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You quoted that Radiohead lyric WRONG, actually. "The Gloaming" may not be much of a song musically, but the lyrics do make definite sense if you quote the entire sentence, not take a tiny part out of context [repetitions removed]: "they will suck you down to the other side to the shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red your alarm bells, your alarm bells they should be ringing this is the gloaming" (pretentious word for dawn) So, not brilliant lyrics really, but very moving the way he repeats certain lines. This is one of the rare cases anyone can pretty much understand Thom. Hmm, what countries' flags are "blue and red." Could this, possibly, be his response to 9/11, a song condemning jingoism and "eye for an eye" violence? I don't even know why this should be necessary because it's pretty indisputed Thom is a better LYRICIST than Chris Martin, but here, just to prove the point, has Chris ever come up with something like this? The subject of the song is actually very much like what Chris writes about. Now seriously, which is better? Once again, I'm in trouble with my only friend She is papering the window panes She is putting on a smile Once again, packed like frozen food and battery hens Think of all the starving millions Don't talk politics and don't throw stones, Your royal highnesses And of course I'd like to sit around and chat And of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat Only, only... Once again we are hungry for a lynching That's a strange mistake to make You should turn the other cheek Living in a glass house And of course I'd like to sit around and chat And of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat Only, only... I'm living Only, only, I'm living.... There's someone listening in The emotional power of Radiohead songs is 60% Thom's voice and 40% Thom's lyrics. In Coldplay songs, it's over 90% Chris' voice.

Sandy Denny, Refused, the Microphones, Peter Gabriel, Biggie, DC Talk, Steve Reich, Metallica, Chapterhouse, etc. etc. okay, that's just the most "different from each other."