The album that saved them from one-hit-wonder purgatory: The Bends trades "Creep"'s self-loathing for soaring, grief-streaked guitar rock — "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Street Spirit" map the territory OK Computer would conquer. Every British guitar band of the next decade borrowed from this; almost none repaid the loan.
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