Citizen Erased

There were three men sitting in a table. They were all staring into space out of boredom, until one of the three men decided "Let's play some Radiohead albums!". The other two agreed and he got out his copies of The Bends and OK Computer to play on the multi-disc changer. No other discs were in the player, so it was a whole marathon of those two albums. They sat on the table again, admiring the scales from quirky pop to passionate epic-ness. The soulful croons of Thom Yorke, the masterful guitar playing of Jonny Greenwood, the flesh and blood of Phil Selway, as well as the other two bandmates, battered their minds and left them speechless throughout the day. They listened to those albums over and over and over again, so many times that they can listen to these albums in their sleep, and each listen is anew to them.

Hypnotized for 48 hours straight with those two albums being played in infinity, the disc changer suddenly broke, and the three men woke up from their long-term trance. One man had an idea. "If 'Paranoid Android' is the band's longest song, clocking at six minutes, we can make songs longer than that!" Then he had even more ideas. "We can take their songs and make them better! Much much better with crescendos and everything!" The second of the three men spoke too. "We can write lyrics more people can relate to, like atheists! Instead of 'God loves his children', we can have 'I've exposed your lies, baby!'" The last of the three spoke: "We don't need complex melodies! Less is more! How about mindless arpeggios for a change?" The three men were excited and ambitious, plotting down every pretentious idea after another. One even thought he could sing like Thom Yorke, so he did.

These three men paid their homages to Radiohead by covering their songs. The songs that were covered were only Street Spirit (Fade Out) and Climbing up the Walls, re-titled to New Born and Megalomania due to copyright reasons. The former was even covered by themselves as Space Dementia! The rest of the tracks were also homages to that great band, but in the end it seemed like a parody.