Editing The Bends (album) (section)

=== Influence ===
''The Bends'' influenced a generation of British and Irish acts, including [[Coldplay]], [[Keane (band)|Keane]], [[James Blunt]], [[Muse (band)|Muse]], [[Athlete (band)|Athlete]], [[Elbow (band)|Elbow]], [[Snow Patrol]], [[Kodaline]], [[Turin Brakes]] and [[Travis (band)|Travis]].<ref name="Pitchfork" /><ref name="Power-2020" /> ''Pitchfork'' credited songs as such as "High and Dry" and "Fake Plastic Trees" for anticipating the "airbrushed" [[post-Britpop]] of Coldplay and Travis.<ref name="Pitchfork" /> Acts including [[Garbage (band)|Garbage]], R.E.M. and [[k.d. lang]] began to cite Radiohead as a favourite band.<ref name="quietus">{{cite magazine|last=Kleinedler|first=Clare|date=23 March 2009|title=A 1996 Radiohead Interview – The Bends, Britpop And OK Computer|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/01343-from-the-archives-1996-radiohead-interviewed-between-the-bends-and-ok-computer|magazine=[[The Quietus]]|access-date=15 March 2012|archive-date=15 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215162533/https://thequietus.com/articles/01343-from-the-archives-1996-radiohead-interviewed-between-the-bends-and-ok-computer|url-status=live}}</ref> [[The Cure]] contacted Radiohead to inquire about the ''Bends'' production in the hope of replicating it.<ref name="Bauder-1996" />

In 2006, ''[[The Observer]]'' named ''The Bends'' one of "the 50 albums that changed music", saying it had popularised an "angst-laden falsetto ... a thoughtful opposite to the chest-beating lad-rock personified by [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]", which "eventually coalesced into an entire decade of sound".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jul/16/popandrock.shopping |title=The 50 albums that changed music |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |date=16 July 2006 |access-date=15 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008194254/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jul/16/popandrock.shopping |archive-date=8 October 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> Yorke held contempt for the style of rock ''The Bends'' popularised, feeling other acts had copied him. He said in 2006: "I was really, really upset about it, and I tried my absolute best not to be, but yeah, it was kind of like— that sort of thing of missing the point completely."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plagenhoef |first=Scott |date=16 August 2006 |title=Thom Yorke |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/6402-thom-yorke/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en |archive-date=15 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815222144/https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/6402-thom-yorke/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Godrich felt Yorke was oversensitive and had not invented "guys singing in falsetto with an acoustic guitar".<ref name="Greene-2017">{{Cite magazine |last=Greene |first=Andy |date=2017-06-16 |title=Radiohead's ''OK Computer'': an oral history |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/radioheads-ok-computer-an-oral-history-196156/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US |archive-date=9 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609072733/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/radioheads-ok-computer-an-oral-history-196156/ |url-status=live }}</ref>