Radiohead 'OK Computer' v Kiss 'Destroyer'

Both begin with automotive destruction and move through reflexive refraction ("Paranoid Android" v "God of Thunder") and outreach-as-enlightened-self-interest ("Electioneering" v "Do You Love Me") Both were 'advances' from the genericism-apotheosii of 'The Bends' and 'Alive' (tho I much prefer crassic MCSleaze to Me2 mopery) but what's really amazing is the subsequent career-arc similarities between the 'Kid A'/'Amnesiac' and the 'Rock and Roll Over'/'Love Gun' diptyches (diptychii?), in which K and R 180'd and dispensed with integrating textural complicatedness into the integrated albuym architecture in favour of the bricolage/superimposition approach (which is no bad thing at all!) and also making the 'same' album twice in a row (no bad thing either! except not as not-bad as the earlier not-bad thing!)very cleverly avoiding the maturation hell-pit, ie if R continued in the 'OKC' vein they'd now be Dire Straits (or even worse, Massive Attack) (then again K's next Bob Ezrin thing was 'The Elder' which proves that no matter how 'mature' they'd be capable of being they'd still be retarded, which is the best not-bad thing out of all the not-bad things so far!)though perhaps Kiss were a bit more self-aware about this maneuver as their contemptuous nod to 'Destroyer' bores ("WHY did they go back to doing retard music?")was slathering "I Want You" with the TREBLIEST, NOISIEST and MOST OBVIOUS flanging since...well, producer Eddie Kramer's last big-name client, a J Hendrix, although the Sonic Youth prefiguration of "Almost Human"'s gtr abuse might've been another one. Anyway, however brilliant and complex and multilayered and quality yada yada yada 'OKC' and 'Destroyer' are (by now you've probably figured out I'm a 'Kid A'/'R'n'RO' guy), the clowns get the nod for the fantastic line "I'm stupid and I'm lazy" ("Flaming Youth")!