also get widespread exposure when Bends songs “Fake Plastic Trees” and “My Iron Lung” appeared on the Clueless soundtrack — with protagonist Cher Horowitz labeling the band “the maudlin music of the university station” — forever erasing the chances of Radiohead becoming one-hit wonders.