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=== Accolades === In 2000, in a vote of more than 200,000 music fans and journalists, ''The Bends'' was named the second-greatest album of all time behind ''[[Revolver (Beatles album)|Revolver]]'' (1966) by the [[The Beatles|Beatles]].<ref>{{citation|title=Beatles, Radiohead albums voted best ever|date=4 September 2000|url=http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/04/britain.albums/|work=CNN.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522120621/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/04/britain.albums/|access-date=8 October 2008|archive-date=22 May 2008}}</ref> ''Q'' readers voted it the second-best album in 1998 and 2006, behind ''OK Computer''.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Q Readers All Time Top 100 Albums |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=137 |date=February 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13644-q-readers-best-albums-ever-2006-readers-poll |title=Q Magazine's Q Readers Best Albums Ever (2006 Readers Poll) Archived by Lists of Bests |website=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |access-date=15 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231034303/http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13644-q-readers-best-albums-ever-2006-readers-poll |archive-date=31 December 2013}}</ref> [[Colin Larkin]] named it the second-best album of all time in the 2000 edition of ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]''.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Larkin |editor-first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin|year=2000 |title=All Time Top 1000 Albums |edition=3rd |publisher=[[Virgin Books]] |location=London |isbn=0-7535-0493-6}}</ref> It was included in the 2005 book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Dimery|title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition|author2=Michael Lydon|date=7 February 2006|publisher=Universe|isbn=0-7893-1371-5}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' included it at number 110 on its original 2003 list of the [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]], at 111 in its 2012 list,<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/radiohead-the-bends-2-171892/| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date=19 September 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609083604/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/radiohead-the-bends-2-171892/| archive-date=9 June 2019| url-status=live}}</ref> and at 276 in its 2020 list.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/radiohead-the-bends-3-1062957/ |title=500 Best Albums of All Time |publisher=Penske Media Core |date=22 September 2020 |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002001844/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/radiohead-the-bends-3-1062957/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2003, ''Rolling Stone'' included "Fake Plastic Trees" at number 385 on its list of the [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|500 Greatest Songs of All Time]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Stone |first=Rolling |date=2003-12-11 |title=500 Greatest Songs of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/radiohead-fake-plastic-trees-53469/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2006, ''The Bends'' reached number 10 in a worldwide poll of the great albums organised by ''[[British Hit Singles & Albums]]'' and ''NME''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article670515.ece |title=Oasis album voted greatest of all time |website=[[The Times]] |date=1 June 2006 |access-date=15 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070408232353/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article670515.ece |archive-date=8 April 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' named it the 11th-greatest album of the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/02/the-90-best-albums-of-the-1990s.html?a=1|title=The 90 Best Albums of the 1990s|website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]|last=Jackson|first=Josh|date=24 February 2012|access-date=3 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104191153/http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/02/the-90-best-albums-of-the-1990s.html?a=1|archive-date=4 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, the ''[[The Independent|Independent]]'' named it the best album of 1995, writing: "Downbeat, melancholic, yet wonderfully melodic and uplifting ... ''The Bends'' stood apart from Britpop and everything else in the storied year of 1995."<ref>{{cite web|last=Ross|first=Graeme|date=13 March 2020|title=The 20 best albums of 1995 ranked|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/radiohead-the-bends-best-albums-of-1995-ranked-oasis-blur-alanis-morissette-garbage-a9395511.html|access-date=13 August 2020|website=[[The Independent]]|archive-date=29 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429211429/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/radiohead-the-bends-best-albums-of-1995-ranked-oasis-blur-alanis-morissette-garbage-a9395511.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, ''Pitchfork'' named ''The Bends'' the third-greatest [[Britpop]] album, writing that its "epic portrayal of drift and disenchantment secures its reluctant spot in Britpop's pantheon".<ref name="Pitchfork" />
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